Desperation

A taut horror-thriller set entirely within an elevator, this short film from Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice), is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.

In a bleak future, a lost soul seeks desperate measures to escape his luck. The punishment if caught? Years spent locked up in his own personal nightmare.

A lone photographer plays witness to a murder and a chase ensues down a dark urban landscape in this stylized and fast-paced game of cat and mouse.

What happens when you mix zombies and beer? You get a seemingly unstoppable way to spread a zombie virus.

Telling the story of an island of dodo-like birds terrorized by a malcontent octopus who relentlessly devours them, this work by the South African collective, The Blackheart Gang, is unabashedly fun and yet indescribably odd.

A quick pit stop turns deadly for a rookie cop.

A moody, and stylistic anime from acclaimed director Kazuto Nakazawa. A swordsman of legend is persuaded by a young girl to protect her village. But what is it she is unleashing?

Adventurous tale of a navigator’s journey to save his ailing wife set in a beautiful world of Victorian science-ficiton.

Bisignanoanimation uses a multitude of techniques to illustrate a humorous narrative account of one boy’s fear of AIDS circa 80′s America.—A Sundance 10/10 film: now online

Haunting, but humorous piece focusing on a weary inter-dimensional traveler as he struggles with isolation on a remote world he dubs “Oasis”—A Sundance 10/10 film: currently offline

A beautiful collision of art and science that brings a series of intangible scientific theories to life.—A Sundance 10/10 film: online

A young, amateur magician gets his chance to make an impression on an attractive new neighbor when a gig for his father’s birthday party opens up.—A Sundance 10/10 film: currently offline

Quirky, romantic micro-budget film is the winner of Youtube’s Project Direct 2008

This Oscar-Winning film pairs psychedelic CG animation with documentary techniques to tell the story of legendary animator Ryan Larkin.

This chillingly simple animation of Gabor Barabas poem “The Spider” cracks into the depths of the human cycle in a sharp three minutes. The Spider shows us the contradictions of life—love and death, beauty and indifference.

Love inspires, but the fear of losing love causes an animator to obsessively record the moments he and his love share. An innovative mix of live-action and flipbook animation.

Disturbing look at the frustrations against nameless aggression set in the UK suburbs.

The cult-fave comic strip brings its biting political satire to the web in bite-sized installments.

Rollicking period-spoof tells the untold tales of the Wright Brothers—airplane inventors and adventurers extraordinaire! First ep of a series.

The isolated world of two sisters is shattered when a visitor arrives to their island threatening to break their discordant harmony.

The Internets Celebrities Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam go in for an investigative report on Check-Cashing. Themes explored include usury, economic instability, commercial banks and their profit line, and the cycle of poverty.

All is not what it seems in this psychological, sci-fi thriller with top-notch acting and production quality.

In this post-apocalypic world, only two people have survived—too bad they don’t get along.

A psychologically intrusive and darkly comedic world where the city’s isolated souls are followed around by large urban monsters.

Before Ju-On and The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu had to prove his new edgy take on horror in the form of two short films—this is the first.