Full or Empty

Seventeen-year-old Navid travels from his small village to a port city, looking a job as a teacher of Persian literature. He works odd jobs while waiting to hear back from the Education Center about a job. In the meantim

Empty Rooms Mean Idle Machines

This animated short produced during WWII shows how Plugger helped the war effort by renting out his spare room so that a new worker could be brought in to work an idle machine at the munitions plant.

Where Fields Are Empty

The first of a linked trilogy of films examining youth and nature's cohabitation. This installment follows a boy with an injured leg as he navigates the countryside from an unseen danger.

The House Is Empty

The finale of the "Catalogue" series: A cockroach, a woman, a dramatic encounter in a closet— from the roach's point of view. Inspired by "The Passion According to G.H." (1964) by Clarice Lispector. Chicago sound artist

Into The Empty Quarter

Wilfred Thesiger was one of Britain's great explorers and writers. His greatest journeys were through the world's largest sand desert: the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula. Inspired by their hero, adventurers Alast

The Man in the Empty Chair

An old man is dying. He wants to give his inheritance away, but all his family members are preventing him from deciding who should inherit his kingdom.

Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater

In this MiniDV curio, a young woman moves to New York and becomes entangled in her roommates’ tumultuous relationship.

The Empty Sphere

Between the dazzling first shot—burning debris falling from a satellite entering the atmosphere—and the final sequence merging underwater images with others generated by a specially created camera, a path is sketched out

Between Empty Spaces

“Between Empty Spaces” explores the silent dissolution of a relationship trapped in monotony through a deeply visual narrative that isolates the characters within the spaces they inhabit.

Northern Skies Over Empty Space

Don Reynaldo is a renowned hunter in decline. When the threat of losing his heritage and his father's legacy appears, the dynamics with his family, his workers and the land will be dangerously disrupted.

The Empty Flowerpot

Three years ago, Daichi Matsumura lost his beloved family in an unreasonable incident. From then one, he lives with a helpless sense of remorse for himself. However, as time passes, the incident is easily forgotten and f

The Beautiful Room is Empty

“Haddad’s The Beautiful Room is Empty explores the loaded memories of space through his aunt, Marie, (re)visiting her childhood home and recalling the abuse she endured there. […] What have the walls been listening to? W

Your Place Is Empty

Set inside a photobooth, this short film follows a queer couple as they navigate the complexities of a modern dating relationship.

Full Moon and Empty Arms

Later Soundie featuring June Valli.

light rain, empty mind

August 28th, somewhere in Vermont.

The House Left Empty

Two sisters say goodbye to the only house they have ever lived in. This house is a refuge, but also a burden and a weight. It is memory, but also a wound. Through dance, words, and movement. The House Left Empty is a far

Ten thousand empty houses

The World Became Empty

A character piece on an elderly cat feeder and her relationship to humans and other animals.

Fake and Empty

Whispers From an Empty Room

A minimalistic animation on war, life, and the human condition.