Tag

Surreal

1,221–1,240 of 1,515 films

  • Diskjockey

    1981 16+ 9 min

    by Jiří Barta

    An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It’s a world of circles – often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and the records spinning. At the dance where the music plays, the rhythms evoke images of a butcher slicing head cheese, gears driving other wheels and levers, a combine churning out bales of hay, a butcher cutting chunks of meat for a stew, and boxers punching. The circle of music and life

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Dirtmonsters

    2007 16+ 9 min

    by Maike Ramke & Christian Retzlaff

    The Story of five Dirtmonsters working for the detergent industry, which have to deal with getting replaced by a more efficient Dirtmaschine.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Dinosaurs: The true story

    2020 10+ 4 min

    by Paul-Louis Aeberhardt

    In the world where dinosaurs have survived and have evolved even to the point of taking their first steps on the moon, a giant asteroid heads towards Earth. The JASA (Jurassic Aeronautics and Space Administration) is active to avoid disaster.

    • Comedy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Making of
  • Dinner for few

    2014 Adults 10 min

    by Nassos Vakalis

    During dinner, “the system” feeds the few who consume all the resources while the rest survive on scraps. Inevitably, the struggle for what remains leads to catastrophic change. The offspring of this transition turns out not to be a sign of hope, but the spitting image of the parents.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Dinner

    1978 Adults 8 min

    by Zlatko Bourek

    The man behind the table is driving. With anxiety, memories from his childhood, from the war, his parents in the ghetto for the Jews and all the possible forms of aggression that reached him came flooding back to him, until the day he sat down at the table to answer…

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Diogenes, Perhaps

    1967 16+ 10 min

    by Nedeljko Dragić

    A lonely man roams around an absurd world in pursuit of happiness. Perhaps it’s Diogenes, perhaps not.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Dicks

    2018 Adults 1 min

    by John Morena

    An educational film about war.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Deux oiseaux

    2019 Adults 12 min

    by Antoine ROBERT

    1967. Jean, an eight-years-old city boy, spends his holidays at his grandparents’ farm. He gives in candid yet cruel games on the surrounding animals. But this violence is nothing compared to what takes place in the shed, a room that Jean does not even dare entering. One day, Jean kills a tit by accident. He decides to take in the orphan hatchling to nurse him.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Dialogos

    2008 16+ 5 min

    by Ülo Pikkov, Ulo Pikkov

    Dialogos is an experimental animated film, where all the visual material of the film is drawn directly onto the film stock. The film is founded on absurd humour. The theme of the film is contemporary high-tech society, where too many sign systems exist.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Depart at 22

    2015 16+ 4 min

    by Wiep Teeuwisse

    Depart at 22 is a poetic animated short about growing old and the fear of losing the beauty of youth.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Delivery

    2015 7+ 7 min

    by Leslie Belot, Sophie Blayrat, Kai Huang & others

    A peaceful neighbourhood, a peaceful home, a peaceful couple who is about to celebrate the arrival of their new piece collection of African Art…

    • Comedy
    • Family
  • Deep Love

    2019 Adults 14 min

    by Mykyta Lyskov, Nykyta Lyskov

    The place of this animated short is the city Dnipro (Ukraine). Partly a documentary, through the prism of absurdity and black humor, the film tells the story about a big city during historical changes and decommunization.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Decorado

    2017 Adults 11 min

    by Alberto Vázquez

    The world is a wonderful stage, but its characters are disgraceful.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • DEALING WITH WAR

    2022 16+ 1 min

    by Andreas Hykade

    In a deliberately simple style, German filmmaker Andreas Hykade asks an important question: what does absolute power do to us? A short film about two peaceful sheep and a dog on the warpath.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Deadman’s Reach

    2018 Adults 11 min

    by Quentin VIEN

    After falling asleep on the London underground, a man finds himself mysteriously spirited into the desert where he follows an illusive trail of a failed love affair. Through the exploration of song writing, the man eventually reaches catharsis and the acceptance that allows him to move on, and to find his way out of the desert.

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • Dead Reckoning

    2017 16+ 3 min

    by Paul Wenninger, Susan Young

    A mediation on bad luck. Two animated manifestations of one character’s interaction as he follows the maxim: Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Dead Water

    2001 Adults 5 min

    by Tibor Bánóczki

    The protagonist of this psycho-thriller evolving out of picturesque paintings is a crazed station-master living in a dull village in the middle of nowhere.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragedy