The War of Jan-Ken-Pon

An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

Made during the height of the Vietnam War, Stan Brakhage has said of this film that he was hoping to bring some clarity to the subject of war....

A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town....

A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city. Despite...

Short film by Mary Ellen Bute

A Week in the Hole chronicles a factory employee’s adjusting to the materials, time, space and personnel during his first day of work.

From Pompeii to Xenia puts in echo times of innocence struck by disaster: the lightning tornado which had beaten down on the American city of...

A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility.

Six Positions (1998) is about task of a funeral home director.

Leo gets abducted and carried around in the trunk of a car. The man who is holding him captive has a sinister plan. He gets Leo to bury corpses for...

Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.

Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like...