Top Trippy-Psychedelic Short Films

Lewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.

While on an airplane, a traveller's spirit plunges into a dream world. Here, under the influence of the unknown, the logic of his desires prevails, and a romantic saga takes shape. This animated film by Georges Schwizgebel masterfully transports us into a swirling world. Set to the twists and turns of a Rachmaninoff scherzo, Romance exuberantly marries music and movement, erasing the boundary between dreams and reality.

The separation of conjoined twins and its extraordinary consequences.

A love story between two people that each have a secret to hide. One a pro-wrestler, the other a Nun. Losing never felt so good.

An environmental morality tale. A divine gate gives one all that one desires, on the condition that one takes only what one needs and one gives something good in return.

A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.

Inside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.

Mr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?

A psychedelic new-age short about what a spiritual human being might find after death.

Historical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

The movie talks about the life of Ryan Larkin, a gifted Canadian animator of the late '60s and the early '70s.

Uses a twisted, beautiful and highly original visual aesthetic to look at the ways individuals evolve, adapt and break.

In this short animation film, a magnificent bird performs for the Emperor inside a glittering palace. Its plumage is a blaze of colour. A blackbird, watching enviously, strives to acquire what he so desperately covets, only to discover that a golden cage can't compete with the open skies.

A solitary man without a shadow rises from his desk, dons his hat, and leaves his apartment. He walks through a city to a large door, knocks, shows his invitation, and is admitted to a colorful scene. He walks through drawing rooms and gardens. He speaks with a man in a top hat who offers him a life of romance, but in that life there is betrayal. Is there a place in the world for our man without a shadow?

Things have an interesting turn in a society consisting of snail-eating identical chubby men.

Ein Haufen wild gestikulierender Wissenschaftler schießen sich in einer Rakete auf den Mond, wo sie fantastische Abenteuer mit der örtlichen Bevölkerung erleben.

The prelude to Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.

Egyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age.

A 3-D animated film about the dream of reaching the unreachable and about the fact that something good can evolve from something evil.

A little girl finds the whole world in a leaf.

Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.

Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney's Destino features the tragic love story of Chronos, the personification of time, and a mortal woman as they seek each other out across surreal landscapes.

An image of a boy in a rowboat is zoomed out to the cosmic vastness of space and then zoomed into the infinitesimal microreality of him.