Night Flight Plus : Short Films
Jac Mac & Rad Boy, Go!
One of the more popular animated short films that aired during Night Flight’s '80s heyday was Wes Archer’s cult fave Jac Mac & Rad Boy, Go!, a wonderfully frenetic cartoon about two p...Read More
Rat Pack Rat
A Sammy Davis, Jr. impersonator, hired to visit with a loyal Rat Pack fan, finds himself delivering last rites at the boy's bedside.
The Miami Vice Incident
The Miami Vice Incident explores a 35-year rift in a family caused by an episode of Miami Vice.
Mercy
Made by artist/animator Nalani Williams and accompanied by the haunting music of Domino Kirke, stop motion and hand painted animation converge to create a multidimensional, layered an...Read More
Pickle
Pickle is an ode to man's capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted existence until their occasionally sudden and unfortunate demise.
The Procedure
A man is captured and forced to endure a strange experiment.
Michikusa
Enter the haunting world of “Michikusa”—a surreal stop motion, hand-painted short created by animation artist, Nalani Williams, accompanied by prolific experimental band, Boris. In t...Read More
Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?
Catnip is all the rage with today’s modern feline, but do we really understand it? Is it a source for harmless kicks, or a potentially crippling addiction? Is it a tool to expand one’...Read More
Night Flight - Horror Brunch
Tonight’s Night Flight Original Episode is a mystery mix of lost video treasures; a rapid fire sampler of short films, animations and music videos. This full episode with commercials ...Read More
Balloonfest
The city of Cleveland was abuzz on September 27, 1986. Over 1.5 million balloons were about to be released at once, breaking the world record. What could go wrong?
Don't Ever Change
Directed by Don Swaynos. The reunion of a woman and her estranged daughter is interrupted by a man with an unusual request.
The Bathtub
An eccentric, introverted man (Bob Bert of Sonic Youth) goes on an adventure in his bathtub. As he explores a warped and lopsided world, he chooses to ignore his surroundings in favor...Read More
In the Future
Knowing that another world is possible, individuals young and old share their hopes and dreams for the future.
The Outfit
Directed by Yen Tan and Hutch Crane. A congressman is haunted by an outfit that won't go away.
Larry Hankin: "Frogs Never Lie"
A hapless hitchhiker (Larry Hankin) gets advice on his road technique from a fairytale frog.
Larry Hankin: "Solly's Diner"
Sometimes Jones, A homeless street character (Larry Hankin) tries to talk to the night waitress in Solly's Diner (Ruth Silvera). He's plea is interrupted by a desperate business man (...Read More
Malice in Wonderland
The infamous reimagining of Alice in Wonderland by surrealist animator Vince Collins. Restored by Mark Toscano at the Academy® Film Archive. NOTE: This video contains flashing images....Read More
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"A soul-warming, patriotic-psychedelic tribute to America featuring animated baseballs and hot dogs!" -Tim Leary. Created by Vince Collins for the U. S. International Communication Ag...Read More
Euphoria
"Consistent stylistic-thematic structures link and merge throughout the bewildering event chain. The distinction between organic forms and human artifacts is blurred by the visual sty...Read More
Fantasy
A star-driven spiraling machine of hallucinatory wonder. Animated by Vince Collins. Restored by Mark Toscano at the Academy® Film Archive. NOTE: This video contains flashing images. V...Read More
Gilgamish
Animated by Vince Collins. Restored by Mark Toscano at the Academy® Film Archive. NOTE: This video contains flashing images. Viewer discretion is advised.
Ingemination
The first animation from Vince Collins, marrying both the simple and complex in a beautiful little animation that gives a window into what the man is capable of. Restored by Mark Tosc...Read More
Machine Song
Chel White's "minimalist vision of the post-industrial human condition, depicted in xerox cutout animation."
The Musical Doctor
A 1932 Rudy Vallee short is remixed for Night Flight audiences.
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Comedienne Renee Taylor's parody of the Fellini films of the 1960s.
Mouseferatu
A Yugoslavian cat and mouse animation by director Darko Cesar, who went on to become a veteran Disney animator.
The Yentatainer
A bar mitsvah band director searches for a new singer.
Balance
Five identical men balance themselves on an ever-shifting plane.
Xidu
A rhythmic collection of sounds, textures and images.
Mr Gloom
A psychedelic, hand-drawn theatre of the absurd.
The Lemon Man
A criminal duo commits bizarre, lemon-based crimes.
Beats and Rhymes
A dance-off at a school.
Special Delivery
Ralph encounters a mailman's dead body on his porch.
Friday and Clyde
A man lives in a computer program.
Why I Got Into TV & Other Stories
A series of vignettes told by a woman relating to her television obsession.
Thousands Watch
A man threatens to commit suicide off a tall building.
Videoflashs
A series of short images, often related to televisions.
Mirage
A man in the desert encounters a soda fountain.
Skin Deep From Outer Space
An abstract alien abduction.
Chump Change
An underachiever is fired from his construction job.
The Procedure
A man is captured and forced to endure a strange experiment.
Harbor Island
A van-living joke writer wanders the industrial zone at night.
Little Farm
A foul-mouthed family inherits a small farm.
The Bulb
A lodger, a drifter, a cheap motel, and the consequence of stupidity.
The Procedure: Part 2
A man is captured and forced to endure another strange experiment.
The Snake Mountain Colada
Road-weary travelers experience the supernatural and the refreshing taste of Miller Lite.
Skate Witches
A gang of female Skate Boarders and their pet rats terrorize all the boy skate boarders in town. 1986. Starring: Jenny Parker, Karen Kibler, Dana Forrester.
I’m Not Fascinating
Brace yourselves for one of the most resplendent footnotes of rock ‘n’ roll anti-history ever to grace the silver screen. Danny Plotnick’s I’m Not Fascinating—The Movie! chronicles th...Read More
Dumbass From Dundas
Two lunkheads get dumped by their friends in the desert. One guy is wearing a Twisted Sister t-shirt and one is wearing a Kiss t-shirt. They don't like each other. They have problems....Read More
Death Sled II: Steel Belted Romeos
A tale of backwoods blacktop mayhem. Two dim-witted, lead-footed guys from Bayonne, New Jersey bust through stoplight after stoplight in their turbo-charged, bad-assed, jet-black Pont...Read More
Swingers Serenade
A tawdry tale of suburban sexual malaise plus a lesson in arcane film history rolled into one sin-tillating package! In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, when home movie making...Read More
Out of Print
Out of Print is an ode to the counterculture of the 80s and 90s, a time when unearthing quality culture was a real treasure hunt. 2008.
Quasi at the Quackadero
This cult cartoon follows two ducks, Quasi and Anita, and a pet robot at an amusement park in the future where time travel is exploited. Hugely popular in the 1970s, it was named to t...Read More
Face Like a Frog
Frogs in a haunted house and other assorted craziness! With the feeling of a Max Fleischer cartoon and an irresistible score and song by Danny Elfman.
Make Me Psychic
In an alternate universe Anita the duck buys a psychic device at a novelty store, declaring “I can make matter obey my will.” This leads to mayhem at a crazy party.
Quasi’s Cabaret Trailer
A “coming attractions” trailer for a movie that was never made, a nightclub of the future with live alligators and a tipsy train that serves drinks. You’ll wish you could go there.
No Crying At The Dinner Table
Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathartic d...Read More
Jeep Boys
Simon manages to take time off from his job to visit his girlfriend in Toronto. Only condition: Give a lift to JP, an annoying colleague. Their journey is in full swing until a catacl...Read More
Brotherhood
Mohamed is deeply shaken and suspicious when his estranged eldest son Malek returns home to rural Tunisia with a mysterious young wife in tow. The emotional complexities of a family r...Read More
Je Finirai en Prison (I’ll End Up in Jail)
Maureen Sauvageau's escape comes to an abrupt end when she drives’s her monster truck into a deadly car accident. Stuck in the middle of nowhere, she must share the company and the bl...Read More
Cercueil, Tabarnak! (Fuckin' Coffin!)
May 20, 1980. After his father's passing, Raymond Tremblay, tax investigator, begins to suspect the funeral home of fraudulent activities. Accompanied by his daughter, little Lucy, he...Read More
Y’a Pas D’heure Pour Les Femmes (Ain’t No Time for Women)
Tunis, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda’s, the hairdresser, on the eve of the presidential election. The salon is transformed into a town square, mirroring the int...Read More
MeTube: August sings Carmen´Habanera´
In a combination of dance club and SM dungeon the director, Daniel Moshel, stages a minutely choreographed trip into the subconscious: While “Habanera” booms in Schram’s magnificent t...Read More
MeTube 2: August sings Carmina Burana
After Elfie and her nerdy son August successfully proved themselves on their home webcam in MeTube 1, the odd pair venture onto the street to present the biggest, boldest, and sexiest...Read More
MeTube 3: August sings 'Una furtiva lagrima'
The third part of the internationally award-winning MeTube short film series. This time the intergalactic music nerds August and Elfi conquer the opera stage and orchestrate their fin...Read More
Issues With my Other Half
In Issues With my Other Half, deep-seated fears are visualized as surreal nightmares. Things get really creepy when the upper and lower torso of a woman move separately on two swings,...Read More
Absent
When you are a child, you imagine that toys and furniture come to life as soon as you look away. Freud calls this phase “magical thinking” when one half hopes and half fears that thin...Read More
Keep That Dream Burning
Rainer Kohlberger´s eight-minute film keep that dream burning begins with extremely fine black-and-white particles that flutter across the screen. Coagulating into rough structures, t...Read More
animistica
Nikki Schusters animistica opens with the viewer awakening as if inside a restless dream, transformed into a strange vermin. The camera assumes the perspective of an insect burrowing ...Read More
Me, Myself and I
The triplet in the title basically give it away already: identity in the digital age, especially in the face of image production and reproduction processes, is subject to incessant mu...Read More
Self
The skin is the body´s largest sense organ: delicate and at the same time extremely robust, it has to fulfill various functions, from excretion through to storage of nutrients. Althou...Read More
Parasit
Fast forward. A camera rushes across Argentina´s stone desert toward a cactus and crashes headfirst through an opening into the plant´s interior. There, a view opens up of an eerie un...Read More
Uncanny Valley
Paul Wenninger traces the arc of representational history to representation-critical parable: he straddles the Uncanny Valley with motifs from found footage material from World War I,...Read More
From Ally to Accomplice
"To-day at last we know: John Brown was right." -W.E.B. Du Bois. This film is an experimental essay in three movements that explores the importance of being more than an "ally" in str...Read More
In the Future
Knowing that another world is possible, individuals young and old share their hopes and dreams for the future.
More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters
An experimental animated documentary exploring the powerful and inspiring life of revolutionary Lucy Parsons.
Slower
A found footage personal essay film that explores the power of a woman who values her own pleasure.
We Had Each Other
A group of powerful, bold, Irish women political prisoners at Armagh Jail shook Ireland to its’ core in 1980 when they began a transgressive “no-wash” protest, refusing to bathe for a...Read More
Pickle
Pickle is an ode to man's capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted existence until their occasionally sudden and unfortunate demise.
Freeze
When Joy's fairytale romance crashes and burns on the eve of her 35th birthday, the TICK-TOCK of her biological clock pushes her to try new things.
Balloonfest
The city of Cleveland was abuzz on September 27, 1986. Over 1.5 million balloons were about to be released at once, breaking the world record. What could go wrong?
Tabula Rasa
A village engulfed by the 1950 Red River flood experiences a surreal resurrection.
Enfant Terrible
Two gallery employees realize they've made a huge mistake and race to fix it before anyone finds out.
Kim Bush's Abduction
Everyone freaks out at a Christmas party when Kim goes missing.
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
John Heyn and Jeff Krulik filmed Judas Priest fans in a concert arena parking lot in suburban Maryland. Thirty years later, Heavy Metal Parking Lot is hailed as one the greatest rock ...Read More
Heavy Metal Parking Lot Alumni: Where Are They Now?
Twenty years later, the producers of “Heavy Metal Parking Lot” track down and interview some of the heavy-metal fans originally featured in the 1986 cult classic.
Neil Diamond Parking Lot
From the creators of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, this 'sequel' (filmed a decade later), captures fans gathering in the Capital Centre parking lot for a Neil Diamond concert.
Harry Potter Parking Lot
The 1999 entry in the "Parking Lot" saga from the creators of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, this time with the children's book phenomenon. "It was more of a Harry Potter Sidewalk than a Pa...Read More
Mr. Blassie Goes to Washington
"Classy" Freddie Blassie, revered as the King of Men, tours Washington D.C.
King of Porn
Meet Ralph Whittington, who amassed one of the largest private collections of pornography ever. His collection can now be seen and studied at the Museum of Sex in New York City. "T...Read More
Ernest Borgnine on the Bus
One of America's most beloved, Oscar-winning actors hits the road to explore this grand and glorious land of ours in this unique documentary, which is part travelogue, part biography,...Read More