Futility Movies

A squirrel in a downtown park lugs a giant coconut back home, but nothing he tries will crack it open.

This animated short by Claude Cloutier is a pictorial account of an attack on Canadian soldiers during WWI. On the edge of the battlefield, recruits are dreading the order to attack. At the signal, a young soldier leaps into a hell of fire and blood where the earth engulfs both the living and the...

Man and boy play a futile game of chess in the middle of nowhere. An internal struggle between what is and what can no longer be.

When an outrageously absurd event results in the world having only 2 hours left before nuclear annihilation, a group of amateur student filmmakers decide to make one last film to consecrate human existence.