short films on YOUTUBE

Somewhere in the Eastern Europe. Young runs away from her depressing hometown. Her early enthusiasm about the hitch-hiking falls when she finds herself in the city outskirts in the middle of the night. On the bridge she meets a figure balancing unsafely on the guardrail. That's how she meets Skinny - a kind of unstable weirdo. Skinny lives in a camping van, which he uses to run his not-so-legal job errands. Together with him, she sets on a journey with no destination. As the ride continues a particular affection grows between the two of them.

Against the backdrop of a noisy, smoke-filled café, a modern philosopher is lost in thought. Pondering on life's ups and downs, uncertain expectations, the mistakes of the past, and secret longings, the solitary man poses a puzzling existential question. Through a series of vivid poetic vignettes, the pensive man embarks on a journey of enlightenment, exploring the different phases of romance, the characteristics of human nature, and the future of dating and relationships. Indeed, we all want to love and be loved; however, has social media spawned a lazy generation? In the end, what is love in the 21st century?

In May 2022, only three years after the events of Blade Runner (1982), the new and improved Nexus-8 replicants of the powerful Tyrell Corporation have set in motion the violent human supremacy movement, causing a public backlash against the human-like synthetics. As the combat humanoid, Iggy Cygnus, saves the female replicant, Trixie, from certain death, he hatches a bold and dangerous plan to even the odds and ensure the future of the androids; however, with such a devastating weapon in their possession, the very lives of humans and replicants alike are at stake. Will there be a future after the Los Angeles 2022 blackout?

This film is about the relationship and connection between a son and his father. A man with a big birthmark on his back enters an old public bathhouse. When he takes a bath, he falls into a dream. He confronts his father who has the same birthmark in the dream, and he starts to scrub away his father's birthmark.

A poetic tale of love and hatred.

A respected chef from a lineage of sushi makers attempts to connect with his son through the shared knowledge of the family trade. Tensions arise as he begins to notice a strange pattern of behavior in the young boy.

A study of birds, through an arrangement of photos of bird shit.

A group of people are standing in a straight line along the platform of a railway station, waiting for a train, which is seen coming at some distance. When the train stops at the platform, the line dissolves. The doors of the railway-cars open, and people on the platform help passengers to get off.

Unaware of the big lizard's approach, the little deer happily munches on grass. Not until the end will we learn what shall result of their meeting.

In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war, humanity faces imminent extinction in Paris. Through time travel and a series of still images, one man's voice unfolds as he embarks on a desperate mission to gather resources and save civilization. Along the way, he confronts the memories of a lonely woman, echoes of the past on an airport pier, and the thin line between life and death in this iconic experimental film by Chris Maker.