Rhyme or Die

A short film featuring two new records from Jasmine Cephas Jones' forthcoming debut album PHOENIX, detailing the journey of growth, transformation, and finding one's true self.

At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the antics that can only come about from exotic animals who play baseball.

Mia has locked herself inside her recently deceased mother's rundown, crumbling house. Armed with a litany of books detailing ancient cultures and rituals, she tries desperately to reach out to the other side and speak to her mother. But when she succeeds, she gets more than she bargained for. Waiting alongside her mother is something monstrous, something that Mia recognises instantly. As she tries to survive the night and escape the ritual alive, Mia is forced to confront a variety of evils - ones from both without, and from within.

A woman who can't stand the passing of time turns herself into a black hole. A thousand unchanging years pass inside her warm and dark embrace until, finally, the Singularity awakens inside.

An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the station through the countryside to its destination. The film consists of a montage of shots, some close up, of the engine and its gears and wheels. With the accompanying ambient sounds and an orchestral score, the emphasis is on the engine's power and speed. Parallel lines of multiple tracks, telephone wires, and trees confirm a careful composition.

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the seventh film in the series.

Charlotte lives a very mundane and regular life. Juggling between school works and social life her day-to-day couldn't have been more routinely. But that is about to change when she forgets to lock her door one day.

When Jay, a nineteen-year-old fashionista is left home alone, she discovers that not all of her clothes are quite as harmless as she thinks.

A man is accused and tortured for a crime he did not commit, but soon, the Police will receive an unexpected surprise.

Helen Young sings, and Johnny Long leads his orchestra as they perform a song.