Two Short Films by Charlie Kaufman and Eva H.D.

While Charlie Kaufman is best known for cerebral, intricately constructed metafictions like ANOMALISA and SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, his recent collaborations with writer Eva H.D. find him working in a different mode: impressionistic, intuitive, and vividly sensorial. Both city symphonies of a kind, these two shorts—the restless New York cine-poem JACKALS & FIREFLIES and the aching, Athens-set elegy HOW TO SHOOT A GHOST, starring Jessie Buckley—drift dreamily through the urban landscape, finding bruising poignancy in the small, fleeting moments and encounters that give life its infinite richness.