Close-Up on Planets

A parallel montage of the construction of a dam in Galicia and the architecture of a small Roman-style church.

All the world is a stage". In this theater the dance of a puppet, destructured in time and space, shows us the mechanisms that pulls the strings.

It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a million miles an hour. The temperature at its core is...

When every global citizen is mandated to participate in a program that tracks their CO2 emissions, it makes little impression. Until they discover...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in...

Step back into the imaginative and frankly terrifying world of Becky & Joe with Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared. In this episode: Some things...

Rebecca Sugar's thesis film from New York’s School of Visual Arts.

A group of aliens searching for a new planet on which to make home, with little success. Promotional short for Dreamworks Animation's forthcoming...

An animated short about the 75 years of Superman.

In the Moroccan desert night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. Dawn starts then to draw silhouettes of dunes while motionless figures...

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway...

Aspiring teenage astronauts reveal that a journey to Mars is closer than you think.