RIP MTV – 2026
Wednesday, April 15, 9:15 PM
Track | Trace
Director: Gene Gort, Experimental, USA, 5 min
An experimental animation/sound work that uses drawing as a non-traditional musical score.
FM Politics
Director: Florian Fusco, Music Video, Austria, 4 min
The Modular Cringe Band provides the soundtrack to a dinner conversation.
Chokin’
Director: Kai Straw, Music Video, USA, 5 min
A mysterious figure pulls time backward and a suicide is undone. What was broken is made whole, what was wounded is healed, and lives are restored.
Die Spitz – Punishers
Director: Justin Wilson, Music Video, USA, 5 min
In a field, with a fistful of your flowers, sky is clear, but I still hear the sound of rain.
The Tooth Fairy
Director: Nathania Rubin, Music Video, USA, 3 min
A dark fairy tale about the dangers of parenthood and the subtle tragedies inherent in raising children.
Nostalgia; the Mixtape
Director: Jacob Midkiff, Music Video, USA, 4 min
A hip-hop mixtape about nostalgia.
Clown Song
Director: Brady Dowad, Narrative, USA, 7 min
A man’s already bleak life becomes a horror circus when his mom sleeps with an actual clown.
Alone Times Infinity
Director: Charlie Touvell, Music Video, USA, 5 min
Multi-media animated, digitally collaged music video for the song alone times infinity by the experimental ambient sound artist Salvis Bryn.
Biosphere
Directors: Jen Poland, Emerson Santuomo, Music Video, USA, 4 min
A band plays in an abandoned observatory as Mother Nature reclaims a historical landmark in Cleveland, Ohio.
Qamajai
Director: Yerkezhan (Kei) Sabitbekova, Animation, Germany, Kazakhstan, 3 min
In the hush of shadows, where darkness leaves its mark, women gather, weaving their pain into a powerful dance.
Mediterranean
Director: Alessandro Rak, Animation, Italy, 5 min
Mediterranean to see, sings Mango and it is from this song that the animation director Alessandro Rak pays homage to the Mediterranean with a man with a free and poetic soul who oscillates between past, present and dream.
En el Cuarto de Nico
Directors: Julita Conde, Magaly, Music Video, Argentina, 5 min
In the intimacy of Nico’s room lies a universe of nostalgia, reflected in every object carefully placed in his space. His cat Adorno finds a mysterious key and roams the room to discover what it belongs to.
Matti Like by Francesco e i Passabanda
Director: Federico Cavallini, Music Video, Italy, 5 min
What if Frankenstein’s creature were reborn today seeking not revenge, but digital approval?
Tic Tac
Director: David Perreard, Music Video, Belgium, 4 min
As the sky tears apart and meteorites threaten, Paul and Mathilde, tornado chasers, head off into the woods on a wild goose chase that will put their union to the test.
Dobrina
Director: Hannes Rall, Animation, Germany, Singapore, 5 min
Desire burns as bright as the desert sun.
Flower Keester Cops
Director: John Akre, Animation, USA, 4 min
The Phenakistoscope is an animation toy, a disk of pictures that, when spun, presents an animation. A Flower Keester Cop is just like that, but with flower power.
Flooded Realms
Director: Virginie Bluzat, Music Video, France, 4 min
A woman goes from dreams to sunken worlds.
Oh Yeah!
Director: Nick Canfield, Documentary, Switzerland, UK, USA, 17 min
The story of the iconic electronic music group Yello and their classic 1980’s hit song, Oh Yeah, one of the most recognizable songs of all time, made famous by Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Iradoh – 3 Acts of Brotherhood
Directors: Kaique Alves, Thiago Eva, Music Video, Brazil, 18 min
Inspired by real events and the alarming number of women who go missing in Brazil each year, this musical short film tells the story of a mother who vanishes without a trace—leaving behind three young sons.