The Miracle of Saint Winston

Shapes and Gestures

1977

Begins as a whimsical piece with 'sheets' of lines running down the screen, progressing into more and more complex geometic patterns but without deviating from the basic precepts of 'dot and line' animation. Jazz piano on a lazy Sunday afternoon, and a spring color palette. -- Stephanie Sapienza. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.

What Is Christmas?

1973 · ★ 3

A child tells the nativity story to his dog on Christmas Eve.

Daydreamers

After discovering a mysterious drug that lets him relive his days, Cameron Carter falls deeper and deeper into his subconscious.

Drowning in Thought

2022

A visual artist has a startling encounter on the street, reality soon starts to warp around him.

After Darkness

1985 · ★ 4.8

To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency through one on one contact. Free of the institution he continues to be haunted by dreams of a lost twin and chants the eerie phrase "Do I stand before the king?" It is the elder brother that seems doomed to lose himself in his brother's insanity.

Those Who Wander

2022 · ★ 10

What are they? What do they seek? When all the lights go out, they will wander. And you will never see them.

Study No. 8

1931 · ★ 7.3

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

The Lively Vampires of Vögel

1975 · ★ 5

The town of Vögel, in Transylvania, stands under the ruins of the old castle where the vampire lord tortured his prisoners and drank their blood. A group of stranded entertainers take shelter in the remote European castle and the Count is naturally delighted to receive them…

AVE MARA. Ignosce mihi et ama.

2025

Mara—the spirit of the night, the weaver of darkened dreams—pressed upon my chest as sleep held me captive. My memory. In the haze of a dream, I saw those I loved, their faces bathed in an otherworldly glow. The nightmare was not the shadows nor the fear they whispered, but the cruel certainty of waking—of losing them to the morning light

Rot

A sardonic journey through personal crisis leads to transformation, while buried memories surface through physical manifestations despite mental resistance.

Panic Room

2002 · ★ 6.8

Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

A Tale of Two Sisters

2003 · ★ 7.1

Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.