Pickman's Model

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The artist offers a re-interpretation of these motifs through computer animation. By turning the shapes in different direction, new images are generated, freeing them from their fixed state. Traditional spiritual values feed the present and open up to a modern perspective.

Pepé describes his house. He plays in the rain. At night he admires the stars, enjoys the vegetation and the colors of the afternoons. The animals around him look at him in amazement, he infects them with joy. Pepe is happy to live in his house, which is Earth.

After suffering their fourth miscarriage using IVF, lesbian couple Willow and Lydia are desperate for a baby and running out of options, which leads Willow to try an ancient fertility ritual.

People magically appear and disappear from an oversized musical cigar dispenser.

This Spanish-language short was made using stop-motion animation and features very simple sets and characters. However, despite the relatively low budget, the film turns out to be a very effective way to teach kids about the dangers of unprotected sex. The film begins with three teenage girl dolls sitting on a bench. Without using actual words but sort of a Sims-type speech ("Bla, bla, bla"), the first girl describes her perfect man. Then, suddenly, he appears---as does a bed...

Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!

This bone-chilling minimalistic animation film (made with black, white and red colors only) is voiced by the director herself, the Australian illustrator Anita Lester, whose grand-aunt had lost her entire family in Nazi camps and has then gone mad. Her confused, distorted, extrapolated memories full of despair and horror, of mysterious interiors and someone’s eyes, became the foundation of this impressive conceptual short film.

The slow construction of an image, to the rhythm of steps, ends when the monster meets his Bride.

A couple of slackers' apartment is invaded by a garden shear-wielding maniac (think The Burning) bent on brutally murdering everyone in his path.

Anti-tobacco PSA by the Arizona Department of Health Services, with its campaign aimed at teenagers which ran between the mid-90s to early 2000s. This is one of their later ones, which uses the dark and disturbing imagery of a factory that produces both cigarettes and the teenagers who smoke them.

Based on the popular phone service, "How To Make a Sandwich" is a short film directed by Drake Sanderson that depicts the rise of media star, Peter Willard, and his acclaimed sandwich-making skills. From breads to meats to condiments, follow Peter as he teaches you how to make the perfect sandwich!

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

An old frying pan accidentally gets tossed out and ends up encountering many animals in his journey.

The Robot Moles is an adorable story about flowers, moles, dumb scientists and a little girl.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

Three years after her partner's untimely death, Dr. Lena Thierry, a neuroengineer, has been unable to move on. After years of research and development, she attempts to upload his consciousness into a computer software program.