Morning

Ab ovo - Traces of Sand

January 1987 •

A non-narrative film thematising the eternal struggle of human life in a series of scenes connected by associations and accompanied by a strong music motif.

Midnight Toughts

November 2020 •Spanish

In this short film, a mysterious character goes on a journey to the back of his mind on the night of his birthday.

La Maison en Petits Cubes

June 2008 •Japanese

La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.

Strange Fish

March 2017 •English

Blind evolution. Seemingly arbitrary stages of the evolution in black-and-white drawings on rough paper.

Let Your Light Shine

September 2013 •English

Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. A work in the tradition of the absolute animation film of the 1930s, which requires prismatic glasses to achieve the maximum result.

69SEC

November 2016 •French

This is a story of love seen from a square, in which a couple gets united, separated and rearranged again. A special kind of puzzle.

Extrapolate

October 2016 •Dutch

A line is being extrapolated through a grid. When the line surpasses the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to and reflects on its surroundings. Beyond each boundary the extrapolation of movement is causing deformation in a systematic but speculative way.

The Bomb

June 2017 •English

Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert.

HVATIR

August 2016 •Icelandic

After a great storm, is there silence?

2005 Space Odyssey

December 2005 •Japanese

Experimental short film by Michio Mihara.

PHANTASMATA

November 2019 •English

In a transitional state, at the threshold of consciousness // fabricating and reminiscing //embracing and escaping // all from safe distance // letting go.

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

July 1987 •English

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

Meditation

December 1971 •English

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

Anatomy of a moth

October 2004 •Spanish

The Adventures of *

January 1957 •English

Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.

Socrates' Adventures in the Under Ground

March 2021 •Spanish

A marxist-leninist-maoist revision of the Allegory of the Cave, filled with talking animals who shall be late and bourgeois queens who would like to see you without head, exactly as Plato intended.

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

December 2011 •English

An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia, on 22 December 2011. A special projector was constructed for the event which allowed the actual filmstrip to be burnt at the same time as the film was shown.

Face Lift

January 2017 •English

Be better and more beautiful than you were before.

The Short Films of David Lynch

February 2002 •English

This collection of David Lynch's short films cover the first 29 years of his career. Each film is given a special introduction by the director himself. His earliest underground films Six Figures Getting Sick (1966), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970) and The Amputee (1974) are showcased as well as two requisitioned works well into his successful career The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) and his addition for Lumière and Company (1995).

welcome_home.exe

April 2021 •English

As technology accelerates, our species' collective imagination of the future grows ever more kaleidoscopic. We are all haunted by temporal distortion, perhaps no more than when we attempt to remember what the future looked like to our younger selves. As the mist of time devours our memories, the future recedes; each of us burdened by the gaping mouth of entropy. Yet, emerging technology provides a glimmer of hope; transhumanism promises a future free from mortality, disease and pain. Does our salvation lie in digital simulacra? We're here to sell you the answer to that question, for the low, low price of four hundred and seventy seconds.