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In 1897, a young widow returns to the family farm where she discovers her late husband's attempt at building a primitive sentient machine.

A boy’s life is threatened when his home is invaded by a group of zombie-like creatures masked in a familiar face…

Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.

A poetic interlude between a reality and an abstraction, this experimental short was produced by artists from Pixar’s Effects team, working in collaboration to create a startlingly original piece of filmmaking.

The pull of the black square, the luminous screen, both a window and a mirror has been ever more persistent in our consciousness. Increasingly our presence only felt when mediated through a lens or an app or an algorithm, an intermediary of our existence. Creeping derealisation. You belong to the machine, you are nothing, you are use, you are there to be taken, to be entered and fucked without feeling, without boundary.

The pull of the black square, the luminous screen, both a window and a mirror has been ever more persistent in our consciousness. Increasingly our presence only felt when mediated through a lens or an app or an algorithm, an intermediary of our existence. Creeping derealisation.

The quick response of a body in social isolation. The dancer moves alone in the living room of her apartment and expresses her feelings in the face of quarantine. A solo choreography of the automatic desires of a body that needs movement.

MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.

Third year film for CalArts.

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

An introduction to the world of French composer Maurice Ravel through The String Quartet in F major, performed by the Canadian ensemble Quatuor Arthur Leblanc. The four movements of the quartet are presented on screen by dance segments recreating key elements of the composer's life interspersed with documentary vignettes.

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Somewhere in the distant future, The Girl is alone. She is the last of her people, the others having died in a generations-long war that the girl continues to fight with the assistance of a group of antiquated robot helpers and soldiers.

In a dystopian sci-fi society amidst social unrest between Humans and Automatons, an orphan rescues an injured girl from the rumble of violence. As they hide out together in a bunker-like room, their burgeoning friendship gets tested as external forces threaten to fracture how one sees the Other.

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A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything. The inventor manipulates the robot's control board from a hidden room. The girls are soon in a panic. Patsy gets into an argument with the robot and loses the match of wits. Blackie Burke, an escaped convict, is using the house as a hideout, and this adds to the problems the girls already have.

A pair of scavengers discover something strange after wandering onto the property of a mysterious technician.

A made for TV BBC documentary exploring Jack Donovan's antique automaton collection. The documentary focuses on the toys themselves, displaying their range of movements in plain settings while the narrator weaves stories and comments about them to the synth sounds of library music.

When Amadeus Klein loses the one person he loves to the brutality of an authoritarian nation, he must focus all his genius into a new project that could bring him back some happiness amidst such a chaotic world.

A mechanical machine displays a reel of objects with music box accompaniment.