Toby believes he can make things disappear into the darkness of his attic. Maybe even his stepfather.
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Toby believes he can make things disappear into the darkness of his attic. Maybe even his stepfather.
Our hero, Halvar the Brave, seeks vengeance aboard a witch-born chopper, journeying across a psychedelic landscape on a quest to defeat the deadly beast Mördvél for the slaying of his bride.
Set in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, the story follows Nadia the night before her childhood home is sold. High on mushrooms, she and her friends inadvertently open a portal, plunging them into the astral-plane. There, she must face The Horned One, an ancient keeper of the land and of the water. To return to her body, Nadia must come to terms with her responsibility to her homeland and the water that it protects.
Summerland is a territory where human beings and animals are exchanging a part of their souls and bodies. Here metaporphoses are constant, corrupting borders and boundaries between species. Many transformations occur secretly within the depth fo the forest. In Summerland the point of view is always ambiguous, submitted itself to a constant movement between reality and surreality.
A photographer recounts a dream about wandering through a strange but beautiful forest. Discovering what it means to achieve great art.
A vampire is shown a new way to hunt and finds a new lease on life and love.
A young man finds himself confronted with Death.
After a heist that goes wrong, a frail robot who was the driver of a robot mafia ends up being in possession of some loot he shouldn’t have, a human heart. Tempted by the opportunity of being like his bosses, he grafts the heart to himself and discovers the feeling of being alive. But those brief instants of life have a price.
On a historical grave site, a teenage girl with low self-esteem, a white rapper, and the ghost of a confederate soldier become entangled in a love triangle.
Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the seventeenth film in the series.
This documentary delves into the history behind the Wellington New Zealand based private LOTR Fan museum, run by Kathy. It plays on request at the museum.
The end of the world has arrived. It's up to one man to connect his visions to reality.
Strangers give up their modern lives to live in a medieval village.
Two lovers share one life between them in an Edenic forest, but they must decide whether this is the right way to truly live, and truly love.
At the edge of the world a Child learns from her Grandmother that she is descended from the fairies. She longs to know more but her Grandmother is silent. To find the story of her past, the Child enter the land of The In-between and travels to the beginning of time when Fairies roamed the earth. But the story she finds is not the one she wants. In a fit of anger she sends her Grandmother down into the sea to find the magic story she wishes for. Filled with remorse, she plunges into the sea to bring her back. As the Child sinks, the sleeping world of fairies begins to stir and the long lost secrets are awakened. The Water’s Tale is a story of the interconnection between a woman and the past – herself as a child and the burden of history through the ages.
Stand In is apart of a four part series called “There’s Nothing For You”.
"holding hands with the moon" is a celebration of a not-so-common-coming-of-age inspired by isolation during the pandemic and the consequential anxiety that came with it. Terra is not only learning to live with her anxiety, but also appreciating all of the little things in life that bring her immense joy and her unwavering (and borderline obsessive) love for the moon. Through it all though, magic is never too far away from Terra’s familiar life.
After her daughter's death, Vivianne neglects herself and her house. Since twenty years, she tries to fill up emptiness with stuff. But the situation becomes unbearable and she takes a dramatic decision to get rid of her grudging sense of guilt.
At the Gaomeigu Observatory in China, the Naxi people scan the sky, convinced they are the descendants of immortal beings living there, abandoned on earth to watch them. Between astronomy and legends, Marko Grba Singh seems to compose a mysterious and polysemous tableau. From folk tales heroes such as William Tell, Prince Marko or Sanduo for the Naxi, passing by a miraculous catch, Gods besotted with each other, or the absence of walls built around a city because of the ambiguity of Chinese characters, 'Stars of Gaomeigu' dresses the bodies and contemporary images of mythological tales.
Six people become players in a deadly interdimensional game run by an evil wizard's apprentice.
Miles is tired of his boring life and gets drawn into a puppet world by a magical toothbrush. Submitted to the 2024 48 Hour Film Festival of Boston
Four childhood friends go on a life-changing drive to the moon in a stolen car.
A colorful animated tale of a one-eyed woman and the guilt she feels after destroying her home planet.
The story of a Cow in the high desert as he finds friendship and belonging among unexpected company – a tiny Dragon.
Joe's simple day of fishing is interrupted by a water nymph, and then he runs into a bigger catch than he could believe. Joe now has has to simply survive the day in this Fantasy comedy inspired by the works of Willis O'Brien, and Ray Harryhausen.
A pair of lumberjacks venture into the woods one day to cut down a forest full of trees, but little do they know, something is watching them. And that something is not happy.
A Samurai is tasked with the killing of a Reindeer Man. Will either survive when looming darkness is afoot?
A young woman uses her psychic powers to make a living.
"And where most end we'll find our way to start."
Carlos, a charismatic boy plans to declare his feelings to Gabriela, a beautiful young woman from his school, his plans will be affected by Rafael, his guardian angel
On another world, the evil General Torn is controlling the society under the domed city. Unholy soul eating monsters are in the vast alien forests outside, robots, magicians, a darkness that is coming to the planet that can't be stopped, and some people who just want freedom and to know who they are...
A middle-aged university professor has a very serious date with a Female Air Marshall who may or may not share his family values and may or may not understand his family values-based pain. The Director's Cut is 20 minutes longer than the other two cuts and is presented as a bonus feature, but it is also the only cut that provides the necessary information to truly appreciate the story.
Santa's elves at the North Pole are making toys for good girls and boys, while back in the suburbs a family stands around the Christmas tree singing carols.
Inspired by cognitive psychology experiments of the mid-twentieth century, secret government mind-control programs, and the Hindu concepts of Maya (illusion) and the Shakuna Vimana (UFOs), "Vajra Cymaticon" explores in an offbeat spirit the forces of psychological control and self-delusion in an aesthetic that highlights the illusory nature of cinema and the logic of dreams.
Embrace your weird in this quirky fairy tale about Oscar, a 35 year old mentally challenged man who befriends a socially awkward 12 year old named Sophie only to have a bizarre twist of fate turn their world upside down.
Spanning an entire day from morning to night, this film interpolates the difference between dreaming and dreams.
But in the end, who wakes up?
A cyclops strangles a man and chases a princess through a forest. In a progressive theater workshop outside of Florence, students Giorgia and Lorenzo act out their dreams and childhood traumas, as teacher Alba pushes them to confront their inner myth.
This short is the unauthorized, heavily abridged, biographical, visual and supersonic moment about the fact that Johnny Allen Hendrix (aka Jimi Hendrix) knew how to skydive. Set in Seattle where Jimi was born and raised, the film wonders aloud about what this skill meant for the life he went on to lead. Why did he retreat to the sky so quickly before all of us were ready for him to go?
All this unlucky guy wanted was to make a no-budget film. But everything went wrong. Actors quit and there isn't even a camera anymore. He finds an envelope in his postbox which contains a letter and a black pill. The anonymous sender writes that the addressee left the black pill at his place and then wishes him goodbye forever. Our unlucky guy needs some drinks. As he is leaving the flat he contemplates the black pill sitting on the table. In a split second he swallows it down. He finally leaves the house, but what is now happening? Could it be that this will be his last night on earth? What about these fragments and visions that seem to be connected in some way to his failed film project?
Originally, it was to be a serious look at Westerner's influenced by Eastern trends. As it developed, however it became much more humorous with characters in yoga positions with high heels and smoking cigarettes at the same time.
After the death of his mother, the main character remains alone at his childhood home. He tries to settle into the peace and quiet, but notices he’s not all that alone; the decrepit home has begun to grow a living form, mold, revealing itself as a returning form of the mother. The moldy mother follows her son’s every move, manipulating and stalking him. The son, realizing the cycle is repeating again, feels he too is no longer flesh and blood.
Mickey's Magical World is a 1988 home video compilation from Walt Disney Home Video, originally released on May 31, 1988, as released as part of the Walt Disney Mini-Classics series, in honor to celebrate Mickey Mouse's 60th anniversary. Jiminy Cricket hosted this show with clips from the following classic Disney cartoon shorts: Thru the Mirror (1936) The Worm Turns (1937) Lonesome Ghosts (1937) The Band Concert (1935) Gulliver Mickey (1934) (colorized version) Magician Mickey (1937) The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1940) (from Fantasia) In between the cartoon short clips featuring Mickey Mouse, clips from This is Your Life, Donald Duck, Pinocchio, Orphan's Benefit, The Mickey Mouse Club and From All of Us to All of You are also used.
A reclusive woman holds the secret to a series of mysterious child disappearances in a small northern community.
An adopted teenager on the verge of suicide finds solace, and delusions of a happy home life, in the form of a mysterious pill given to him by an angelic deity.
A hero that has acquired powers through a misterious crocodile has to battle an intergalactic being that threatens to destroy the universe.
A woman reflects on a troubled friendship as she journeys through the woods.
In order to buy rice cakes for New Year's, Grandpa went out in the snowy weather to sell the umbrellas. On his way home without selling any, he found a Jizo and covered him with a umbrella. That night, while Grandpa and Grandma were sleeping, they heard something singing.
Aspiring model Kathy can't seem to get a break. The tide finally turns in her favour after Kathy meets the devil, who gives her a pair of magical gold shoes that enable Kathy to achieve her goal of becoming a famous and successful model. However, said deal with the devil comes at a significant spiritual price.
Film based on the ballet 'Coppelia.' This version is completely silent, not containing the songs/narration, or animation of the later reworking, Mysterious House of Dr. C.
An excerpt from Plato's Republic, the 'Allegory of the Cave' is a classic commentary on the human condition. It is an example of the philosophical underpinnings of Lovecraft's thought and fiction. Fans of cosmic horror should have no trouble discerning in Plato's allegory the roots of Lovecraft's theme of awakening to a vast and terrible ultimate reality The filmmakers have brought Plato's pedagogical story to life by shooting over 4,000 still photographs of John Grigsby's wonderful claymation. The unique look of the film was achieved by use of candlelight in a real fire that burned at the back of the set.
Lovestruck teen Dylan can't help but feel disappointed with his life. Unsure whether his crush has any feelings for him, his brother pushes him to attend a party, one which will change Dylan's life.
Water poured into a vase holds the shape of the vase. So too the vessel of the body holds the strange matter of the soul. It is easy to forget the vessel and think the soul solid. Death is a remembering - where the dissolving vessel can no longer be ignored, and the shapeless soul expands along axes unknown and unknowable.
Filled with jealousy, the evil witch Maleficent curses Princess Aurora to die on her 16th birthday. Thanks to Aurora's guardian fairies she only falls into a deep sleep that can be ended with a kiss from her betrothed, Prince Phillip. To prevent Phillip from rescuing Aurora, Maleficent kidnaps and imprisons him. The good fairies are the last hope to free Phillip so that he can awaken Aurora.
Short comedy set in a haunted hotel. Filmed using "Kinekature" which provides lens distortion.
After the death of his brother at the hands of the Master of Shaolin Horseshoes, an enraged hunter seeks a path of vengeance.
another short documentary-style film, following the first half of the second semester of university students in their third year
An ordinary undergraduate is forced to teach an eccentric Goblin to act like a human being in seven days.