David Firth
Leroy, Reggie and Cheruce Paloni host a Halloween special full of spooky shorts from a group of up-and-coming animators.
Best known as the cult creator of the animated web series Salad Fingers (SUFF 2007) David Firth creates morbidly fascinating worlds that delve deep into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. It’s fair to say that once you lay eyes on his shorts, it’s hard to shake their visceral effect in a hurry. Eleven years after first screening his work at SUFF, Umbilical World represents a curation of Firth’s most popular shorts to date, each bookended by brand new transitional animations. Using surrealist techniques to explore depression and mental illness with some of the darkest humour this side of the twenty-first century (his work has been featured on Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe and Mitchell & Webb), Firth has become one of the world’s most significant, independent animators. Umbilical World is a brain-melting celebration of Firth’s short but prized career — a dog-stew of animated fancies from the scabland toybox that is his mind.
Unearthed from Los Angeles's worst quake nightmare. The story of Royal begins where the curses of human survival have left off. Inside the dark rooms and dim minds of Missy and Kenneth. Some of the strangest secrets find their way out from behind the curtain, revealing wounds that may never heal.
Heaven is a beautiful, clean suburban paradise as long as they follow one simple rule: DO NOT communicate with "The Evil One" that dwells on the other side of a giant wall that circles the town. One day after chasing one he discovers a talking kitten with a broken leg a small child crawls through a hole in the wall and meets the Evil One, who attempts to teach him the forbidden knowledge that was previously hidden from them all.
Two young children are controlled by a living severed head whilst three men are living without skin and three skins are hanging up without men filling them.
A black comedy about how the medical system disregard people's pain, over-prescribe drugs that aren't fully tested, and blame the patients for not getting better.
A man has no friends while his houseplant is full of buds (friends.) He does get a dog, who thinks if the man can grow something, he will be like this plant. Even if it means a great sacrifice in the end, the dog is willing to do anything just for the man's happiness, because he is the dog of man.
A black sarcastic look at drugs, the prescription kind, and their over-presence in medical practice The 1st installment of the Health Reminder series.
A grim animated short film created with paper.
A woman, desperate and alone, turns to a video dating service with shocking results.
A prequel to A Black and White Cartoon About Roof Tiling.
From the creator of Salad Fingers, tune in to the adventures of Burnt Face Man, a really rubbish gay superhero with a burnt face who fights against criminals committing crimes such as arch-enemies Bastard Man and Man-Spider, and saving civilian bystanders from danger. Unfortunately most people don’t like him and things always go wrong for this superhero.
David Lynch tells a story (from inside a dog's head) to some costumed children.
A new surreal anthology film by several directors related to the Brainfeeder label.
Salad Fingers is a green-colored being that enjoys the feeling of rusty metal objects against his skin. In order to increase his enjoyment of rusty metal objects, he seeks out more spoons.
