A nine year old girl receives a giant bandsaw for her birthday
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A nine year old girl receives a giant bandsaw for her birthday
Two angels debate the fate of a pregnant nurse whose life may be taken to save another — forcing them to question morality, innocence, and consequence.
A magician produces a chicken from an immense egg, and then six chicks from eggs laid by that chicken. The chicken is wrapped in paper and put into a pot. The chicks go back into their eggs, which are broken into the pot. From the pot, the magician pulls out the chicken, alive!
‘Yellow’ is a project by Filippo Cinotti Shot entirely with: Canon C500MKII Nikkor AI-S lenses Evaluated in Davinci Resolve 20 Extra tools: LensNode
In a reimagining of a first-generation immigrant's experience, this short film follows the director's mother moving from Nigeria to Peckham.
Malik is a sensitive and awkward child who is teased by two older boys. He finds refuge in his home, a dark basement, where his drawings and imagination lead him to experience fairy-tale adventures alongside bizarre characters.
A tourist group is shown the latest in Soviet virtual reality technology through the Potemkin.
Vestiges is a Short film made during a workshop for the Espoirs de l’Animation 2016. A young girl uses the strengh of nature to struggle against the growth of a black mud.
As Hong Kong increasingly loses its sovereignty under China’s control, Momo leaves home for Berlin, hoping to finally breathe the air of freedom. But life doesn’t look like what he imagined—instead of advancing his fashion career or finding love, he ends up working and living in a Chinese supermarket. Momo soon finds himself straying even further, going on an uncanny journey with other outcasts in the city of Berlin.
The Crabe-Phare is a legendary crustacean. He captures the lost sailors' boats to add them to his collection. But the crab is getting old, and it is more and more difficult for him to build his collection.
Rita Landre plays a witch who casts spells to make anyone she wants disappear. She also makes her own clothes disappear.
To combat noise pollution, the government has decided to introduce mandatory "quiet hours" on public transport. An incredible adventure for the passengers on flight "Yes we fly 842".
Two dissipated students decide out of challenge to get locked in a library...
Before the Trojan War, Agamemnon gathered the Greek armies at the port of Aulis. The goddess Diane sent unfavorable winds to prevent the Greeks from sailing. Her oracle set a condition for Agamemnon: to earn the right to sail forth and destroy an innocent country, he would have to sacrifice his own daughter. Agamemnon accepted these terms and killed his young daughter Iphigénie on the altar. In his play Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides imagines that Diane plucked Iphigénie from that altar and delivered her to a temple in distant Tauride, where Iphigénie began to serve the enemy Scythians as Diane’s high priestess—all the while Iphigénie’s family believing her dead.
Bubble a young otter, lives with three mossy stones and thinks of them as her family. Bulle imagines them as real otters, but as she becomes aware of their true nature, she has to face her loneliness.
2007: 17-year-old Karl lives with his single father Werner in a cramped flat in an East Berlin apartment block. Karl's eight-year-old brother David is in a sheltered housing group. Karl feels overwhelmed in his contact with his little brother, because David looks to him for what their 62-year-old father cannot provide. After their father's birthday, something unexpected happens: Karl lays an egg. He tries with all his might to keep the hatching creature alive.
The director for a short film is called into the editing room one night, after the editor finds that the ending to their film has mysteriously changed.
A Cadbury's chocolate advertisement based on Alice in Wonderland.
A movie whose intention is to rescue the Argentinian sculptor Lola Mora from oblivion. Her social, artistic and love life is told from two points of view: Her own, and the ones of six guests to a ghost banquet. Such banquet takes place when Lola, already dead, comes back to Earth for some explanations from those who helped her succeed when alive.
Traveling lawman comes to town and schools the residents in collective farming practices. There's also a bad guy with a lot of money who's cut off the water supply to the area's farmers, and the soul of a murder victim that manifests as a flying fireball.
The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's another early example of a two-shot film along the lines of Paul's earlier film Come Along Do!. The young man plays a magician who, after completing his act, agrees to go home with the young boy from the audience who helped him perform his tricks. At the boy's home he finds a sick sister and a worried mother being threatened with eviction by her landlord.
On the top floor of a disused sanitarium, a man regains consciousness after a long coma.
Louise is a mermaid. One day, a young man discovers her secret.
A film crew are making a documentary about Frederich Raynard, a nazi war criminal, expert in occultism who could have ended his days in a town in northern Spain. What starts as an easy job soon will become a dark adventure that will change their lives forever. With Raynard diary in their hands and chased by a secret organization, they will look for Macias help, a parapsychology professor. By him, they will soon find out their lives are in danger and the only way to save themselves is to perform one of the rituals from Raynard diary. The ritual that caused Raynard death years back.
An esoteric fairy-tale, a mystical-dreamlike tale, and a symbolic-Masonic course: No matter which perspective you consider it from, The Magic Flute will always be one of Mozart’s undisputed masterpieces. Amidst exotic, fanciful settings and cruel trials to conquer knowledge, amidst musical enchantment and threatening hostile forces, is the final victory of good over evil and love over hate. Singspiel in two acts to a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, the Zauberflöte is one of the Salzburg genius’ last masterpieces, which he probably began composing in May 1791, not even six months before his death. The opera had its debut in Vienna on 30 September 1791, conducted by the composer himself and with Schikaneder as Papageno.
A celebration of the physical phenomenon of the kiss.
A combat simulation becomes a surreal battle for survival and sanity when an experimental drug therapy goes wrong for two traumatised assassins.
In the year 1985, the young Jei Lon begins his crusade to avenge his father, who died at the hands of a mysterious assassin. In his quest, Jei Lon meets Gu Fu, a master in the ancient Dragon Techniques willing to train him in these mystical martial arts. But as the adventure goes on, Jei Lon discovers the true mystery of his life.
On a secluded island, a hunter discovers that he happens to be a prey.
Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill.
Vera is a young shepherdess who lives in a valley with green fields. A beautiful and disturbing natural event initiates her into an enigmatic metamorphosis.
Tells the story of the adventures of the resourceful Scheherazade. Newly married to Shahryar, a deranged monarch who murders his brides after the wedding night, Scheherazade manages to keep her head by entertaining her husband with exciting stories and always trailing off at the most infuriating cliffhangers.
The old Lion King, oblivious to the fact that he has become the laughing stock of his Royal household, dreams of more heroic days. Meanwhile, his ministers have plans of their own. A short animation by Wladyslaw Starewicz, part of a series of two based on the fables of La Fontaine known as Deux fables de La Fontaine.
When a young man of 18 sees a vision of his 11 year old self at a party, he is sent on a hazy and emotional journey through his past to finally accept who he used to be.
Farinata is tried in Florence and convicted of heresy 19 years after his death; his remains are missing, his sons barbarously killed. Solomon of Lucca is the inquisitor. A story too murky and dark not to bring it back to light.
Polichinelle the servant (called Harlequin in the English language version) rescues his girlfriend from a gang of decadent aristocrats, who have transformed her into a mechanical doll.
Young psychotherapist Ernest is an expert in being normal – he even has a PhD in normalization. He’s just begun his first job, at the prestigious (if rather gloomy) Institute for Extremely Normal Behaviour. It’s immediately clear his patients need his help: the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the furious Queen of Hearts all claim to be from somewhere called Wonderland. But as Ernest gets to know them all, he begins to ask himself two big questions: what is ‘normal’ and what’s so great about it anyway? Digital Release 31st July 2020. Recorded: 2014 in the Linbury Studio Theatre
60 AD. Romans tighten their grip on Britannia. Druidism is hunted almost to extinction. after being driven out of their commune, Rhiain- a young druid and her master Gwen are forced to flee and traverse the wilds of Britannia in order to reach the sanctuary of the Druids - Ynys Môn. On their journey they will encounter great challenges and unlikely allies on a quest that will decide not only their survival, but the future of their way of life itself.
A VR experience that illuminates the surveillance crisis with music from legendary electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre and visuals from award-winning VR director Hsin-Chien Huang.
Alice saves the land of the deaf from an evil sorcerer who transforms people into hearing mutants. An expressionist fairy tale that explores the struggle of the deaf community in a hearing world.
A little girl, a sort of Alice in the Land of Cinema, explores this new Garden of the Hesperides that is the cinema. She follows its main paths, rubs shoulders with the great mythical figures of this art form, and discovers her own image. Having become a woman by eating a magical caramel cream, she confuses her own existence, her own birth, her childhood, and her daily life with her own myth of being a great star.
Told in the Cornish language and set in a Cornwall that is urbanised, deprived, and struggling, An Tarrow follows young Peder as he seeks out characters from local folklore to take him away from the violence of his home life.
Mountains silhouetted at dawn. Wind rustling through the tall grass. A woman carries a chair across mountains. Where to?
Set in 14th century England, Agnes has lost the sense of touch. Reality and time bend beyond recognition.
In the year 2700, a comic book artist encounters a mysterious alien while seeking revenge against the pyromaniac who burned down her printing presses.
Over a seven-minute static shot showing an empty swimming pool, a text scrolling from right to left tells the story of a little wooden puppet, who wants to become a real boy.
Two children are home alone for dinner. One of them is busy cooking, while the other waits for the meal with little enthusiasm.