Short Film Pleasure

Rejected
Rejected
An animator's commissioned works, rejected because of their increasingly absurd and violent tone, eventually find their entire animated world collapsing in upon itself.. In the spring of 1999, the Family Learning Channel commissioned animator Don Hertzfeldt to produce promotional segments for their network. The cartoons were ...
Logorama
Logorama
Police chase an armed criminal in a version of Los Angeles comprised entirely of corporate logos. Won 2010 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Another 2 wins. Directed by François Alaux, Herve de Crecy and Ludovic Houplain / France / 2009
Sans Titre
Sans Titre
In 1997, for its fiftieth anniversary, the Cannes Film Festival asked director Leos Carax for a short film; a visual postcard addressed to the festival in which the director could give news of himself and of his current project, Pola X. This official explanation almost suggests ...
200000 fantômes
200000 fantômes
In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. "Atomic Dome" - all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition - ...
I Miss Sonia Henie
I Miss Sonia Henie
During 1971 Belgrade Film festival Karpo Godina recruited seven masters to direct a segment of the film, intercepted them at the hotel and handed them a 1-page set of instructions.. The rules for this film were simple. Each director would make a 3 minute film. The ...
Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not)
Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not)
A Beirut-ish tribute to Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amelie Poulain, about (fleeting) love & the little pleasures in life, all set and in relation with the very inspiring city of Beirut. Directed by Mounia Akl & Cyril Aris / Lebanon / 2009
Point of View
Point of View
Another late night schizophrenic musing. Directed by Robin Glass / Brazil / 2009
Broken Circle
Broken Circle
Mitchell Stevens has a troubled conscience and a past he regrets. Having recently left his life as a priest, he's looking for a way to redeem himself to the world and to himself. When the local police ask him to help provide shelter for a ...
Doodlebug
Doodlebug
The depths of insanity are explored by a man chasing something in his apartment with a shoe. A man is trying to catch some sort of bug running around his room. He takes his shoes off and intends to crush it under the heel of his ...
Life
Life
Poetic essay about the beginning of life from labor pains and birth and about its symbolic meaning. Life is about a birth, consisting mainly of views of a young woman's face in the throes of labour, her heaving body in its hospital room seen as a ...
The Hangnail
The Hangnail
A boy, waiting for a bus. A dog, begging for potato chips. The boy sends the dog away, violently. He sees a hangnail on his finger and shows us, graphically, why you should never pick at them. The dog gets karmic retribution. Directed by Shane Acker ...
Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job
Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job
A parody on a safety instruction video for forklift drivers follows young Klaus as he begins his first day on the job as a qualified forklift truck driver. The film spoofs the original genre very effectively, notably through employing the best-known German narrator of instructional ...
Géraldine
Géraldine
One morning Gerald wakes up as a woman… The adventures of a man transformed into woman and who discovers a new life in a new body. The film begins with a man waking up to discover that he's magically turned into a lady! He has no ...
Milk
Milk
A man looking for something white in a black world... Directed by Konstantinos Fragoulis and Alexandros Sipsidis / Greece / 2008
Georgian Summer
Georgian Summer
A weary donkey causes a huge traffic jam on a busy road in Tbilisi. The donkey refuses to budge. Outside the city, a bull is attracted by the red dress of a pretty girl and chases her. A boy who is deeply in love with her, ...