Animation

Basement Videos is proud to present this animated collection of shorts from SOV pioneer Ron Ford. Ron Ford, the auteur behind Hollywood Mortuary, The Crawling Brain and Dead Season, turned his sites to animation in the late 2010s. Here he has collected fifteen of his best animations in one awesome disk. This genre-bending collection runs the gamut from horror to drama, action to comedy, light cartoons too edgy adult fare. If animation is your thing, you need to experience the work of this unique and visionary artist.

Every Halloween, people organize a small carnival in the small town. Julia is secretly dating Ethan, against her mother's will. They plan to meet up but her mother comes along. Suddenly, Julia goes missing. It all points towards Ethan. WATCH NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLA0j7QmBQk

An ensemble of musicians is gathered in a performance space. Each musician has their own instrument, means of amplification (if needed), and pair of headphones. All musicians’ headphones are plugged into one outputting sound source (usually an iPod with many headphone splitters). Music (usually a well known song from the popular music canon) is played from the sound source and the musicians are instructed to play something, anything that they hear in their headphones as accurately as they can on their own instrument. The musicians never know what songs or sounds they will be hearing in advance. The audience only hears what the musicians are playing and none of the original sound source, thus creating a “tracing” of the sound source material.

A boy tries to prove that his pet cat is possessed by a demon.

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

Marseille, midsummer. Lying on their beach towels, Jess and Alana talk about the previous night's beach party.

A tale about the importance of staying calm and not panicking, even if you know a fiery meteorite is about to crash down on you in a minute.

Times and circumstances change, but the duet of the Worm and the Bird remains unchanged.

It's ok to ask for help.

A teenager’s intent to rob a chain convenience store goes awry when another thief conveniently does the same.

Growing up, Eve lived like an extension of her mother, trying to appease her brutal expectations of a "role model child". When her mother ripped and trashed Eve's hobby script pages, Eve makes an important decision for her life.

A woodsman builds a tower of bamboo to reach the clouds in order to be with his love the star fairy, but when the ladder collapses, they must find a new way to be together.

An untidy room. Empty beer tins, empty wine bottles, a half-empty glass of whisky... A girl is getting up absent-mindedly and starts preparing herself. YOUR morning starts. Lazy and hard-to-wake-up YOU. The emoticon is ME watching over YOU. I play tricks on YOU, while YOU are playing the guitar and drinking. One day, in town, YOU walk past THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND who is buying an Anemone I liked, and remembering that I liked them, YOU rush out to buy them. THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND displays the Anemone with care. One day, years after I died, YOU hear noise from the closet. Opened, YOU see MY garden right in front of YOU. Overflowing emotions of ME and YOU. When exiting from the room with memories, a picture of the Anemone that YOU painted is displayed in YOUR new room.

An animation in sequential format – frame by frame. Where it narrates the daily life of the protagonist Alisson, waking up, drinking his coffee and going skateboarding through city.

A Dai elder rescued Nana, a wounded elephant calf from fierce poachers. He mended Nana's scars, nurtured her back to health, and ultimately released her back into the wilderness.Years later, Nana the elephant calf, who had now become the leader of a herd, sensed the elder's passing.She guided her kin through rugged terrain, only to honour the elder with a final, heartfelt elegy.

Food has an incredible power to ensnare our senses and punch through time, bestowing upon us a remarkable window through which we can experience sharing past meals with loved ones once again.

In a 1967 interview, a woman named Bérénice recalls her encounter with the reclusive Québécois author, Réjean Ducharme. The main character of his novel “Swallowed” is also named Bérénice.

A journey through the conflict between the freedom of one’s spiritual world and the boundaries of reality.