Promise me you’ll watch this short film past the 1-minute mark, okay? It’s not that the first minute isn’t interesting and beautiful, but I think you’ll find the back-half somewhat more rewarding. It’s title Piece, and this multimedia short is a collaborative effort from Russian artist Igor Skaletsky and the animation collective known as Self Burning.

Alexey Yansitov’s Don’t Forget is a stylish 3-minute CG film about an office manager celebrating his 27th birthday at work. Yansitov, an artist living in Moscow, is employing metaphor in a setting many of us can relate to – the labyrinth of the corporate office.

A new series of shorts titled Things has emerged from a Russian studio called Galix. With almost no dialog, the international language of love comes through loud and clear in this short: