Visual Thinking

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

Two friends enter an Emergency Room, seeking help after an incident. They will find themselves living a series of surreal experiences through the eccentric characters that populate the waiting room. But will they get the help they need?

When LILA suspects her situationship's life might be in danger, she’s reluctant to go the cops because of their precarious relationship status and is forced to take matters into her own hands.

Bob Kenner is a superhero. He lives in Peckham. This is the first time he has granted an interview.

A young maid enlists supernatural help in order to escape her past.

Alexe is a young trans woman, and Carl a gay man. Best friends since forever, an evening spent together destabilizes Alexe, when both decide to have sex together for the first time.

When a fiercely independent young African American woman and her nouveau-nationalist photographer boyfriend decide to visit the father she hasn't seen in years, the tragicomic reunion shatters her illusions and provokes the two lovers to reveal that they are both the wounded children of alcoholics. The revelation changes their perception of themselves and each other and serves as a springboard to a new way of relating. This award winning short narrative co-stars Daresha Kyi and Isaiah Washington in his first film.

Sociales

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.

A struggling comedian, Mary Beth, decides to leak her own stand-up comedy sex tape in order to get famous.

After getting fired from his job cleaning the streets of Hamburg, Eule is fed up with big-city life, steals a moped, and sets off with his slot machine-addicted buddy Daddel on a trip to Hong Kong to visit Bruce Lee's grave. However, they only make it as far as Berlin for the time being...

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things Have Got to Change.” Filmed in Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey by activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas as his first project at UCLA, this short film poetically envisions the fantasy life of a hotel worker whose daydreams provide an escape from workplace indignities. —Allyson Nadia Field

Tells the story of Mr. Softee, a mutant hybrid with an ice cream cone for a head, who was the victim of the anti-miscarriage drug "Nodroppinum" which changed the pregnant mother's child into whatever food she craved at the time (a parody of the Thyladimide scandal from the 60s.) Softee was the head of an ice cream company, until he was forced out of business by the artificial ice cream mafia, led by Don Tofutti.

A man in financial debt is asked by his little son if the photographer of the famous picture which shows the Hindenburg zeppelin going up in flames early this century has become rich by that. The father quickly concludes that he only has to take the right picture in order to be able to pay his debts. After contacting a underground explosives engineer he takes off to the Munich Olympic Tower with his camera...

After a woman escapes the captivity of her abusive family, a magazine invites her to a journalistic experiment: to hear music for the first time.

After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father.

Filmic exercise by Verhoeven