Sometimes less is more, or some bullshit like that
by GruesomeTwosome | created - 30 Dec 2015 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicAn ICM Forum list of my favorite short films - RANKED
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1. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
Directors: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | Stars: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Votes: 15,187
2. Darkness/Light/Darkness (1989)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 4,876
3. La Jetée (1962)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Drama, Romance
The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Étienne Becker, Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Votes: 37,028
4. Björk: Hyperballad (1996 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Music video for "Hyperballad" performed by Björk.
Director: Michel Gondry | Star: Björk
Votes: 223
5. Fugue (1999)
7 min | Animation, Short
A visual art work that borrows the principles of fugue from music. A man, his dreams, a hotel room...
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Votes: 310
6. A Day in the Country (1946)
Not Rated | 40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux, André Gabriello
Votes: 7,091
7. Broken Down Film (1985)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A cowboy is hampered by the imperfections in the film print showcasing his story.
Director: Osamu Tezuka
Votes: 939
8. Black Ice (1994)
3 min | Short
A lateral descent through the midnight blues and blacks of ice and the refracted colors from absorbed oils.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,088
9. Stellar (1993)
G | 3 min | Short
Stan Brakhage's artistic view of the cosmos.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 939
10. Plastic Bag (2009)
18 min | Short, Drama
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Werner Herzog, Barbara Weetman
Votes: 1,373
11. Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination (1970)
1 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
The home movie footage shot by Abraham Zapruder that caught the assassination of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
Director: Abraham Zapruder | Stars: Charles Brehm, Howard Brennan, John Connally, Nellie Connally
Votes: 2,329
12. Björk: All Is Full of Love (1999 Music Video)
4 min | Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
The accompanying music video for the single was directed by Chris Cunningham and depicts the assembling of a robot with Björk's features, and her passionately kissing another robot in front of an ethereal and sterile backdrop.
Director: Chris Cunningham | Star: Björk
Votes: 537
13. Daybreak Express (1953)
5 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording of "Daybreak Expresa" this is a five-minute short on the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated train line in Manhattan, New York City.
Director: D.A. Pennebaker
Votes: 1,332
14. Light Is Calling (2004)
8 min | Short
A scene from The Bells (1926) is optically reprinted and edited to Michael Gordon¹s 7 minute composition. A meditation on the fleeting nature of life and love, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an film.
Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Eddie Phillips, Lola Todd
Votes: 504
15. Blood of the Beasts (1949)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Bucolic scenes from the outskirts of Paris are contrasted with stark footage from slaughterhouses.
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Georges Hubert, Nicole Ladmiral, Alfred Macquart, Maurice Griselle
Votes: 2,593
16. Dream Work (2001)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short
A woman goes to bed, falls asleep, and begins to dream. This dream takes her to a landscape of light and shadow, evoked in a form only possible through classic cinematography.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Votes: 1,162
17. Thunder (1982)
5 min | Short
A woman's face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways.
Director: Takashi Itô | Star: Seiko Nakano
Votes: 580
18. More (1998)
6 min | Sci-Fi, Short, Animation
A worker in a factory learns a lesson about life. When is enough?
Director: Mark Osborne
Votes: 6,118
19. Down to the Cellar (1983)
15 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Monika Belo-Cabanová, Olga Vronská, Aleksandr Letko
Votes: 1,147
20. The Snowman (1982 TV Movie)
G | 26 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
On Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Father Christmas.
Directors: Jimmy T. Murakami, Dianne Jackson | Stars: David Bowie, Raymond Briggs, Mel Smith
Votes: 16,824
21. Talking Heads (1980)
16 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Votes: 3,757
22. Pas de deux (1968)
G | 13 min | Animation, Short, Musical
Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren
Votes: 1,762
23. Aphex Twin: Windowlicker (1999 Music Video)
Unrated | 11 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
Two stereotypical gangster wannabes try to get lucky with two young women when the man himself, Aphex Twin, interrupts their crude discussion to show off his dancing skills. The women are ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Cunningham | Stars: Aphex Twin, Marcus Morris, Gary Cruz, Marcy Turner
Votes: 1,361
24. Beastie Boys: Sabotage (1994 Music Video)
3 min | Action, Comedy, Music
Set to the song, Sabotage, the Beastie Boys appear in a condensed parody of a 1970s cop show.
Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Beastie Boys, Adam Yauch, Adam Horovitz, Mike D
Votes: 3,372
25. Nine Inch Nails: Broken (1993 Music Video)
20 min | Short, Horror, Music
Trent Reznor presents his dark vision of the EP 'Broken' by telling the story of a man kidnapped and forced to watch Nine Inch Nails videos, disturbing in their own right, while being ... See full summary »
Directors: Serge Becker, Peter Christopherson, Eric Goode, Jon Reiss | Stars: Trent Reznor, James Duval, Bob Flanagan, Nine Inch Nails
Votes: 1,139
26. Quest (1984)
30 min | Short, Adventure, Mystery
A child has only an 8 day life-span to complete a mysterious journey from the dim cave-dwelling society where he is born to a final gateway, the object of folklore. The abstract ... See full summary »
Directors: Elaine Bass, Saul Bass | Stars: John Abbott, Noah Hathaway, David Comfort, Michael Mancini
Votes: 450
27. Grim (1985)
7 min | Short
A sensuous ghost haunts a flat in this unusual ode to plain, generic areas.
Director: Takashi Itô | Star: Hiroko Emori
Votes: 366
28. Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)
3 min | Short, Music
A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of "Dream Lover".
Director: Kenneth Anger
Votes: 1,739
29. The Red Balloon (1956)
Not Rated | 34 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
Director: Albert Lamorisse | Stars: Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Vladimir Popov
Votes: 20,098
30. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
TV-G | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet
Votes: 55,677
31. Outer Space (1999)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Horror
Footage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky | Star: Barbara Hershey
Votes: 2,798
32. The Exquisite Corpus (2015)
18 min | Documentary, Short
A sunbathing woman has a phantasmagoric vision of ecstasy, derived from various found footage sources.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Votes: 373
33. Neighbours (1952)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Grant Munro, Jean Paul Ladouceur
Votes: 3,879
34. Balance (1989)
7 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A group of fishermen on a precariously balanced platform fight over a trunk.
Directors: Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
Votes: 5,665
35. Elephant (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 39 min | Crime, Drama
A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible.
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Gary Walker, Bill Hamilton, Michael Foyle, Danny Small
Votes: 2,920
36. Blight (1996)
15 min | Short
The destruction of a home for the building of a road is captured and contrasted with quotations from the residents.
Director: John Smith
Votes: 362
37. Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983 Music Video)
PG | 13 min | Horror, Music
A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Michael Jackson, Ola Ray, Forrest J. Ackerman, Reed Armstrong
Votes: 18,541
38. Un chien andalou (1929)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Pancho Cossío
Votes: 53,763
39. Chambre jaune (2002)
8 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Stars: Sandrine Laroche, Jean-Michel Vovk
Votes: 253
40. Gasman (1997)
15 min | Short, Drama
It's the Christmas season. With her mom's help, Lynne, a girl of perhaps eight, dresses up; her younger brother Steven plays with a toy car. The children leave with their dad, who's ... See full summary »
Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Lynne Ramsay Jr., Martin Anderson, James Ramsay, Denise Flannagan
Votes: 1,672
41. The Heart of the World (2000)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Action, Fantasy
A scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth's core to save humanity.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Leslie Bais, Caelum Vatnsdal, Shaun Balbar, Greg Klymkiw
Votes: 3,589
42. Food (1992)
16+ | 17 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Ludvík Sváb, Bedrich Glaser, Jan Kraus, Pavel Marek
Votes: 3,586
43. Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)
12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 4,883
44. Spacy (1981)
10 min | Short
Set of rapid telescopic images of a gym, in fast forward, traveling through itself, space and time.
Director: Takashi Itô
Votes: 423
45. The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz
Votes: 3,213
46. Feeler (2016)
7 min | Short
16mm film by Paul Clipson, and music by Sarah Davachi. Filmed in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Kraków, Sidney, Portland, Napa, Oakland and San Francisco.
Director: Paul Clipson
Votes: 27
47. To Die by Your Side (2011)
6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
At a bookstore after closing hours, the characters Macbeth and Mina Harker spring to life and immediately go on a fateful romantic escapade.
Directors: Simon Cahn, Spike Jonze | Stars: Pierre Le-Tan, Soko, Spike Jonze
Votes: 692
48. Põrgu (1983)
17 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
The film brings to life in one nightmarish vision three detailed engravings from the early 30s created by Estonian artist Eduard Viiralt: "The Preacher", "Cabaret" and "Hell".
Director: Rein Raamat
Votes: 302
49. Chronos (1985)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Short
Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions.
Director: Ron Fricke
Votes: 3,837
50. Papillon d'amour (2004)
3 min | Short
By subjecting fragments from the Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. This ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolas Provost
Votes: 182
51. Wasp (2003)
26 min | Short, Drama
A struggling single mother is determined not to let her four young children be an obstacle in the pursuit of starting a relationship with an old acquaintance.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Natalie Press, Danny Dyer, Jodie Mitchell, Molly Griffiths
Votes: 5,529
52. Les temps morts (1965)
10 min | Animation, Short
What is man ? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what man is.
Director: René Laloux | Star: Roland Dubillard
Votes: 867
53. The Love Life of the Octopus (1967)
13 min | Documentary, Short
An octopus slithers into a narrow crack near the shore; we see its eye up close; blowing water propels it through water. It feeds on a crab. In spring it's time to mate. A male grabs a ... See full summary »
Directors: Geneviève Hamon, Jean Painlevé
Votes: 564
54. Ghost (1984)
5 min | Short, Horror
Haunting light and haunted spaces, otherworldly movement and abstracted time. A ghost visits an apartment complex.
Director: Takashi Itô | Star: Bin Shimada
Votes: 603
55. A Movie (1958)
12 min | Short
Clips of atomic explosions, pornography, and B-movies are spliced together to evoke certain emotions.
Director: Bruce Conner | Star: Theodore Roosevelt
Votes: 1,456
56. Mothlight (1963)
4 min | Short
A "found foliage" film composed of insects, leaves, and other detritus sandwiched between two strips of perforated tape.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 2,854
57. True (2004)
10 min | Short, Drama, Romance
While he is receiving an enigmatic phone call from his girlfriend Francine, Thomas remembers the milestones of their relationship, from the very moment they met in a strange way. A segment of Paris, I Love You (2006).
Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Natalie Portman, Melchior Derouet
Votes: 2,899
58. Feeling My Way (1997)
6 min | Animation, Short
What goes around comes around: the daily cycle of home-work-home illuminated in collage, Hi-8 and paint. An account of a journey from home to work as seen through the filter of the conscious and subconscious mind.
Director: Jonathan Hodgson
Votes: 41
59. Snakes and Ladders (1980 TV Movie)
30 min | Mystery
A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Pascal Bonitzer, Jean-Loup Rivière
Votes: 169
60. Rabbits (2002)
43 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
In a nameless city deluged by continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Scott Coffey, Rebekah Del Rio, Laura Harring, Naomi Watts
Votes: 8,242
61. Four Seasons (1975)
29 min | Documentary, Short
The last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 927
62. Tango (1981)
8 min | Animation, Short
Subsequent characters appear in a poorly-decorated room, intertwining but never colliding, all possessed by never-ending rituals.
Director: Zbigniew Rybczynski
Votes: 3,032
63. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 26 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Ben Washam | Stars: Boris Karloff, June Foray, Dal McKennon
Votes: 58,987
64. The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)
15 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Jan Zácek
Votes: 1,039
65. Railway Station (1980)
14 min | Documentary, Short
A portrait of the Warsaw Central Railway Station, a flagship development of PZPR in the seventies.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Votes: 667
66. Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
12 min | Short, Horror
Experimental short, featuring strobe-like erotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, Bill Beutel, Harvey Bialy
Votes: 2,039
67. The Lamp (1988)
8 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo ... See full summary »
Director: Roman Polanski | Star: Roman Polanski
Votes: 1,476
68. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
Director: Winsor McCay | Stars: Winsor McCay, George McManus, Roy L. McCardell, Thomas A. 'Tad' Dorgan
Votes: 3,651
69. Someone's Gaze (2013)
7 min | Animation, Short
A futuristic story about a newly independent female and her maturation into independence. The narrator details the effect her development is having on her relationship with her father.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Fumi Hirano, Satomi Hanamura, Shinji Ogawa, Rina Endô
Votes: 1,966
70. Chemin faisant (2012)
5 min | Animation, Short
Through paintings that operate on similar principles to those of nested Russian dolls, we follow the spiralling train of thought of a peregrine, a solitary stroller.
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Votes: 53
71. Rhinoceros (1964)
10 min | Animation, Short
A short monochrome animated film. The animation is predominantly drawn, with a short sequence made of photographic images. The sound track is mainly musical, with some spoken words.
Director: Jan Lenica
Votes: 120
72. Night Club (1983)
6 min | Animation, Short
The bizarre rituals and disturbing characters found in Liverpool's Casablanca Nightclub.
Director: Jonathan Hodgson
Votes: 33
73. At Land (1944)
15 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: John Cage, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman
Votes: 3,338
74. Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Fantasy
An experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: Rita Christiani, Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin, Frank Westbrook
Votes: 1,828
75. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011)
23 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Don Hertzfeldt closes his trilogy as Bill struggles to piece together his shattering psyche.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Sara Cushman, Don Hertzfeldt
Votes: 3,219
76. Scorpio Rising (1963)
28 min | Short, Music
A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Ernie Allo, Bruce Byron, Frank Carifi, Steve Crandell
Votes: 5,702
77. A Chairy Tale (1957)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.
Directors: Claude Jutra, Norman McLaren | Star: Claude Jutra
Votes: 1,189
78. Fool's Mate (1956)
28 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
When an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat from her lover as a gift, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat's true origins.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Virginie Vitry, Anne Doat, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 1,025
79. Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
11 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.
Director: Yuri Norstein | Stars: Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Mariya Vinogradova, Aleksey Batalov
Votes: 8,067
80. Tsaplya i zhuravl (1974)
10 min | Animation, Short
Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.
Director: Yuri Norstein | Star: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Votes: 906
81. Premonition Following an Evil Deed (1995)
TV-MA | 1 min | Short, Horror, Romance
A short film about the events following a murder.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Michele Carlyle, Stan Lothridge, Russ Pearlman, Pam Pierrocish
Votes: 1,354
82. Flowers and Trees (1932)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A jealous stump threatens two trees that are in love by starting a forest fire. When the rain comes and puts out the fire the forest revives and celebrates the wedding.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Clarence Nash, Esther Campbell, Pinto Colvig, Marion Darlington
Votes: 3,783
83. A Sense of History (1992 TV Movie)
25 min | Comedy, Drama
The 23rd Earl of Leete shares brief moments of his life, the truth behind his family estate and his particular glorious moment when he murdered his wife and his brother.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Stephen Bill, Belinda Bradley, Edward Bradley
Votes: 1,230
84.
Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2010– )
Episode:
Blade Runner par Johanna Vaude
(2013)
7 min | Documentary
A tribute to Blade Runner with an alternative final cut.
Director: Johanna Vaude | Star: Joe Turkel
85. The Spirit of Christmas (1995)
Not Rated | 5 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Four caroling children meet Jesus and Santa Claus and learn the true meaning of Christmas.
Directors: Trey Parker, Matt Stone | Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone
Votes: 4,084
86. Film (1965)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based ... See full summary »
Directors: Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider | Stars: Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen, Susan Reed
Votes: 2,286
87. The Wanderer (1988)
11 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A stranger comes to a peaceful village bearing gifts that bear a terrible price.
Director: George Ungar
Votes: 62
88. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Alex Allin, Lucien Bataille, Genica Athanasiou
Votes: 2,284
89. Cat Soup (2001)
Not Rated | 34 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A young anthropomorphic cat goes on a psychedelic journey with his sister in order to save her soul.
Directors: Tatsuo Satô, Masaaki Yuasa
Votes: 5,938
90. A Day with the Boys (1969)
18 min | Short, Drama
A group of boys spend their day outdoors exploring, wreaking havoc and letting their imaginations run wild.
Director: Clu Gulager | Stars: Mike Hertel, Jack Grindle, John McCaffrey, William Elliott
Votes: 457
91. In Order Not to Be Here (2002)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short
A night flight through hysteria and police surveillance in suburban America.
Director: Deborah Stratman | Star: Joaquin de la Puente
Votes: 133
92. Next Floor (2008)
TV-PG | 11 min | Short, Comedy
During an opulent banquet, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage. In this grotesque universe, an unexpected sequence of events destabilizes the endless symphony of abundance.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Simone Chevalot, Luc-Martial Dagenais, Kenneth Fernandez, Mathieu Handfield
Votes: 6,562
93. Rubber Johnny (2005)
6 min | Animation, Short, Horror
An experimental music video about a wheelchair-bound boy who morphs and moves to an Aphex Twin song. The experience gets weirder when he takes cocaine and everything gets out of control.
Director: Chris Cunningham | Stars: Shelly Weiss, Elvis Fetic, Percy Rutterford, Chris Cunningham
Votes: 3,098
94. Evidence (1995)
8 min | Documentary, Short
A haunting look at children watching television.
Director: Godfrey Reggio | Star: Angelica Preziosi
Votes: 487
95. Breakaway (1966)
5 min | Short, Music
Bruce Conner's 1966 dazzling dance short, "Breakaway", a film poem marrying the rhythm of the editing, movement of the body and the camera to a beautiful effect.
Director: Bruce Conner | Star: Toni Basil
Votes: 429
96. Comingled Containers (1997)
5 min | Short
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage focusing on flashing light and photographic images.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 861
97. Billy's Balloon (1998)
Unrated | 6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
A balloon wraps itself around a young child's hand, bringing him higher and higher, much to the child's delight... but...
Director: Don Hertzfeldt
Votes: 3,003
98. Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour (1999)
10 min | Short
A little Nachtmusik, a deep blue overture to the Twilight Psalms series. Breathing in the cool night airs, breathing out a children's song; then whispering a prayer for a night of easeful sleep.
Director: Philip S. Solomon
Votes: 23
99. The Age of Swordfish (1955)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary of Sicilian men spear fishing and women doing laundry.
Director: Vittorio De Seta
Votes: 412
100. Cosmic Ray (1962)
4 min | Short
Experimental short uses Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
Director: Bruce Conner
Votes: 640
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