Portraits of Horror

Edge of Alchemy is the third film in a trilogy examining the psychological terrain of women's inner worlds. In this handmade film, assembled from over 6,000 collages, the actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are lifted from their early silent features and cast into a surreal epic with an unending of the Frankenstein story and contemporary undercurrents of hive collapse.

A girl who keeps growing extra fingers lives as a recluse due to bullying. When she sees a possible solution to her condition, it takes her on a path to a much different outcome.

A statue, with outstretched arm pointing “forward,” is unveiled to thunderous applause. Then one day it points the other way. Once again, thunderous applause!

An animated film is built from real interviews in Upstate NY.

What begins as a routine crime report soon spirals into a descent through eerie folklore, buried cults, and unsettling discoveries that blur the line between journalism and obsession.

A dachshund on a leash pulls his master forward, despite all the barriers that occur on their way. The dachshund thinks that he pulls not his master but something huge and heavy.

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To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film "Wanderers," to create a stirring finale video befitting one of NASA's most successful missions of exploration.

A techno-dystopian vignette featuring music by Com Truise

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Thomas, a young man home alone, suddenly realizes that he is in fact not alone upon receiving a text from a device that is located downstairs...

Hopeful job candidate Buck Boom is dynamic, forceful, confident and creative. But can he convince Mr. Mudgin, the personnel manager, to hire him? You see, Boom is an animated character in a live-action world and Mudgin is not used to dealing with someone who is different.

A little girl waits for his father, who is fighting on the front line, to come back home.

A man does everything in his power to not fall asleep in an attempt to escape certain death.

Ronie, an animation student, thinks that being an animator is easy. Little did he know there are big challenges in the way.

A new batch of automatons are put through their paces by an unseen foe and when they begin to fail, each is brutally decommissioned. When JO 3.0 receives a memory flash it causes a serious problem as she begins to question her purpose... and whether she is a machine at all.

A independent short stop-motion animation film with cut-out puppets.

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A Chinese American girl faces her racist bully with the help of the Nian, a mythological creature said to eat bad children.

When a white civil servant visits his Nigerian girlfriend's family to ask for their blessing, he must face the darkness hidden in his history.