1. Totem Talk
Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of tradition. Three urban Indigenous teens are whisked away to an imaginary land by a magical raven, and there they encounter a totem pole. The totem pole's characters—a raven, a frog and a bear—come to life, becoming their teachers, guides and friends. Features a special interview with J. Bradley Hunt, the celebrated Heiltsuk artist on whose work the characters in Totem Talk are based.
2. Poet's Dream
The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.
3. Chateau/Poyet
The scene is set in front of a French chateau. The camera chases improbable incidents across the screen. Many are constructed out of one of Jordan's favorite engravings illustrators: Poyet. Duels occur on a tight rope. Heavier-than- air machines fly . Below guns spear exploding spheres. The timing of the animation is exquisite, existing in an atmosphere balanced between frenzy and delight.
4. Lost Way (行方不明)
Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
5. Corazón en el cenicero (Corazón en el cenicero)
(Corazón en el cenicero)
6. Mandala
Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
7. Rosso
For an anxious person, being trapped on a boat with someone you don't like can be the tense. Stuck for hours afloat, nothing on the line, bad conversation, and cold winds as resentment rises. Both people chained to a rod and tackle because one won't speak up and admit that they want to go home.
8. Henry John and the Little Bug
Dinner time in a remote home of a prairie family turns nightmarish when a band of blood spattered outlaws break through the front door in search of food, horses, and women. Nothing is as it seems in this constantly twisting genre bender.
9. Ansatsu (Ansatsu)
"Assassination" - Adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel "Demian". A young man's detachment from and revolt against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self. Max Demian is his childhood friend and mentor.
10. En tos'laos (En tos'laos)
(En tos'laos)
11. Razor Blades
In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli. In a careful juxtaposition and fusion of these elements on different parts of our being, usually occurring simultaneously, we feel at times hypnotised and re-educated by some potent and mysterious force.
It has an average vote of 5.1 on TMDB.
12. Within
This psychedelic horror short inspired by vintage cinema follows a raped girl's descent into derangement and makes the audience feel as claustrophobic as the character.
13. Dead Flies And Starless Skies
In this short experimental film, three friends are waiting for their train to arrive.
14. The Empty (The Empty)
My representation of emptiness and what it is to be alone without humans or sociality.
15. Samuraï
A particular day of a samurai
16. Reflection
As she keeps watching old home movies isolated in her hotel room, the screen becomes a mirror from which she tries to see herself. Levels of subjectivity, narrative, and reality entwine into a surrealist fever dream of scopophilic cinéma pur. The final layer of meaning is all of us watching the film on the screen-mirror in the theatre.
17. A Sad, Sad Ghost Picking at the Hairs of Their Knuckles
A wandering young woman explores the crevices of her apartment, of her corporeal creases, as well as the shadows made up of those things. Through her journey, she comes into contact with fellow vagrancies: a nondescript man of around similar age; a young girl with similar, even familiar, eyes; streets that can only exist during those brief moments of glazing stares. The rain comes and goes, but the A/C never turns off.
18. Norwegian nature, suburbia and the Creatures living there (Norwegian nature, suburbia and the Creatures living there)
A human-like Creature, emerging from the ancient depths of the Norwegian forest, ventures towards suburbia. The local inhabitants react in different ways to its unannounced presence.
19. Liminally, Yours
The last person on Earth revisits their memories as they wander a lonely world
20. Cremaster 3
CREMASTER 3 is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.