Fave Short Films
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- Terroristic Entomology (1998) [Short Film; Irene Moon]
- Burning Mountains That Spew Flame (2016) [Short Film; Helena Giron & Samuel L. Delgado]
- Du Côté De La Réalité Immédiate (2017) [Pierre Villemin]
- Facing The Waves (2016) [Short Film; Eva Kolcze]
- Holy Woods (2008) [Short Film; Cécile Fontaine]
- Image In-But-Not-Of Itself (Cum Ipsa Absentia) (2016) [Short Film; Adam Cloutier]
- John Mellencamp - Pink Houses (1983) [Short Film; Chris Gabrin] [Music Video]
- Krydset (2010) [Short Film; Marcelino Ballarin]
- Seagull's Eggs (2007) [Short Film; Abbas Kiarostami]
- Shades Of Safflower-Dyed Celluloid (2015) [Short Film; Kayako Oki]
- Snow Movies (1983) [Short Film; Caroline Avery]
- Titan (2010) [Short Film; Lior Shamriz]
- I Don't Think I Can See An Island (2016) [Short Film; Christopher Becks, Emmanuel Lefrant]
- Lanzarote (2014) [Short Film; Marius Schafranietz]
- Old Hat (2016) [Short Film; Zach Iannazzi]
- Apricity (2019) [Short Film; Nathaniel Dorsky]
- The Room Of Chromatic Mystery (2006) [Short Film; Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill]
- In Memoriam (2012) [Short Film; Tanya Lukin Linklater]
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1. In a Summer Garden (1982)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short
Part of a trio of films that also includes ADAGIO and WINTER LIGHT, IN A SUMMER GARDEN "draws much of its power from the way it is constructed and the ways it deals with images... [T]he ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Jordan
Votes: 18
2. 66 scener fra Amerika (1982)
42 min | Documentary, Short
As a visual narrative 66 scener fra America is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau ... See full summary »
Director: Jørgen Leth | Stars: Jørgen Leth, Kim Larsen, Andy Warhol
Votes: 275
3. The Negative Hands (1978)
14 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
From the end of a night to dawn. An uninterrupted traveling shot. From Bastille to the Champs-Elysees, by way of the Boulevard des Italiens, Avenue de l'Opera, and Rue de Rivoli, a ... See full summary »
Director: Marguerite Duras | Star: Marguerite Duras
Votes: 284
4. All My Life (1966)
G | 3 min | Short, Music
A 3 minute pan to the left.
Director: Bruce Baillie | Star: Ella Fitzgerald
Votes: 748
5. 1923 (2010)
2 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
One of two animation loops directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage (1876-1954). Based on Lesage's painting A Symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World from 1923.
Director: Max Hattler
Votes: 55
6. Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2009)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Short
The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.
Director: Peter Mettler
Votes: 204
7. 1941 (1941)
7 min | Short
In December, 1941, using music by Stravinsky, this film provides a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An egg is smashed by a hammer; red color with white and then blue ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Lee
Votes: 174
8. 21-87 (1964)
Not Rated | 10 min | Documentary, Short
Snippets from discarded footage, and with footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, combined to a collage with the underlying argument as to whether man is a complex machine or a creature with a soul.
Director: Arthur Lipsett
Votes: 688
9. 23rd Psalm Branch: Part I (1967)
33 min | Short, War
An experimental film with various flashing lights, colors, and World War II footage. This is part of the Song series by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 259
10. 23rd Psalm Branch: Part II (1978)
31 min | Short
An experimental film by Stan Brakhage combining light, color, and various footage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 225
11. 31/75: Asyl (1975)
8 min | Short
A meadow, a lake, the silhouette of a hill, trees. 21 days of the same view in Saarland. 21 days with five different cut-outs in a mask before the camera, which finally reveals a complete ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Kren
Votes: 379
13. A Day with the Boys (1969)
18 min | Short, Drama
A group of boys spend their day outdoors exploring, wreaking havoc and letting their imaginations run wild.
Director: Clu Gulager | Stars: Mike Hertel, Jack Grindle, John McCaffrey, William Elliott
Votes: 458
14. A Fantasy (1908)
2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 2,838
15. A Rainy Day (1979)
30 min | Short, Drama, Family
A television star goes home to Texas for her father's funeral and spends time with her mother for the first time in five years. Reminiscing about her childhood allows the daughter to work ... See full summary »
Director: Beth Brickell | Stars: Mariette Hartley, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Robert Walden, Roberta Newman
Votes: 15
16. A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906)
Not Rated | 12 min | Documentary, Short
From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.
Votes: 686
17. A Phantasy (1952)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short
Drawn in pastels, and scored with jazzy music, fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, launching five spheres in to space to create even more fantastical scenes.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 366
18. The Kidnapping of the Sun and the Moon (1968)
11 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
The Sun and the Moon is stolen by a vicious creature. Can the humans get back, what they need for their life?
Director: Sándor Reisenbüchler
Votes: 85
19. a-ha: Take on Me (1985 Music Video)
4 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Official music video for "Take on Me" by A-Ha.
Director: Steve Barron | Stars: a-ha, Bunty Bailey, Alfie Curtis, Magne Furuholmen
Votes: 2,243
20. A Walk Through H (1979)
Not Rated | 41 min | Short
An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Colin Cantlie, Jean Williams
Votes: 640
22. Adazhio (2000)
10 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The animated story of a leader and innovator who is undone by the distorted actions of the followers.
Director: Garri Bardin
Votes: 648
23. After Creation After Icebergs (2013)
3 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
An abstract arctic exploration of the icebergs capturing variations of light and color before they melt into oblivion. Continues the conversation that Stan Brakhage's photographed film ... See full summary »
Director: Mary Beth Reed
Votes: 5
24. Allegretto (1936)
3 min | Animation, Short
Short colour animated film showing shapes moving and set to a musical score. The shapes are coloured and primarily geometric in nature.
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 444
25. An Optical Poem (1938)
Not Rated | 6 min | Animation, Short, Music
Mental imagery of music is visualized with two-dimensional shapes dancing to the rhythm of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 754
26. Ancient of Days (1981)
12 min | Documentary, Short
This work deals with time as revealed in sound and image, and with natural and subjective time. It follows the structural orchestration of Johann Sebastian Bach's ideas on counterpoint.
Director: Bill Viola
Votes: 50
27. Anemic Cinema (1926)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short
A spiral design spins dizzily. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Duchamp
Votes: 1,843
29. Anthem (1983)
12 min | Documentary, Short
"Anthem" originates in a single piercing scream emitted by an eleven-year-old girl standing in the hall of Union Railroad Station in Los Angeles. The original scream of a few seconds is ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Viola | Star: Amy Nomura
Votes: 58
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32. Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque (1929)
5 min | Short, Fantasy
Visual structure composed of variations on the arabesque: arcs of light, water spouts, spider webs, burgeoning trees, flowers and foliage, a woman's smile, arms stretching, an arm giving rhythm to a rocking chair.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Star: Marie-Anne Malleville
Votes: 236
33. Aria (1987)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
10 short films by 10 different directors, set to arias by different composers.
Directors: Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple | Stars: John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Stephanie Lane, Roy Hyatt
Votes: 3,105 | Gross: $1.03M
La Virgine Degli Angeli (1987 - Charles Sturridge)
35. Arnulf Rainer (1960)
7 min | Short
An experimental short from Peter Kubelka in which the film flickers between periods of light and sound.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 949
37. As Figuras Gravadas Na Faca Com a Seiva Das Bananeiras (2014)
17 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
The rapid turning of a light draws a circle.
Director: Joana Pimenta
Votes: 8
38. Astonish Me (2011)
7 min | Short
When a young boy gets locked in the Natural History Museum after closing, a mysterious guard gives him a magical ticket that allows him to visit a restricted area of the museum, where a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Will Jacklin, Anthony Gopaul, Christian McKay, Bill Nighy
Votes: 137
39. Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne) (1979)
27 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A girl evokes through an intimate scene - a passing river, a starving cat who meows and then dies etc. - the search for a communion with another person never named, foreign or unknown and yet intensely loved.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Star: Marguerite Duras
Votes: 95
40. Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver) (1979)
48 min
The one who writes the text evokes her parents who died in deportation: her mother died giving her birth, her father was hanged for stealing soup for her, and sometimes she seems to speak ... See full summary »
Director: Marguerite Duras | Star: Marguerite Duras
Votes: 92
41. Ausflug ins Gebirge (1986)
33 min | Short
While on vacation, the director takes an excursion to an unfamiliar neighboring canton. There, in the alpine confinement, he finds an ideal echo for the rage he had brought with him: rage towards the mountains, civilization and mentality.
Director: Peter Liechti
Votes: 13
42. Avoda (1935)
50 min | Documentary, Music
This documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine, recording the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and the idea of a socialist Jewish state.
Director: Helmar Lerski
Votes: 43
44. La ballerina sul battello (1969)
16 min | Animation, Short
A Graceful passenger charmes the seamen with a marvellous dance. And when the storm comes, she reaches coast in a jump-weed and helps the ship to throw an anchor and rescues it from destruction.
Director: Lev Atamanov
Votes: 199
45. Banished (2009)
47 min | Documentary
Banished tells the story of the aftermath of the Gaza Disengagement. Director Igal Hecht completes his Disengagement trilogy which started with Qassam (2004) and Disengaging Democracy (2006... See full summary »
Director: Igal Hecht
47. Bassae (1964)
9 min | Documentary, Short
A poetic revision of Greek architecture focused on the temple in Bassae, which was peculiar given its isolated location unlike other major Greek temples.
Director: Jean-Daniel Pollet | Star: Jean Négroni
Votes: 148
48. Befrielsesbilleder (1982)
57 min | Drama, War
A German officer visits his Danish mistress the days after the occupation of Denmark has ended.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Edward Fleming, Kirsten Olesen
Votes: 711
49. Björk: Mutual Core (2012 Music Video)
5 min | Music
Video promo for Björk: Mutual Core.
Director: Andrew Thomas Huang | Star: Björk
Votes: 76
50. Black Ice (1994)
3 min | Short
A lateral descent through the midnight blues and blacks of ice and the refracted colors from absorbed oils.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,090
51. Blackfriars Bridge (1896)
1 min | Documentary, Short
An actuality record of Blackfriars Bridge, London, taken from the southern end looking northwards over the Thames by R.W.Paul in July 1896. It was screened as part of his Alhambra Theatre ... See full summary »
Director: Robert W. Paul
Votes: 329
52. Blockade (I) (2006)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 712
53. Blutrausch (1999)
5 min | Short
the filmmaker put his own blood directly on the filmstrip. this results in abstract patterns flickering on screen.
Director: Thorsten Fleisch
Votes: 17
54. Bosphore (1964)
14 min | Documentary, Short
A short film, forming part of a series of shorts looking at Turkey. This film takes in Istanbul; a city divided by the Bosphorus river and the effect this has on the culture and history of Turkey, Europe and Asia.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Star: Pierre Asso
Votes: 105
55. Boulder Blues and Pearls and... (1992)
20 min | Short
An experimental short by Stan Brakhage which overlaps various footage, focusing on rocks and ice boulders, with colors and lights.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 224
56. Bouquets 1-10 (1995)
11 min | Short
An experimental film that focuses mostly on single shots of flowers that are woven frame by frame into a single film.
Director: Rose Lowder
Votes: 100
58. Break Up the Dance (1957)
8 min | Short, Drama
Youths get ready for a party, decorating the dance floor, cleaning out the fountain of a pond. That evening, the party starts and guests arrive: everyone has a ticket, and a guy at the gate... See full summary »
Director: Roman Polanski
Votes: 1,170
59. Bridges-Go-Round (1958)
8 min | Short, Drama
Essential, integral experimental work from the late 1950s is an incredible dance of montage and super-imposition starring none other than New York City's various bridges, transforming them ... See full summary »
Director: Shirley Clarke
Votes: 433
60. Broadway by Light (1958)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short
An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's Great White Way.
Director: William Klein
Votes: 438
62. Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City) (1986)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Peter B. Hutton
Votes: 48
63. By Night with Torch and Spear (1942)
8 min | Short
Montage of archive footage from industrial, nature and ethnographic documentaries -- a steelworks, caterpillars, Native American dances, camel trains -- made strange by juxtaposition and upside-down, backwards and negative printing.
Director: Joseph Cornell
Votes: 359
64. By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging (2013)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Director: David Gatten
Votes: 8
65. Canaries in the Coalmine (2009)
13 min | Documentary, Short, History
Canaries in the Coalmine is an investigation into the mystery and symbolism of the American landscape. Canaries in the Coalmine examines details in the American landscape to question the ... See full summary »
Director: Rob Ray
66. Cassis (1966)
Not Rated | 4 min | Documentary, Short
One day of the Cassis port filmed in one shot.
Director: Jonas Mekas
Votes: 226
67. Cat Soup (2001)
Not Rated | 34 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A young anthropomorphic cat goes on a psychedelic journey with his sister in order to save her soul.
Directors: Tatsuo Satô, Masaaki Yuasa
Votes: 5,950
68. Cesarée (1978)
10 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A short film Marguerite Duras which documents the Tuileries Gardens.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Star: Marguerite Duras
Votes: 225
69. Chasing the Light (2006 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Louie Schwartzberg | Star: Louie Schwartzberg
70. Chemin faisant (2012)
5 min | Animation, Short
Through paintings that operate on similar principles to those of nested Russian dolls, we follow the spiralling train of thought of a peregrine, a solitary stroller.
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Votes: 54
71. Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) (1979)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Chott El-Djerid is a large dried-up salt-water lake in the Tunisian Sahara, where according to the artist Bill Viola, "what you can see is the limit of what you could see".
Director: Bill Viola
Votes: 41
72. Chris Isaak: Wicked Game (1991 Music Video)
Approved | 4 min | Music, Romance
A couple is depicted making love in a sexual way to each other while frolicking on a deserted beach.
Director: Herb Ritts | Stars: Chris Isaak, Helena Christensen
Votes: 1,000
73. Chris Isaak: Wicked Game (Wild at Heart Version) (1990 Music Video)
4 min | Short, Music
Chris Isaak sings his song. Clips from the movie "Wild at Heart" are shown.
Director: David Lynch | Star: Chris Isaak
Votes: 169
74. Chronopolis (1982)
52 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Weary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves with constructions as they kill time and await whatever comes next.
Director: Piotr Kamler | Star: Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 567
75. Chronos (1985)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Short
Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions.
Director: Ron Fricke
Votes: 3,845
77. City of the Steppes (1994)
52 min | Documentary
Directors: Peter Brosens, Odo Halflants
Votes: 12
78. The Heart (1973)
10 min | Animation, Short
Short stop motion animated colour film using some cutout animation. The film has a musical sound track.
Director: Piotr Kamler
Votes: 113
79. Come Swim (2017)
17 min | Short, Drama
Come Swim is a diptych of one man's day; half impressionist and half realist portraits.
Director: Kristen Stewart | Stars: Darby Dempsey, Sullivan Dempsey, Josh Kaye, Domenic Longo
Votes: 569
80. Coney Island at Night (1905)
Not Rated | 4 min | Documentary, Short
A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer views of Dreamland and Luna Park.
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 369
81. Connecticut: Seasons of Light - Cradle of American Impressionism (2003)
53 min | Documentary
Celebrating the natural beauty of the landscapes, seasides and pastoral settings that fostered and nurtured the birth of American Impressionism in Connecticut at the turn of the 20th. Century.
Director: Gerardo Puglia | Star: Brian Dennehy
82. Comment Wang-Fo fut sauvé (1987)
15 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Among the aged master painter Wang-Fô's impeccable paintings, exists a mediocre and unflattering portrait of the pale Celestial Emperor that has merited him execution, nevertheless, how is this possible?
Director: René Laloux | Stars: Olivier Cruveiller, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Votes: 684
83. Constellation (2012)
6 min | Animation, Short, Music
Particles of light choreograph themselves to reveal otherworldly beauty.
Director: Patrick Doan
Votes: 10
84. Continuity (II) (2012)
41 min | Short
Director: Omer Fast | Stars: Iris Böhm, André Hennicke, Milton Welsh
Votes: 49
86. Crack Glass Eulogy (1992)
6 min | Short
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which captures various flashing lights, colors, and images.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 568
87. Knus (2007)
43 min | Short, Drama
Bella is tormented both by her present and past life; she can't keep them separated, and seems to end up as an emotional looser both then and now.
Director: David Adam | Stars: Mette Riber Christoffersen, Jelena Bundalovic, Anders Hove, Carsten Bjørnlund
Votes: 23
89. Cycling the Frame (1988 TV Movie)
27 min | Documentary
In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle, accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. Starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate, Swinton leads us on a journey that is ... See full summary »
Director: Cynthia Beatt | Star: Tilda Swinton
Votes: 451
90. Curse of the Black Gold (2008)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Fifty years ago oil was discovered in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Today, at 2.1 million barrels per day, Nigeria is the sixth largest oil-producing country in the world and a major ... See full summary »
Votes: 9
91. Daqqet ix-Xita (2010)
15 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, set in the old city of Valletta, Malta; this is a short film that explores dark, liquefied decrepitude. A sailor's son is damned to row a rotting boat back... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth Scicluna | Stars: Sean Decelis, Polly March, Philip Mizzi, Ilaria Falzon
Votes: 24
92. Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer (1897)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A train is leaving a railway station at the outskirts of Jerusalem. From the very end of the train a barren, rocky landscape is seen, and some ruins of very old buildings,. Five men walk ... See full summary »
Directors: Auguste Lumière, Alexandre Promio
Votes: 1,049
93. Cyndi Lauper: True Colors (1986 Music Video)
5 min | Music
Cyndi Lauper performs in the music video for "True Colors" from her album "True Colors" recorded for Epic Records. Lauper sings on a dark sound stage with a drum as a young girl explores a ... See full summary »
Director: Patricia Birch | Stars: Catrine Dominique, Cyndi Lauper, David Wolff
Votes: 453
94. Das Wolkenphänomen von Maloja (1924)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Arnold Fanck
Votes: 161
95. Daybreak Express (1953)
5 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording of "Daybreak Expresa" this is a five-minute short on the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated train line in Manhattan, New York City.
Director: D.A. Pennebaker
Votes: 1,336
96. Debbie Gibson: Foolish Beat (1988 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Debbie Gibson performs in the music video "Foolish Beat" from the album "Out of the Blue" recorded for Atlantic Records. The music video begins with shots of a city. Debbie Gibson sits ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Willing | Star: Debbie Gibson
Votes: 22
97. Dog Star Man: Part I (1962)
30 min | Short
The first part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,563
98. Dog Star Man: Part II (1963)
7 min | Short, Drama
The second part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Star: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,193
99. Dog Star Man: Part III (1964)
11 min | Short, Drama
The third part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,155
100. Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)
6 min | Drama, Short
The fourth and final part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,176
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