Top Trippy-Psychedelic Short Films
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- DirectorJan SvankmajerLewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.
- DirectorGeorges SchwizgebelWhile on an airplane, a traveller's spirit plunges into a dream world. Here, under the influence of the unknown, the logic of his desires prevails, and a romantic saga takes shape. This animated film by Georges Schwizgebel masterfully transports us into a swirling world. Set to the twists and turns of a Rachmaninoff scherzo, Romance exuberantly marries music and movement, erasing the boundary between dreams and reality.
- DirectorRobert MorganThe separation of conjoined twins and its extraordinary consequences.
- DirectorMasaaki YuasaStarsTatsuhisa SuzukiTakako HondaWataru TakagiA love story between two people that each have a secret to hide. One a pro-wrestler, the other a Nun. Losing never felt so good.
- DirectorIshu PatelStarsLinda MorrisonJason LangAron TagerAn environmental morality tale. A divine gate gives one all that one desires, on the condition that one takes only what one needs and one gives something good in return.
- DirectorChristopher KezelosA strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsFeliks StawinskiInside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczMr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?
- DirectorIshu PatelA psychedelic new-age short about what a spiritual human being might find after death.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsSamson De BrierMarjorie CameronJoan WhitneyHistorical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerThree surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
- DirectorChris LandrethStarsRyan LarkinChris LandrethFelicity FanjoyThe movie talks about the life of Ryan Larkin, a gifted Canadian animator of the late '60s and the early '70s.
- DirectorChris LandrethStarsGordon PinsentAlberta WatsonPatrice GoodmanUses a twisted, beautiful and highly original visual aesthetic to look at the ways individuals evolve, adapt and break.
- DirectorIshu PatelIn this short animation film, a magnificent bird performs for the Emperor inside a glittering palace. Its plumage is a blaze of colour. A blackbird, watching enviously, strives to acquire what he so desperately covets, only to discover that a golden cage can't compete with the open skies.
- DirectorGeorges SchwizgebelA solitary man without a shadow rises from his desk, dons his hat, and leaves his apartment. He walks through a city to a large door, knocks, shows his invitation, and is admitted to a colorful scene. He walks through drawing rooms and gardens. He speaks with a man in a top hat who offers him a life of romance, but in that life there is betrayal. Is there a place in the world for our man without a shadow?
- DirectorPhilippe GrammaticopoulosThings have an interesting turn in a society consisting of snail-eating identical chubby men.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageJane WodeningThe prelude to Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsKenneth AngerBobby BeausoleilDonald CammellEgyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age.
- DirectorPatrick CunninghamHeiko van der SchermStarsWhoopi GoldbergChristy Scott CashmanA 3-D animated film about the dream of reaching the unreachable and about the fact that something good can evolve from something evil.
- DirectorAngela SteffenA little girl finds the whole world in a leaf.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsNad'a MunzarováJirí ProcházkaBohuslav SrámekTwo puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.
- DirectorDominique MonferyStarsDora LuzJennifer EspositoSalvador Dalí and Walt Disney's Destino features the tragic love story of Chronos, the personification of time, and a mortal woman as they seek each other out across surreal landscapes.
- An image of a boy in a rowboat is zoomed out to the cosmic vastness of space and then zoomed into the infinitesimal microreality of him.
- DirectorCarlos StevensStarsJohn HurtEloise WebbA late alchemist exposes his estranged son to the truth surrounding his tumultuous life and the dark magic used to power a gold making machine.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStones of different shapes and colors live and die together.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorDaniel NockeStarsMichael BetzJo JungThe opinions of a group of German travelers are divided: Is the modern Cyclops a dangerous monster or a sensitive artist? A married couple will generate great surprises.
- DirectorMatthieu DeltourMélissa LafonElodie LegrosAn infertile male is left alone when his people form couples to perpetuate their family trees.
- DirectorOskar FischingerMental imagery of music is visualized with two-dimensional shapes dancing to the rhythm of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
- DirectorTheodore UshevComprised of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry.
- DirectorTeddy NewtonStarsMuneer LyatiWayne DyerDay encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods. But their suspicions soon turn to curiosity, and they are delighted to find the joys of their budding friendship.
- DirectorJoseph PellingBecky SloanStarsBaker TerryBecky SloanJoseph PellingNow that Duck is gone as well, Yellow Guy is being tortured and mocked by a lamp who is trying to teach him about dreams. Meanwhile, Red Guy discovers the truth about their show.