Pressing Pause

Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included the issuing of public warnings of any nuclear missile strike and the subsequent fallout.

In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.

One evening, in his apartment in Paris, Lorenzo is getting ready to receive Marvin for the first time, a boy he really likes. Marvin shows up at the door with Thomas, a homeless man he met on the street in need of a shower. Lorenzo doesn’t dare say no.

Norwegian short film about a carpenter trading places with Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.

Rhys Day presents NO DIVIDE - a sticky mashup biopic/ videofeast.

Two young lovers wander off to a forest on their wedding night where their fate is overcome by the darkness of self- destruction. Finding a field of poisonous strawberries in the forest, she has harmed herself in the worst way possible: losing him.

Shawn, an optimistic intern, working for a 'well-respected' councilman, is tasked with covering up a major scandal; But is he willing to sacrifice his morals to do so?

Two teenagers share a meaningful moment while on a simple walk home.

Isolated by their mind, Akuji is a sophomore in college that moves in a draining cycle. When they start preparing for an upcoming group project that is most of their final grade, they start to enter a state of exhaustion and illusion. As they battle with their group members, they also battle their mind for peace and control.

A 10-year-old boy is thrust into the tumultuous world of puberty when he gets a new pair of eyeglasses.

A compact, full-color cut-out animation as ephemeral as the colors swimming on the surface of a soap bubble. The eternal round shape, the orb (sun, moon, symbol of the whole self) balloons its inimitable and joyous course through scene after scene of celestial delight, fixing at last as the mystical globe encasing the lovers whose course it has paralleled throughout the film.

We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the soundtrack. Gradually a female guide emerges and escorts the young man into an antechamber to another (and possibly higher) world.

Ito is one of the leading experimental filmmakers in Japan. He graduated from Art and Technology Department of Kyushu Institute of Design in 1983 during which he made a debut with the film SPACY in 1981 (Inagaki who created sound effects for the film was also a filmmaker and his classmate at the institute). He was rather a premature virtuoso.

Alex asks his father to tuck him in, but that's not the only thing he asks for.

A young man who lives in a city goes astray in an unfamiliar area. He picks up a young villager so he would help him to find the way. Heroes get in a conflict which results in a fight.

Short adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine.

A short featurette available on the DVD for Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), released in January 2004.

The story of a son who is secretly in love and a lonely, hard-working father. Each leads his own life – until one sultry summer day, their courses collide with a shock.

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Short film from director J.R. Bookwalter set in Salem.