Originally produced as separate short films between 1962 and 1999.
Primarily live action films; Café bar, Bride of Resistor, and What is sex? are animated.
A collection of award-winning short films from around t...展开he world.
Special features: La jetée includes two alternative audio tracks, one featuring 12 monkeys screenwriters David and Janet Peoples, the second features 12 monkeys director Terry Gilliam ; A guy walks into a bar features an audio commentary track by Carmen Elly, Roderick Plummer and George Swift ; An eye like a strange balloon includes an audio commentary track by Guy Maddin and storyboards ; Big brass ring includes clips from the feature film version of the film.
La jetée: The themes of time and memory are intricately sewn into a eulogy to civilization.
Cafe bar: In this brushstroke animation a random meeting at a cafe becomes two people’s "escape" from one another.
Depth solitude: A lyrical short film about loneliness and the extreme measures some will take to overcome it.
A guy walks into a bar: A naive wannabe actor stumbles into a real life cowboy fantasy while driving across country.
Bride of Resistor: In this sequel to the kinetic animation film Mr. Resistor, the diminuitive scrap heap hero returns to have his heart stolen by a plasticine mistress.
Eye like a strange balloon: A whimsical allegory on man’s journey through time and space.
Vincent, the junkie chronicles: a work-in-progress documentary takes an unblinking look at the life of an addict.
Big brass ring: Malcolm McDowell plays a controversial political icon who verbally spars with a beautiful journalist.