Movies: Surreal

A visualization of how dreams mush up unrelated events together to make up a single story....

A child, a cat, a starry night but, in this world of innocence, dream and magic, obscure forces of evil awaken. This animated short revolves around the adventures of a young, horned boy and a group of six devil-like vermin that can combine themselves...

A heartbroken girl is pursued by a domineering female photographer, and her growing infatuation begins to blur the line of reality and fantasy....

A woman living in a strange place goes on a trip to a mysterious elevator at the edge of it....

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Originally completed in 2018, the film was largely self-funded, Mr Yen Ooi worked on the script, refining the vision of the film for over a decade, with multiple iterations of the story under names such as 'Beetle Ramen', in which the completed draft...

This short surrealistic film portrays a growing boy and the bizarre world of imposed conditions and contradictions he evolves in. Made by students of Queen's University, A One/Two/Many/World is social commentary expressed in symbolic language....

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall. Then, with the blood of the animal, she draws a heart pierced by an arrow....

A delightful short film shot in reverse in which the main protagonist enjoys a day on the town....

A troubled couple copes with a malfunctioning pregnancy test....

Scientists vanishing and mutating to Zombies. A door to another dimension. A blind woman who keeps a secret. Mysterious surreal connections that prepare an Inferno for the city of gondolas. Third part of the ANIMA PERSA trilogy (Malacreanza - Il Mon...

A couple's break up gets out of hand as the man tries to woo his woman back in a strange house. Hijinks ensue....

Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him. Because of his marginal behavior, his head is broken, like everyone else....

A short Surrealist animation from Denmark which begins with a zoom into a Paul Delvaux painting, then reverses the process by pulling back from a continually changing picture....

A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages....

A young woman, trapped in the throes of a binge eating disorder, becomes a ravenous creature threatening to devour the town....

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A vlogger whose life is seemingly controlled by an unknown presence begins to spiral as he falls further into surrealism and imaginary worlds....

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Something strange is happening in the snow beneath the city streetlights. But what does a fly have to do with it?...