Movies: Surrealism

A young woman cannot escape the daily exploits of lustful patrons....

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last moments of his journey and the struggle for the preservation of his legacy, trying to fulfill his last...

An animated film based on the painting about Max Ernst of the same title, he said that a “fevervision” he had experienced when he was sick with measles as a child inspired him to compose the haunting scene that unfolds in Two Children Are Threatened ...

Saturated colors and X-ray imagery swirl and bounce through wide eyed and frantic characters in a play of animation techniques, video overlays and stylized trippy imagery. An original experimental animation utilizing both stop motion and digital tech...

While waiting for his blind date, Alex meets some old friends and makes a few new ones....

A man is led by his creative brain as he copes with his muse....

Surrealist experimental & silent short film made by film students....

A girl who lost something important meets a rabbit....

An experimental film shot with the purpose of trying to create a hostile alien environment using only shots of nature, color correction, and sound design....

A short cartoon I made at NYU's summer session. - WW....

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A subject in question, in the midst of boredom, gazes to her right from a far to bring her sights upon eyes too all powerful for mortals....

Divorce can be rough, especially on children. But it can be easier getting by with the help of a friend....

A metaphorical approach of the seven deadly sins in the form of a man whose body is made of drawers. One day, one of his drawers opens and he begins a journey in search of a way to fill in his emptiness. An animated short film based on Salvador Dali’...

In this surreal romance, two young lovers lose their sense of identity through the powerful, and manipulated, emotions of love....

Jacob, Tony, and Brandon are on a night drive through the wooded outskirts of an unknown city. While his friends sleep, Jacob remembers where he's seen the upcoming overpass, the man standing on the other side of it, and the abandoned parking garage ...

A young woman attempts to rescue the cursed soul of her boyfriend by unraveling the mysteries of a technology worshiping cult....

In her celebrated video art serial, Whispering Pines, video and performance artist Shana Moulton tells the ever-evolving story of Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac whose constant search for health and happiness leads her towards fad cures and ...

Two lovers caught in a tragic relationship trying to hold onto the good times but is it too late?...

This story about guilt and oblivion shows that the distinction between fact and fiction can be small....