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After seeing the smoke from an explosion on the horizon, an old weathered man leaves his island and goes to explore it in his airboat. At the site of the explosion he finds a pile of garbage and dead animals floating in the water. Suddenly there is another explosion and something shoots into the air like a rocket. The man goes to the source and finds a case of jars with some Chinese characters on the side. Inside the jar is a buzzing insect. A thought...

A music-driven passion project, "I have Your Heart" uses charming illustration and stop-motion paper cut outs to craft the story of "a good girl with a bad heart, and the boy whose death will save her life."

Working outside the music industry mainstream, a rich ecosystem of artists and filmmakers collaborate to create a vast array of fun and fresh visual surprises. Stash Magazine makes a point of hunting down and collecting the most intriguing of these music videos to ensure they receive the wider recognition they deserve.

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.

DOWNSIDE UP reveals a world in which everyone has Down’s syndrome. One day, Eric is born, a boy who’s different.

A collection of five curious and quirky short films pushing the boundaries of modern story-telling and guaranteed to keep you thinking about the strange nature of reality and your place in it.

An award-winning animated children's fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother's love.

Animation retelling the story of the nativity from the point of view of a young cow.

Every night, a lonely man sees a beautiful young woman dancing outside his window. He is transfixed by her. Wonders if she's real. Then things become more complicated... Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** *"The ethereal pas de deux that is NIGHT DANCING will keep you wondering -- and wanting to know." - Wess Haubrich, **The 405***

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD intimately follows an extended Black family of View Park-Windsor Hills, California as they experience changes due to gentrification and reflect on their shifting community.