Alice & Huck

Rendezvous

January 1976 •French

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

Lily and Jim

October 1997 •English

Lily and Jim are interviewed about their disastrous blind date.

I'm Here

March 2010 •English

A library assistant plods through an ordinary life in LA until a chance meeting opens his eyes to the power of creativity and ultimately, love. When this new life and love begin to fall apart, he discovers he has a lot to give. This short film proves that ordinary is no place to be.

A Day in the Country

May 1946 •French

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

Dead Hearts

September 2014 •English

A young mortician learns that not even death can stand in the way of true love. A whimsical, gothic bedtime story filled with love, loss, taxidermy, Kung Fu, and biker werewolves.

Chumo

January 2011 •Swahili

Juma is a poor fisherman who loves telling tales. Amina is the girl who loves to hear his stories. They long to be together, but Amina's father, Ali, wants a better life for her. Ali thinks that he has found this in Yustus, a rich but self-serving young suitor.Juma must put everything on the line to save their love, but he must sacrifice more than he bargained for in order to succeed.

Barrio Boy

September 2014 •English

A secretly gay Latino barber quietly falls in love with a handsome stranger over the course of a haircut during a hot and sweaty summer afternoon in a macho Brooklyn hood.

Melody

December 1971 •English

Although Gainsbourg and Birkin had appeared in a string of films since their magnetic collision in Pierre Grimblat’s Slogan, Melody was a bit of diversion from their collaborations since it’s a series of interwoven videos inspired by the Gainsbourgalbum. For '71 it’s a novel concept to bring visual life to an LP, but even more surprising are the short film’s amazing visuals that director Averty crafted using a wealth of video filters, overlays, camera movements and chroma key effects. Averty applies these in tandem with the increasing tone of Gainsbourg’s songs, which more or less chronicle an older man's affair with a young girl. Each song is comprised of steady, sometimes brooding poetic delivery, with refrains timed to the phrase repeats of each song, while Alan Parker’s buzzing guitar accompanies and wiggles around Gainsbourg’s resonant voice. The bass is fat and groovy, the drums easy but steady, and the periodic use of strings or rich vibrato makes this short a sultry little gem.

Sign Seeker

June 2011 •Tagalog

A superstitious guy, Bien, seeks all sorts of “divine” signs that will determine his decision of asking the girl of his dreams out on a date. The fear of rejection swallows him whole, making him justify his cause to seek for more unfathomable signs. But when each sign he asks for materializes, he soon learns that he has to be careful with what he wishes.

Take a Chance

December 1918 •English

It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.

La tercera Historia

October 2013 •Spanish

The Balloonatic

January 1923 •English

Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon, which lands Buster in the wilderness, later proves useful as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.

A Story of Water

March 1961 •French

A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.

Dad's Choice

January 1928 •English

Eddie wants to marry a girl, but her father is strongly opposed to it. For her sake, she convinces him to at least meet Eddie.

My Last Ten Hours with You

February 2007 •English

The final night of Mark and Jeremy's relationship, they wait it out, trying to find the way to say goodbye.

Cataplexy

September 2011 •English

A man with an unusual medical problem is embarrassed to discover the call girl he hired is an old friend.

Tweedledum's Sweet Wife

May 1912 •Italian

Robinet escapes from his wife’s smothering devotion to the adventure of lovemaking outside marriage.

One-Minute Time Machine

January 2022 •English

Every time the beautiful Regina rejects his advances, James pushes a red button and tries again, all the while unaware of the reality and consequences of his actions.

Other Worlds

January 1999 •Japanese

A man and a woman, talking over their relationship.

Flash

June 2014 •Spanish

When a man looks at the photo strip he just took of himself in a photo booth, he cannot believe what he sees.