Time Caller

An overworked intergalactic pizza boy deals with space pirates and space customer service.

A half-hour experimental film that shows Fukui moving towards cyberpunk imagery in a manner similar to Tsukamoto, featuring industrial locations, a malfunctioning cyborg/android and a hulking metallic ‘caterpillar’ that stalks characters.

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

After an underdog programmer finds out his beloved robot girlfriend is going to expire, he must connect the pieces of clues from her broken mysterious memories to save her life against all odds.

A group of aliens searching for a new planet on which to make home, with little success. Promotional short for Dreamworks Animation's forthcoming feature, Home.

Humans use technology to improve their lives, to forge connections, to create time that doesn’t exist, to replace real interactions. When we devise a second version of ourselves on social media, do we lose a piece of our true selves in the process? Do our digital connections threaten our real life relationships? What happens if the filtered characters we’ve imagined take on a life of their own?

With kitschy sets and campy glamour, this short follows two astronauts attempting to overpower an alien spaceship... if the ship’s pleasure-based defences don’t overpower them first.

Two teenage girls are making love. Then one of them suddenly turns into a boy. After a fever dream everything appears to be back to normal again. Yet it isn’t.

A restless young man wants to leave love and the Earth behind.

Ten aliens in human host bodies learn how to be men.

An allegorical tale of a couple who attempt to renew their dying relationship by plugging directly into recordings of their memories.

In the main events of Ice Age: Collision Course, Scrat is captured by Scratazons who take away his acorn. Now, Scrat must rescue his Acorn and escape before the aliens can catch him.

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.

An urban skateboarder lands on a manhole—a cultural artifact protected by a shadowy association—and takes an unexpected and possibly lethal penalty.

The year is 2984. In one of the deposits that fill the earth’s interior, an envelope stuffer is working tirelessly in what seems to be just another day in his grey and insignificant existence. But this is not just another day. This is his worst nightmare.

Adam, 11, is a messenger sent by God to spread the Final News. He'll heal you from your sins and prepare you for the Last Day. Will you be ready when they come? You don't have a lot of time, they're here : the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.

In a near future where corporations have seized all natural resources, Nala is a lonely rebel trying to break the rules.

The earth shook. The sea roared. And then… There is a small house solitary standing by the seaside. A young girl has been living there alone since that fateful day. Mail is no longer delivered, but even this morning, she’s hanging out the laundry as usual. She’s unaware that all around her, the clothes pegs are quarreling, the pillow argues with the umbrella about the outside world, and the new toothbrush is unsuccessfully trying to charm the grumpy older ones. Do objects exist to be used until they are consumed or broken? Are they afraid of being thrown away once their life cycle is complete? A delicate story of hope in a cruel and gentle world after an unnamed disaster.

A man develops an intimate relationship with a female android.

To save the life of her dying son, Liz must venture to the desolate surface and face the monsters that drove mankind below.