Split Me

The Albatross

January 1998 •English

A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by19th Century wood engravings which are animated by scratching directly into the surface of color filmstock. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with its message of ecological redemption has a curiously contemporary resonance, but it is at the level of the mythic that the poem has lasting relevance; for this epic tale of extraordinary events simply mirrors the struggle that each human being faces on their own in his or her life. -VDB

Hollywood Lucifer

January 2014 •English

Elevation

August 2015 •English

A Maori gang member and a Neo-Nazi become trapped in an elevator and must put aside their differences to escape their predicament; all the while dealing with an equally racist Chinese maintenance worker.

Five Minutes Ago

October 2008 •English

A young man pretends to sleep while he watches his lover go through her morning routine.

New Blood

May 2010 •English

Steve is very good at his job. Some might say a little too good. To some others... suspiciously good. The nature of Steve's ascension to corporate glory is riddled ...

Guiltless

October 2017 •Spanish

Twenty-one-year-old Juan gets some terrible news from his doctor: he has aggressive lung cancer. His whole life turns upside down as the disease evolves.

Oasis

February 2017 •Spanish

Ophelia goes to El Oasis, a tavern where men pick up men, looking for her husband. Her suspicions confirmed, she faints and a transgender prostitute unexpectedly helps her.

Sana Sarılmayı O Kadar İstedim Ki

November 2021 •Turkish

Writer Toprak Karasu receives a letter from her mother, whom she does not know, at a time when she is having an artistic crisis. In the letter, he writes that his mother left him a house as an inheritance. Toprak wants to sell the house as soon as possible and pay off his debts, but a sudden encounter completely turns all his life plans upside down.

A Joy Story: Joy and Heron

February 2018 •English

A great animated short story about opportunity and helping each other.

Marina

March 2025 •English

Strange leaks start dripping from the ceiling of the house where Marina works as the caregiver for her aging father.

King Grandpa

August 2017 •German

Clemens lives and breathes his grandfather’s stories. When his grandfather passes away, it is difficult for him to understand that it is now his turn to continue telling his stories. Story-telling becomes a way for him to not only keep the stories but also the memory of his grandfather alive.

Control

June 2017 •English

In this shockingly dark but utterly poignant comedy from Alison Becker and Kimmy Gatewood, a depressed woman contemplates ending her life, if she could just get everything in order first.

My Loyal Audience

September 2017 •English

A socially insecure teenage girl begins to suspect the unimaginable - that her most personal, embarrassing thoughts may not be as private as she had hoped.

Same Difference

Invalid date •English

Two sisters confront each other's vices.

Gaydar

October 2002 •English

Randy has a crush on his co-worker, Jack, and tries to figure out if he is gay.

Burl's

June 2003 •English

When a young boy encounters three drag queens outside Burl's Diner in L.A. he decides that perhaps its time he checked out Mom's closet...

Observatory Blues

November 2017 •English

Fernando Music, a handless writer of erotic science-fiction, inadvertently predicts, in precise detail, our discovery of extraterrestrial life. This is the story of an expanding universe, in which all things grow apart, and in which Fernando still has no hands.

Exercise and Health

March 1949 •English

Three problem-plagued teens are shown how to solve their physical and emotional problems by joining the Acrobatics Club and learning teamwork and "the right kind of exercise."

Shuvit

December 2017 •English

This is a glimpse into a day shared by an extremely sad father and his dare devil son. Each male has experienced an especially traumatic afternoon and although they bond over a love for skateboarding, neither is able to communicate their feelings.