Resurrection Now

ASTRAKAN

May 2024 •Portuguese

Little Boy Bad

January 1964 •English

The amazing story of a bad boy from the West who was better-hearted than was thought.

The Absence of Eddy Table

June 2016 •Norwegian

Eddy Table, known from the comics of Dave Cooper, makes his screen debut in this animated short. One day, Eddy gets lost in a dark forest. There he meets an alluring girl infected by a mysterious parasite. Love and violence ensues.

The Past Inside The Present

August 2016 •English

An allegorical tale of a couple who attempt to renew their dying relationship by plugging directly into recordings of their memories.

The Giants

September 1970 •Czech

A blue dwarf and a red dwarf get into a vicious argument. Each ultimately calls upon a matching giant to protect them, with unexpected results.

Another Great Moment

January 1987 •English

The sequel to Great British Moments. Obscure claymation.

Royal Flush

January 1986 •English

Early cartoon short by John McIntyre.

Spheres

January 1969 •English

This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction. The dance is set to the musical cadences of Bach, played by pianist Glenn Gould.

Daybreak Express

January 1953 •English

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

The King Dreams the King

November 2023 •English

An ancient king takes so long to build his palace it becomes his mausoleum. He recalls days of his life both cold and hot – unquenchable longing for power, insatiable desire tout court.

And Then the Bear

May 2019 •French

When a boy’s close bond with his mother is imperiled one night by the arrival of a mysterious stranger, matters of nature and nurture collide.

Melodrama

March 2023 •Portuguese

Legends of Peruvian Indians

January 1978 •Russian

The film is based myths of the ancient Peruvians, recreated Soviet ethnographers Yuri Beryozkin on drawings Indians Mochica. The action takes place 1,500 years ago. Legend tells of two brothers, demigods, brought the sacred frog. Growing up, the brothers went to the human world, giving them a lot of happiness and a refuge from the evil monsters. But one of the monsters Rikuay survived the battle with his brothers. He deceived his younger brother, went to his centipede, which led him to ally Rica - a witch, who asked his younger brother to give people a weapon that start killing people. Only the intervention of the gods, and his older brother saved people from total destruction

Ninja Fireball in Edo

November 1935 •Japanese

A short story about a young ninja.

The Nutty Network

March 1939 •English

A jungle land radio station run by monkeys pulls a prank by reporting an invasion from space is occurring and a large cutout face is hoisted above the trees so all can see. Fireworks are employed to sound like a war has started. The King, a Lion with a Bert Lahr voice, finally exposes the fakers. Inspired by Orson Welles' "War Of the Worlds" radio hoax.

It Happened to Crusoe

March 1941 •English

WARNING This cartoon features ignorant racial stereotypes and is NOT meant for children or the sensitive.

Attack of the 50-foot Gummi Bear

January 2014 •English

Flint's mischievous gummy bear grows to 50-feet by using his new food-modifying invention.

Ultima Thule

September 2002 •English

In her recent films, Geiser has been exploring the possibilities found in merging video texture with film, creating a kind of deep, ambiguous space, a suggestion of “the floating world”. In ULTIMA THULE, gravity fails, land and sky lose their historical meaning. A small silver plane navigates an ultramarine storm, flying over barely-glimpsed hills, an unlikely ferry to ”Ultima Thule”: the farthest point north, the limit of any journey. The seduction of immersion in blue is too strong to avoid, the land fills with water, and time loses its line.

In The Tall Grass

March 2015 •Russian

Joseph is mentally deviated. He is a prisoner of his own flat and always in permanent war with his own mind.

The Little Soul

May 2019 •Polish

A dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul - a miniature of the deceased. Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on the river bank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a journey through the post-mortem land.