“Here are we, one magical moment. Such is the stuff from where dreams are woven.” Join a twisted group of stop-motion, 2D, and multimedia animation spinning yarns of devious angst, alien and monster cosmos, and many appendages. In José Luis González and Dano Johnson’s The History of Magic: Ensueño (US 2016, 6 min), a young girl cycles through multiple fantastical deaths to a timely tune. Two films by masterful stop-motion director Brett Foxwell exemplify meticulous craft through detailed log shaving in WoodSwimmer (US 2017, 3 min) and his gorgeous machinery and armature creatures in Fabricated (US 2017, 3 min). Matt Reynolds’ Hot Dog Hands (US 2017, 6 min) is a hilarious and disturbing tube-steak journey into another dimension, followed by Stéphanie Cadoret’s My Man (Octopus) (France 2016, 9 min), where a woman is pulled into the depths by her needy mollusk mate. Quadrant Part 2 (US 2017, 2 min), by David Lauer and Woodrow White, is the second installment trailer for a tenuous sci-fi film full of special annihilation. Take a surreal trip through fire and satire in the chaotic land of I Don’t Feel Anything Anymore by Noémie Marsily and Carl Roosens (Belgium/Canada 2016, 9 min). It’s time to wake up from your Bowie-induced reverie, but perhaps instead it’s time to perish while in the company of an aging, bloody-stumped rival in Vincent Gallagher’s Second to None (Ireland 2016, 7 min).