Night Flight's 1980s Shorts

Chel White's "minimalist vision of the post-industrial human condition, depicted in xerox cutout animation."

A 1932 Rudy Vallee short is remixed for Night Flight audiences.

Comedienne Renee Taylor's parody of the Fellini films of the 1960s.

A Yugoslavian cat and mouse animation by director Darko Cesar, who went on to become a veteran Disney animator.

A bar mitsvah band director searches for a new singer.

Five identical men balance themselves on an ever-shifting plane.

A rhythmic collection of sounds, textures and images.

A psychedelic, hand-drawn theatre of the absurd.

A criminal duo commits bizarre, lemon-based crimes.

A dance-off at a school.

Ralph encounters a mailman's dead body on his porch.

A man lives in a computer program.

A series of vignettes told by a woman relating to her television obsession.

A man threatens to commit suicide off a tall building.

A series of short images, often related to televisions.

A man in the desert encounters a soda fountain.

An abstract alien abduction.

An underachiever is fired from his construction job.

A spoof of educational films about gravity.

A wimpy young boy becomes obsessed with gangster films.

An evil demon runs a toy store.

Two "expressionistic wackos" argue over a glass of juice.

A mean bulldog ringleader puts a worm through a harrowing audition.

A wacky musical comedy parody of George A. Romero's zombie films.

A young girl develops telekinesis.

In this hand-drawn short, a bird-like creature is drawn into an astral dimension rife with violence, vice, and vehicular homicide, rendered on black in electric lime greens and acid yellows. Animator James Duesing writes, "'Tugging the Worm' is an animation which is made up of 3500 drawings... the completed piece took approximately four years and a lot of Prismacolo...Read More