Movies: Surrealism

Spik-Bebis (Nail-baby) lives in a warehouse. He starts the day by hitting a nail into his head. Shot entirely in Super-8, this live action film features “fast cars, fancy dinners and unusual hairdos”....

A man finds himself taken to an unknown realm after hearing a noise that triggers something in him but he isn't alone in this new world....

Krazy Kat is babysitting. The obnoxious whippersnapper can not be consoled and expresses his wish for Santa Claus. Krazy Kat decides to go to the North Pole to find him....

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In the middle of summer, a couple waits in a green garden for a fish growing on a tree to reach maturity. The wait is long, but the fish is finally red and the young woman can pick it....

Animated short about a voyeur cat, a woman with excessive love for her plants, and a peculiar visitor in a fur hat. Based on the short story 'Megbocsátás' by Ádám Bodor....

The life and work of painter Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923-2006), one of the most important artists of the portuguese surrealist movement, both in literature and the visual arts. Includes statements from the artist, his friends, and scholars of...

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A woman is born from the waves of the infinite ocean. She accompanies us throughout our lives. She embodies the timeless beauty, peace and tranquility. A dream, the dream of all. And without our dreams we would run completely alone....

Using interviews with people about their first experiences with love, this short film uses animal counterparts to tell their tales of humor and heartache....

Perihelion is a sort of animated tone poem. It is a short film that toes the line between narrative and non-narrative, essentially having no real beginning, middle or end....

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Cassandra discovers by accident the Bureau of Shadows, responsible for making, measuring and resizing our shadows while we are asleep, in this post-modern fairy tale....

The documentary shows the world of the surrealist Canadian artist Alan Glass, his work, his home, his friends, his boxes, all his universe is presented through the point of view of art critics, artists and friends....

The whole universe of characters Maximov, showing in this case the skills and talents they possess in their snouts....

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 ...

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....

An abstract animation about people and organs of the body in and out of drawers....

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

Yet another field of sheep is observed in this short sequel to the orignal Field of Sheep....