Melancholy Movies

A portrait of a beach town at night

A tortured soul seeks meaning in life. "The Wide Open Project" is an artistic and experimental visual album about the emerging artist Zinity. Created...

A camera test that gains a new meaning with context.

At once surreal and poignant, this semi-autobiographical film by American director John Dilworth (Courage the Cowardly Dog) chronicles a turning...

On a psychedelic night, the protagonist speaks endlessly to his friends, friends we never hear. Beneath his loud, crude monologue, a different figure...

Alone on a desolate planet, a crash-landed astronaut wanders the wasteland, searching for hope as his oxygen depletes.

A lonely and depressed young man decides to start beating up delinquents on the streets to cope with his sadness. People call him...

An experimental short film born out of long nights spent somewhere else.

College sophomore Miles Stoops decides on a whim to make a movie with no clear direction, but is repeatedly distracted by JRPG monologues, a second...

A short animated film about a little boy named Less and his trip through the forest.

A lone figure drifts between reality and reflection, caught in stillness and searching for something just out of reach.

On his death bed, a dying old man succumbs to an unspecified terminal illness. His mind polluted, as the symptoms pivots his stability, a series of...

Kyo and Ryzen's journey nears its end as they transcend time and space to stop Unitrix at all costs.

COVID-19 made the world go into severe lockdowns. No one could see each other for months on end, but then in 2021, the lockdowns were removed and...

A grieving young inventor finds solace in repairing an antique typewriter.

A soldier in the Civil War suddenly finds himself out of place and out of time.

Set during the turbulent shift from silent to sound, this film intertwines the lives of a struggling filmmaker and a solitary fisherman. A meditation...

A cargo plane pilot is trapped alone with his ship in Earth's orbit due to a nuclear war. Until one day he finds a connection with someone else in...

Juno, a college freshman, is faced with her own personal melancholy of longing to reconnect with her best friend, Elizabeth.