Directed by Makoto Shinkai • 1999 • Japan
Starring Makoto Shinkai, Mika Shinohara

Makoto Shinkai’s debut short portrays the sensitive relationship between a cat and his owner, poignantly told from the feline’s perspective.

Directed by Miryam Charles • 2015 • Canada, Haiti

Following a nuclear explosion that transforms the voices of all the inhabitants of an island, a Finnish journalist goes there in order to find a hermit with mysterious powers.

Directed by Leah Shore • 2015 • United States
Starring Margaret Singer, Sarah Ellen Stephens

In a secret sex club in Brooklyn, a queer couple unleash upon each other a drug-induced existential barrage of delusions and broken dreams.

Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1977 • United States

This short film was commissioned by the Los Angeles Museum of Art to complement an exhibit on Persian art. Focused on the beauty within textiles, 24 FRAMES PER SECOND illustrates director Shirley Clarke’s eye for detail.

Directed by Leah Shore • 2014 • United States
Starring Leah Shore, Jarret Kerr

Pillow talk takes a surreal turn in a shape-shifting blend of live action and animation.

Directed by Susan Muska • 1992 • United States

Stafford recounts a memorable encounter at a sex club.

Directed by Arie Esiri • 2018 • United States

Presented here is a short made by Arie Esiri in 2018 for the fashion brand Maki Oh. Shot on celluloid at night in Lagos, Nigeria, the film has eerie postapocalyptic and Afrofuturist overtones.

Directed by Lewie Kloster and Noah Kloster • 2016 • United States
Starring Christine Choy

Faced with endlessly rising cigarette prices in New York, Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Christine Choy goes to extralegal lengths to procure her favorite brand.

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1986 • France
Starring Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani narrates an architectural tribute to the Cinémathèque française on its fiftieth anniversary.

Directed by Wong Kar Wai • 2000 • Hong Kong

This 2000 short film by Wong Kar Wai was made entirely out of print elements discovered in a California warehouse. It is set to Zhou Xuan’s song “Hua yang de nian hua.”

Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1967 • United States

This protest film was originally screened at the Week of Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam, which director Shirley Clarke helped organize at New York University in 1967.

Directed by Mati Diop and Manon Lutanie • 2015 • France, Canada
Starring Jules Langlade

A boy channels his inner Michael Jackson in this experimental dance film set to a pulsing electro-pop beat.

Directed by David Lynch • 1968 • United States

This experimental short film presents a sick woman's nightmare involving living representations of the alphabet.