Movies and TvShows featuring "underground-short" theme.
Zero for Conduct is a comedy-drama film from 1933 about a group of boys who revolt against the strict rules of their boarding school. The film follows their comedic and subversive attempts to challenge the authority of their teachers and the headmaster. With themes of rebellion, pranks, and student camaraderie, Zero for Conduct is a timeless portrayal of teenage rebellion and the desire for freedom.
A young man trapped in prison finds solace in his own fantasies and desires, exploring themes of loneliness, homoeroticism, and sexual longing. Through avant-garde visuals and sensual imagery, the film delves into the psychological state of the protagonist and challenges societal norms of desire and sexuality.
Spider-man must rescue the beautiful daughter of the evil Dr. Lightning.
Report is a short documentary film released in 1967 that explores the crucial role of investigative journalism in society. It delves into the power of the press to uncover hidden truths and hold those in power accountable. Through interviews with journalists and showcasing real-life investigations, the film highlights the importance of a free and independent press in a democratic society.
Cosmic Ray is a thought-provoking avant-garde short film that explores themes of war, symbolism, and the destructive power of atomic bombs. The film features captivating visuals and a unique blend of live-action footage, animation, and montage.
Dante's Hell Animated is an independent short film that offers a unique and surreal take on Dante Alighieri's Inferno. With its supernatural power, the movie effectively transports viewers to the underworld and explores themes of spirituality and religion. The animation style and mature content make it suitable for a more grown-up audience. It also has educational elements and provides an alternative perspective on the iconic literary work.
A spacecraft lands on Earth. Steve Rogers (played by Randal Kleiser) observes the landing and investigates as Captain America.
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?'
The 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visual poetry when shown in extreme slow motion, shown from 27 different angles, and accompanied by avant-garde Western classical music composed for electric organ by Terry Riley. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pacific Film Archive in 1995.
Little Tommy unable to sleep and not comforted by his parents over that matter is invited by mysterious Rat Girl to go down the rat hole.
Vickie Vale, who has the combination of the Gotham City National Bank has been kidnapped by The Mask and his henchmen. Batman and Robin attempt to rescue Vale, but Batman is rendered unconscious and Robin is taken prisoner by the gang. The gang have escaped in a car, with Batman following on foot. Eventually, batman catches up, frees Vale and Robin, and they fight the bad guys. The Mask throws a hand grenade at Batman, who catches it and throws it back, destroying The Mask.
An experimental short featuring people and nails.
Breakaway (1966) is a music short film that showcases a go-go dancer and includes a captivating dancing montage.
According to a common belief, if somebody dies on Easter, they ascend to Heaven... The place is a house, known by locals as "The Heart of Moscow", now condemned to a demolition. Pechatnikoff Alley still winds down to Trubnaya Street, but this house will no longer be there.
A film about painting and its denial concerning Giordano struggling with the Sleeping Beauty, this is the challenge. Will art, free of museums and academies be able to give back to the child raped and abandoned on the snow, the desire to go on living? Giordano, Prince Charming bearing butterfly catchers and rotating optical games, plods along sinking into the snow and… but revolutionary creativity is not the one that makes the bird in the cage sink: is it the reason why the imprisoned bird breaks the cage.
A commentary on the destructive expectations of females in a male dominated society, Marilyn Times Five was made from an old stag film called "The Apple-Knockers, and the Coke"(1948) these sections of the film were set to Marilyn Monroe's song "I'm Through With Love". The film depicts a Marilyn Monroe look-a-like slowly taking her clothes off for the camera (the viewer). The woman's actions are looped several times which gives the audience a sensation of exhaustion. That exhaustion keeps building until the very end where the woman is shown crumpled on the floor in an awkward position, which makes it appear as if she is lifeless.
A short comedy film, among the first films directed by Pedro Almodovar
Its slow somnambulic rhythm, its animalistic jungle sounds as well as the eerily mixed images create a dream mood that comes closest to my actual dreaming-feeling. The long black phases between the sequences are as important as the images themselves because they leave empty space where the "echo" of the last image can seep through without interfering with the following image. But our logical mind still somehow feels compelled to construe some kind of sense, parallel, or some erratic story out of it.
In his first collaboration with David Byrne and Brian Eno, Conner used footage from educational films to create a rhythmically austere image-track for music from their pioneering “sampling” album “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” (1981).