TraverseTown's Top Shorts

A series of hazy 8mm vignettes, accompanied by a soft, lilting voice over, in which girls skulk around schoolyards, spray graffiti, drink, smoke, pose and embrace, evoking the loneliness, confusion and overwhelming wonder of growing up.

Three puppets known as Red Guy, Yellow Guy and Duck learn about creativity from a talking sketchbook.

A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant future.

Named after the Zulu language struggle song, the compiled shenanigans of an eccentric South African couple with wheelchairs and guns and their attempts to prove they are not to be trifled with.

In a funny looking yet very bleak world, a boy learns to play piano while a cat and various other animal characters encounter all sorts of drugs, sex, violence and profanity, with numerous references to pop culture phenomena.

Girls dressed as American Indians visit a good old boy for his birthday.

In a self-effacing attempt to save his father from a death by deterioration, a young man, named Gunther, enlists his curmudgeonly boss and Kelis to perform a song, called Brazzaville Teen-Ager.

A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of "Dream Lover".

Martha Rosler takes us through an A-Z of the kitchen in this parodic feminist art film.

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland perform a hellish courtship in a nightmare of the American dream, created by manipulating old film.

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.

Arnold's original material is a piece of found footage from the 1950s; 18 seconds long and very typical for the period. A quiet take: a living room, a woman in an armchair. Her husband opens the door, kisses her, then moves out of the picture accompanied by a disturbing pan, his wife follows him. In Arnold's film the sequence takes 16 minutes. Cadre by cadre, it becomes an exiting tango of movements. But "Pièce Touchée" is more than just a matter of forms. The reflections, distortions, and delays it displays challenge Hollywood's stable system of space and time.

A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life - or lack thereof.

Harmony Korine dances on curbs.

Dark shadows are cast over Bill's recovery, in this second chapter to "Everything Will Be OK".

Don Hertzfeldt closes his trilogy as Bill struggles to piece together his shattering psyche.

The evolution of humanity, through countless eons.

A hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.

A surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.

A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.

Bambi is contentedly nibbling the grass, seemingly unaware of his impending encounter with Godzilla. What will happen when the two finally meet?

Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.