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It actually starts off kind of creepily, with a man silently walking around and taking Polaroids of random bystanders, putting them into strange poses as he does so.
McDonald’s 1998 short 'Elimination Dance' starts off looking like a meet-cute romantic comedy and then turns into something infinitely weirder.
The Art by Chance Film Festival celebrates "ultra-short films" by presenting them to us in unexpected, nontheatrical venues.
The story does end with a final twist of the knife, but it’s far subtler and more haunting than you might expect.
In his 'Capitalism: Slavery,' the director takes a Victorian stenograph of cotton pickers and, essentially, animates it into cinema.
Nina Paley's 2002 short 'Fetch!' was the first Flash-to-35mm short film, but for a seven-year-old technological watershed, it's still pretty great.
It's more abstract than his later films, but it's still clearly his work, as evidenced by its evocative shots of nature, its glimpses at family life, and its lushly melancholy mood.
There have been many films made about Alzheimer's, but few with the sensitivity and (yes) humor of Brendon McQueen's beautifully shot and touching short film 'Skip Rocks.'
We're big fans of Una Pizza Napoletana in the East Village and its irascible, tattoo-covered owner Anthony Mangieri, so we were more than a little excited to come across this short.
It's like an art film hijacked by Michael Bay, but in the best way possible.
'Focus Group' takes us into the impossibly dry and claustrophobic world of consumer focus groups.
As such, it's a part of both cinema and music history, even though, as a film, it's basically an excuse to showcase Ellington's musicianship.
One of our favorite films at this year's Sundance Film Festival was Cruz Angeles's beautiful debut feature. So we decided to delve into his back catalogue.
In Eran Merav's short, 'Nati,' a young ice-cream seller gets duped into an unbelievable act of cruelty by some of his yahoo friends.
Reygadas's 1999 short film 'Maxhumain' is a tiny, experimental, mixed-media dream about a young man's existential portent amid memories of his mother
Hey, remember those skyrocketing fuel prices earlier this year? Boy, was that a silly time — and so long ago, too.
Jenkins's 2003 short 'My Josephine' is a lovely, impressionistic look at an Arab man and woman who work in a laundromat.
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