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63) Engine 371
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This animated short looks at the building of Canada's transcontinental railroad with wit and whimsy. ENGINE 371 illustrates the struggle humans have with nature and how this fundamental tension united a country.
65) The Smortlybacks
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On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.
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Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.
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New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor. THE TESLA WORLD LIGHT is a tragic fantasy about the father of alternating current, inspired by real events such as the inventor’s run of bad luck as a businessman and his affection for a pet bird, which he loves “like a man loves a woman.” Tesla’s words to the banker form the backdrop of this moving film about the man who blended science...
69) Litter Bugs
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Helped by her self-made flying mechanical creatures, a young inventor and a pint-sized superhero defeat the town bullies and find an unexpected friendship.
70) (Otto)
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A little girl accidentally leaves her imaginary baby brother behind at a restaurant, and suddenly, for a nearby childless couple, the definition of "baby" takes on a new and completely unexpected dimension. (OTTO) is a charming animated short from the filmmakers who brought us the **Oscar**-nominated A Single Life. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*Delightfully eerie... sweetly, darkly funny, in the team’s signature...
71) Human Nature
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Enter a world where things are different than how we know it. We see naked ladies laying in the field, an old man taking a nap on a radiator while a fat man is stranded on the beach and starts barfing plastic. In this world humans and animals have swapped places. HUMAN NATURE is a short animation film about the love people have for animals, and the harm we consciously or unconsciously bring to them.
72) Egg
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A woman is locked in her home with an EGG, which she is both attracted to and scared of. She eats the EGG, she repents. She kills it. She lets the EGG die of hunger.
74) Home Shopper
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In a loveless marriage, Penny finds solace in the hypnotic escape of the home shopping channel. When things take an unexpected turn with her husband, the channel proves to be her saving grace, or was it the origin of the problem all along?
75) Jailbreak
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The darkly comic story of a desperate inmate and his daring escape to an ironically similar dungeon.
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WINNER! BEST ANIMATION, SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL! SOHRAB AND RUSTUM is an animated film by award-winning Australian animator, Lee Whitmore, about a charismatic young English teacher reading a famous poem by Matthew Arnold to her class of fourteen year old girls whose concerns are pop music and nail polish. Unexpectedly the epic poem takes the girls on a journey to ancient Persia and a legendary battle on the sand between two warriors, the Tartar Sohrab...
77) Oripeaux
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In an isolated village, a little girl befriends a pack of coyotes. The villagers brutally end this relationship without suspecting the uprising that awaits them.... Intended to be a silent film without captions.
78) At Land
Description
Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.
79) Feral
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A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest. FERAL was nominated for an Academy Award in 2014 and participated in many film festivals like Sundance and Festival d’Animation Annecy.
80) Mammoth
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Elliot is a prankster, unpredictable, and never takes life too seriously. These have always been the characteristics that his brother, a far too suppressed Paul, loved about him. But now that Elliot is dying of cancer and is choosing his “Right to Die” under the Death with Dignity Act, Paul isn’t too sure of what to make of his brother’s recklessness. Paul internally struggles with his brother’s choice and unwillingly performs his brotherly...
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