Directed by Miguel Gomes | 23 mins | 1999
Two decades before "The Tsugua Diaries" (2021), Gomes would make his assured debut with another film that fused summer languor and simmering tensions with expertly deployed pop music cues. The teen love triangle of Meanwhile drifts from rugby training to ...

Directed by Max McCabe-Lokos | 11 mins | 2017
West Berlin, 1989. Manny Jumpcannon prowls his dingy apartment, phoning various degenerates from his past. He's hoping for some uncertain vindication but the ensuing conversations only reveal his own sordid history of deceit.

Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew | 28 mins | 2019
A twenty-something gay man develops a relationship over text messages with a stranger he meets on a dating app. Their exchange becomes increasingly intimate as the protagonist navigates life as an architect in New York City. We catch gli...

Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 8 mins | 2016
Ode to Seekers 2012 was initially conceived at Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, New York, which contains the abandoned children’s ward that is navigated through from a mosquito’s point of view. The similarities between human behavior and ...

Directed by Andrew Theodore Balasia | 10 mins | 2024
Perched on a darker ledge than most, Andrew Theodore Balasia’s "On God" is a kaleidoscope of tones, toxicity and tenderness, both funny and poignant, in which a man (Al Warren, "Dream Scenario") awakens from a gunshot-induced coma, determined t...

Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 10 mins | 2012
Clapin followed up his acclaimed short "Skhizein" (2008) with this wordless and unsettlingly ambiguous fable about a boy who encounters a scraggly avian creature while duck hunting with his father. It’s a short whose placid surfaces belie a latent, buddi...

Directed by Zeinabu irene Davis | 22 mins | 2023
A five-film shorts program curated by LA Rebellion affiliated-filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis, including works by Pierre Desir ("The Gods and the Thief"), Julie Dash ("Four Women"), Portia Cobb ("Don’t Hurry Back: A Diaspora Fable"), and others.

“T...

Directed by Miguel Gomes | 1 min | 2004
“Cinema is a game,” Gomes has said—a statement especially true of this briefest of shorts, a machinima that delights in the glitchy rhythms of the celebratory motions made by players in the Playstation game Pro Evolution Soccer.

Directed by Martine Syms | 11 mins | 2020
"She Mad" is an episodic project that uses fragments from the sitcom format to explore the sign of blackness in the public imagination. It is a way to think about surveillance, visibility, and the gulf between lived experience and representation. The show...

Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 13 mins | 2008
“I am exactly 91cm from myself,” frets Henry, the central figure in this Annecy-and Cannes-awarded account of a life uncentered. After being struck by a meteorite, Henry finds that he must negotiate to the material world—sitting in a chair, opening a win...

Directed by Ngozi Onwurah | 24 mins | 1991
A tale of two women, a mother and a daughter, divided not just by age but by race and conventions of sexual desirability too, with the elder woman having undergone a double mastectomy and the teenager stepping into modeling. Ngozi Onwurah’s boldly styliz...

Directed by Georges Méliès | 4 mins | 1901
The night before Christmas, as only the original purveyor of “movie magic” could envision it. Made as Méliès was approaching the peak of his popularity, this mini-fantasia presents an array of still-captivating tableaux: while children sleep, dolls pranc...

Directed by Pierre Desir | 18 mins | 2001
A five-film shorts program curated by LA Rebellion affiliated-filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis, including works by Pierre Desir ("The Gods and the Thief"), Julie Dash ("Four Women"), Portia Cobb ("Don’t Hurry Back: A Diaspora Fable"), and others.

“These sh...

Directed by Molly Dineen | 39 mins | 1989
Molly Dineen's acclaimed documentary follows 48 hours in the life of London’s Angel tube station in the days before its refurbishment.

Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty | 45 mins | 1999
Djibril Diop Mambéty, a towering figure in world cinema, is best known for his two features, Touki Bouki (1973) and Hyenas (1992, re-released in a new restoration by Metrograph Pictures in 2019). Yet these two extraordinary films tell only part of...

Directed by Sally Potter | 16 mins | 1986
A highly choreographed spy spoof involving an investigation into government foreign policy malfeasance which Sally Potter stages in front of London’s most recognizable landmarks.

Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 11 mins | 2012
"Workers Leaving the Googleplex" investigates a top secret, marginalized class of workers at Google's international corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley. The video documents the yellow badge-wearing ScanOps Google Books workers, while simultan...