Movies and TvShows featuring "alternative-short" theme.

A filmmaker gets lost in a world of his own creation, literally. He is plotted against by his outer demons, searches for his lost sex scene and contends with several other versions of himself. A joyful rule-breaking carnival ride through a filmmaker's dreamland.

Junko, a young girl with a passion for the shamisen, embarks on a journey to become a skilled player. Along the way, she faces various challenges and discovers the true power of music. This heartwarming film explores themes of determination, cultural heritage, and personal growth.

Jared is closeted. Sam is straight. They find a connection in each other that they've never had before, but where do they go from there? Over the course of three nights, six gay men sat down for interviews about their experiences, sexual and otherwise, with straight men. Those documentary interviews provide the narration for 'Curious Thing' as we watch Jared and Sam form a friendship that tests the boundaries of what they know about love. But as Jared's walls slowly come down and his passion for Sam grows, things take an unexpected turn.

Vince gets way more than he bargains for when he dumps his girlfriend. Again.

In the dead of night, somewhere between a dream and reality, television programs explore the neglected realities of the past and present.

A woman travels the landscape of sensuality and loneliness. Filmed in Watts California.

A sink sitting in the low tides. A boy playing by the beach. A chanced meeting. 'Sink' is a distilled exploration of innocence and experience; love and loss - an intimation at what might lie beyond.

The Land Camera Collective presents a (nearly) shot-by-shot remake of the Owen Land 1977 classic experimental film 'On The Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist be Wholed?'

Short film by Chloé Zhao.

A young businessman from New York (Layne Edelman) visits a diner in Topeka while on a business trip through the Midwest. Layne quickly notices something 'unusual' about this diner as he eavesdrops on the townsfolk conversations. When he returns to his table to find his belongings stolen, Layne's 'small town experience' spins mercilessly out of control.

A meditation on motherhood and mortality that takes its title from a procedure in the autopsying of a human corpse. Subtle juxtapositions evoke parallels between static monuments and living families to suggest what is lost to time and age. When you die, everything you know, including this, disappears.

A minimalist, meditative film centering around an aimless young filmmaker in contemporary Honolulu, and the film he subsequently makes about his home.

A short American memory, made from manipulated found footage.

Exploring the story of a woman searching for her voice before the personal hell of her daily life becomes too much for her to handle.

Explores the tropes of Hollywood horror movies, alternating between shots of a messy stagehand and the main character, 'blood,' as it splashes, drips and oozes.