Movies: Allegory

Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get everywhere. Harry, a tax collector, is a witness to this marriage falling apart....

Blocks and balls fight simply because they are different, until their battle reduces everyone to the same shape....

The Big Sister - a person of colossal size - is trapped in sand in a deserted landscape. With no way to take care of herself, this burden falls on her resentful little sister....

In a lonely, rocky area dotted with human bones, the vulture takes its latest sacrifice. It then disappears into the rock hole to leave as a dove of peace with an olive branch in its beak....

The film is an abstract allegory, showing two penguins with different ideas abot sea creatures that are their food or their shadows, depending on the perspective. Basically, sense-twisting animation....

Experiencing extreme sleep deprivation for months, a young man tape-records his memories for preservation against sinister, clandestine watchers....

Leo gets abducted and carried around in the trunk of a car. The man who is holding him captive has a sinister plan. He gets Leo to bury corpses for him. In the process, Leo gets to speak with his ego and gets glimpses of his higher self. Will Leo get...

As a competitor in the most well funded pit-fighting organization in the world, a young Pitbull leads a revolt in a dangerous break for freedom....

The world is cloaked in winter. Christian Adkins is a Renegade soldier longing for peace and the son of the famed Liberator. Jen is an orphaned nurse desperately trying to save children. When the two soul mates are trapped together at the end of Worl...

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The film is about the moral contradictions between a victim dog seen as an outsider and a member of household who ruins the dog's house, and all the households are involved in this case....

A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But pushing on the walls distorts the room in various ways, always appearing to bring the hole closer while still leaving it tantalizingly inaccessible....

Conrad's second short film, a funny allegory....

Paper-Scissor-Rock wars draws an episode where the two generals portray the Second World War, mostly through the rock-scissors-bag, but also by some absurd torture techniques that bring to mind some sort of Japanese artificial 70s jack ass. To the so...

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A young engineer is supposed to do surveyings for a projected nuclear power station in an economically under-developed region and encounters strong opposition by the population. He realizes that the inhabitants are influenced by strange parapsycholog...

A heartwarming story of a father who hides his son from the outside world for fear of their invisible secret, the son yearns for excitement after seeing boys his age having fun outside. His curiosity and determination grows before he finally uses his...

A young woman has only one friend: a plant. That is, until tragedy strikes. (Promo Short for Predicamented Company)...

Over 3 studio sessions, a dancer overcomes his self-doubt and regains his self-confidence through this other character pushing him to get out of his comfort zone. His anxiety is represented through the delay of his reflection in the dance studio mirr...

Promising dancer Georgia Winters and her friends Atlas, Brighton and Stevie are changed forever when aspiring musician Kasper Hart enters their lives....