The Goal Is To Live
The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which chronicles the factories that create everyday objects. The film takes Dina Kelberman’s practice of accumulation and recontextualization into a large-scale time-based work for the first time. Reorganizing short clips into a long Rube-Goldberg-like narrative, and featuring a hypnotic minimalist soundtrack by Rod Hamilton and Tiffany Seal, the film portrays a mesmerizing and surreal process in which materials are transformed in myriad ways.
Dada
The Dadaist, an eccentric creature who embodies the concept of the 20th century European avant-garde art movement Dadaism, destroys and mocks art pieces such as Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, whilst expressing his impulsive fury at logic and reason.
Profondo
After a one night stand with Matt, Veronica has been murdered. Julia goes on date with George. Together they go to a party. Things get weird.
The Nightwatchman
A nightwatchman who works at a pesticide plant manipulates chemicals (of which he treats a strange garden of marrow-like vines in his apartment) , causing evolution to accelerate, in this short illustrating the harmful effects of human interference with nature.
Tondo
Tondo introduces the cosmic formalism that was the primary theme of Al Jarnow's independent films. An infinite gridscape alternates with vibrating etchings, spirograms and other surreal realities.
Double King
A king steals crowns from various other rulers.
Playground
A collage of colors and shapes intersect and flow - from Mirai Mizue,
Tail
One disturbed killer keeps a stolen boy, a fractured detective, and a quiet pianist orbiting each other inside the disorienting maze of his cryptic mind.
Dream-Spy
After an incident Ron is guided by Gerold (A floating 3D cartoon character) in escaping from his coma while being monitored by the group known as “The Dream Spies” all while Ron looks back on his life and what led him to the present.
Pandorama
"This is a nice fruit tree here. Why don't you eat from it? " Working from about 2,500 images, all painstakingly drawn and painted and textured onto clear 70mm film leader, Nina Paley’s brilliant, camera-less short film paints the proverbial "Fall from Grace" as a labyrinthine trip through Pandora's box. It is a mad race, a dance with death and a rollicking good time in this raucous, vibrant set of color images shimmering and shimmying over a black background, all to the driving insouciance of Scottish punk rockers the Revillos' "Yeah Yeah."
Red Palm
A man must go on a journey through the darkest recesses of his mind or succumb to his vices.
To See In The Dark
Someone with a tragic background is being controlled by a larger than life group.
The Sheperds
Le Fogile Cadono
a glimpse of fall.
Highway
A man suffers from the effects of a mysterious psychedelic in a seemingly endless forest.
How Death Came to Earth
How Death Came to Earth is a 14 minute cutout animation film by Ishu Patel produced in 1971 by the National Film Board of Canada. The film deals with an Indian myth of creation, and is notable for its trippy visual style.
Dizzy
Dealing with his pill addiction, Jinn suffers from vivid nightmares, featuring a monster that plagues his everyday life.
Asylum in The Garden
Smoking weed with friends is something of a ritual for Margo and her band of misfits, Blood Rain and Coco. However, when the group is drugged, that ritual quickly becomes a bloody, hellish, PCP infused nightmare.
Nightfall
Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.
Mother is Watching
Five teenagers, Chris, Kai, Nic, Alex and Katherine, explore the Australian wilderness to see if they can capture a ghost that science-fiction nerd Nic has read an article about. The group's teenage antics and increasingly heated arguments are interrupted when the innocent and unsuspecting Katherine disappears into the bush.