2020 Shorts
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- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsCaroline BaudryCatherineAgnès VardaWhat does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsValérie MairesseAli RafieThérèse LiotardA couple find their erotic love mirrored perfectly in the architecture and mosaics of Iran.
- DirectorÉtienne-Jules MareyA cat falls down and lands on its feet.
- DirectorBenny SafdieJosh SafdieStarsAdam SandlerBenny SafdieRod Goldman and Al Silverman are street performers who work the tourist scene of Times Square. Goldman gets no respect and Silverman is the first one to make sure of that.
- DirectorRyan McGladeStarsKristin GriffithKeith McDermottKeith PoulsonJed's family isn't how he remembered it.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack CruzDavid LynchToototabonIn a locked down train station, a homicide detective conducts an interview with a tormented monkey.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerMrs. Auguste LumiereA train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- DirectorAlex Ross PerryStarsPaul SchraderPortrait of the filmmaker Paul Schrader.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsJulianne MooreMarthe KellerKyle MacLachlanFrancesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York and must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeThis short film was commissioned by the Los Angeles Museum of Art to complement an exhibit on Persian art.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeWheaton GalentineIrving JacobyA documentary short subject about the construction of a new skyscraper in late 1950s Manhattan, the Tishman building on prestigious Fifth Avenue.
- DirectorKira DaneKatelyn RebeloStarsMichael James FryKerriane LiebJorge OteroIn Japan there is a special way to grieve after having an abortion. Inspired by these Buddhist rituals, Mizuko is a look of how a half-Japanese American woman reevaluates drawing 'the line' in abortion ethics when she becomes pregnant.
- DirectorWill KempnerStarsSimon JohnstonMatt KempnerDan Lynch
- DirectorMatthew PucciniStarsManny DunnMorgan SullivanSean Patrick HigginsMarco cuts class to spend the afternoon with his boyfriend, Graham. Things do not go as planned.
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsGary WalkerBill HamiltonMichael FoyleA depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsGwen DegliseAgnès VardaShort tribute to Gwen Deglise, who Varda met in Paris when she was trying to raise funds to move to Los Angeles. The film shows Deglise's "Los Angeles dream" rise from penniless job seeker to President of American Cinematheque.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsColin CantlieHypnotic photography of swirling rivers and misty ponds and droning music (not Michael Nyman for a change) form the backdrop to a documentary-style narration about the history of a fictional tribe in the distant past (or is it the far future?).
- DirectorDylan Holmes WilliamsStarsPatsy FerranLeo SuterBobby SchofieldRevenge is best served a cappella. A bullied teenage girl leads a glee club on a trail of destruction against her high school enemies.
- DirectorChris MarkerIn 2012 the Vienna International Film Festival invited french filmmaker Chris Marker to direct the annual festival trailer
- DirectorJon SimonStarsBrenna CoatesGina DeMayMichael McBrideIt all started when she decided to masturbate with a ping pong ball...
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageMyrrena SchwegmannJane WodeningStan Brakhage films the birth of his first child, Myrrena.
- DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceStarsAnnie HartleyAdolphe Le PrinceJoseph WhitleyIn the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsErenice LohanSpike Lee's video valentine to New York City during the Coronavirus outbreak of 2020.
- DirectorClaudio CaldiniA short film depicting daisies throughout the course of a day with drone music as accompaniment.
- DirectorDan SallittStarsAgustina MuñozFran SmythCaroline LuftCaterina was born in South America but lives in New York. Her willingness to make close emotional connections to others is as much of a burden as it is a gift.
- DirectorNietzchka KeeneAn early experimental work from Keene in which she photographs a woman in a bathtub in a variety of positions (without ever veering into exploitation) before she leaves the tub and approaches her own reflection in a mirror. The piece is a somewhat unusual short film that seems like a mediation on the tranquility of personal meditation and introspection and it is easily open to one's own interpretation. An interesting experiment which is quietly evocative.
- DirectorZora Neale HurstonA 2018 compilation of Zora Neale Hurston's registers of activities in American black communities from the rural South, it possesses a highly anthropological value. Shot in 1928-29, the collection includes children's games, capers and dance, a baseball crowd, a baptism and portraits of a beautiful black young woman and a tall man with an axe. The images are enhanced by the score composed by Renée Clark Baker.
- DirectorUb IwerksWalt DisneyStarsWalt DisneyMickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsMargaret MercierVincent WarrenTwo ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyStarsBarbara HersheyFootage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.
- DirectorSteven BognarJulia ReichertStarsDave ChappelleAliciana LopezDave Chappelle addresses George Floyd's death and racial injustice in a stand-up special filmed in Ohio.
- DirectorMina RhodesStarsNick ColemanJoerg KohringA handsome hitchhiker crosses paths with a sinister police officer.
- DirectorCheryl DunyeFilmmaker Cheryl Dunye's relationship with her brother is examined in this mixture of appropriated film footage, super 8mm home movies and Dunye's special brand of humor.
- DirectorJames BenningBette GordonStarsLissa HirschDebby LippmanAn investigation into a relationship between two women in time and space.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelLou FleischerThe legendary sailors Popeye and Sindbad do battle to see which one is the greatest.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsWaris AhluwaliaWes AndersonRoman CoppolaA commercial directed and starred in by Wes Anderson in which he explains how to make a movie while answering various questions from his cast and crew.
- DirectorLes BlankSkip GersonStarsKen PattersonDocumentation of 1967 Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsSari AkasakaSakio HirataJinichi IshizakiExperimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with...a vampire?
- DirectorMadeline AndersonStarsRobert Graham BrownMartin Luther KingBayard RustinDocuments the year of the nation's first sit-ins.
- DirectorJames BenningBette GordonStarsJames BenningBette GordonA camera mounted in the backseat of the car of Benning and Gordon traveling across the US east to west, takes in the passing terrain as framed by the windshield.
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsDaniel Day-LewisVicky KriepsA short film crafted out of extra footage from Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread."
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyA 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.
- DirectorFrederick S. ArmitageIn this picture there is a limited amount of action in the pose. As the curtains are drawn aside the shell appears shut. It gradually opens, disclosing the model curled up in a recumbent position. She slowly arises as if awakening, and gracefully assumes the final position of the pose.
- DirectorTyler RabinowitzStarsJames Cusati-MoyerJonny BeauchampOlivia PeaceA gay man travels across the country to spend the weekend with someone he's been talking to for months on a dating app, hoping to find the kind of romance that he grew up thinking he'd never get to experience.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyStarsClint EastwoodLee Van CleefEli WallachAn attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsAndy WarholJohn CaleAllen GinsbergThe pioneer of the American diary film presents footage of his avant garde colleague shot between 1963 and 1990.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsNadja TesichJean-Pierre LéaudNadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust. Besides her student life she likes to stroll about Paris, to explore the variety of this wide and open city.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAnna KarinaJean-Luc GodardEmilienne CailleA subtitle warns, "Beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack FiskPeggy ReaveyA man approaches a woman in a field.
- DirectorSofia BohdanowiczStarsDeragh CampbellDevastated after the death of a friend, a young woman attempts to extract meaning from this intense loss as she discovers signs in her daily life and through encounters with the art of Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky.
- DirectorDan PerlmanStarsAlex ChavezYan Bo LinLee RavivClose friends Alex and Yan Bo, eighth graders, cram for a test in a prestigious prep school. Once they're accused of cheating off of one another, their friendship is threatened.
- DirectorJames BenningBette GordonIntercourse between two people who never appear on the screen at the same time. An exploration of sex and male/female identities.
- DirectorCheryl DunyeStarsCheryl DunyeIs it who you do, or what you do?
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsGilles QuéantDirector Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking, a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this city, as if experiencing it from the mind and through the eyes of Marker.
- DirectorChloé AktasStarsLance JeffriesDevon Leaver
- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsHarmony KorineHarmony Korine dances on curbs.
- DirectorChristian CoppolaStarsRon RifkinDylan SprouseCatherine WolfAfter the death of his wife, an 80-year-old man checks into the Plaza Hotel to celebrate their first anniversary apart, hiring a male escort to take her place.
- DirectorChloë SevignyStarsCarmen LynchSamuel SummerGabriel BehrmannCARMEN is a portrait of an artist on the road. A brief examination of the highs and lows of performance and the loneliness that accompanies being in strange cities.
- DirectorHollis FramptonStarsMichael SnowFrampton slowly burning his black and white photographs as he describes and tells the story behind them.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsMatt DillonDaphné PatakiaSusan ElleA professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
- DirectorBruce ConnerStarsTheodore RooseveltClips of atomic explosions, pornography, and B-movies are spliced together to evoke certain emotions.
- DirectorCheryl DunyeStarsNora BreenCheryl DunyeJocelyn TaylorCheryl, playing herself, humorously experiences the mysteries of lesbian dating in the '90s.
- StarsCarrie DeMarJoseph HartPolly and Foxy Grandpa perform a vaudeville style dance on a small stage in what appears to be a ragtime rhythm.
- DirectorWill KempnerStarsRaymond SavoieAutomation disrupts a father-son relationship.
- DirectorSara DriverA short ten-minute movie about the Bowery, a street in lower Manhattan. A street known for its derelict past.
- DirectorLes BlankStarsWerner HerzogTom LuddyMichael GoodwinA short documentary in which directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog being forced to eat his own shoe.
- DirectorJean GenetStarsBravoJean GenetJavaTwo prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
- DirectorMichael AlmereydaStarsJames BenningJay HernandezKristin MalkoThe Fitzgerald classic as you've never seen it, transposed to a Los Angeles of sleek modern architecture and strip-mall foot clinics.