Anata Amaya

Kimono

An exploration of Japanese culture by experimental animation artist José Castillo.

DEPERSON

A guy opens up to his significant other while an unseen cameraman directs how his emotions should look.

At Night

Six women in Paris traverse the anxiety of the city after dark. A filmmaker struggles to understand the film she is making. A Black single mother refuses the categories imposed on her. A former sex worker reflects on her past. A poet gives up trying for a child. Taking place over a single night, the film intertwines dream, fiction, and reality, liquefying one into the other.

Optimizer Customizer

A feminine machine, stuffed with modern nano-technology and useless operations is depicted in this mixed-media 2D animation short, highlighting the consequences of consumerism and the downfall of civilized society. The machine reminiscent of a two-dimensional video game, leads to a destructive chain reaction after a strange malfunction, with people turning into clones and robots.

Rosa <3

A sensual hommage to Germany's most productive queer filmmaker, Rosa von Praunheim.

Ang Ipinagbabawal na Prutas ng Paraiso

An experimental film that explores the minds of a teenage couple experiencing an unintended pregnancy and their struggles with social pressure, discrimination, and abuse.

Starlight

The line between isolation and creativity begins to blur for a group of teenagers. Some are free, some are not; but all have moments of passion and beauty.

¿Por qué la gallina cruzó el camino?

A hen questions the meaning of her life on a farm.

La Chinoise

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Chelsea Girls

Follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City.

Inland Empire

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

Paranoid Park

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

The Brown Bunny

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.

tempo de morangos

TERMINAL!!!

Julia experiences a confused world seemingly against her after receiving a pessimistic tarot reading, as her feelings inevitably differ from her thoughts. Which way to go?

MENTIS EXCESSUS

A woman reflects under the parapet.

Cactua

A short film collaboration between director Kristian Day and make up artist Patrick Boltinghouse. Patrick had created the make up for Pride Weekend 2010 in Des Moines, Iowa. After the parade, he called Kristian up explaining that he was in make up and had a bird on his shoulder. Kristian's only reply was "I'll get the camera ready". Filmed entire in his home, Kristian made two versions: a single play version and a "locked groove" version which played on a loop at the Resident Artists: Guns Blazin' show on July 9th, 2010 in Des Moines.

Cellar Door

After a woman comes into contact with photographs from an archive, she reflects on her existence through her memories and the memories printed on photographs.