A Brief History of John Baldessari

How will John Baldessari be remembered in a 100 years?  As “The guy who put dots over people’s faces”,...

Narrated by Tom Waits, a pop documentary about "The guy who put dots over people's faces".

(Moxie Pictures)

USA / 6minutes

Sundance Film Festival 2017 Announces Shorts Programs: Taste These 7 Shorts

Sundance Film Festival has announced its 2017 Shorts Programs. The 68 shorts round out a program of Competition and...

Seven shorts to watch online from the 68 programmed to play over January 19-29 in Park City

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Yardbird

Lonely and mysterious, Ruby is very different from other girls her age: we don’t know much about her, besides...

A solitary young girl is forced to come out of hiding to face the town bullies, but the thing she fears the most is herself.

(Bridle Path Films )

Australia / 13minutes

Bismillah by Alessandro Grande: Winner of the David di Donatello Award 2018 for Best Short Film

Bismillah by Alessandro Grande is the winner of the David di Donatello Award 2018 for Best Short Film. Tender...

Exclusive interview with the director winner of the most important Italian prize

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Alien Attack from the Interspace – by Alessio Gonnella

Sci-fi in Italy is possible. Thinking about Italian cinematographic difficulties to approach this genre, it seems just an oxymoron....

Sci-fi in Italy is possible, but... How can the trumpet save us all?

(Festina Lente)

Italy / 24minutes

Motorville

The map of America comes to life and starts wandering around looking for oil reserves, long extinguished from the...

The United States of America come to life in the search of the lost oil.

(Self-produced)

USA / 3minutes

Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Waste (Yaderni wydhody) is the striking fourth short film by Ukrainian director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, following Incident (2006), Diagnosis (2009) and Deafness (2010) which represent some kind...

He is a truck-driver at a radioactive wastes utilization plant. She works at the plant's decontamination laundry.

(Arthouse Traffic, Volodymyr Tykhyy)

Ukraine / 23minutes

Sebastian – by Sam Fragoso

Sebastian is the first short film written and directed by Sam Fragoso, formerly a film critic and actually the...

An emigrating father writes home to his son: a short film that tells in 3 minutes what is America today

(Sam Fragoso)

USA / 3minutes

Jaffa – by Jay Branagan

Between thirty and forty years, for many people life takes a common turn: marriage, sons, a stable job and...

Many couples want a child, but what happens when a child does not arrive because of his sperm?

(Plain Sailing Films)

Ireland / 12minutes

Jimmy Page: An Animated Short Film Chronicles The Story Behind Led Zeppelin Guitar

Jimmy Page without his Fender Telecaster is like Thor without his hammer Mjöllnir. The history of this magical instrument...

The 1959 Fender Telecaster was a gift from Jeff Beck and now Page shares the psychedelic story of that instrument

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Lazy Daze – by Brian Smee

How is like a dog’s dream? Maybe something similar to what is depicted by the young American animator Brian Smee in...

A kaleidoscopic journey into a dog's dream.

(Self Produced)

USA / 4minutes

Larry – by Jacob Chase

A man is working in a parking lot at night. Trying to pass the time, he discovers an abandoned...

A man, a parking lot, a friendship: a tender and scary tale about our loneliness

(Jacob Chase)

USA / 5minutes

Fear of Flying

It looks like Stop-Motion, but it isn’t.  Combining puppetry and 2D and 3D animation, director Conor Finnegan has created...

It's time to migrate south, but Dougal is afraid of flying. The tragicomic adventure of a bird and its phobias.

(Brunella Cocchiglia)

Ireland / 9minutes

Selfie

From the “mirror stage” of Lacanian memory, to the Renaissance portraits, to analog self-portraits, to serial auto-representation in the...

An hilarious 60 seconds animated "sketch" on the most viral obsession of the moment.

(Free-lance)

UK / 1minutes

Ulysse – by H. B. Meyrant, M. Chabannes, A. Labadie, C. Theuillon

Is it possible to rewrite a stroy that has been told for more than 2000 years? Absolutely, according to...

Through digital animation a modern Ulysses brings us in his oniric trip caused by the catching gaze of a strange mermaid.

(Supinfocom Arles (MOPA))

Francia / 9minutes

Rise – by David Karlak

In a not so far future, robots develop feelings. This unexpected event scares humanity, which reacts as a frightened child...

A justified revolt of the machines.

(Underground Films / Vertigo Entertainment)

USA / 5minutes

A Pale Blue Dot

Many of the problems that plague our small terrestrial existences can be often “solved” with a change of perspective,...

An uplifting animation with commentary by Carl Sagan, offers us an unexpected perspective of our earthly existence.

(Student Film (Sheridan College))

Canada / 4minutes

Ududeagu

Before there were kings, there was a spider – life and death intertwine in Ududeagu, the intimate and mystery...

Before there were kings, there was a spider: language and body as habitat in a dark and mystery mutant experiment

(Akwaeke Emezi)

Nigeria / 2minutes

Oscars 2018: The 10 Animated Shorts Finalists

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that 10 films have advanced in voting in the Animated...

Here are the magnificent ten finalists for this year’s Academy Awards: What is new is that 5 of these are available online

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The Mistery of Flying Kicks

We saw them on the street, in the most diverse cities in the world, in movies, music videos, maybe...

A brilliant "collabortaivo short-doc" about the urban mystery of sneakers hanging from overhead power lines.

(Closer Productions )

Australia / 14minutes

Junkyard

This animation by Dutch animator Hisko Hulsing has won 22 awards in many festivals across the world, and not by chance. It’s...

A man is stabbed in the subway. In the last seconds before he dies, a teenage friendship flashes before his eyes.

(il Luster Films, Cinété)

Netherlands / 18minutes

Social Butterfly

It’s Chloè’s eighteenth birthday, and she’s celebrating it in a wonderful french countryside villa. It’s a “white party” (maybe...

An american woman enters into a teenage party in the South of France, changing the life of the birthday girl forever.

(Ad Astra Films)

USA / 14minutes

Journal Animé – by Donato Sansone

Donato’s sitting at the bar. A typical Parisian café during an ordinary rainy day. He flips through the pages...

The images on the pages of Libération come to life and pass the printed events in the Italian short which collected a César nomination

(Autour de Minuit)

France / 4minutes

Sara – by Rossella Inglese

Sara’s just 12 years old when she is confronted with discovering the experience of become a woman. Escorted into...

Sara's just 12 years old when she is confronted with discovering the experience of become a woman

(Fedra Film)

Italy / 6minutes