Short Films

Every day deserves its own demon, and Stefan G. Bucher has spawned a world full of them, which other net-trawlers have been happily embellishing and giving greater life to. Every day for 100 days, Bucher made a little ink splot on a piece of paper, then sketched a funny monster out of it, filming the […]

A short, melancholy portrait of Blake Roberts, an Iraq vet just back from the war. Honest and direct, he shared with Kathy tales of daily life in the barracks as well as intimate, tragic moments. Though Blake does not question the motives of the U.S. government in Iraq or the missions he completed, he nevertheless […]

If I can find a picture without the balls blacked out, I’ll post that one. Until that point, you will have to go here to watch the uncensored video. For those wondering, Bobby Bird is NOT a real rocker. But Carson says that he is hoping to create a live-action Devil in Denim feature film, […]

Ahhh…Motodrom. I loved this movie before I even saw it. From the moment I first read the description of Joerg Wagner’s experimental documentary about hellriders who travel from carnival ground to carnival ground with their giant wooden tower and their antique motorcycles and go carts I was anxious to track down the film. Luckily it […]

Veteran Rooftop volunteer (from our Bushwick days) and all-around good guy Matthew Pond made this tremendously entertaining portrait of Times Square’s famously talentless Naked Cowboy. You can watch it HERE.

We screened Andy Blubaugh‘s charming short Hello, Thanks last summer and we are really excited to see that he has continued working in a similar vein but seems to really be making strides as a video artist, or video diarist, or personal documentarian or whatever he decides to call himself. Scaredycat is really great and […]

Ian Olds has worked on several really great films over the years, including the Academy Award short-listed documentary feature, Occupation: Dreamland and the extraordinary (according to Mark) suburban tank documentary Cul de Sac, which is not yet available on DVD, unfortunately. Bomb is quite different from either of his doc films, but still quite an […]

I don’t really know anything about this Jonathan Reynolds, but this film is pretty magical. Find out (a very little bit) more about him here. Spaghetti Terrestris is also pretty cool…

Longtime Rooftop Films alum, YouTube celebrity, Utz eater and Quarter Water chugger Casimir Nozkowski returns to the Rooftop blog with this homage to really unhealthy food bought cheaply from inner city corner stores. You can watch it HERE. UPDATE: If you like Bodega, you can also see what happens when they hang out in Park […]

This is one of my favorite Rooftop short animations ever, so I am glad that our friends over at Animation Block Party have it hosted online. The short tells the story of a self-defeated Marbled Rock Crab and his species’ 120 million years of tragedy. It might seem like an metaphor for the blind obstinacy […]