Sketch Film #5

I made this film especially for you. I needed to check in with you. I needed to tell you how I feel.

Arthur Lipsett's first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows anxieties we want to forget. It is made of dozens of pictures that seem familiar, with fragments of speech heard in passing and, between times, a voice saying, "Very nice, very nice." The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.

In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm presentation. The three films—"In Absentia" (2000), "The Comb" (1991) and "Street of Crocodiles" (1986)—were accompanied by this brief portrait of the brothers at work in their London studio.

Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.

The toys throw Ken and Barbie a Hawaiian vacation in Bonnie's room.

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.

A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.

Mater the tow truck travels from country to country as he retells his infamous but unbelievable stories.

A feature length documentary about the all-women team at the helm of Pixar's original feature, Turning Red. With unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to Director Domee Shi and her core leadership crew, this story shines a light on the powerful professional and personal journeys that brought this incredibly comical, utterly relatable, and deeply heartfelt story to the screen.

Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified second party.

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.

When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they discover each other's unique qualities--and come to realize that each of them offers a different window onto the same world-the friendship helps both to gain a new perspective.

Bits of found film and different types of animation illustrate a classic chase scene scenario: A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters.

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

A mother bird tries to teach her little one how to find food by herself. In the process, she encounters a traumatic experience that she must overcome in order to survive.

Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.

Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.

Mike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't last long enough, however, as Sulley jump-starts an ill-fated road test that teaches Mike the true meaning of buyer's remorse.

In a modern age that is dominated by constant new trends, the new sport of free-sitting has swept the nation. This story follows a group of free-sitters on a journey to achieve the ultimate sit.

Things go from bad to worse for over-looked middle child, Abi, when the family car breaks down on a secluded mountain road, en route to her graduation ceremony. Forced to seek help on foot, the group must reevaluate what it means to be a family if they're to have any chance of making it back to civilization.

The film is about the National Hero of Azerbaijan, Salatin Askerova.

When the victim of a violent hate attack joins a gay gun club, he finds himself caught between two rival gay rights activists seeking to manipulate his story for their own agendas - one the club's charismatic leader, the other his domineering partner.

Thomas, a young man home alone, suddenly realizes that he is in fact not alone upon receiving a text from a device that is located downstairs...

1 minute, 16mm, B&W, Silent

In her personal memoir, Kai dedicates a chapter to her late Grandmother 'Peach' as she recalls both bitter and sweet memories of her childhood, while also revealing the most monumental times of her life. By sharing lessons within tragedy, Kai reminds us to take our grandmother's nuggets of wisdom and use them to cultivate the culture of strong families, unconditional love, and genuine happiness.

An earnest boy must fight for his life after oppression confronts him and his friends on their way to school.

In a dystopian Earth, a brilliant scientist is finally granted entry to the Space Station. Just when everything is ready for her long-awaited departure and new life, a mysterious mission interrupts her plans.

Street artist Blu animates large-scale creatures as they crawl across an abandoned Argentine cityscape.

At the Gaomeigu Observatory in China, the Naxi people scan the sky, convinced they are the descendants of immortal beings living there, abandoned on earth to watch them. Between astronomy and legends, Marko Grba Singh seems to compose a mysterious and polysemous tableau. From folk tales heroes such as William Tell, Prince Marko or Sanduo for the Naxi, passing by a miraculous catch, Gods besotted with each other, or the absence of walls built around a city because of the ambiguity of Chinese characters, 'Stars of Gaomeigu' dresses the bodies and contemporary images of mythological tales.

An electrical engineering student and a photography student lives in a dorm.

Tobias Natterer explains the motives of creating The Uncensored Library, a library containing forbidden articles from several countries around the world inside a Minecraft server. The documentary also digs further into the press freedom situation around the world and the sad truths behind it.

A story about a kampung of gossip-spreaders. Will they change or be stuck with the label of 'kampung ghibah'?

Since March 2020, Indonesia was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing Indonesians to self-quarantine at home. However, the pandemic didn’t stop them from doing activities at home just as much as they would outdoors. The pandemic didn’t silence them. The crowds are still heard, albeit online. There is no more gaze, all that remains is sound.

Hypnotising slideshow of weathered images presents itself as a relic of an imposing event. A village's inhabitants flee into the darkness of a cave to refresh themselves with projected images. Ultimately, they will pay a high price for their wonderment.

An unexpected encounter, an uncertain ending...

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.