Movies: Surrealism

Five years in the making, Lawrence Jordan's feature-length "alchemical autobiography" Sophie's Place takes as its inspiration the story of the Greek goddess of wisdom, Sophia. Writes Jordan, "I must emphasize that I do not know the exact significance...

Everybody seems to know Bradley Burbank, a local known for throwing wild parties. Everyone, except Carter that is. No matter who Carter seems to ask, he can't get a consistent answer on who Bradley Burbank is, and the deeper Carter digs, the more he ...

A man tries to escape a camera....

In rural Chaoshan, A Zhi receives his college acceptance letter—but his father wants him to stay. As they argue over offerings for his grandfather’s memorial, something stirs at the boundary between the living and the dead....

A surrealist poetic short film following a struggling filmmaker as he is tormented by his ambitions and anxieties, granted only to leave through a process of self-actualisation....

The protagonist is haunted by cruel forces. Or is it all just a bad dream?...

"An animated absurdist exploration of North American popular culture and fast food. Made for the 5th anniversary of the Bookmobile project." - Cartune Xprez...

Trapped isolating alone in his apartment, a man begins to experience strange phenomena....

Perihelion is a sort of animated tone poem. It is a short film that toes the line between narrative and non-narrative, essentially having no real beginning, middle or end....

In 1924 California’s Tribune-American newspaper ran a competition for its readers to write in with their most unusual dreams and the winning entry was made into a short film. This is Mrs L.L. Nicholson from Oakland’s dream of losing her baby, rowing ...

The little rabbit girl is bullied by her human classmates and her nasty mother....

A surrealist saga in four parts: 1.) The credit sequence in which title cards show successively larger foetuses pulsating on the screen until the baby is born and cries. 2.) Etoile-directly referring to Cocteau, Lethem shows an adolescent sucking a...

A late night thirst sends a man through a series of dreams where his search for water transforms into a profound experience....

Every time he tries to leave the house, a boy repeatedly wakes up in his bed, like a dream that never ends....

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A girl is stalked by her subconscious fear of intimacy....

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A surreal, wordless glimpse into a family dinner where no one's really seen....

Johnald is not one to miss a bus. On one fateful night, he does. Johnald is stranded at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere to fend for himself as an intangible plot hatches around him. Embrace the film that will make your mind crack! Shellter will m...

A strange and dark road trip to destinations unknown....