"when you find me" tells the story of two sisters whose childhood bond is tested by a tragedy they are too young to understand. Alternating between past and present, "when you find me" is an emotional...

With the twenty-first century comes a new breed of artist: the indie game designer. These innovators design and program their distinctly personal games in the hope that they may find connection and success. After years ...

 

Re:Generation Music Project is a documentary film about original music collaborations that examine and re-imagine the history of different musical genres through the eyes of five of the most influential electronic produc...

 

The Austin Film Society is excited to announce ShortCase 2012, a program of short films of all genres by AFS members, to be shown during SXSW Film and Interactive Festival. The Austin Film Society is a nationally-renowne...

Zach and Marshall eat cereal.......

On the precipice of adulthood, fourteen-year-old Lisellen Uhlmann is without a man in her life; her father is distant and boys in school ignore her. When Duncan Baits invites her to hang out with his friends, everything ...

A very short comedy set in a retirement home with senior citizens. On the morning of his birthday, Emmett asks his fellow residents to guess his age and is surprised by their answers.......

All hell breaks loose when seven-year-old Petey is left with his hell-raising brothers. But things go from bad to really, really bad when Dad gets home.......

 

In rural Texas the story chronicles an unnamed man with a broken spirit returning to his family. Where he's been is unknown. In spite of their warm welcome he can't shake a rising anger. So he must leave them again. This...

 

On a trip to reconnect with his estranged and recently engaged daughter, Phillip finds a sex tape of the little girl he used to know.......

 

While a boy waits out his father's tryst he is unexpectedly forced to deal with the lady-friend's daughter. Set on a ranch in Bastrop, Texas, Spark uses the environment to explore the internal space of children. Shot on ...

 

foolproof Directors: Zach Anner, Marshall Rimmer Zach Anner, the freeloading roommate, and Marshall Rimmer, the responsible businessman, eat their morning cereal together. The Gathering Squall Director: Hannah Fidell A ...

The true and historically accurate tale of one tumbleweed that did not tumble.......

What It's Like is a true story. John - a magazine writer - visits Mastow, a complete stranger living in a retirement home. John has only a room number and a name, both written on the back of a Chinese food menu beside a ...

Annie is a rebellious ten-year-old girl. She lives on the outskirts of town with her father Marvin, who, when not herding goats, mostly sleeps the day away. Virtually devoid of parental guidance, Annie is left to fend fo...

King Kelly is an aspiring internet star who performs webcam stripteases. When Kelly's car - filled with illegal narcotics that she must deliver - is stolen by her bitter ex-boyfriend on the 4th of July, Kelly and her bes...

Alexander Ebert performs his first single "A Million Years" amidst a world of extraordinary facial landscapes.......

In this playful stopmotion animated musicvideo monsters move to the beats & melody of the music. The characters come into existance after a failure in a laboratory, from which they manage to escape and find their way...

My Machines chronicles an unfortunate man's seemingly never-ending fall down an up escalator.......

A live action music video challenging viewers to play a game of Spot The Differences between two split screens while paying attention to the performance of emerging New West rapper Casey Veggies.......

An animated Ode to the golden age of space travel.......

 

In “African Mayonnaise”, the 6th installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, Celebrity gets Fucked.......

Afraid of the unknown, a young man squanders his nights with poor decisions and bad memories. He allows his fear of death to consume him.......

"Empyrean" is a music video developed by Ganesh Rao and Jonny Greenwald at the Dept. of Visualization at Texas A&M University under the guidance of Professor Karen Hillier. The objective was to create a vis...

A girl enters a room and seduces her guitar. Around her neck she wears the religious 'Evil Eye' symbol. The evil eye is an icon that is superstitiously believed by many cultures to be able to cause injury or bad luck for...

A mesmerizing music video that combines mural art, body painting, stop motion animation and live action cinematography to create a unique visual metaphor expressing the song's story of heartbreak. The video was awarded t...

This live music video was shot in unvarnished everyday space. Hawaaii sings at a laundry in a small town.The music flows through the washing and welcomes you with open arms.......

A young runaway yeti embarks on an adventure into the human world and along the way, makes an unexpected friend in Jon Hamm. Herman Dune's music video for "Tell Me Something I Don't know," is directed by Toben ...

A man is stalked by a mysterious warrior as he traverses his own fractured mindscape in search of a fading memory.......

The video begins by concentrating on the singer and explicit the polyphonic mechanism through which the base of the song is constructed. When the lyrics start, the video turns to a natural scene, more lyrical and organic...

The official music video for Kina Grannis' song "In Your Arms" is a three and a half minute piece of stop motion insanity using 288,000 jelly beans to create worlds that Kina travels through and interacts with....

Boxcar Fair follows a wandering explorer who stumbles upon a magical fair in the middle of a desert. Artist Tom Haney creates an array of intricate puppets to help illustrate the story. The entirety of Boxcar Fair was sh...

Alexander, ''A Million Years'' Director: Benjamin Kutsko Baskerville, ''Reloaded'' Director: Marieke Verbiesen Battles, ''My Machines'' Director: DANIELS Casey Veggies, ''Euphoria II'' Director: John Bollozos Céline...

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In this music video for Porter Robinson's Spitfire, we emulated a videogame style paintball match shot in one-take with the Phantom Flex @ 1,000 fps. Dont forget to have a looksy at the chat box ;) PS: The dog wasn't h...

 

Playing The Villain” video is horror inspired surprise in which three 'villainous' looking youths, out for some trouble, get unexpectedly assaulted by subwoofers when they attempt to steal a BMW from an estate! The vid...

Parix is depicted teenage procrastination. Whatever direction you move it hurts. And you ask yourself: Why am I here fucking up my life so crucially? Why can’t I do what’s best for me? Your mind is floating, but you�...

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A barrage of fanciful dance vignettes—from booty-bouncing YouTube stars and disco-ball ballerinas to musical comedian Reggie Watts and a sexy nun Rockette - the video allows Of Montreal's side project, Yip Deceiver to ...

 

This Music Video for French electro sensation Yuksek, entitled, “Always On The Run,” follows a vicious posse, completely off the grid, taken right out of a Mad Max-inspired fashion editorial as they leave a path of a...

wallFour presents Renga, their ground breaking feature-length show controlled entirely by the audience. With its complex gameplay and 90-minute running time, Renga delivers a compelling dramatic arc with sufficient scale...

 

Pull up a front row seat with Tiger and Cy, two die-hard fans of 'America's Team', as they scramble to preserve their place in "America's Parking Lot". When the Dallas Cowboys move to the first stadium built fo...

 

"when you find me" tells the story of two sisters whose childhood bond is tested by a tragedy they are too young to understand. Alternating between past and present, "when you find me" is an emotional...

A family is shaken to the core when they discover their son has been molested. As they struggle to deal with the betrayal, their son heads towards a total mental collapse because of his love for his abuser, while his abu...

 

In search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as their new diet forces them to navigate the agricultural indu...

 

"when you find me" tells the story of two sisters whose childhood bond is tested by a tragedy they are too young to understand. Alternating between past and present, "when you find me" is an emotional...

Partially blinded by an unknown illness at the age of 4 and sent out to work on the tough streets of Kano in Nigeria at the age of 9, Aisha Sani Abdullahi's life chances were not great. However, a chance encounter sent A...

 

A towering figure in the art world, standing at 6'7", John Baldessari's epic career crammed into 5 and a half frenzied minutes...narrated by Tom Waits.......

In 1967, Brute Force had just released his first album on Columbia Records and was on the brink of becoming a star. The Beatles championed his next single, "King of Fuh," to be released on Apple Records. But dr...

Aisha's Song Director: Orlando von Einsiedel Musically lush and stunningly shot, Aisha's Song is a touching and uplifting story of female empowerment from a part of the world where women are all too often overlooked. A ...

Using personal home video footage, this documentary follows how a young boy's attempts to avoid a poor mark on a school assignment in 1990's Sarajevo, may have contributed to a civil war.......

 

Shot cinematically, IT AIN'T OVER is a visually stunning documentary that follows Dr. Edward Dobson, a man accustomed to counseling people through suffering, as he comes to grips with the unusual disease eating away his ...

The Stanford MRI Lab hosts the world's first ever love competition, in which seven contestants have five minutes to neurochemically love someone as hard as they can.......

This documentary is a portrait of the band TV on the Radio as they transition from indie darlings to a major label success. We watch as they struggle to come to terms with the business side of music while trying to maint...

Mr. Lee, an adopted stray cat, routinely disappeared from his North Carolina home for days on end. Intrigued by Mr. Lee’s whereabouts, his owner Juergen, a German engineer, created a camera designed to fit around the f...

“I’m trusted with a pair of scissors and I’m in here for murder”. Prison life in the build up to the annual Scottish Prison Service hairdressing competition. Winning the coveted prize is the ultimate goal, but Fr...

 

CatCam Director: Seth Keal When a German engineer creates a tiny camera for his newly adopted stray cat to wear, the photographs reveal more than ever expected. Cutting Loose Directors: Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall ...

Unearthed home movies and haunting dubbed voices collide to create a personal portrait of family dysfunction.......

A hypnotic, apocalyptic film about false choices, vulnerability and faith.......

Through images of kudzu-covered forms, photographed in black and white, hand processed 35mm CinemaScope and radiating with the luminance of early cinema, this ode to the climbing, trailing, and coiling species Pueraria l...

Hoarder, Filmmaker, Genius. The benevolent Mike Sullivan has been shooting a stop-motion robot sex film in his apartment for the last 10 years. Obsessed with constructing the miniature robot porn stars, his apartment no...

 

Written in Ink is a documentary about hope. The compelling story of a man trying to regain contact with his sister after 14 years of silence. But can one change what has already been written in ink? Beautifully shot on...

 

“Films for the Forest” is an annual international short film contest created by Austin-based non-profit Rainforest Partnership. “Films for the Forest” is committed to raising awareness for rainforest protection,...

A screening of the peculiar and the extraordinary, the spectacular and the bizarre. Featuring films from our Avant Garde, Victorian Gothic Animation, and Experimental Animation classes (2011-2012).......

A wolf in sheep's clothing who thinks he is a sheep.......

 

The Chair is the story of a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold in a small town and one boy's attempt to understand his mother's death, his grandmother's obsession with their discarded recliner, and the roots of this s...

 

An inmate convinces his mother to take a risk smuggling a cell phone for him into the penitentiary.......

 

Nicola is in hospital after giving birth. When her school friend Tess comes to visit, Nicola is forced by her mother to introduce 'Joy', her new born daughter, who lived for seven hours.......

 

After 14 year-old Tara's boyfriend comes out to her and ends their relationship, she can't help feeling confused and angry with him. But when Tara's older sister and her friend become convinced that Brian was lying about...

Peter doesn't want his seven year-old to get picked on. Peter doesn't want to get picked on, either.......

 

Another Bullet Dodged Director: Landon Zakheim In the fading echoes of a relationship, character is revealed. The Chair Director: Grainger David The story of one boy's reaction to a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold...

Warren has just been laid off from his job at a slaughterhouse in small town Alberta, Canada. With his father dying in the hospital, his romantic relationship on the rocks, and his struggle with substance abuse getting t...

 

New York electronic music duo, The Golden Filter, have collaborated with Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli to create a darkly beautiful short film entitled SYNDROMES. The film focuses on a young girl's bizarre and une...

 

AARON BURR, PART 2 is a contemporary re-imagining of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. The film explores the idea of history as a contested narrative.......

Jack means well, but sometimes good intentions have horrible consequences.......

Ellen and James are the only couple living in a ghost estate, an eerie silent maze of uniform houses populated only by spectral shrieking foxes. Ellen starts to photograph the foxes that raid the couple’s rubbish bin a...

 

Simultaneously an exploration of nature and psyche, 'In The Pines' documents a young woman's hunt for extraterrestrial meaning. Following a mysteriously purposeful hike through the Olympic Mountains, this film roots itse...

 

An honest look at honesty and the effects of such when sexual identity, masculinity, jealousy, insecurity and trust all play out against one another amongst two individuals in the confines of a bedroom. Oh, and there's p...

 

A Short Film About Ice Fishing Director: Jason Shahinfar In rural South Dakota two friends go out for the most explosive day of ice fishing either will ever experience. Aaron Burr, Part 2 Director: Dana O'Keefe History ...

Liam (Liam Cunningham) and Michael (Michael Fassbender) are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated alarm system impelling the men t...

Inspired by Billy Wilder's "People On Sunday" & Richard Linklater's "SLACKER", Playtime ("Spielzeit") is a seamless journey through the lives of German youth on a Sunday afternoon. Jan (...

 

Two friends devote a winter afternoon in South Dakota to ice fishing, cold beers, friendly chatter, man’s best friend, guns, dynamite…all on a frozen lake.......

Two friends play 'Would You Rather.' When their choices magically start to come true, they find themselves in a variety of awkward and funny situations.......

I am a 66-year cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami. There also was a big accident.......

 

663114 Director: Isamu Hirabayashi I am a 66-year cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami. There also was a big accident. Belly Director: Julia Pott I can feel you in my belly. Caldera Director: Eva...

Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgment. In doing so he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.......

 

Caldera is an animated short film about a young girl struggling with mental illness. The story follows her as she goes off her medication and leaves a bleak metropolis to immerse herself in a vibrant oceanic cove.......

Chocolate Milk is the #1 goal. At least, that is what the Rehab informs the teenage Izzy as she enters for drug treatment. If she follows all their rules, then she can have chocolate milk. But why would she want some lam...

 

Combustion plunges the viewer, from each image and note to the next, closer and closer to its materials as they catch fire and culminate in an explosion of colours and sounds! Carried along by a scorching musical score, ...

A giraffe with personal space anxiety has a really bad day.......

 

A boy goes missing in the snow covered wilderness, feared taken by wolves. A hunter undertakes a journey to find the boy; dead or alive. As the hunter tracks the boy into the mountains, he discovers that his instincts ca...

 

A little boat goes on a journey......

 

A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.......

 

An animated account of an organism adapting to its environment.......

Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise is an animated horror film constructed from the candid photos and handwritten messages of discarded high school yearbooks. As an unknown force seeps into the walls of the school...

 

Swirling cosmos of paint give way to a storm of color and drips. An experimental animation that is a mix of paint on glass and stop motion, Paint Showers is the anticipation, fury, and release of a colorful storm.......

 

An elderly woman living in an abandoned town finds a camera, which becomes a means for her to recreate her past life and remember a lost love.......

Using a found object as a catalyst Reddish Brown and Blueish Green explores a family’s destructive journey through childhood. Much of the imagery in the film comes from a baby book found on a curb in Philadelphia, Penn...

An elk wanders through a world of madness.......

 

A man daydreams about what terror could be lurking in his backyard pool.......

From the producers of "Step Into Liquid", comes "Waiting For Lightning", the story of Danny Way, a young boy from a broken home in Vista, CA, whose passion for skateboarding would one day bring him an...

 

Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, "Wildness" is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar that has been home to Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-real...

A Texas college student flees the hypocrisy of his religious upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at 'the most godless campus in America.' Based on the New York Times bestseller by Donald Miller.......

Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which led to work designing some of the most iconic ima...

 

Sometimes inspiration is found in unexpected places. Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks -- and in the men and women who pick up our trash. She joins city sanitation workers on their daily ...

 

May, a high-strung and overly meticulous nurse, must return to Los Angeles to retrieve bone marrow for a transplant. Soon after her trip begins, her world turns upside down when past and present collide and she runs smac...