Short of Breath (1991)

Humankind has always dreamt of the night sky. Of the infinite freedom offered by the black void, and of the strong, shining beacon inviting us to ascend. This is a story, a history of the events that led up to our conquest of space, and the consequences throughout wider humanity. The film is a collage. Of genres, documentary and comedy. Of media, drawing from painting and film. Of films, cannibalising all film history. Of truth, both objective and subjective. Watch the small steps and let your mind take a giant leap.

A cinematic time capsule with over 1,400 hours of submitted material from all regions of Switzerland gives unknown insights about the life of Swiss people in the politically and socially turbulent summer of 2019.

Две девушки, обе по имени Мария, решают, что так как мир испорчен, они будут испорчены также. И стараются вести себя как можно хуже. Выходки девушек становятся столь экстравагантными, что пугают их самих.

Добро пожаловать, музыка здесь заводная, настроение волшебное, а стриптизеры просто обворожительны. Глядя, как эти загоревшие талантливые ребята воплощают в жизнь их фантазии, женщины сходят с ума, а появление нового молодого стриптизёра лишь накаляет страсти как никогда прежде. В обычной жизни он Майкл, студент колледжа из бедного квартала, который помогает своей матери сводить концы с концами. Однако, когда денег от его подработки перестает хватать на оплату счетов, Майкл начинает успешную карьеру танцора в ночном клубе под псевдонимом "Сексуальный Шоколад". Его заработки растут, неожиданно Майкл становится любимчиком клубных тусовщиц, и ему приходится нелегко, ведь он вынужден скрывать эту новую "работу" от матери и своей девушки.

The Pollard family is calmly discussing their impending death by atom bomb when Mrs. Pollard recounts a dream in which she sensually bathes herself in the “Tears of Neglected Children”.

George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)

The story revolves around two spoiled youngsters, Jones and his cousin Korah and the turn of events during their vacation.

A girl haunted by traumatic events takes us on a mesmerising journey through 100 years of horror cinema to explore how filmmakers scare us – and why we let them.

"How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the representations of wealth in cinema. It looks into how most beloved characters are subtly more well-off than they should be, how criticisms of the system are crushed, how the rich have become the average in the world of the cinema. And it shows how these stories distort the view of the real world, and are used against you by politicians.

ФБРовец в отставке рассказывает писательнице историю о том, как он расследовал серию ужасных убийств. И перед их глазами проносятся события того времени. Убийца на свободе и полиция идет по следу. А в это время, молодожены, у которых ломается машина на сельской дороге в глуши, стучится в дом к водителю грузовика,который разочаровался в американской мечте после того, как его жену парализовало и отняло жизнь их сына. Когда парочка принимает приглашение водителя зайти в дом, дикая история ставит под сомнение истинную ценность любви и американской романтики.

Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.

Animal Charm makes videos from other people's videos. By compositing TV and reducing it to a kind of tic-ridden babble, they force television to not make sense. While this disruption is playful, it also reveals an overall 'essence' of mass culture that would not be apprehended otherwise. Videos such as Stuffing, Ashley, and Lightfoot Fever upset the hypnotic spectacle of TV viewing, revealing how advertising creates anxiety, how culture constructs "nature" and how conventional morality is dictated through seemingly neutral images. By forcing television to convulse like a raving lunatic, we might finally hear what it is actually saying.

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.

A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.

A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? "Sweetheart, come." Written by

Landow rejects the dream imagery of the historical trance film for the self-referential present, using macrobiotics, the language of advertising, and a speed-reading test on the definition of hokum. The alienated filmmaker appears, running uphill to distance himself from the lyrical cinema, but remember, "This is a film about you, not about its maker."

Hamdias, a producer who's set out to break new boundaries, plans to finance a film about torture. According to him, torture, the clash of two or more people, is not only what substantiates basic human relationships but also love and politics. Unfortunately Hamdias dies in a freak accident and his project is grounded. After some time, Galai (Olga Karlatos), who should have been the main actress of Hamdias movie, sets out to complete the controversial project. As soon as filming starts again, the thin line that separates reality from a nightmarish obsession begins slowly to blur.

Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.

The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th- and 17th centuries, utilizes a method of visual distortion with which paintings, when viewed from different angles, mischievously revealed hidden symbols.