Why Watch? This year, the city of Talinn, Estonia created 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero, an experimental film project which saw a bunch of different directors from all over the world create a one-minute short film which would play a grand total of one time in front of an audience before the sole 35mm copy was burned along with the screen it played on. Fortunately, digital copies weren’t off limits. Be warned that Adam Wingard‘s entry, Ultra Modern, features nudity and sadness but also be warned that it carries a sort of uneasy beauty, a vibrancy that can leave you cold, and an abruptness that makes it difficult to access. Simply put – it’s uncharacteristically abstract. What’s more, I’m not so sure it’s meant to be understood. What does it cost? Just 1 minute of your time. Trust us. You have time for more short films.

Why Watch? Sometimes it’s important to forget about actors or a narrative and just go with some incredible visuals that happen to have an underlying socio-political subtext. Say what? Exactly. It’s abstract that’s actually watchable with symbols that don’t pull punches. Your childhood kaleidoscope meets American quilting and Islamic religious icons with explosive consequences. What Will It Cost? Just 2 minutes of your time. Does it get better any better than that? Check out Collision for yourself: