Winner of the 2008 Accolade Award of Merit for Best Short, Clouds is a lyrical montage of cloud shots ending with the horrific cloud of smoke emanating from the World Trade Center on 911, an image the filmmaker captured on that fateful day.

"Treevenge details the experiences and horrifying reality of the lives of Christmas trees. Clearly, for trees, Christmas isn’t the exciting “peace on earth” that is experienced by most. After being hacked down, and shipped away from their homes, they quickly become strung up, screwed into an upright position for all to see, exposed in a humiliation of garish decorations. But this Christmas will be different, this Christmas the trees have had enough, this Christmas the trees will fight back. Treevenge could be a short film about the end of days for Christmas trees, or perhaps, the end of humanity?"

This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.

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This is a very cool fan made Batman film by Bat in the Sun that runs approximately 30 minutes. It really feels like a perfect combination of Nolan's Bat franchise and Batman: The Animated Series.

The Joker has escaped from Arkham Asylum and kidnapped a young boy and his parents. Batman immediately goes to work on the case leaving no stone unturned, questioning fellow inmates and informants on the street. Will Batman find the family in time or will the boy wind up an orphan like Batman himself?

This may also be the only chance for fans to ever see Harley Quinn, Scarface, and Black Canary on screen. Check it out, this is a gem.

A short, simple, silent film in which a young man briefly tastes love before seeing its extinction; is invited to follow other paths, and finally foresees Death on the horizon.

A short adaptation of "Children Of The Corn" made a year before the feature film, which was one of the first shorts based on Stephen King's work. Hit the jump for the second part.

A Blue Collapse (An End Of Life Tale), directed by Alok Neel Agrawal, starring Myles MacVane (the old man) and Rodrigo Lopresti. This is one of the creepiest shorts I have ever seen.

A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death. To see more animation by Joaquin Baldwin, visit his website at www.pixelnitrate.com

Here is a very well done fan trailer for the upcoming Marvel film Thor that uses footage from Ca$h, Outlander, Brothers, Hulk, Alexander, Troy, Van Helsing, Defendor, A Perfect Getaway, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D, and trailer footage from The Clash Of The Titans, Swat, Spartan, Marvel Ultimate Alliance VG and others.

In 1946, famed surrealist artist Salvador Dali and Walt Disney became unlikely collaborators, and set to work on a short film called Destino. The project was ultimately abandoned with less than 20 seconds of film shot, but six decades later modern Disney artists completed the film using Dali's original storyboards.

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