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41) Wyrm
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
WYRM is falling behind. It is 1995. His twin sister, Myrcella, has become a woman after she and Mads Nillson did fingering at the cinemas. Wyrm has six days to secure his first kiss or his My.E.Q. Electronic Emotional Development Collar will be left on and he’ll be placed in the remedial learning program as part of the school district’s No Child Left Alone Program. Wyrm’s parents are distant and despondent after the death of his older brother...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
WINNER! BEST ANIMATION, SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL! SOHRAB AND RUSTUM is an animated film by award-winning Australian animator, Lee Whitmore, about a charismatic young English teacher reading a famous poem by Matthew Arnold to her class of fourteen year old girls whose concerns are pop music and nail polish. Unexpectedly the epic poem takes the girls on a journey to ancient Persia and a legendary battle on the sand between two warriors, the Tartar Sohrab...
43) Sit-In
Publisher
The Alliance Theatre
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Written by Atlanta's bestselling author, playwright, and Civil Rights Activist, Pearl Cleage (Blues for An Alabama Sky, In My Granny's Garden, Tell Me My Dream) this original animated short celebrates the power of youth to change history. We meet three friends as they learn about the sit-ins of the Civil Rights era, and powerfully apply those lessons to issues they – and we all – face today. The play invites students, parents, teachers, and families...
44) Mammoth
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Elliot is a prankster, unpredictable, and never takes life too seriously. These have always been the characteristics that his brother, a far too suppressed Paul, loved about him. But now that Elliot is dying of cancer and is choosing his “Right to Die” under the Death with Dignity Act, Paul isn’t too sure of what to make of his brother’s recklessness. Paul internally struggles with his brother’s choice and unwillingly performs his brotherly...
45) Sad Beauty
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.
46) Jailbreak
Publisher
Stash Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The darkly comic story of a desperate inmate and his daring escape to an ironically similar dungeon.
48) Goutte D'or
Publisher
Stash Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A multi-award winning mini-masterpiece of stop-motion filmmaking, "Goutte D'or" tells the tale of a washed up pirate and the young woman on a broomstick who just might be his redemption.
49) Feral
Publisher
Magnet Film
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest. FERAL was nominated for an Academy Award in 2014 and participated in many film festivals like Sundance and Festival d’Animation Annecy.
51) Oripeaux
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In an isolated village, a little girl befriends a pack of coyotes. The villagers brutally end this relationship without suspecting the uprising that awaits them.... Intended to be a silent film without captions.
52) At Land
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.
53) The Beauty
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? Take a deep breath and dive into a world, where feelings of guilt dissolve amongst the mysterious depths of the ocean. A world where we encounter bizarre creatures and discover eerily beautiful landscapes. Unfortunately, our air doesn’t last forever and we have to realize that nature alone can't solve this issue.
54) Negative Space
Publisher
Miyu Distribution
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
My dad taught me how to pack. **Academy Award** nominee, Best Animated Short.
55) Ossa
Publisher
Stash Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Italian director Dario Imbrogno plays with both perception and time in this artful stop-motion film made by hand over the course of five months.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.
58) Caterpllarplasty
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fusing elements of Kafka and Kubrick, CATERPILLARPLASTY is a prescient, grotesque sci-fi satire that lifts plastic surgery to another level. The film is set in a state-of-the-art clinic that mirrors a twisted cultural and economic system, a world where advanced technologies have cultivated new standards of beauty and prestige. As aggressive body modifications become an increasingly popular fad, the unnatural becomes natural, giving rise to a new kind...
59) Home Shopper
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a loveless marriage, Penny finds solace in the hypnotic escape of the home shopping channel. When things take an unexpected turn with her husband, the channel proves to be her saving grace, or was it the origin of the problem all along?
60) Home Sweet Home
Publisher
Stash Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This visually spectacular animated short tells the gentle story of an old house escaping from its suburban foundations for an epic journey. Nominated for a Cinefondation Award at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
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