Profesor Zazul

Tichy is caught by a storm on the side road, and therefore forced to seek shelter in strange looking house. He is welcomed by Profesor Zazul, who devoted his life to cloning experiments. Based on a short story by Stanisław Lem featured in Memories of Ijon Tichy.

1968-08-27 | pl

A Day in the Country

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

1946-05-21 | fr

Genius Party

The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and CAT SOUP fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with “Happy Machine,” his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji Kimura’s spookier “Deathtic 4,” meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura’s “Limit Cycle” conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama’s "Doorbell" and "Baby Blue" by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with “Shanghai Dragon,” takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride.

2007-07-07 | ja

Insane

A young talented director on a location scout in the abandoned psychiatric hospital of a rural community inadvertently awakens the ghost of a tormented soul seeking retribution.

2014-11-28 | en

To the Night

Tyler spends his time trawling for girls on the Internet and being a general misfit with little regard for others. Through social media he reconnects with Jenny Kramer, an old flame, and embarks on a night that will change his ways forever. Or maybe not. 'To The Night' explores the disconnect of this post-post modern age, and the ease with which one can go through life disregarding not only the feelings of others, but of oneself.

2014-11-26 | en

Pity

This is a portrait of a man at the bottom, struggling to find an answer, when the wrong things happened at the wrong time. This is a story of loss.

2014-03-08 | en

Mis-drop

300 years in the future, a forensic accountant reviews the video stream from one mercenary's drop-pod which has been damaged during the initial stages of a colonial invasion.

2013-12-01 | en

Narcose

Deep water freediving exposes its practitioners to a form of narcosis, which induces several symptoms, among which a feeling of euphoria and levity that earned this phenomenon its nickname of "raptures of the deep". The short film relates the interior journey of Guillaume Néry, the apnea world champion, during one of his deep water dives. It draws its inspiration from his physical experience and the narrative of his hallucinations.

2014-05-20 | en

The Infernal Cauldron

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

1903-08-01 | fr

Blacksmithing Scene

Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.

1893-05-08 | xx

The Golem and the Dancing Girl

As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous. A lost film.

1917-07-10 | de

The Nest

A doctor must remove a parasite infestation from within a patient's breast.

2013-09-02 | en

Bad Karma

A group of people is having a barbecue party when two Krishnas appear at their doorstep, both of which transform into hideous monsters and start killing everybody in gory ways. The survivors retreat to a friend's house and realize something bigger is going on...

1991-01-01 | en

Paradox Mary

Mary has a problem. And it’s right in front of her. It’s in front of everyone else too, only they haven’t recognized it yet.

2008-07-06 | en

Johnny Express

In the year 2150, Johnny, a lazy Space Delivery Man, must deliver a package on a planet he does not fully understand.

2014-05-08 | ko

Elephants Dream

Elephants Dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The elder, Proog, acts as a tour-guide and protector, happily showing off the sights and dangers of the machine to his initially curious but increasingly skeptical protege Emo. As their journey unfolds we discover signs that the machine is not all Proog thinks it is, and his guiding takes on a more desperate aspect. Elephants Dream is a story about communication and fiction, made purposefully open-ended as the world’s first 3D animated “Open movie”. The film itself is released under the Creative Commons license, along with the entirety of the production files used to make it (roughly 7 Gigabytes of data). The software used to make the movie is the free/open source animation suite Blender along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and re-purposed with only a computer and the data on the DVD or download.

2006-03-24 | en

Black Angel

A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until he finds a mysterious maiden who is being held prisoner by a black knight. In order to free her, he must confront her captor.

1980-05-21 | en

La Guerre des Romands

2011-12-15 | fr

Multi-Facial

Through a series of auditions, a young actor in New York City struggles with his identity.

1995-07-01 | en

The Mistletoe Bough

During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.

1904-11-30 | en