A Deer Died Here

A detective and his partner attempt to catch a criminal.

Set in 1952, this musical thriller is what happens when a traveling salesman shows up on the doorstep of a dying old man and can't contain the song within his heart. A dark riff on a classic musical.

Withstanding misery, a young man who seemed to live like an ordinary person suffers and tries to seek help from the closest person named friend.

After somewhat hectic travel preparations, Anatole and Margot set off on holiday. The cart arrives at its destination, somehow or other, and it’s time to set up camp. But the task isn’t always simple and Anatole is literally blown away, inflated like an airbed!

An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the station through the countryside to its destination. The film consists of a montage of shots, some close up, of the engine and its gears and wheels. With the accompanying ambient sounds and an orchestral score, the emphasis is on the engine's power and speed. Parallel lines of multiple tracks, telephone wires, and trees confirm a careful composition.

After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the subject of girls and how they reach adulthood and readiness for the 'important job of motherhood.

As winter approaches, a variety of birds fly south to see a warmer climate.

At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the antics that can only come about from exotic animals who play baseball.

A mother turtle buries her eggs in the sand. While she is away, one of the egg partly hatches and begins roaming the countryside trying to finish hatching.

The loneliest man in the suburbs opens his door to a stranger and gets caught up in the merry-go-round of love.

One summer's afternoon, Laure and Vincent decide to go for a picnic - just the two of them. But Laure's younger sister Sarah manages to join in. Their minds fuddled by wine and the afternoon heat, the two adolescents end up awkwardly expressing their fondness for each other. Sarah, whom they have both forgotten, witnesses the scene.

Morbidity, absurdism and a oral fixation for young girls.

Made for straight 8's 2018 competition on one cartridge of super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. Premiered on may 14th 2018 at straight 8's Cannes film festival screening.

Goodbye Che Bei

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a Japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young Dutch girl in Paris.

A young teacher is the victim of a cruel joke. When she enters the classroom, all her pupils are naked, standing near their bench. Their clothes are heaped up on the podium

The theme of death is heavily interwoven in Smolder’s surreal salute to Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz, a Hieronymus Bosch-type artist whose work centered on humans in various stages in torment, as depicted in expansive canvases with gore galore. Smolders has basically taken a standard documentary and chopped it up, using quotes from the long-dead artist, and periodic statements by a historian (Smolders) filling in a few bits of Wiertz’ life.