Since the 1970’s scientists have been conducting experiments with bizarre amusement rides to study their effects on the human brain. Appropriating the aesthetics of a television documentary this short film takes a tongue-in-cheek look at mankind’s confused search for happiness and freedom.
Eugene Green is a strange elderly man with a simple dream: to entertain his world through the art of vocal sound effects. Unfortunately he has an annoyingly small repertoire.
A young alien named Xeno endures much pain to extract a troublesome tooth. This seemingly small act results in cosmic effects of an epic scale.
Things take a turn for the worse, when Jamie buys a cursed record.
NOTE: This film features a mask and sound effects that may be scary to younger audiences.
A young boy gets transported to an alternative universe and has to get home…but there’s a twist.
NOTE: This film contains strobe effects.
To win the attention of his father, 14-year-old Trent is conducting an anthropological study on the effects of the drought on his rural community. But with the aridity spreads anger and despair, and the discovery of a dark side to his father leads Trent into a darkness of his own.
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When Dany, a rich heir, who cheats his existential emptiness through hectic consumption of Magic’Powder – a drug with psychedelic and annihilated effects, randomly meets Karl Marx while he was feeling withdrawal symptoms, the socialist asks him to destroy capitalism in order to save the humankind. Reluctantly, Dany accepts his request and turns into a superhero. But quickly, he is overwhelmed by his task.
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Goose is a 16-year-old ‘charger’ – a girl whose body produces massive amounts of electricity due to nuclear side-effects – who must fight for her freedom from her overprotective sister, as well as from violent raiders hunting her with the aim of harvesting her energy.
At the hypothetical brink of original creative expression, an artist stumbles through his past to realise the futility of his creativity.
Warning: This film contains flashing lights and abrupt loud noises. Please be wary if you are sensitive to these effects.
The effects that growing up in a digital world and developing an identity within the digital age.