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Working outside the music industry mainstream, a rich ecosystem of artists and filmmakers collaborate to create a vast array of fun and fresh visual surprises. Stash Magazine makes a point of hunting down and collecting the most intriguing of these music videos to ensure they receive the wider recognition they deserve.
83) Watermelon Magic
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WATERMELON MAGIC is a “sweet” and tender film about an adolescent farmer’s daughter who learns to grow and part with one of nature’s most loved summer fruits – the watermelon. When Sylvie’s magical wand breaks, her mother comforts her by planting a tray of seeds.
84) Young Heroes 2
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The follow-up to the popular “Young Heroes” collection showcases three more brave kids on wonderful animated adventures. A collection of three very special short films selected for young viewers.
86) Downside Up
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DOWNSIDE UP reveals a world in which everyone has Down’s syndrome. One day, Eric is born, a boy who’s different.
88) Engine 371
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This animated short looks at the building of Canada's transcontinental railroad with wit and whimsy. ENGINE 371 illustrates the struggle humans have with nature and how this fundamental tension united a country.
89) Litter Bugs
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Helped by her self-made flying mechanical creatures, a young inventor and a pint-sized superhero defeat the town bullies and find an unexpected friendship.
90) (Otto)
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A little girl accidentally leaves her imaginary baby brother behind at a restaurant, and suddenly, for a nearby childless couple, the definition of "baby" takes on a new and completely unexpected dimension. (OTTO) is a charming animated short from the filmmakers who brought us the **Oscar**-nominated A Single Life. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*Delightfully eerie... sweetly, darkly funny, in the team’s signature...
91) Human Nature
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Enter a world where things are different than how we know it. We see naked ladies laying in the field, an old man taking a nap on a radiator while a fat man is stranded on the beach and starts barfing plastic. In this world humans and animals have swapped places. HUMAN NATURE is a short animation film about the love people have for animals, and the harm we consciously or unconsciously bring to them.
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New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor. THE TESLA WORLD LIGHT is a tragic fantasy about the father of alternating current, inspired by real events such as the inventor’s run of bad luck as a businessman and his affection for a pet bird, which he loves “like a man loves a woman.” Tesla’s words to the banker form the backdrop of this moving film about the man who blended science...
93) Lovebugs
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"Would you like to hear a story?" From his cozy library inside the walls of a suburban home an intellectual snail tells of his life's love, loss and change.
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Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.
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Dragons love tacos. They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, great big tacos, and teeny tiny tacos. So if you want to lure a bunch of dragons to your party, you should definitely serve tacos. Buckets and buckets of tacos. Unfortunately, where there are tacos, there is also salsa. And if a dragon accidentally eats spicy salsa...oh, boy. You're in red-hot trouble. The award-winning team behind Those Darn Squirrels! has created an unforgettable, laugh-until-salsa-comes-out-of-your-nose...
96) Daughter
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Should you hide your pain? Close yourself inside your inner world, full of longing for your father’s love and its displays? Or should you understand and forgive before it is too late?
98) Two Balloons
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Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion. Winner of Best Animated Short Film **TIFF Kids International Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**.
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Over the last three decades, the beloved children’s book by Marvell Ginsburg, THE TATTOOED TORAH, has been a powerful resource for Holocaust education. The book recounts the true story of the rescue and restoration of a small Torah from Brno, Czechoslovakia, and teaches the Holocaust not only as a period of destruction but also as an opportunity for redemption. Narrated by Ed Asner, the film brings illustrator Martin Lemelman’s rich artwork to...
100) Dog City
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In the tough streets of DOG CITY, Ace inherits a saloon from his late Uncle Harry and is unwilling to pay the protection money. A puppet parody of classic gangster films directed by Jim Henson.
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