Directed by Arie Esiri • 2018 • United States

Presented here is a short made by Arie Esiri in 2018 for the fashion brand Maki Oh. Shot on celluloid at night in Lagos, Nigeria, the film has eerie postapocalyptic and Afrofuturist overtones.

Directed by Lynne Sachs • 2021 • United States

Lynne Sachs films her daughter Maya Maya Street-Sachs at ages six, sixteen, and twenty-four. At each iteration, Maya runs around her mother, in a circle—clockwise—as if propelling herself in the same direction as time, forward. Conscious of the stra...

Directed by Lewie Kloster and Noah Kloster • 2016 • United States
Starring Christine Choy

Faced with endlessly rising cigarette prices in New York, Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Christine Choy goes to extralegal lengths to procure her favorite brand.

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1986 • France
Starring Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani narrates an architectural tribute to the Cinémathèque française on its fiftieth anniversary.

Directed by Wong Kar Wai • 2000 • Hong Kong

This 2000 short film by Wong Kar Wai was made entirely out of print elements discovered in a California warehouse. It is set to Zhou Xuan’s song “Hua yang de nian hua.”

Directed by Ken Jacobs • 2009 • United States

Avant-garde titan Ken Jacobs captures a candid moment with Jonas Mekas “dawdling in the cosmos.”

Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1967 • United States

This protest film was originally screened at the Week of Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam, which director Shirley Clarke helped organize at New York University in 1967.

Directed by Mati Diop and Manon Lutanie • 2015 • France, Canada
Starring Jules Langlade

A boy channels his inner Michael Jackson in this experimental dance film set to a pulsing electro-pop beat.

Directed by David Lynch • 1968 • United States

This experimental short film presents a sick woman's nightmare involving living representations of the alphabet.