Short6
A collection of six acclaimed short movies which have been screened at film festivals around the world.
David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg
Jeff Lew
Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Ola Simonsson
David Brooks
Syd Garon
Eric Henry
Steffen Schäffler
Also Directed by David Cronenberg
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
A psychiatrist and his needy patient discuss their relationship in a snow-covered field.
A short film produced for Canadian television.
A short documentary produced for Canadian public television.
Programme X is a 1970 TV show
A doctor must remove a parasite infestation from within a patient's breast.
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Crimes of the Future is set in a future where sexually mature women appear to have been obliterated by a plague produced by the use of cosmetics. It details the wanderings of Adrian Tripod director of the dermatological clinic the House of Skin. Tripod seems at a loss following the disappearance of his mentor Antoine Rouge.
Also Directed by Jeff Lew
Killer bean has been imprisoned. After the blue beans have asked many questions with some punching he introduces himself as being The Killer Bean. The interrogator gets scared when he discovers who he has been punching and attempts to run away, but a guard bean shoots him. The beans continue the interrogation with another bigger, stronger bean as the interrogator. After a few more kicks and questions Killer bean manages to take guns from his two guards' hands and kills every bean in the room.
The Return of Killer Bean is a stand-alone short story leading into the release of the soon to come 10+ episode Killer Bean series.
When things go bad in Beantown, top assassin Killer Bean is called to clean-up the mess. Detective Cromwell finds himself in the middle between Killer Bean and mob boss Cappuccino.
After the events of Killer Bean Forever, Killer Bean returns in this stand-alone short story
Killer bean has been imprisoned. After the blue beans have asked many questions with some punching he introduces himself as being The Killer Bean.
During a loud party, Killer Bean breaks in, and begins to attack all the beans in the building.
Also Directed by Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
In the Nort Sea a flounder is hiding in the seaweed. The flounder feeds on mussels and small shrimps. Many dangers lurk on the bottom of the sea but the flounder is clever. One day the flounder is caught in a net and pulled up on a trawler. It dies on the deck. The fish is now entering a new phase of its existence. The flounder travels on, though life has come to an end.
When his car breaks in the middle of nowhere, Dante finds his way to an hotel with no exit.
A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.
Six Drummers take over a retirement home. They perform a cheerful X-mas tune on the various items inside.
A woman wakes up from rain on her pillow. When she gets out of bed the rain follows her. She carries the rain with her through the day.
A man listening to the weather report decides to check if the information is correct.
Annelie asks for a Jörgen in a magazine from 1980. She met him at a Gyllene Tider concert in Karlshamn. Now, 22 years later... Did Annelie get any answer to her request?
A documentary about "fika", the Swedish break.
A gang in a Volvo have staked out a flat; when its occupants leave to walk their dog, the six break into the place.
A succesful woman at the top of her career is fed up with being a human being, buys herself a bear suit and emigrates to the wilderness.
Also Directed by Ola Simonsson
In the Nort Sea a flounder is hiding in the seaweed. The flounder feeds on mussels and small shrimps. Many dangers lurk on the bottom of the sea but the flounder is clever. One day the flounder is caught in a net and pulled up on a trawler. It dies on the deck. The fish is now entering a new phase of its existence. The flounder travels on, though life has come to an end.
A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.
Six Drummers take over a retirement home. They perform a cheerful X-mas tune on the various items inside.
A man listening to the weather report decides to check if the information is correct.
Annelie asks for a Jörgen in a magazine from 1980. She met him at a Gyllene Tider concert in Karlshamn. Now, 22 years later... Did Annelie get any answer to her request?
A documentary about "fika", the Swedish break.
A gang in a Volvo have staked out a flat; when its occupants leave to walk their dog, the six break into the place.
A woman, a gramophone and the strange melodies of life.
Also Directed by David Brooks
Ten individuals set out to find themselves in an alienating world, filled with heartbreak, deception and tragedy. With so much at stake, these strangers struggle to overcome their fates and find their place in a frequently harsh and unforgiving world.
Also Directed by Syd Garon
Appropriated from one of fundamentalist comic book artist Jack Chick’s short “Chick tracts” designed to illustrate Christian doctrine, a young boy in the city is led astray by an older friend who disparages a sidewalk sermonizer.
A perfect little nightmare, WHEEL OF TORMENT takes several dizzying turns around Hieronymus Bosch’s epic pageants of violence set to Buckethead's spastic music.
A crew of heroes is determined to save the lost arts of Hip Hop. Break Dancing, Graffiti, MCing, and DJing from total extinction. The lost arts are being oppressed throughout inner-space by lord Ook and his evil minions the Chinheads. The dental commander Dr. Julio Azul DDS, assumed to be secretary Honey Drips, Dental Hygienist/Robot Rubbish, and Grandpa have a series of adventures, synch'd to the music. Armed with the ancient relic known as the Wave Twister (a small turntable/wristwatch, the only weapon powerful enough to defeat the enemies), they travel to the far ends of inner-space for a final confrontation with the sinister army of oppressors.
A look behind the making of N.A.S.A.'s globetrotting debut album 'The Spirit of Apollo,' featuring footage of (to name a few) George Clinton's consciousness altered session, Method Man performing magic tricks, and recording Sizzla and Amanda Blank in Judgement Yard, Jamaica
This aint no Pixar. This is aint no Disney. This aint no foolin around. ANXIOUS ANIMATION presents six contemporary film artists who take us into surreal worlds of delirium and paranoia The reigning proponent of cut-and-paste, LEWIS KLAHR nourishes intensely private visions on the compost heap of collective fantasy through old magazines, comic books, and cocktail iconography.Complex, full of charm, and pervaded by themes of loss, JANIE GEISER simultaneously creates and deconstructs fantasies through doll-like figurines, cut-outs, and found objects in her cryptic narratives.JIM TRAINORs handmade animations explore the inner lives of animals that appear strangely self-aware even as they instinctually copulate, feed, fight, kill and die.The Bay Area collective of RODNEY ASCHER, SYD GARON, and ERIC HENRY conjure diabolical visions with digital savvy, accompanied by the manic music of Buckethead and DJ Q-Bert.
Also Directed by Eric Henry
Appropriated from one of fundamentalist comic book artist Jack Chick’s short “Chick tracts” designed to illustrate Christian doctrine, a young boy in the city is led astray by an older friend who disparages a sidewalk sermonizer.
A perfect little nightmare, WHEEL OF TORMENT takes several dizzying turns around Hieronymus Bosch’s epic pageants of violence set to Buckethead's spastic music.
A crew of heroes is determined to save the lost arts of Hip Hop. Break Dancing, Graffiti, MCing, and DJing from total extinction. The lost arts are being oppressed throughout inner-space by lord Ook and his evil minions the Chinheads. The dental commander Dr. Julio Azul DDS, assumed to be secretary Honey Drips, Dental Hygienist/Robot Rubbish, and Grandpa have a series of adventures, synch'd to the music. Armed with the ancient relic known as the Wave Twister (a small turntable/wristwatch, the only weapon powerful enough to defeat the enemies), they travel to the far ends of inner-space for a final confrontation with the sinister army of oppressors.
This aint no Pixar. This is aint no Disney. This aint no foolin around. ANXIOUS ANIMATION presents six contemporary film artists who take us into surreal worlds of delirium and paranoia The reigning proponent of cut-and-paste, LEWIS KLAHR nourishes intensely private visions on the compost heap of collective fantasy through old magazines, comic books, and cocktail iconography.Complex, full of charm, and pervaded by themes of loss, JANIE GEISER simultaneously creates and deconstructs fantasies through doll-like figurines, cut-outs, and found objects in her cryptic narratives.JIM TRAINORs handmade animations explore the inner lives of animals that appear strangely self-aware even as they instinctually copulate, feed, fight, kill and die.The Bay Area collective of RODNEY ASCHER, SYD GARON, and ERIC HENRY conjure diabolical visions with digital savvy, accompanied by the manic music of Buckethead and DJ Q-Bert.
Also Directed by Steffen Schäffler
Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker. When she dies, the wigmaker goes to the mass grave where she's buried and cuts off her luxurious red hair; he makes himself a wig from it, and soon dies.