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A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stan Brakhage

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials...

Genre: Animation

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In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Tork

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: György Cserhalmi

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...

Genre: Animation

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cloud film meditates on the calming effects of watching clouds, while also demanding action to combat our impact on the environment. It calls...

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Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Robert Morley

Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mayu Matsuoka

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isaach de Bankolé

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

Genre: Animation

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Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in...

Genre: Documentary

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A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

Genre: Animation

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'Elise' comes to terms with a 'being' that possesses their house, discovering and accepting why they have allowed this presence to linger while...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Éabha Campbell

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janna Köhler

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short...

Genre: Horror

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Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by...

Genre: Animation

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This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Roman Kroitor

In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are...

Genre: Animation

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A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Via Villa

A super pure tragicomedy rosary of pious prayers bringing unity, joy, and excellent living to the people of all sizes, sexualities, and colors. World...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sam Hyde