Set in an American coastal town, Alice Featherston is having a hard time asking her crush, Dave, to be her high school prom date. That changes, however, when she meets a traveling circus clown, Sam. The two strike up a unique rapport.
Alice discovers that Sam is mute and can only communicate through writing poetry. He also possesses the unique ability to create illustrations that come to life. With his help and guidance, Alice gains the courage to speak to Dave at school. Even when things donât go quite according to plan, Sam helps navigate Alice through her disappointments.
A coming-of-age story about a young girl finding her confidence, made only possible by the friendship with a magical, mystical but kind-hearted stranger.
Martin ventures inside a laundrette to wash some clothes. However, after falling asleep inside, he awakens to discover his clothes have gone, and everybody inside has disappeared...
A young photographer buys a film camera, after he develops the film left inside the camera he finds out a monstery image the previous owner captured 30 years ago.
James is on his own for the night, as his girlfriend is away. He orders pizza, which is delivered by a cheery delivery man named Gee. When a delivery mix-up means Gee gets fired, James takes pity on him and invites him in. But when James asks Gee what his real name actually is, he gets a response he really wasn't expecting...
In the year 2085, earth has become all but uninhabitable, and an irresolute housewife is faced with news that her closest friends have decided to emigrate to Mars. When they ask her to join them, she begins to challenge her husband's idealism about the decaying Earth and must ultimately decide what she is willing to leave behind.
A twisted fairy tale with a hint of Edgar Allan Poe and a dash of Edward Gorey featuring the vocal talents of Claire Foy as the narrator.
Made during the lockdown of 2020. From the corners of a small room, comes the story of Derek and his Brick.
Derek is Isolated and torn between the love of his pigeon and a beautiful damsel. What is a hermit bachelor to do?
One day, a strange thing comes to her, who is suffering from being sexless with her boyfriend.
Directed by the french painter and film director Ariel Neo, Firefalls explores the reality of the world we live in today and depicts the devastation caused by humans on Earth. As an artist working for the cause of nature and wildlife conservation, Neoâs unique storytelling aims to blur the boundaries between man, nature and art while hoping to once again align them together. Ariel Neo wants to alert minds towards the urgent need to preserve our dying Earth and she uses both her powerful cinematography and paintings to illuminate an important question for her audience. How long can mankind run away from the apocalypse it birthed itself?
Firefalls is associated with the documentary "Behind the firefall" The 52 minute documentary allows the viewer to go the behind the scenes and to discover the creative process of a low-budget independent short-film.
A floating two-ton elephant named Edna rescues the world's water with an unlikely ally in this absurd experimental FilmPoem. Water, water, everywhere...now itâs time to think.
In Memory of those lost to COVID19, A fully computer generated fashion film set in a CGI version of Venice's Piazza San Marco. This film is fully realised in VR 3D, Ai, CGI. The film features sustainably conscious efforts, and a VR Vogue ball in the afterlife... No human was harmed in the making of this film... Please note, VR goggles allow you to interact with Immortal.
Logic and imagination, fantasy and rationality. Victoria and Paula, mother and daughter. Two different worlds, distant, perhaps irreconcilable. An unusual event will bring them toghether. Or will separate them forever.
The only surviving soldier of an eco-security force must overcome his inexperience and complete an important mission that will save his future in more ways than one. Â
This 90-second film was shot during the lockdown of 2020 using what resources were on offer. The crew were randomly selected from the BFI Network and BAFTA Crew initiative. None of the crew have yet met.
Cal and his friend Grace explore Calâs past using a special ring of keys. Each key represents a meaningful person to Cal, like his parents or his friends... and when he uses a key on a door, he can walk into a living memory heâs shared with that person. Together, Cal and Grace traverse through Cal's memories to better understand why he had a falling out with his best friend Finn, and by looking through the past they hope to fix the present.
A butterfly is resurrected from a rare specimen collection and explores the ruins of an ancient civilization that leads to a mysterious underground frozen cave. In the cave, the butterfly meets the Butterfly Man, who is an amalgamation of many other butterflies. The two dance and transform between the human and butterfly shapes. The frozen environment gradually melts, plants and organisms begin to wake up around them. Eventually, the butterfly man is blown away by the wind and becomes part of the natural environment. Metamorphosis reflects my concerns about human memory of lost time. The film explores philosophical ideas about life forms decomposing and then transforming into new organisms, between dreams and reality, and between humans and creatures.
What does it mean to live a good life? This elegant, meditative animation â narrated by Yale Universityâs Miroslav Volf â asks this crucial question as we follow a young woman who, as she pursues her dreams, risks becoming detached from the world around her.
Robbie and her close friend âTâ drive out to a secluded forest and experiment with self-hypnotism. The name of an estranged friend arises and triggers memories and serpentine hallucinations.
When doctor FOX crashes into an oxygen-free and hostile planet, she has to survive with one oxygen tank.
On this planet live BOBTORS. These are small creatures with an organic and luminous bubble around their bodies.
Will Fox steal the oxygen and life of the Bobtors in order to survive or will she sacrifice herself?
Prudence and Roger meet for the first time. After asking him a series of unusual qualifying questions, we see them begin a temporary "relationshipâ, leading to the saving of a life and the ending of another. Peteâs Valve is a kooky, dark comedy about duty under duress, missed connections, and the metaphorical, as well as physical placement of the human heart.
In a dezhumanized world where emotions are rationed and measured by a gauge, Pipo, a factory worker falls in love with a woman sitting on a bench. He will try anything to attract her attention and seduce her with his own « language ».
Year 2065. Charly is a gray man in a world without hope dominated by large corporations, where everything has a price, even to rest without being besieged by publicity. Charly habitually sleep in an old holographic booth, POLVOTRĂN 500, where you arrange so that nobody bothers. One night he accidentally activated the resident sexual hologram, «Niky», without knowing that it is a new model with improved quantum intelligence âŠ
A mysterious asteroid prospector searches the universe for his fortune. This journey takes the prospector to a place where he has to look directly at his soul and decide what he is willing to sacrifice to achieve his ambitions. Portland Oregon rock band, The Shivas narrate the prospectorâs journey with a foreboding 60âs surf rock soundtrack.
"requiem" honors the passing of a single word from the heart of the poet, to the poet's lips, then to the audience and its fleeting life suspended in air. A tragic death or does that word find new life in memory? This Experimental FilmPoem conjures a cortĂšge for a spoken word.
In the year 2143, a young woman confronts her childhood trauma within a virtual reality therapy session, only to discover her inner demons are real.
Grumpy Welshman Derw Derw is late for an interview so the last thing he needs is to get sucked into a vortex.
A young reindeer in the North Pole gets a valuable lesson about the Golden Rule.
Ryori (Cuisine in Japanese) is a Stop Motion Animated Film that depicts an Ojizo San Statue (guardian of the wayside) coming from within the forest to have a Shojin Ryori meal. Shojin Ryori is the traditional dining style of Buddhist Monks in Japan, the cuisine is made without meat, fish or other animal products. The film animates the process of cooking with elements of change in nature. So as to highlight the interconnectedness between cuisine and the environment. The components of a Shojin Ryori meal are based on the idea of balance. The rule of five is created between five colors and flavors in a meal; green, yellow, red, black and white as well as sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami. This balance in color and flavor is believed to provide nutritional balance while also bringing the body into balance with the seasons.
Seven political activists meet online in secret to celebrate their 3 years together. Then a doorbell rings...
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Tom is anxious, he holds a secret in his human heart, a wing beat and a flutter and its bursting to take flight.
The Secret Life of Tom Lightfoot is a tale of magical realism to be witnessed and shared. It is a tale of healing revealing how we can learn to live with the secrets of our more than human hearts.
Tom Lightfoot works as a calls operator for âWe have the Answersâ. A call centre, which answers anybodyâs questions about absolutely anything. Tom, is secretly studying for a PHD in bird migration but this is not Tomâs secret life, his secret is inside of him
This film is part of a series of films âSecret Livesâ combining the artistry and experiences of UK learning disability group âArty Party, the film direction of Ray Jacobs and the writings of NYT best selling fantasy author Jeff Vandermeer.
It's been said that in a near death experience, you can see your entire life flash before your eyes. Memories move and blink like views from a dashing train. 'The memory scan procedure doesn't carry any risks to your health or life', Weronika has been told. Stuck between memories and reality, fiction and thruth she's trying to resist intervention to her stranded mind.
The moon, personified as a koi fish, meets the sun, personified as a dragon, in a celestial dance of movements. Together, they form an eclipse in a moment of majestic beauty.
Three interwoven stories explore the mysterious nature of space-time: a weary traveler named Andy searches for the illusive Einstein-Rosen Bridge; a trapped artist named Lyssa struggles to create the perfect galaxy; and an antiquities investigator named Diana inspects a dangerous work of art that infects the minds of its viewers.
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