Watch 15 Sundance Short Films Online Now

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Actor Michael Cera stars in a short film that's up for a YouTube Audience Award.

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By Samantha Murphy Kelly2014-01-18 11:30:54 -0500

PARK CITY, Utah — Many films that will debut at this year's Sundance Film Festival from Jan. 16 to 26 won't be available to a nationwide audience for months, but YouTube has already posted a collection of short films online for your binging pleasure.

The video-sharing platform published 15 short films even before their screenings at the annual festival. Ranging in genre from drama and comedy to documentary and animation, the films are competing for this year's YouTube Audience Award.

See also: How to Follow the Sundance Film Festival Online

The short film with the most YouTube views between Jan. 16 and 26 will take home the honor.

Watching 15 films might seem like a time-consuming endeavor, but all of them are relatively brief: Some are one minute, while others are as long as 19 minutes. You'll be cultured in less time than it takes to sit through a full-length feature film.

Watch all the short films, below:

Gregory Go Boom

Description: "A paraplegic man leaves home for the first time only to discover that life in the outside world is not the way he had imagined it."

Details: Fiction. 17 min. U.S. Features Michael Cera.

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Tim and Susan Have Matching Handguns

Description: "Love is swapping clips with your spouse."

Details: Documentary. 2 min. U.S.

Allergy to Originality

Description: "A humorous animated 'Op-Doc' explores the rich history of adaptation, plagiarism and other forms of appropriation in art."

Details: Animation. 4 min. U.S.

Chapel Perilous

Description: "Levi Gold is paid an unexpected visit by Robin, a door-to-door salesman with nothing to sell. The ensuing encounter forces Levi to confront his true mystical calling and the nature of reality itself. A metaphysical comedy trip-out with Sun Araw."

Details: Fiction. 13 min. U.S.

MeTube: August Sings Carmen 'Habanera'

Description: "George Bizet's 'Habanera' from Carmen has been reinterpreted and enhanced with electronic sounds for MeTube, a homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, and gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet."

Details: Fiction. 4 min. Austria.

The Big House

Description: "When a young Yemeni boy ventures out of his cramped apartment and finds a key to the empty mansion down the street, he lets himself and his imagination run wild in the big house."

Details: Fiction. 5 min. U.S./Yemen.

Burger

Description: "It's late night in a burger bar."

Details: Fiction. 11 min. Norway/U.K.

Catherine

Description: "Catherine returns to work after a hiatus."

Details: Fiction. 13 min. U.S.

Crime The Animated Series (Marcus McGhee)

Description: "From Bank robbers to cops to victims to observers, Crime: The Animated Series explores how crime affects us all. The series is dark, compelling, heartbreaking and yes - sometimes funny."

Details: Animated documentary. 4 min. U.S./Canada.

Cruising Electric (1980)

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Description: "The marketing department green-lights a red-light tie-in: 60 lost seconds of modern movie merchandising."

Details: Fiction. 1 min. U.S.

Dig

Description: "A young girl watches her father dig a hole in their backyard. Mystified about his purpose, the neighborhood comes to watch."

Details: Fiction. 10 min. U.S.

Funnel

Description: "A man's car breaks down, and sends him on a quest across town that slowly turns into the most fantastically mundane adventure."

Details: Fiction. 7 min. U.S.

Notes on Blindness

Description: "In 1983, writer and theologian John Hull became blind. To help make sense of his loss, he began keeping an audio diary. Encompassing dreams, memories and his imaginative life, Notes on Blindness immerses the viewer in Hull's experience of blindness."

Details: Documentary. 13 min. U.K.

Passer Passer

Description: "An animated city symphony celebrates the hidden world of background noise."

Details: Animation. 4 min. U.S.

Rat Pack Rat

Description: "A Sammy Davis, Jr. impersonator, hired to visit with a loyal Rat Pack fan, finds himself delivering last rites at the boy's bedside."

Details: Fiction. 19 min. U.S.

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Topics: Film, sundance, U.S., YouTube