Awesome Short Films

Writer/director Ramin Serry’s short flick is a story about a father and his time-traveling grown-up son who has to come back in time to kill the android sent to kill him as a baby. A spot-on parody of confusing time-bending sci-fi plots.

(PG-13: Language) Leonard is in an eternal state of slow motion, and anything he touches is affected as well. He’s tired of missing out and would love to be normal. Whatever that means. He should’ve just started a YouTube channel.

Set in a futuristic and dystopic Mexico, this proof-of-concept short is about a man who figures out that the world is not what it seems. We’re not convinced that it’s as profound as it seems, but its mix of District 9 and The Matrix is intriguing.

Galactic Battles is an upcoming fan film that combines characters and objects from Star Trek, Star Wars, Mass Effect and Halo. The film will even have Commander Shepard’s male voice actor Mark Meer reprising his role.

The RED Spy heads an infiltration into BLU’s headquarters to steal the latter’s Intelligence (because his team clearly needs some). But he gets more than he bargained for in The Winglet’s amazing Team Fortress 2 machinima.

(NSFW: Language) A man catches his wife cheating on him, but he can’t bring himself to confront her. So he goes to the hardware store to replace the things that have been taken from him. Captions available.

(NSFW: Language, Gore) A man wakes up to find that the whole world dreamed about him. And now everyone’s afraid of him. Writer and director Carles Torrens crafts a creepy urban legend in this awesome horror short film.

Digital Wizards Studios used over $100,000 worth of LEGO to recreate some of the most memorable scenes from Jurassic Park. Though in the spirit of LEGO films and games they added humourous twists here and there as well.

Filmmaker Trent Jaklitsch’s powerful short film explores the inextricable connection between humankind and the universe around us, and the enduring nature of the human spirit long after we’ve passed on.

(NSFW) Max Landis traces the career of WWE legend Triple H in appropriately lewd, brash and star-studded reenactments. It’s his way of telling pro wrestling haters that the fans know it isn’t real wrestling, and that doesn’t really matter.

“What do you like about living on Earth?” Google’s Emic is a short documentary inspired by the movie Interstellar. It’s a crowdsourced video time capsule to show future generations the happy part of our lives. Exclusive to Google Play.

A short documentary about two of the many workers in Japan who live in Internet cafes, because they can’t afford to rent an actual apartment. Part of Shiho Fukada’s three-part documentary Japan’s Disposable Workers.

(NSFW) A loner stumbles upon the girl of his dreams, but his childhood obsession twists his reality. This short film is illustrator Charles Burns’ (Black Hole, X’ed Out) contribution to the horror anthology Peur(s) du noir (Fear(s) of the Dark).

This collaboration between Vizio and the digital storytellers of Everdream is a short documentary about the unique and common experiences of growing up as told from the perspective of 75 individuals. Premieres 3/14/15 at SXSW.

Apparently a lot of people disagreed with how the Super Power Beat Down between Batman and Darth Vader ended, so Bat in the Sun made an alternate version of the short film. If you’ve seen the original, you can skip to 2:55 for the battle.

(NSFW: Language) The Sucklord makes bootleg action figures by mixing existing toys with his molds and with each other. His toys are rebellious yet also unabashedly champion mass production as the struggling artist’s savior. More here.

(NSFW: Language) Sean Thomas relays the first time he had sex in this poorly drawn short film. We could sum it up for you in a couple of seconds – heheh – but you’d be missing out on Sean’s storytelling skills.

(NSFW: Language) This is Mikey. He left college to become an unlikely hero. Don’t miss his story. Joe and Lloyd Stas’ bite-sized comedy is like a teaser for Napoleon Dynamite, if it was written and directed by Wes Anderson.

Filmmaker Wilkie Branson created this beautiful and heartfelt animated short by hand-cutting more than 4,000 individual printouts of dance movements from his other film, then compositing them into larger than life backdrops.

(NSFW: Language) Mike Lars White’s award-winning short film is a hilariously weird take on the awkwardness men face when having to stand inches apart at public urinals, and the strange consequences of one man’s trepidations.

(NSFW: Language) A proof-of-concept short for The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To, about a teenager who can bring ideas to life. Starring Tony Revolori (Grand Budapest Hotel) and Jack Quaid (The Hunger Games).

Joseph Kahn and Adi Shankar’s slick fan bootleg envisions the Power Rangers in a much darker universe, turning in a great, shakycam-free action adventure flick. Stars Katee Sackhoff and James Van Der Beek.

For three weeks, animator Nate Milton wrote down all the memories, thoughts or images that gave him “a tingly feeling.” Then he animated the items on the list, unintentionally creating “a stream-of-consciousness trek” through his life.