Short film on Raoul Servais' Servaisgrafie process/invention.
Slapstick - a tribute to 100 years of cinema: authorities, in their efforts to create order, often create disorder, not noticing this.
When a stubborn old man and a fretful teenaged girl are forced to share a hospital room, an unexpected friendship forms over their hatred of fake cheerfulness and bad hospital food.
Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is lit from the side so that the pins cast shadows.
The story of a young woman courted by numerous suitors which she turned down, to eventually choose an unexpected fiancé
With the speed and grace of a middle aged man, Gary navigates his golf buggy through the towering aisles of a giant warehouse until he encounters one, lone, misplaced box.
The silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.
A black-humored short story of a suicide attempt that ends abruptly (ain’t that always the way!). Short black and white animation on 8mm.
Lola Bunny invents a perfume with the adverse effect of turning people invisible, sending her and cab driver Bugs Bunny on the run from the FBI, while another shady group seeks the formula.
Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.
Squares and other geometric shapes appear to "dance" along to music through their ever-changing movements.
An overworked intergalactic pizza boy deals with space pirates and space customer service.
A suitor dons a disguise to woo a chaperoned girl.
Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.
Two Amish teens embark on a rite of passage as they discuss sex, self-discovery, and the taste of cigarettes.
A woman must find paperclips for a report to be presented in the morning.
Anti-smoking public information film. A gang of skeletons chill out smoking cigarettes in the underworld.
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.
Haring tells the short tale of a guy who has to get rid of the herring stench coming from his mouth, before meeting his date at the cinema. While running through the streets of Amsterdam, we see the terrible effects of what that stench does to everyone around him. Made in collaboration with the Netherlands Film Fund, Pathé and SNS Reaal Fonds.
Two buddies visit a friends couple-urban sophisticate, inhibited parents. While they meet with the baby in his room, the two buddies start on bad jokes about his physique. But they ignore that in the kitchen, everyone hears them through the baby monitor !