Tag

Surreal

1–20 of 1,493 films

  • Comme des garcons

    2018 Adults 1 min

    by Ilan Rubin

    Beauty Papers Magazine X Comme Des Garçons X

    • Abstract
    • Non-narrative
  • No Place Like Home #2

    1999 Adults 6 min

    by Karen Yasinsky

    Over the course of these two stop-motion films, made by Karen Yasinsky in 1999, a woman—with the help of a pair of ruby-red slippers—delves into her fantasies and confronts good and evil before returning safely to the reality of her life.

    • Drama
  • Louis Riel for Dinner

    2012 All audiences 3 min

    by Drew Christie

    Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.

    • Drama
    • Bio-pic
  • The Magic Horse

    1953 Middle Childhood (6-9 yrs) 10 min

    by Lotte Reiniger

    Prince Achmed goes for a ride on a flying horse.

    • Fantasy
  • Jefferson Circus Songs

    1973 All audiences 19 min

    by Suzan Pitt

    In a fantasy world, life-size cardboard animations interact with children clad in clown wigs, monkey masks, and princess costumes. Together, they host a carnival of surreal goings-on.

    • Abstract
    • Fantasy
  • It Was a Dark and Silly Night

    2008 All audiences 5 min

    by Steven-Charles Jaffe

    Unexpected guests crash a children’s cemetery party in this humorously macabre adaptation of a Neil Gaiman story, animated in typically ghoulish style by cartoonist Gahan Wilson.

    • Comedy
  • Gatchaman: The Movie

    1978 All audiences 110 min

    by Hisayuki Toriumi

    Fans of classic anime will delight in this awesomely retro sci-fi extravaganza teeming with pop-psychedelic visuals and whiz-bang-pow action. Assembled from a selection of episodes from the popular 1970s Japanese television series, GATCHAMAN: THE MOVIE brings together the original color-coded teenage superheroes known as Gatchaman, bird-suited ninja warriors who must fight to save the Earth from an intergalactic terrorist organization threatening world peace. With its comic-book verve, this touchstone of golden-age anime helped shape the team-superhero genre for decades to come.

    • Drama
    • Sci-Fi
  • The Garden of Words

    2013 All audiences 48 min

    by Makoto Shinkai

    On a rainy morning in Tokyo, 15-year-old Takao, an aspiring shoemaker, decides to skip class to sketch designs in a beautiful garden. This is where he meets Yukari, a beautiful yet mysterious woman. They strike an unlikely friendship.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Family
  • Funeral

    2020 Adults 7 min

    by Thịnh Nguyen

    From out of the universe, a little boy is born with a quest for a voyage to planet Earth. During his journey, he comes to an absurd small town where a mysterious funeral is happening. With curiosity, the boy attends the funeral to see who is the dead one.

    • Drama
  • mnemonic

    2024 Adults 5 min

    by Raffaele Gans-Pfister

    house thinks thought, has realization. landscape in translation

    • Experimental
  • Yapolaponky

    2024 All audiences 6 min

    by Masataka Kihara

    The short is deliberately minimal and surreal, focusing on an unusual encounter between a lost man and an enigmatic creature. Its atmosphere relies heavily on visual storytelling rather than dialogue.

    • Experimental
  • Mt. Head

    2002 Adults 10 min

    by Koji Yamamura

    After a stingy man eats some cherry seeds, a cherry tree grows on his head and he gets into a lot of trouble. This animated film is a modern interpretation of the traditional Japanese Rakugo story "Atama-yama" set in contemporary Tokyo.

    • Drama
  • The Sleepwalker

    2015 Adults 5 min

    by Theodore Ushev

    A surrealist journey through colours and shapes inspired by the poem Romance Sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca. Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.

    • Experimental
  • Weathervane

    2010 Adults 3 min

    by Joaquín Cociña

    A video animation in seven parts, comprising charcoal drawings made by the artist. The drawings did not survive the animation process, as if they were lost themselves in the wind.

    • Horror
  • The Smaller Room

    2009 Adults 2 min

    by Cristobal Leon, Nina Wehrle

    In a room there is a box. In the box there is a forest. In the forest there is a lost child. Living beings made of paper appear and vanish in "Der Kleinere Raum".

    • Horror
  • Luis

    2008 Adults 4 min

    by Niles Atallah, Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña

    Luis is the second short film in the Lucía, Luis y el lobo (Lucia, Luis and the Wolf) series. Luis speaks about his life in the forest and his relationship with Lucía while appearing as a charcoal drawing on the walls of a room filled with broken objects that gradually return to their proper places.

    • Drama
  • Lucía

    2008 Adults 4 min

    by Niles Atallah, Cristobal Leon, Joaquin Cociña

    Lucía is the 1st short video of the 2-part series “Lucía, Luis y el lobo” (”Lucía, Luis and the Wolf”). The video was shot frame by frame with a digital photo camera.

    • Horror
  • Let’s Roll

    2023 Adults 5 min

    by Chloé Musa, Yann Laurent, Annabelle Tamic & others

    Animated short film created by 5th-year students at the French animation school Piktura, that plunges the viewer into a highly kinetic, colorful party.

    • Fantasy
  • Lost in Snow

    2007 Adults 8 min

    by Vladimir Leschiov

    In winter some people go ice fishing. Excitement Intensified by freezing temperatures and strong drinks lead to unpredictable consequences.

    • Drama
  • Carrotica

    2024 Adults 13 min

    by Daniel Sterlin-Altman

    "Carrotica" is a stop motion film about loneliness, desire, family, and growing pains. Made by hand over 4 years across ten miniature sets, shot frame by frame, carrots and all.

    • Romance