Directed by Chris Marker • Documentary • 1994 • 4 minutes

Two enormous black bulls engage in a contest of brute force, egged on by their screaming handlers, as they butt heads and lock horns in an attempt to rout their opponent. Part of Chris Marker's Bestiary.

Directed by Chris Marker • Documentary • 1994 • 4 minutes

In this astonishing, sustained shot, an elephant in the Ljubjana Zoo ambles around its enclosure, performing syncopated dance steps to the accompaniment of Igor Stravinsky's "Tango." Part of Chris Marker's Bestiary.

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • 2006 • 5 minutes

Global censorship of the war on Iraq has stifled the outrage that may have otherwise curtailed the ongoing atrocity of occupation. Not only have the real causes of war been hidden but also its effects. Most people see a sanitized and ...

Directed by Wayne Koestenbaum • Documentary • With Wayne Koestenbaum • 2023 • 5 minutes

Now, a hand-made and hand-altered 16mm film, presents the viewer with a densely layered and wildly colorful pageantry of lines, splotches, scratches, and other painterly marks, applied to blank leader and to ...

Directed by Theodore Ushev • Animation • 2008 • 5 minutes

Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by One-Dimensional Man by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, the filmmaker deconstructs industrial...

Directed by Sylvie Trouvé • Animation • 2012 • 5 minutes

Reflection is an exploration of Montreal through an abstract lens. Director Sylvie Trouvé examines how reflected images pervade our surroundings, how our senses filter out these ghost images and, finally, how the camera can capture emotion...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • With Naseeruddin Shah, Aamir Khan, Kittu Gidwani, Chandrachur • 1998 • 5 minutes

Made in the aftermath of Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests, Ribbons gives new meaning to an old film song by Kishore Kumar – a kind of “Imagine” composed before the days...

Directed by Eoin Duffy • Animation • 2016 • 5 minutes

A mysterious traveller journeys across space and time in search of the origin of the universe, life, and God. Eventually finding himself alone in the dying light of an aging cosmos, he arrives at a devastating realization. Yet the world conti...

Directed by Hart Snider • Animation • 2011 • 5 minutes

In 1983, nine-year-old Hart attends Jewish summer camp for the first time, while in a nearby Alberta town a social studies teacher makes headlines after it's discovered he's been teaching anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. In the aftermath,...

Directed by Anand Patwardhan • Documentary • With Sambhaji Bhagat • 1996 • 5 minutes

We Are Not Your Monkeys is a music video that reworks the epic Ramayana story to critique the caste and gender oppression implicit in it. Sung by Sambhaji Bhagat and composed by Sambhaji, the late Daya Pawar and...

Directed by Ignacio Agüero • Documentary • 1977 • 6 minutes

A construction worker tells about his work as a plasterer in times when houses in entire neighborhoods are demolished to build new commercial zones, all as as part of a new economic structure designed by the dictatorship of Pinochet.

Directed by John Weldon and Eunice Macaulay • Animation • 1978 • 7 minutes

The first big mistake Ralph makes is not clearing the snow from the front walk, and his life goes downhill from that point on. By the end of the story, the mailman has fatally slipped on his job, Alice, his wife, doesn't ...

Directed by Alaysja Clark • Documentary • 2017 • 7 minutes

African-American women discuss the struggles and benefits of being a black woman in America through hair.

Directed by Vivian Muñoz • Documentary • 2018 • 7 minutes

With silent conflict brewing within young and old Latinx alike, god fearing macho facades must fall. Mental health is not a curse. No es brujería.

Directed by Norman McLaren • Animation • 1952 • 8 minutes

Won the 1952 Oscar for Best Short Documentary! Two neighbours live side by side in harmony until a flower grows on the dividing line between their properties. Who does it belong to? The argument that follows ends up with both neighbours i...

Directed by Diane Obomsawin • Animation • 2016 • 8 minutes

First love is an intoxicating experience, but with it can come excruciating awkwardness, unrequited emotions, and confusing issues of identity. In her trademark playful style, Quebec cartoonist and animator Diane Obomsawin, a.k.a. Obom, ...

Directed by Jenny Alexander and James Rutenbeck • Documentary • 2023 • 9 minutes

Richard Nixon was on the verge of providing guaranteed basic income for all Americans. Then a story from 1795 changed his mind and the course of history.

Directed by Noémie Marsily & Carl Roosens • Animation • 2016 • 9 minutes

He’s a magician. She’s a firefighter. Isolating themselves from the chaos of a world in turmoil, the two lovers live in a crane basket high in the sky, where they go about their daily business. Their challenge: keep their h...