Papa Machete

Snow Puppy

February 2018 •German

A short film about a white shepherd puppy playing in the snow. Filmed and released in the early months of 2018.

Breakdowns of 1944

December 1944 •English

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.

Hay Que Ser Paciente

July 2015 •Spanish

Meg's Jaw - A film essay

February 2023 •English

This is Meg. She has TMJ and not a lot of time to work on it.

As You Are

January 2023 •English

A glimpse into a visual representation of memory; A Christmas-time series of meals, coffees, and movies, with friends, lovers, and housemates. Faced with the compounding of faces and places, each moment begins to collide with one another: voices are muddled, and faces are broken. How is memory created? How are they separated from one another?

Kaiju Decode

October 2021 •Japanese

The catastrophe "Skyfall" was brought by the collapsed orbital space colony crashed into the Earth. Inside the crater at the crash site now inhabit Kaiju born by gene mutation. Ray, an avatar, comes to the area to collect the scattered "seeds", not knowing what really is going on there, He soon meets Mil, a mysterious girl. Is she a human, or a Kaiju?

The Battle of Midway

September 1942 •English

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, in 2006.

L'Amérique lunaire

January 1963 •French

This short film is a metaphore for the destruction of the indian culture by the 'white man'.

One Fourty

January 1980 •German

The story of a 50-year-old dwarf who stopped growing at 1 meter 40 and plays the piano.

The Trident

February 2023 •English

When you're the legendary Puss in Boots, life and death go paw in paw. In this epic original short, Puss recalls one of his most daring deaths yet.

The Star

October 2013 •Slovak

A documentary on Jan Slovak, a 55-year-old welder, who fell in love with acting. His desire began, when he got the lead role in a theatrical adaptation of the worst movie of all time, Plan 9 From Outer Space by Ed Wood Jr. The passion for theater became his destiny.

Comics

January 1969 •Portuguese

Documentary short that synthesizes the evolution of comic books since Yellow Kid until Spirit.

Tango

August 1985 •German

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, art works, dance performances, historical footage, photographs of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th century, and texts by Celedonio Flores and Enrique Santos Discépolo.

Gritty Fraggle Rock

May 2019 •English

Worlds collide when a secret passage way to the dying world of Fraggle Rock is discovered in the U.S. Officer Lamb and Officer Chops are on the case, when a seemingly targeted string of murders begin to take place against the people of Fraggle Rock. Gobo Fraggle and his friends face new threats, and adventure, in their new home, Earth.

The Posthumous Honors to the Distinguished Authors

January 1964 •Spanish

The posthumous ceremony to honor Mexico's national anthem's authors.

Flares

September 2025 •English

After a near-death experience, a person floats in a mysterious space, gradually being reborn by reconnecting with the sensations of their body.

Desperado

August 2005 •English

Nick Wilson, a professional thief, plans a final job. But when the job is done, he finds the mob isn't that easy to get away from. They want him to stay working with them permanently... which means living or dead.

Only Noise - Las 65:45 horas de gloria de Les Renards

November 2019 •Spanish

ONLY NOISE is a documentary that tries to rescue from oblivion a tale with Les Renards as protagonists, one of the many bands from the 60s that was a key witness and pioneer in the first big explosion of Uruguayan Rock. It might look like a tale from an ordinary band, but in 1968 this band managed to break a world record.

Heavy Metal Parking Lot

May 1986 •English

Heavy Metal Parking Lot documents heavy metal music fans tailgating in the parking lot outside the Capital Centre (since demolished) in Landover, Maryland, on May 31, 1986, before a Judas Priest concert (with opening act Dokken).

Defense Against Invasion

August 1943 •English

A doctor persuades a group of boys to be vaccinated by explaining how it will protect them against disease. Animated sequences depict the body metaphorically as a city, defended by the blood cells, which are stimulated by vaccination to amass arms and ammunition, in order to defend the city when it is invaded by germs.