Je herinnert je niets. Dit komt omdat je net bent teruggebracht uit de dood door je vrouw. Ze vertelt je dat je naam Henry is en dat je nu een cyborg bent. Vijf minuten later wordt je vrouw ontvoerd. Door wie?
Begotten is een constant pulserende zwart-wit nachtmerrie zonder dialogen over een destructief heidens ritueel in een kaal landschap. Met God, Moeder Aarde en de Zoon van de Aarde in de hoofdrollen.
Deze film bestaat uit vier verhalen (Mushi, Kagami Jigoku, Kasei No Unga en Imomushi) die zijn gebaseerd op de korte verhalen van Tarô Hirai (1894-1965), beter bekend onder zijn auteursnaam: "Edogawa Ranpo". Elke regisseur geeft zijn visie op de aparte wereld die hij in deze verhalen schetst.
Born from steel and glass Kino Kopf is created by two inventors. They are assembled by their mother, a nurturing artist, and their Father a greedy entrepreneur. Kino Kopf is the first of its kind a sentient humanoid VHS camera. They are given a life by their mother but presented to the world by their father. Kino Kopf is the next big sensation and spurs a technological revolution. They are soon forgotten and alone as new models surpass them. Kino Kopf is left alone to contemplate if they ever had a soul, as visions of an electric cowboy dance through their dreams.
Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
In Arnarstapi (Iceland), during a cabaret number, a mistress of ceremonies proposes to us a journey into the center of her organs to go and meet the original being. During the journey, the public enters into a trance to reach the ecstasy.
X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to be the first cinema screening. Thus, both cinema and radiography fall within the scopic regime inaugurated by modernity. The use of X-rays on two sculptures from the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum generates images that reveal certain elements of them that would otherwise be invisible to our eyes. These images, despite being generally created for technical or scientific purposes, seem to produce a certain form of 'photogénie': they lend the radiographed objects a new appearance that lies somewhere between the material and the ethereal, endowing them with a vaporous and spectral quality. It is not by chance that physics and phantasmagoria share the term 'spectrum' in their vocabulary.
According to an English legend, Joan of Arc never died at the stake. Her eyes were seared with hot pokers and she was deflowered by an English stud. She was then sentenced to wander on the battlefields, like a vulture, on the look-out for life and searching for any virgins left alive.
Korte film: Manda's stoner-slaapfeestje wordt stopgezet als een van haar gasten nergens te bekennen is.
CLEARLY LEFT ON A CLIFFHANGER just waiting for the far off green voices from beyond to choose Seth Troyer as a vessel to at last make manifest VERTIGO II. It’s a delightful period piece shot on mini dv tapes that had been filmed over and erased so many times that they sort of broke and therefore frequently turned normal footage into confusing "pixel storms"(!) A period piece, you say?? Yes Jimmy (Stewart of course) is beset upon by his murderous identical twin brother and asked by Sam Raimi to star as Peter Parker in his upcoming film Spider-man 3 (period piece!). When Jimmy insists he is RETIRED, good ole Sammy decides to sweeten the deal with an offer to complete what Hitchcock started: VERTIGO II. There is also a giant fly in this movie...
When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.
Summertime. In a camping, three little girls listen to an old mysterious story about a missing kid. They start to investigate.
Before the freeze, there was beautiful garden. "Before the Freeze" is a short psychological thriller with experimental elements, about an overstressed, newly-single mother, her daughter, their dog, and what happens one afternoon when a friend comes over. "Before the Freeze" is Tenley E. Raj's debut film. Written, directed, shot, and edited and by Tenley E. Raj.
After escaping from her homeland and now abandoned by the man she loves, Medea must find strength from within to fight against growing injustice - how far is she willing to go?
Egglantine loves salt on her eggs. Eggbert prefers pepper. Who blinks first in this playful Easter ritual?
The author's erotic imagination is mixed between desire and magazine clippings, and the trade of collage becomes a ship that travels from outer space to the city itself.
A collage storybook retelling of the Jesus Christ story with Digital, Super 8, 16MM, and VHS, primarily set within a decaying and run-down world and divided into three acts. Accompanying the film's images is distilled church music provided by various noise artists. This is the first feature film from Los Angeles experimental filmmaker Case Esparros and was released in 2019.
After a feverish dream, a paralysed dreamer finds themselves trapped within a purgatory of their sleep, as they begin to fuse with their bed. The purgatory begins to refract the dreamers mind, as they are confronted with multiple incarnations of themselves struggling to awake. Bed & Breakfast is inspired by the neurodivergent experience of procrastination, and inertia. Questioning the nature of memory, identity, and the fabric of reality, by plunging you into the psyche of a paralysed dreamer where reality is far repressed.
A aspiring novelist operates a tiny neighborhood bookstore. His wife is a talented painter. Their marriage is disintegrating, and they are about to sign their divorce papers. Meanwhile, the legendary Casanova and his lover Lavinia are characters trapped inside of a 17th-century children's book. The tragedy of the impending divorce triggers the release of Casanova and Lavinia from the confines of the children's pop-up book.
"Normal Porn for Normal People" is an appropriated media piece that explores our societal need to consume violence for entertainment. The film offers a satirical commentary on the romanticizing and normalization of violent imagery, while observing the link to commercial consumerism that exploits human sexuality, while simultaneously demonizing it. Interview segments echo our endless need to devour salacious content by venerating both real and fictional violence. Sexuality and sexual images remain a convenient scapegoat that facilitate a continued avoidance regarding the impact that the glorification of violence has within American culture.