Rhyme or Die

A teenage boy finds a stuffed owl on his way home from school. The owl brings him comfort, friendship. He quickly learns there is more to this owl than what meets the eye.

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a trapped existence. Skilfully merging film, dance and music, the film is a compendium of the techniques McLaren acquired over a lifetime of experimentation.

In the aftermath of his father's death, a young man navigates a developing relationship with a brain-eating parasite.

Movie night unravels quickly for a group of friends after they place an order from a closed down, haunted pizzeria.

It's just another [excruciating] meal for Vienna - until an offer to conquer her greatest fear in 'three simple steps' arrives. Desperate for freedom from her fear of eating, Vienna takes the offer up - only to realize she bit off far more than she can chew... As Vienna is taken through these three escalating steps to conquer her fear, she also discovers just how resilient she is, ultimately fighting anorexia back in the most defiant way possible: by reclaiming her autonomy in eating.

Santa's workers demand to be entertained and thus put on a musical show for themselves.

A Salesman tries to locate a notorious Mexican bandit.

Harry Fox performs his vaudeville act.

Our plasticine pooch pal Rex welcomes us to his dreamworld.

In this Broadway Brevity short, a soda jerk/songwriter dreams (literally) of performing his songs on Broadway.

A woman enters a bar and asks for a bit of conversation, but what she gets in return is a bunch of bad pickup lines sung to her by a cowboy and the bartender singing the cowboy's virtues.

In an unstable marriage, Marion worries for her husband, Frank, as his behavior grows more and more erratic.

Shades Of Despair

Alone in the dark, Freya encounters a terrifying presence, but what did she see? and who's going to believe her?

An A.I. therapy tool helps a lonely and depressed man confront the darkest parts of himself.

Jess joins her friends at a party in a dilapidated mansion hosted by the mysterious Seth. When odd things begin to happen to Jess and her friends, the Phantom Stranger intervenes to save her from a dreary fate.

After the death of his mother, the only thing Daniel has to remember her is a photo and a story about a lost child who returns home thanks to a guiding star. One night a star appears before Daniel and tells him that he will take him back to his mother. Daniel trusts the star and they both enter the darkness of night.

Sam wakes up in a cold, metal-covered room with a long streak of blood flowing from the door. The blood trail leads to a mutilated body. The body is her boyfriend lying in the corner of the room. Obviously frightened, she still mysteriously knows where she is and whom an ominous, forceful voice on an intercom belongs to. It's her father's voice. She stays in the room as punishment, and how long until she gets out she doesn't know. Hours become days. Days become weeks. In the room, Sam finds solace in talking to her nine-year-old sister through a latch built into the bottom of the room's door. This keeps herself occupied and her mind focused to prevent reoccurring flashes she has of her late mother's death. Meanwhile, the voice gives her instructions to take white pills that put her to sleep. Sam slowly pieces together fragmented memories she has from her past, and begins to understand why she stays locked in this room, for what lies inside of her cannot be let free.

Helena wakes up feeling unwell with unusual symptoms. She meets with her friend Laura and they go back to Helena's house. After some flashbacks of strange dreams and Helena disappearing for a while, it is revealed that she has no ordinary illness.

A sci-fi horror film based on the story by Stephen King. A first person POV perspective allows the audience to get inside the head of an astronaut trapped in a spaceship, as a strange virus grows inside him, altering his mind. To save himself he must take drastic action.