Melancholy Movies

Paloma is a young adult who finds herself living in automatic mode, following every imposed social norm, already working in an office and living...

Set to "The Rock" by Harry Chapin, a puppet village ignores the warnings of a young boy who insists that a massive rock on the hill above their town...

First short film from Queens-based Filmmaker Shawn Solomon that captures various memories and moments across 2023.

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

An experimental short film created for Year 12 VCE Media, exploring how different editing styles can accentuate vastly different atmospheres, even...

A fragmented documentary portrait of Sammy, an adult with undiagnosed autism growing up in Jersey. Through cut-up interviews, island landscapes and...

When Isaac, a young teen struggling with his self-worth, finds a new identity as popular singer-songwriter Ace Duncan, in an unconscious attempt to...

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...

A software professional ditches a day at work to discover poetry and finds stories in strangers walking at Connaught Place

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

"While I'm Away" is a first-year student animated short. This short is about the sense of not fully belonging to one place, and missing the other...

The Fenestration of Suburbia is a melancholic social documentation of a cold Canadian suburb.

A man who spends his nights offering emotional support struggles to confront his own inner life by day. Aspiring to be a writer, he drifts through...