Decades after leaving Appalachia, a daughter returns to eastern Kentucky to excavate her father’s remarkable filmmaking legacy and examine the pull home still has on her.
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After losing our mom in Iran, my dad, or Baba as we called him, built a happy home for my sisters and me in the U.S., as he assimilated and learned English. This animation attempts...
STAMPFER DREAMS is a found-footage film that uses only animations from the pre-cinema era. These animations originate from the Stroboscopic Discs, an invention presented by Simon S...
It's 1997. Distorted guitars rule the world. In an ageing Chinese restaurant, a father and his punk-rock son struggle with their familial roles as each realises they desperately ne...
Casey’s attempted surprise dinner date gets derailed when Taylor, her girlfriend, reveals she has brought home a strange, wounded creature she intends to nurse back to health. "S...
In this Oscar-nominated animated short, the filmmaker revisits her childhood, recalling the experience of wearing a hijab as a young schoolgirl. The uniform becomes a quiet force t...
When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. A charming animation rhyme that weav...
In this hand-drawn poem inspired by the filmmakers’ own experience, Two Ships follows a couple working opposite schedules as they attempt to maintain their connection through fle...
For a very special celebration, a host-mother has gathered mothers and their perfect children for a great banquet. Orchestrated by the host-mother, the banquet is suddenly disrupte...
A trans woman goes on three consecutive dates with straight men. As the men grapple with their fragile masculinity, their sexual identities unravel in frantic monologues ironically...