A slyly subversive student film from the mid 1970s exploring the pitfalls of American consumer culture through the framework of a stoner comedy.
Three men (Harry Hilfinger, Robert Davis, and Fred Kautzman) encourage people to follow rules set by the air raid warden in the event of an air rai...
Two men (amateur filmmakers Robert Davis and Harry Hilfinger) lip sync to the song Modern Design by Johnny Messner And His Orchestra.
Silent workprint for ten animated advertisements for Vernor's Ginger Ale.
A series of short, comedic sketches featuring William Paulin along with his family and friends. Shot in and around Paulin's Stickney, Illinois home...
W.C. Fields as Larson E. Whipsnade, showman extraordinaire, devoting all his talents to keeping his debt-ridden circus a step ahead of the law. An ...
A University of Chicago student film production and “Young Chicago Filmmakers Festival” award winner in 1971, Holden Franz Aust’s "In The Divine Pl...
Set in Paris, 1895, the plot concerns the frantic search for a duplicate of an Italian straw hat eaten by a horse. The hat is needed to prevent a h...
Humorous short film depicting a mother who waits for her son to return home for what seems to be decades. On the outset a serene figure, cooking an...
A comedy about a dying millionaire who gives his fortune away a million dollars at a time to eight random people from the city directory rather tha...
Short film set to a blues soundtrack satirizing lazy corporate executives. Unemployed Junior Executive Man is a white collar business man who cann...
“A fairy tale in the modern manner, told without words by film artist Norman McLaren. In the film, a chair (animated by Evelyn Lambart) that declin...
A humorous short student film using stop motion and time-lapse photography. When a Clayton College student doesn’t seem to have enough time in his ...
An animated film about a man who gets caught up in his imagination while reading a book. His reveries are interrupted by his wife who continually e...
A parody of Ingmar Bergman films. An elderly Viktor reminisces about an event in his youth concerning his lover/sister Inga who plays a game of bad...