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After receiving a VHS tape claiming she's a disciple of an alien species known as the "True Mothers," Amy joins a local UFO cult, donning the name Celisse and befriending a number of other members while under the watch of the cult's peculiar founder, Ascensia.

Emma, a lonely old woman, reminisces of one of her childhood birthday parties.

A sickly elephant father struggles to open a jar of aspirin.

A housecat attempts to eat what he doesn't suspect is a piranha.

The film, Al Tudi Tuhak, is a creation story inspired by the art and mythology of the Northwest coast people. The story involves the creator, or "The Great Father" as he whittles the world into existence. Each of his wood shavings became fish, trees, birds,... even the sun and moon.

This short is about a purple dinosaur named Sigmund, who likes to bounce on top of trees. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

At the end of the workday, the women of the city head to the bathhouse.

The story of a starving third-world infant, set to a song by Harry Chapin. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

This delightful story is simply about a boy wanting to go outside and play in the snow. After getting all bundled up by his mother, the boy has found that he is unable to move! Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Intermittent Delight juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and 1960s, images of men weaving and women sewing in Ghana, and fragments of a Westinghouse 1960s commercial- aimed to instruct women on the how-to of refrigerator decoration.

a little boy had an Imaginary Friend was Richard Nixon.

Beckett cycles through a limited number of drawings, but adds new information to each drawing every time we see it, giving the sense of a world that is infinitely rich and also obviously contained tightly within the edges of the paper. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

When a girl at a party confronts a guy about his social anxiety, he starts to float in the air.

After the lead of the school musical is rendered suddenly indisposed, her understudy has a few moments before she has to step up and fill her shoes.

A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?

a group of friends attend an art gallery show at the recently finished Tower of Babel.

A flesh-rotting zombie leads a support group for down and out monsters. Made at CalArts 2010.

A man reacts with violence when a pair of eyes spy on him from inside a cardboard box.

Three friends, a shooting star, and the encroaching melancholy of loneliness.