Belongings and Surroundings

A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings.

The Sailor and the Star

This is the story of a sailor. How he got lost at sea, and found his way back.

Letter to Father

Carta ao Pai is an experimental film that tells the raw and sensitive story of a daughter who lost her father in a traumatic way and who sees the need to bury the past by telling him everything she didn't have time to say.

The Egg

An experimental short film about dreams.

Video Weavings

Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, visualized in real time on the warp and weft of video's horizontal and vertical scanning electron beams, color phosphors, plasma cells, and LCD pixels.

Anima

Abstract computer animation set to autoharp solo music composed and performed by Jordan Belson

Children of Happiness

So Bad, Babe

A girl spirals into insanity and enjoys it.

The Lone Traveler

A lonely drone pilot sets off to capture the perfect composition.

Willy Willy

An experimental short film that features Chips Rafferty in his last on-screen role. First film out of NIDA for Pamela Stephenson.

Untitled 77-A

The film contains the despair of an artist’s desire for creation on ruthless censorship, rebel, and anxiety in the mid-70s when it was politically and socially depressed.

The Royal Secret

Ten includes all other numbers. It is called the number of perfection, or the sacred number.

Immortelle

A man is given a letter by a stranger which causes an extreme sense of urgency to get to a very particular location. This is an experimental film that is entirely up to interpretation. The films concept was constructed by all members of the cast and crew.

Fallen Petals

A woman attempts to save her relationship with a man by using an item from their past.

Rusty Horse

Obsessed with understanding his Vietnamese girlfriend's final words before her suicide, a grieving young man seeks help from a therapist who speaks her language. Only to break down, as does meaning in the face of grief.

RED REVERIE

Sasha and Gretchen try to navigate through the surreal world they find themselves in after their parents' death. The two, very different, sisters confide in us during one morning of many; but we're not who needs to know.

The City

The City is a short film that takes audiences on an unscripted visual journey across New York City over the course of a year. A spotlight is shown on seemingly ordinary moments in our lives, revealing their true beauty and importance. An orchestral score guides viewers across seasons as they explore New York for what feels like the first time. Although The City takes place in New York, what makes it special is the people. The authentic moments that just happen to take place between towering skyscrapers and 21 bridges.

Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse

A true story behind the notorious Miami face-eating cannibal and how the Miami Heat won the NBA title in 2012 despite one of their star players being an interstellar prince who was called away to do battle with evil foes bent on finally making the Internet completely useless.

Niches

Whether it be doing yoga with ants, printing with plants, or considering the travels of an apple: not all teachers are human in a bustling Spanish farmhouse. While instances of interspecies care are enacted beneath the cool stone arches of this rambling structure, the ecological niches (or roles) of various beings shift along with their unexpected environmental relationships. In a heavily altered landscape composed of serrated mountains and meticulously-maintained olive groves, human intervention is readily apparent; however, sometimes trees bear knowledge in addition to green fruits, and humans shape and are shaped by their environment in equal measure.

Molelekoa

Banished from Lesotho, the titular character Molelekoa flees from the police. During the chase other characters discuss the complexities of life in Lesotho as well as the nature of art and death

Koyaanisqatsi

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

Blue

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

Naqoyqatsi

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

Paterson

A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.

Black Mirror

A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified second party.

Duck Amuck

The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.

Black Is King

This visual album from Beyoncé reimagines the lessons of "The Lion King" (2019) for today's young kings and queens in search of their own crowns.

The Cowboy and the Frenchman

A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman.

Lemonade

The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.

All Too Well: The Short Film

Short film featuring the extended version of the song “All Too Well” by Taylor Swift. A troubled couple's romance blossoms before it eventually falls apart.

Vincent

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother.

Watching the Detectives

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur.

Piper

A mother bird tries to teach her little one how to find food by herself. In the process, she encounters a traumatic experience that she must overcome in order to survive.

Little Ashes

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

The Grandmother

To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness

A behind-the-scenes mockumentary of Tropic Thunder.

Silent

A duo of street performers learns how sound and picture work together to create amazing cinema experiences.

Downfalls High

When reserved and lonely teenager Fenix meets popular high school girl Scarlett, the two form a bond that shapes the rest of his life.

Starman

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.

Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski

Artists in LA discover the work of forgotten Polish sculptor Stanislav Szukalski, a mad genius whose true story unfolds chapter by astounding chapter.