‘OUR NECK OF THE WOODS’ explores the world of Bob Underwood, a disenchanted line foreman at Pilgrimtown’s Mold-O-Form factory. Day after day, he produces plastic lawn-ornament deer, secretly longing for more out of life. But his family obligations and inability to assert himself keep him in the same position year after year. One day Elsa, a Georgian refugee, is relocated to work at the factory. Enchanted by her quiet thoughtfulness and haunting...

After seeing the smoke from an explosion on the horizon, an old weathered man leaves his island and goes to explore it in his airboat. At the site of the explosion he finds a pile of garbage and dead animals floating in the water. Suddenly there is another explosion and something shoots into the air like a rocket. The man goes to the source and finds a case of jars with some Chinese characters on the side. Inside the jar is a buzzing insect. A thought...

Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all The Little Rascals at their hilarious best!

Helped by her self-made flying mechanical creatures, a young inventor and a pint-sized superhero defeat the town bullies and find an unexpected friendship.

Working outside the music industry mainstream, a rich ecosystem of artists and filmmakers collaborate to create a vast array of fun and fresh visual surprises. Stash Magazine makes a point of hunting down and collecting the most intriguing of these music videos to ensure they receive the wider recognition they deserve.

Prepare yourself for a new wave of directors whose creative ambition and technical mastery expand the potential of short films with every graduating class. Have a look at these five extraordinary examples of animated student films.

Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.

Enter a world where things are different than how we know it. We see naked ladies laying in the field, an old man taking a nap on a radiator while a fat man is stranded on the beach and starts barfing plastic. In this world humans and animals have swapped places. HUMAN NATURE is a short animation film about the love people have for animals, and the harm we consciously or unconsciously bring to them.

This animated short looks at the building of Canada's transcontinental railroad with wit and whimsy. ENGINE 371 illustrates the struggle humans have with nature and how this fundamental tension united a country.

In the mood for the unusual and unexpected? Slip away into the uncanny with this collection of five short films dancing around the outer edges of comedy, drama, memoir, and allegory.