Movies: One take

In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of ...

A young woman confronts her boyfriend to discuss the future of their relationship — on her own unique terms....

A woman drives in her car, wearing a grave look on her face. In the background, we hear the sounds of the freeway. The camera often captures her face, but occasionally we look at her from behind. Hypnotising lines on the road whiz by. Just like trees...

In March, 2017, at a small town, six boys and girls are selected through auditions. They work hard to prepare for a play, but the play is suddenly cancelled. These young people are disappointed at the news. One girl says "let's practice." The six boy...

A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot....

Two thugs, a man with a gun, a furious girlfriend, an angry taxi driver, the police. And one unlucky guy in the middle....

Structural study of a tree. Light, water and air coax it out of the soil in a manner foregrounding time’s relativity to different forms of life on Earth. Made the day my brother got his fork-lift license....

Watch out Earth....

Six families in different compartments of a train, moving through a rainy night. In a single, 145-minute take, the film depicts the families and how their lives are interwoven with each other. Vacillating between dream and reality, each story builds ...

A teenager overhears a phone call and inserts himself into the father-son story behind it. As this strange 'conversation' develops, two separately wounded lives slowly wind into a double helix of pain, regret, and filial love....

A heated argument breaks out when Carlos finds out his longtime girlfriend Maria is pregnant....

A boy’s life is threatened when his home is invaded by a group of zombie-like creatures masked in a familiar face…...

A couple's break up gets out of hand as the man tries to woo his woman back in a strange house. Hijinks ensue....

A one-take short film where a drone flies into a bowling alley....

Amidst an anticipated house party, a hidden secret is unfolded in one tense and hypnotic night....

Hannah and Leo want to attend the party of the year but don't know where it is. When they finally meet a classmate, they soon have to find out the real reason for their exclusion and are faced with the decision of whether they still want to carry out...

A regular Wednesday night in Tokyo's subway. The train is filled with more and more people......

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「 伝えたいこと 」is an important message on the future of a group called CY8ER....