This Is the House That Jack Built(2004)

Cheese Burglar(en)

While cats and dogs are natural enemies, such is not the case in the house where Herman the mouse lives. They are very good friends indeed, are work together to make Herman's life a hard life. Herman tries to break up their friendship, and divert their attention from guarding the cheese in the refrigerator, and almost succeeds but they make up in time to prevent Herman getting the cheese. They give chase and Herman takes refuge in a jug of wine.

Settling(en)

Bruce the gritter unwittingly makes an enemy as he carries out his job, clearing the roads of snow.

Help! I'm a Fish(da)

Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem: they must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish.

Final Serving(de)

A knight and his wife live in a small house in the middle of nowhere. Every day he fights passing knights and is rewarded by his wife with lots of love and delicious meals.

Off Beat(en)

An adventure involving biscuits, a TV and absolutely no police whatsoever.

If you begin to feel the house catching at you(xx)

We are used to domestic spaces being designed for us to inhabit, but what happens when houses become moody main characters rather than backgrounds? With flickering tracings and ornamented strokes, If you begin to feel the house catching at you is an animated video installation that examines the “haunted house” as a fiction trope.

After All(en)

After All is said and done. A man clears out his childhood home, remembering past conversations.

This Time Around(en)

The camera breathlessly traverses landscapes and whirls into abstraction, all the while eye-ing fanciful foreground objects of domestic life doing their own dizzy dervish choreography, until the hand of the artist reveals the true scale. Just out of camera view are Aaron’s hand-made rigs that guide the dynamic movement.

Home Sweet Home(xx)

A house uproots itself from its suburban foundations and sets off on an epic journey.

What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue!(pt)

Dr. Crumb, a scientist who never liked to leave home, invented a way to see the world without leaving your lab. Using a stone extraterrestrial Crumb, his assistant and his two nephews Zoox: the beautiful Amanda and irreverent Guto, will make his house float through the world in search of adventures. The problem is that this stone has other special powers, can hypnotize people and open portals to other dimensions. To fall into the hands of a greedy French archaeologist, the stone eventually releasing four monsters creatures and muddled fleeing to different corners of the world. Now these monsters need to be captured before they destroy the main monuments of the world and the stone must be recovered before the archaeologist hypnotize them all.

Not Everything That Flies Is a Bird(sh)

The film describes the suffering of a character who is renovating his house while being confronted with a monstrous bird which is terrorising and oppressing him. It should be read as a parable of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The film was subject to severe criticism at the 1970 Oberhausen film festival in Germany in 1970, in particular from directors from South American communist countries.

La petite ancêtre(fr)

Siempre listo en las tinieblas(es)

Cantinflas will face a thief who enters his house while he sleeps.

The Decimation of Sanity(en)

A small skit-documentary hybrid, written, shot and edited all in the space of a couple of hours on the 25th of October 2021, by exclusively myself, for a university project.

Play House(en)

The only thing keeping Harold's family bound is his unconditional love for them.

Lost Luggage(en)

Neil Bishop has spent his whole life living on the fringes of society. His only interaction with people is through his job as a lost luggage courier. One day, Neil delivers luggage to a woman in suffering, and he discovers someone like him. In this dreamlike psychological thriller, Neil Bishop sets out to make today, unlike any other day.

The Money Pit(en)

After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.

The Brady Bunch Movie(en)

The original '70s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.

Not Alone(en)

An unsuspecting family buys a mansion for a bargain but discovers a presence in the home and must fight to save their lives.

Fall 1(en)

Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey house in the Inland Empire.