After his greed lands him in the lair of the Vodník (a terrifying water spirit), a young man must learn to value his own humanity over his material desires.
"Dedication" is the story of a maid working in a hotel who uses a black magic spell in the hopes of harnessing the talent of one of the hotel's frequent guests - an eccentric writer - and passing it on to her unborn son.
Dedication
2017
6
Konečná
1970
0
"holding hands with the moon" is a celebration of a not-so-common-coming-of-age inspired by isolation during the pandemic and the consequential anxiety that came with it. Terra is not only learning to live with her anxiety, but also appreciating all of the little things in life that bring her immense joy and her unwavering (and borderline obsessive) love for the moon. Through it all though, magic is never too far away from Terra’s familiar life.
holding hands with the moon
10
A Striking Vision of Our Future
0
sockless
0
DIABLO is a 2021 short film about a masked stalker who hunts down his victims like prey and ends up driving them into a state of paranoia and insanity.
DIABLO
2023
0
When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.
Occurrences of Questionable Significance
2020
10
Hungry for sun, light and warmth, a group of teenagers embark on a dream trip to the Balearic Islands.
La herida luminosa
2022
7
In a run-down hotel for transients, a man sleeps fitfully in bed. He rises to use the toilet down the hall, and while he's there, a burglar enters his room. He returns to find the burglar leaving through the window; the burglar falls to the street beneath. The man leaves the hotel and walks past the fallen burglar to a seedy bar, where he drinks too much and has a hedonistic vision of sex and death. He awakens on the bar-room floor and drags himself out. Is this the end for him?
Night on the Town
1981
0
John's first independent work from 1989. Won Best of Fest Shorts at the Cinequest Film Festival, CA. The film is comprised of highly rendered drawings with very little moving parts to tell a complex story of relationships "gone to the birds".
The Limited Bird
1989
0
KNOCK KNOCK Knocking on his university dorm door awakes a young man in the dead of night. What is behind the door? Why is there knocking? And most importantly, Who is behind it?
The Knock
2024
0
After a magic bell from Tibet is stolen, a little girl and an elephant undertake a dangerous journey to bring the bell home.
O kouzelném zvonu
2000
6
The animated fairy tale tells the story of a woodcutter who cuts down a forest, carves a forest maiden out of one of the trunks and suddenly realises that he has served an evil master all his life. At the last moment, he defies fate and saves the revived tree. The artwork is based on the traditions of Czech puppet film. The plot is underscored by the haunting music of an acoustic guitar.
Dřevorubec
2001
0
Adam, thirty-two, still lives with his overprotective mother. Their everyday life is filled with rituals of obedience and mutual dependence. Everything changes when one night Adam is accompanied by a man in a gray suit, visible only to him.
Fikołek
2019
0
Elias is an I.T. technician preparing for an overnight gig. He thinks he's totally alone in the building and is about to find out he's wrong.
Desamparo
2018
0
A lonely young man, with a cat as his only companion, struggles with a looming, ravenous darkness lying beneath his home.
SPOT
2017
10
Gabby is a young wannabe mechanic, who has just moved into a new neighborhood in the suburbs of Maryland. On Halloween Night, she encounters a slew of trick-or-treaters who tell her of a local legend called the Goatman. Soon after, a masked intruder who bears an eerie resemblance to the mythical Goatman breaks into her home. A violent game of cat and mouse ensues, pushing Gabby to her mental and physical limits.
Trick or Bleat
2020
10
A psychological horror about a novice nun who develops a severe skin condition which continues to worsen along with her mental state as she struggles with her feelings for another nun.
Itch
2021
7
El espíritu
1969
4
Karel is a passionate gamekeeper. He has been taking good care of the forest and there are many enviable trophies in his collection. In a remote part of the forest, poachers waken a creature who could prove to be Karel's equal.
Lesapán
2016
0