# Memorable Short Films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 20, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317 "2025-08-20T15:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/41 "2025-08-21T17:46:31Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon is a classic. I loved this one. Partly, because it evokes the memories of my childhood in SoCal. I swear I know that street. My addition: _The Dove_ (or _De Duva_). Hilarious. I saw it when I went to see an Ingmar Bergman film, and this was an added bonus. It was even more hilarious seeing it in a theater where people were “catching on” at different times, and some never caught on at all. Helps if you’ve seen some of Bergman’s better known films. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/42 "2025-08-21T17:51:44Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7Q0ZuNYHzNg/hqdefault.jpg "Marv Newland - "Black Hula"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q0ZuNYHzNg) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/43 "2025-08-21T17:58:42Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/e4kYKe37aWI/maxresdefault.jpg "FOOD FIGHT (HD)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4kYKe37aWI) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/44 "2025-08-21T18:20:10Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > [YouTube link to the movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw4QbQLqd1E). FYI this vid has crappy synth music grafted on, and is not original. I note comments are turned off. Wonder why. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/45 "2025-08-21T18:31:14Z")
_The Silent Child_ won an Oscar in 2018. The ending still haunts me to this day. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2GbxFIVQv8c/maxresdefault.jpg "The Silent Child | Oscar® Winning Short Film") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbxFIVQv8c) ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/46 "2025-08-21T18:32:31Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > > [@dirtball](#): > > > > Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon is a classic. > > I loved this one. Partly, because it evokes the memories of my childhood in SoCal. I swear I know that street. I just hope you didn’t have any experiences like Deren’s character. > [@carrps](#): > > My addition: _The Dove_ (or _De Duva_). Hilarious. I saw it when I went to see an Ingmar Bergman film, and this was an added bonus. It was even more hilarious seeing it in a theater where people were “catching on” at different times, and some never caught on at all. Helps if you’ve seen some of Bergman’s better known films. Good choice. I saw it on TV a long time ago. Maybe on _Night Flight_? I had some Bergman background by then. As I recall, the main point of reference was _Wild Strawberries_, but I think any of his films from that general period would give someone context for what the _Dove_ people were doing. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/47 "2025-08-21T18:51:12Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > I just hope you didn’t have any experiences like Deren’s character. Ha, no. Just the whole vibe of the visuals. Also, it was made 8 years before I was born. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/48 "2025-08-21T19:01:00Z")
One of the best shorts I ever saw was a version of Encounter at Farpoint, the pilot for ST:TOS. Someone had edited it sown and replaced the sound with an episode of Duck Dodgers of the 25 1/2 Century!! They synced Picard to Daffy, Riker to Porky, and Marvin the Martian to Q. This was in the early 90s. I have looked for ever since there’s been an internet, but no results. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/49 "2025-08-21T19:01:19Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTMiTJSSV2g%2F](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTMiTJSSV2g%2F) Thank you for this! At the 55 second mark, though, it becomes apparent that the title couldn’t be more wrong. Nobody but a friend would haul someone in a sit-ski up untracked pow! And we definitely need to see more sit-skiers shredding untracked pow. Also, nobody but a friend would pull the asshole move at the end! Gonna have to bookmark this to watch in November. It also reminded me of this clip: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meYQUB-RLLc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meYQUB-RLLc) ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/50 "2025-08-21T19:12:28Z")
_Rabbit Habit_ (1975), very unauthorized take on classic WB characters with drug references a-plenty: > **[jeanlouisbaugnon on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKSqOdgOpVX/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA%3D%3D)** > > 14K likes, 145 comments - jeanlouisbaugnon on May 30, 2025 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/51 "2025-08-21T19:57:05Z")
**Feast** (2014), a lovely animated short from Disney Animation. It won an Oscar for Best Animated Short at the 87th Academy Awards. It’s just over 6 minutes long. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4wVTQmbWuu4/hqdefault.jpg "Feast 2014") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wVTQmbWuu4) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/52 "2025-08-21T20:10:03Z")
Kenneth Anger’s **Scorpio Rising (1963)** is memorable not just for being simultaneously being sued by the Lutheran Church and The American Nazi Party or for triggering an obscenity conviction for a theater owner in California (overturned by the CA Supreme Court), but in my mind most importantly for spending half its $16,000 budget just to secure the usage rights to Bobby Vinton’s “Blue Velvet”. Worth. Every. Penny. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6M08Czuqy80/hqdefault.jpg "Scorpio Rising - Kenneth Anger, 1964") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M08Czuqy80) ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/53 "2025-08-21T20:12:46Z")
I liked **INVASION of the BUNNY SNATCHERS** (1992). ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/54 "2025-08-21T20:21:12Z")
From the days of ONTV there was Hardware Wars, a Superman movie parody in the same vein (I’m looking for it online), Bambi Meets Godzilla and the very NSFW Lenny Bruce’s “Thank You Masked Man” Broken link that I think is required for NSFW [https://www.you](https://www.you) [tube.com/watch?v=1tjWYEMQ70w](http://tube.com/watch?v=1tjWYEMQ70w) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/55 "2025-08-21T21:08:31Z")
_What’s Opera, Doc?_ (1957, U.S., dir. Chuck Jones) _Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave_ (a.k.a. _A Close Shave_) (1995, U.K., dir. Nick Park) And you can look at [https://www.imdb.com/list/ls027875268/](https://www.imdb.com/list/ls027875268/) to see what they list. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/56 "2025-08-21T22:11:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > One of the best shorts I ever saw was a version of Encounter at Farpoint, the pilot for ST:TOS. I think you meant ST:TNG. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/57 "2025-08-21T23:58:15Z")
My favorite short film, 12:01pm (1990). It was made before the film you will think of when watching it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fVooyfaPYD8/hqdefault.jpg "12:01 PM (1990) - Best quality available") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVooyfaPYD8) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/58 "2025-08-22T01:04:38Z")
caligulathegod, there are many films that contain loops, as you can see in this Wikipedia entry: [List of films featuring time loops - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_time_loops) Sitnam, if you have a personal list of your favorite short films, you might consider putting that list on the Internet in some way. I suppose the easiest way is to create a watchlist on the IMDb of that list. I have never created such a list myself, so I can’t tell you exactly how to do this. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/59 "2025-08-22T13:33:05Z")
**Skywhales** (1983) is wonderfully weird. I first saw it at an art cinema. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBprVqvAoaQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBprVqvAoaQ) ---
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If you’re into Bergman parodies, here’s one from the original SCTV series: [https://youtu.be/qYV-SiRsSco?t=85](https://youtu.be/qYV-SiRsSco?t=85) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317.md?page=4)