Directed by Želimir Žilnik | 84 mins | 1995
Žilnik, one of the great, insubordinate talents to emerge from the Yugoslavian “Black Wave” of the 1960s and ’70s, who’d seen his work politically suppressed, took advantage of new permissiveness to produce this raunchy, raucous, and disarmingly tender ...

Directed by Bill Plympton | 72 mins | 1997
Newlywed Kerry becomes suspicious of her husband, Grant, when he starts manifesting signs of what seem to be superpowers in Plympton’s surreal film of shape-shifters, unusual sexual couplings, and covetous conglomerates.

“Probably the socket and most t...

Directed by Bill Plympton | 77 mins | 2013
A lurid film noir opera that eschews intelligible dialogue, "Cheatin’" follows a couple, Jake and Ella, from the first blush of attraction at a carnival meet-cute to the cusp of marital disintegration.

“My second non-dialogue film and I believe it's my...

Directed by Bill Plympton | 6 mins | 1991
With its pair of mute, suited protagonists trading increasingly elaborate blows, Bill Plympton’s Cannes Jury Prize-awarded short evokes the surrealist bodily harm of Jan Svankmajer’s "The Dimensions of Dialogue" (1982).

Directed by Bill Plympton | 4 mins | 2014
When a man’s rest is disrupted by the sound of glass shattering at his front door, he grabs his hat and gun and sets off in mad pursuit of the culprit. After traversing land and sea, he is unprepared for what he discovers.

Directed by Bill Plympton | 6 mins | 2008
Dangerously determined to win the affection of humankind, Bill Plympton’s beloved, bug-eyed pooch—first seen in Academy Award-nominated 2004 short "Guard Dog"—pits himself against a raging house fire.

Directed by Bill Plympton | 4 mins | 2008
Doe-eyed elves manufacture weaponry and snowmen goose-step into Lapland by order of a radicalized Santa in this twisted miniature fantasia, narrated by Matthew Modine.

Directed by Khady Sylla and Mariama Sylla | 63 mins | 2014
Begun by Sylla and completed by her sister, Mariama, after Khady’s death in 2013, "A Single Word" connects the essay film to the oral historical tradition of the griots—West African storytellers, musicians, and poets who act as repositori...

Directed by Khady Sylla | 52 mins | 2005
After an unsatisfactory attempt to make a film about the numerous mentally ill people who filled the streets of Dakar back in 1994, Sylla, in her own words “fell ill and crossed to the other side, seeing what others don’t see.” Now “living the experience f...

Directed by Khady Sylla | 45 mins | 2008
Khady Sylla’s docudrama inquiry into the lives—inner and exterior—of Dakar’s female domestics, which employs scenes of improvised street theater, direct-address freestyle screeds, candid interviews, and inner monologue musings with the end of allowing its ...

Directed by Khady Sylla | 52 mins | 1999
Losing ground to more modern forms of transit today, the colorfully painted “car rapide” minibuses that criss-cross the crowded streets and avenues of Dakar at breakneck speed carrying passengers and merchandise have been icons of the city since first appe...