All Films

Notes on Monstropedia

2017 • 7 min • Japan

An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.

Study with Book

2017 • 1 min

A screen test for Classical Period.

A Year in Notes and Numbers

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

A year’s worth of to-do lists confronts the unavoidable numbers that are part and parcel of an annual visit to the doctor. The quotidian and the corporeal mingle and mix. Family commitments, errands and artistic effusions trade places with the daunting reality of sugar, cholesterol, and bone.

Murakh The Idiot

2017 • 18 min

Unable to get a visa, Abdul, a poor illiterate Muslim man from rural India feels he has no choice but to hijack a domestic flight and redirect it to Australia. Inspired by actual events, this satire exposes the bigotry of a society fed on religious stereotypes and paranoia.

The Secret Market

2017 • 23 min

A doctor must bid at a mysterious auction. Or her past comes back to haunt her.

Marty Hearts Katie

2017 • 16 min

Marty gets a call that he will be taking on the lead role of King Lear due to the lead actor falling ill, but first he must complete his shift at the loca restaurant where problems begin to escalate throughout the evening, including Kate, the girl he thought he was dating, showing up with another man.

Closet Doors

2017 • 6 min

This short film explores the other half of the coming out conversation, the one that we never get to hear. For parents, that conversation ends with suddenly having to reshape your ideas, plans, and relationship with your child. Through a series of interviews, this documentary fixes its lens on the mothers, fathers, grandparents, and guardians of LGBT individuals who have come out of the closet.

Déjà Vu

2017 • 10 min • Canada

An unsuspecting teenager gets trapped in an alternate dimension by a time controlling monster that has taken the form of his friend.

Gluck - Who Did She Think He Was?

2017 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The story of Gluck - Britain's cross-dressing high society painter of the 1930s - who staged 'one-man shows', had relationships with women and somehow got away with it.

Grandma Loleng

2017 • 9 min • Philippines

A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng - a distant relative and a senile parol (Christmas lantern) artisan. Together, they will explore Grandma Loleng’s landscape of memories, only to unearth her innermost secrets and wartime experiences. It is about memory and forgetting, both in the context of the personal and of the national consciousness.

The Town I Live In

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

In L.A.’s Boyle Heights neighborhood, local activists and members of the art community clash over the fate of a beloved neighborhood.

Young Devils in School: Zéro de Conduite — Rushes, Sound, and Images

2017 • 15 min • France

While reconstruction of L’Atalante as a major feature has captured critical attention and debate, we also know that in 1933 even contemporary audiences, critics and politicians grasped the dangerous messages of Vigo’s mini-epic of school rebellion and took their scissors to it while keeping it from the public for more than a decade. Still, alternative versions reached other countries – including a different, early version in Italy – and pieces remain. Together with the rushes, outtakes and on location footage of Vigo during the shoot, Young Devils in School helps us to better understand Vigo’s original vision.

DeRay Davis' Annual Funny & Famous Comedy Jam

2017 • 60 min • United States of America

Funny & Famous Comedy Jam

Hyperventilation

2017 • 21 min • South Korea

The story of two men, Myongi and Sunho, who are reunited with one another at a high school reunion. Seeing each other after so long brought up old feelings from their high school days.

Petting Scorpions

2017 • 15 min • Canada, United States of America

After Daisy (Cierra Ramirez) gets kicked out of a cult for exposing the leader's corruption, she teams up with a vagabond named Ace (Jeff Wittek) to seek revenge.

And Then We Marched

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

Lynne shoots Super 8mm film of the Jan. 21 Women’s March in Washington, D.C. and intercuts this recent footage with archival material of early 20th Century Suffragists marching for the right to vote, 1960s antiwar activists and 1970s advocates for the Equal Rights Amendment.

P.o.v

2017 • 21 min • Sweden

An extreme subculture. Young men with snowmobiles in the Lapland mountains.

Kill Jay-Z

2017 • 2 min

Jay-Z reflects on his decisions and mistakes and how they have affected his relationships.

Remember Me

2017 • 11 min

A suicidal teenage girl is lured on a surreal journey through her darkest memories by a phantom of her past.

Bad President - Oil Spill

2017 • 3 min • Canada

In an alternate timeline Arizona State alumni William “Billy” Coltran was the president of the USA. Billy addresses the nation regarding a serious oil spill.

John Surtees: One of a Kind

2017 • 44 min

The name John Surtees will forever be etched in the annals of Motor Racing. One of the most gifted and versatile racers of all time, he was the first man to win world championships on both two wheels and four, an incredible feat that remains unparalleled today.

Suna no Akari

2017 • 3 min • Japan

The short's story centers on a boy who finds something shining in a gloomy desert. It gives him a power of light. Guided by the light, the boy is drawn into the connection between the girl he meets and a new world.

The Fish

2017 • 22 min • Colombia, Canada

'La Pesca' portrays a day in the life of a family of fishermen in Colombia. With poetry and sensorial richness, the film captures the gestures of these men as they weave nets, cook, and play dominoes, all the while waiting for the fish to come so that they can recommence anew.

Taker of Souls

2017 • 2 min

Short 2 minute horror film created for the 'Annabelle Creation' competition.