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Museum Underwater explores the dreams and childhood memories of a young girl named Norma. Through different styles of animation and lyrical storytelling, the film transports us to an underwater world where angels, St. Jacob, Walt Whitman, great-grandmother Gala, and secret miracles come to life.
Poet Willie Perdomo performs his iconic poem “That’s My Heart Right There” against the backdrop of New York City’s East River.
A short paper cut-out animation that explores the process of growing up, change, and (in)dependence. Through quiet moments and familiar roads, the film captures the transition from childhood to finding one’s own way.
At the crossroads of intimacy, trails of invisible energy imprint as two wanderers maneuver throughout the landscape, leaving hints of mirrored action yet inverted perspective. Through the shifting shape, current, and conduit of water, Reach follows the journey of two people in search of the other.
You could not have tried any harder.
Trees, Flowers, Hands and Mirrors. An exercise in movement and focus. Black & White, Silent.
As two con men scam a church, they attempt to capitalize on the pastor’s death by faking his resurrection, only for their scheme to spiral into chaos.
Take a small bag of popcorn, put the movie on the big screen and turn off the lights, only to realize after 5 minutes you have watched a thriller that would usually take an hour and a half.
Adventist youth from Liepāja made a little short film.
When lost musician is hit with frightening news he must make his way through a psychological dreamscape where he must confront his deepest fears.
Friends find fragments of their shared youth in old videotapes, including the portrait of a person who connects their stories. The film unfolds as an act of remembrance and reevaluation.
When a wolf and two rival film crews descend on a small Upper Bavarian village, an idealistic forester and a resolute huntress must overcome their bitter feud to save their idyll from a media-fueled witch hunt.
A young couple on a ski trip tries to save a freezing dog outside a hotel and sparks a clash with the staff.
In Los Angeles and Tokyo, the film invites people to live out unfulfilled desires as strangers from their city embody those they long for. The film explores loneliness and emotional life in late-capitalist cities, all while celebrating the transformative power of imagination.
A masked vigilante saves the day, and nothing bad ever happens.
After the death of his father, a young TV writer must face his family’s trauma head on with the help of his new assistant, Gary the Horse.
An introspective short film about loneliness and how it can affect a person. Explores what a person does to use loneliness to clear his mind, aware that giving too much power to that feeling can be dangerous.
A young man is fulfilling his dreams by playing a few levels of Geometry Dash, easy demon level.
A multiform project spanning many years, this tale bewitchingly spins the dark yarn of runaway lovers from a memory. Rising from a fetish for a haunted house, it led to a collaborative exchange with folk trio Lau, and later, provided visuals for Martin Green's live gothic spectacular, CROW'S BONES.
