Dark Star

Dark Star 1974

5.90

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

1974

Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB

Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB 1967

6.00

In an underground city in a dystopian future, the protagonist, whose name is "THX 1138 4EB", is shown running through passageways and enclosed spaces. It is soon discovered that THX is escaping his community. The government uses computers and cameras to track down THX and attempt to stop him; however, they fail. He escapes by breaking through a door and runs off into the sunset. The government sends their condolences to YYO 7117, THX's mate, claiming that THX has destroyed himself. Electronic Labyrinth: THX-1138 4EB is a 1967 science fiction short film written and directed by George Lucas while he attended the University of Southern California's film school.

1967

1:42.08

1:42.08 1966

5.53

George Lucas's senior project at the University of Southern California in 1966. It was named for the lap time of the Lotus 23 race car that was the subject of the film. It is a nonstory visual tone poem depicting the imagery of a car going at full speed, and featuring the car's engine as the primary sound element. Shot on 16mm color film with a 14 man student crew, it was filmed at Willow Springs Raceway, north of Los Angeles, CA. The Lotus 23 was driven by Pete Brock.

1966

A Field of Honor

A Field of Honor 1973

6.50

An ex-soldier encounters many dangers in the small town he lives in.

1973

The American Ambassador

The American Ambassador 2019

1

U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau risks his job and his reputation by leaking memos to the New York Times and becoming the first whistleblower of the Armenian Genocide. (Based on "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" by Henry Morgenthau)

2019

Look at Life

Look at Life 1965

6.00

Look at Life is a short student film by George Lucas, produced for a course in animation while Lucas was a film student at USC Film School. The film's running time of exactly one minute was required by the course. This was the first film made by George Lucas and was heavily influenced by Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett.

1965

Drone

Drone 2015

6.00

A rookie Air Force drone pilot finds himself increasingly attached to a target he watches from halfway around the world.

2015

The Ball Method

The Ball Method 2020

1

Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.

2020

Room 731

Room 731 2015

6.20

In this supernatural mystery, The Grudge meets Saw, an amnesiac girl wakes up in what appears to be an abandoned jail, where she is haunted by spirits who want to torture her.

2015

CODA

CODA 2019

7.20

Alex uses dance to try find her place between hearing and deaf.

2019

The Fringes

The Fringes 2018

7.00

In a corporate world void of human interaction, Ennis has lost her ability to relate to others. When the company fires her and forces her into a crowded tenement building, Ennis must overcome her fear of human connection to begin again.

2018

And Ten Thousand More

And Ten Thousand More 1949

1

Student film sponsored by an urban housing authority advocating the financing of public housing. In the story a newspaper editor sends his reporter to investigate the low-income housing shortage in Los Angeles. Visiting slums in central L.A., the reporter finds decaying dwellings, some without plumbing and heating. The film contrasts them with the sturdy pre–World War II city housing projects that continue to provide a healthy environment for their residents. And Ten Thousand More takes its title from the number of new housing units reportedly required by L.A. residents. Note: The film was broadcast and screened at public meetings during the postwar public housing debate in L.A.

1949

Recorded Live

Recorded Live 1975

8.20

A young man at the University of Southern California, called only Mr. Aaines, goes to a job interview at a television studio, where he is told over that phone that he seems like a fine candidate for taking over the management. Unfortunately, when he gets to the "studio" (more like a castle fit for a deranged scientist), all he finds are two mysterious videotape reels who seem to have a life of their own, and a hunger for human flesh.

1975

Refrigerate After Opening

Refrigerate After Opening 2021

1

A man who is down on his luck, finds a second shot at life when he buys himself a magical refrigerator.

2021

Palm Rot

Palm Rot 2015

8.00

A Florida crop-duster gets more than he bargained for when he fishes a case of vials out of the swamp.

2015

A Short Story About Love

A Short Story About Love 2016

1

Watching the love of his life dying out of a terminal and painful illness, Mike slowly grows to make a decision to end her suffering.

2016

Antebody

Antebody 2005

1

Lois Ambro has just received some terrible news. The body of her husband, Matin, has been found in the Los Angeles River. She is about to receive some even more startling news! The detectives are at a loss to explain it. The medical examiner has never seen anything like it. The Ambro family has no idea what has happened, how it happened, who did it, or why, and are haunted by the prospect of a murder yet to come! The police may know how Marty died, Lois may know how Marty lived, but there's something you don't know about Martin David Ambro...

2005

Practice Funeral

Practice Funeral 2019

0.50

After teenage Ben comes to the realization that his stage 4 testicular cancer is terminal, he decides to throw a "practice funeral" as one final hurrah before the end of his young life.

2019

Connected

Connected 2017

2.00

In a near future in a world deprived of closeness of each other through technological communication advancements, a small boy full of curiosity and need to learn the world that surrounds him goes on a journey to learn the value of interpersonal communication through

2017