Free short films from the Sundance festival

Here are the shorts available on iTunes and their descriptions provided by Sundance. To get to them on iTunes, click Movies, click on the Shorts genre and then see the Sundance banner at the top. Click that to get to the Sundance shorts, as opposed to shorts from everyone else. These are free, and will say so near their titles, although iTunes requires you register with a credit card number for future purchases you may make.

• Acting for the Camera--An acting class. Today's scene: the orgasm from When Harry Met Sally.
• Countertransference-- A comedy about an awkward woman with assertiveness problems who seeks the questionable help of a therapist.
• HUG--Drew is a musician with a contract ready to sign. When Asa, his friend and manager, realizes Drew is off his meds the across-town drive to sign the contract becomes significantly more complicated.
• Field Notes From Dimension X: Oasis--Captain Fred T. Rogard muses in isolation on planet Oasis.
• From Burger It Came--An animated film that recounts early 1980s-era Cold War fears of a young boy in middle America. Using a variety of techniques, the visual narrative is colorfully assembled over semi-documentary audio conversations between a grown adult recounting his fears and his mother's memory of the time and her own concerns.
• I Live In The Woods--A Woodsman's fast-paced journey, fueled by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America's God.
• Instead of Abracadabra--Tomas is a little bit too old to still be living with his parents, but his dream of becoming a magician leaves him with no other option.
• James--A young man grapples with the impulses and thoughts about being gay.
• Magnetic Movie--Natural magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries, as scientists from NASA's space sciences laboratory excitedly describe their discoveries.
• This Way Up--Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.