The Bug

A newly arrived guest of a Hollywood hotel charms and amazes the regulars, and they decide to invite him to their Christmas dinner.

Roland, an art store employees, day is interrupted by a man needing to use the store's washroom. This simple request is complicated by the store's strict 'employee only' washroom policy. A full bladder, an irrational man, and some company red tape suddenly has Roland's day take a dire turn.

A craftsman builds a glass harmonica that enlightens him. He travels to a town where the people are obsessed with money. A bureaucrat smashes the glass harmonica which leads to chaos and eventually to social reform.

In the near-future, a woman whose robotic husband fails to meet her standards returns and upgrades him for a better version with standards that she now fails to meet.

Play Doll explores the chilling reality of domestic abuse behind the doors of a seemingly perfect family at Christmas time.

Alfie tells the story of a unique character who is trying his best to overcome his own demons. Through therapy, Alfie's issues are slung to the forefront of discovery and he does his best to keep them at bay; but it is a hard line to walk.

When her father is suddenly diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, Sadie returns home to help her family care for him while struggling to accept the chaos within his mind, her family and herself.

An absurdest short film set in the roaring twenties that chronicles two brothers who are obsessed with stealing Marcel Duchamp's shovel back from their arch nemesis, a greedy, drunk, fat, perverted aristocrat.

A down and out writer , struggling with a case of writer's block, must face his greatest nemesis - his own typewriter.

Being stood up can be kind of romantic.

A young man, who just graduated from university, just started to work on his first job at an office. Although this is the moment he worked and studied for really hard, not long after a very unsatisfied feeling about his life starts to pop up. This feeling is visualized by a strange looking man who, from one day to another, starts to hit the young man randomly on his head with a newspaper. When the strange man proofs not to be easily get rid of, absurd situations follow that eventually drive the young man to revise choices that he made earlier in his life.

Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hollywood luminaries who are attending the party, they present a number of musical and/or dance performances to entertain the crowd. This set of performances also includes ethnic Chinese actress Anna May Wong modeling some fashions she brought back from her first ever trip to China. Through it all, one of the guests, already inebriated, is having a few problems mixing and serving the cocktails he wants.

A short by Martín Rosete.

Bernie Cates requests the services of the most absent-minded waiter he's ever seen, who pours water before setting the glasses, endlessly repeats questions, brings wrong orders, and ruins everything- but the bill.

The tale of a murderer (Allen) who uses the cover of Halloween night to causally transport his latest victim from the scene of the crime to his final resting place. Wrapping the body in tarpaulin and dragging it through the busy streets of London as a bloody Halloween prop, all goes to plan until an old school mate (Brassington) recognises the murderer and drags him along to a swanky Halloween party nearby, where a chance meeting with a beautiful girl (Tointon) takes his evening on an even bigger turn for the bizarre!

A young man struggles with his overbearing and bullying parent against the drama and backdrop of Boxing.

After finding a mysterious box, a chronic shopaholic begins to receive gifts from an unknown source. As the gifts pile up, people around her start to disappear.

This short animation is a dizzying celebration of sound, colour and movement. Here, multitudes of CMYK symbols, pulled off flaps of cereal boxes and other common printed materials, have been isolated and assembled. Freed from their workaday origins, these objects become moving artwork. Colored dots pulsate, crosshairs roll and primary shapes dance. The result: an unrestrained riot of color and energy.

Tim's life is a joke. Literally.

'The Pinto Edition' is a dark comedy in which a couple score a bargain camper van but get more than they bargained for. Made for the 48 hour film project Amsterdam by a fully professional crew, this amusing short has almost no dialog, a great score, strong acting by a small cast and was much awarded. Created by new creative partnership Elwin Bes and Jasper Klimbie.