Copy Shop by Virgil Widrich (2001)
Oscar Nominee 2001
Jury Award, Krakow International Film Festival
Best Experimental Short Film, Worldwide Short Film Festival

The "culture of copy" acquires an ominous intimation when a mild-mannered fellow inadvertently copies his hand while at work. The simple mistake quickly leads to proliferating mayhem in the often-funny tale with profound implications.

Music by Eric Malmquist


Circumstances by Marco Sanges (2007)
Best Art Film, Portobello Film Festival in London

Consisting of a series of meticulously crafted narrative still photographs, Circumstances is a visually stunning work evoking a sense of mystery and the feeling of a sensual, uncanny world enticingly just out of grasp.


Music by Michael Allen


The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer by The Quay Brothers (1984)

This early film by renowned animators the Quay Brothers is structured as a series of little lessons in perception, taught by a puppet simulacrum of Jan Svankmajer, whose head is an opened book, to a doll whose head the master empties of dross and refills with a similar open book. Each of the nine segments or chapters “refers variously to the importance of objects in Svankmajer’s work, their transformation and bizarre combination through specifically cinematic techniques, the extraordinary power of the camera to ‘make strange’, the influence of Surrealism on Svankmajer’s work, and the subversive and radical role of humor.

Music by Doug Johnson



Sky Piece for Yayoi Kusama No. 3 by Orson Panetti (2009)
“Part of a continuing series, Sky Piece for Yayoi Kusama No. 3 serves as an homage to the Japanese artist, referencing the visual hallucinations she first began experiencing in childhood. These “visual fields” have subsequently influenced the distinctive paintings and sculptural installations which she has been creating since the 1960s and continues to make today. While this series is a tribute to the artist and her work, it is also an expansion and investigation of my own moving image work which focuses on dream logic and surreal visual imagery that seeks to re-contextualize the screening environment and use the cinematic atmosphere as a meditative space for new phenomenological experience.” – Orson Panetti

Music by Michael Gustav Miller


Emend by Deco Dawson (1998)
A young woman escapes her habitual tasks through an undesirable alliance with fate. She is thus forced to witness her own unmerciful and unsympathetic self-destruction. Unable to accept her destiny, the young woman desperately struggles to free herself from her binding ruin, and thus finds herself eternally doomed to relive her disastrous past.


Music by Jim Gailloreto


Necrology by Standish Lawder (1971)
"In NECROLOGY, a 12-minute film, in one continuous shot he films the faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces stare into the empty space, in the 5:00 PM tiredness and mechanical impersonality, like faces from the grave. It's hard to believe that these faces belong to people today. The film is one of the strongest and grimmest comments upon the contemporary society that cinema has produced." - Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice


Music by Kyle Vegter



Carmen by Alexander Payne (1970)
CARMEN was Alexander Payne’s first short film, made while he was studying at UCLA Film School. It is a silent comedy, derived from the opera of the same name. In the film a mentally challenged gas station attendant is put in charge of the store, which leads to love and a tragic-comic end. With his films ELECTION, ABOUT SCHMIDT and SIDEWAYS Payne has since become known for his auteur distinctiveness - amplifying
the disappointment and regret lurking within the can-do civic culture of middle America, while acknowledging the sweetness and innocence that’s still there.

Music by Georges Bizet, arranged by Seth Boustead