The Ego Death

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.

What are they? What do they seek? When all the lights go out, they will wander. And you will never see them.

Elise is running from a strange, obscured figure. The danger is at her home, her street - inside of her. She runs and runs, but doesn't seem to get away from it. Meanwhile, a mirrored figure is playing a chess game with her life.

Two cold colors, although similar, can have different effects: one man whose soul has been drowned by obsession with the color blue, is now addicted, devout, dejected and weak, and the other man, whose head has been consumed by green, something that emanates disgust, completely infects his head, leaving behind only the greenish shadows of an insane man. Infection and devotion, this is the bichromatic man.

A girl tries to escape from something that follows her.

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest moment in his life, he mines fractured and repressed memories for a way out. A woman is at the center of all the writer’s afterlife encounters. She is the subject of his life’s greatest regret, and she materializes everywhere in this Otherworld. The writer cannot detach any thoughts of his life from her.

A painter with artist's block is sent on a disorienting journey after a mysterious painting appears in his home.

an abstract short film about a boy left alone

An experimental short film from director Luis Zamora, born in the aftermath of the July 2024 protests in Venezuela. An attempt to turn fear, dreams, and fleeting thoughts into images that linger.

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Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives. Adapted from the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.

Simon is an eight-year-old boy who seems to have everything from life. He’s a handsome child, he’s rich yet unhappy. He senses that there’s something wrong with his life and this leads him to wander off thanks to his fervid imagination. His greatest wish is to leave the materialistic world behind since he isn’t fond of it. That’s why the only present he wants for Christmas is for Santa Claus to take him away to live in his fairyland toy factory. At the same time, a secret that his family has been keeping for a long time suddenly comes to the surface and it is feared that the worst might happen soon. The expectation for the stroke of midnight on the night before Christmas is transformed into reality for everyone on the eve of something truly different. Something terrible that might happen.

You are born — without warning — into a dystopia.

A mentally unstable teen transforms himself into a clown to deal with and mask his own disturbing, nihilistic worldview and deteriorating mental health. the further the film continues, the more prominent his descent into madness becomes.

A woman commits a violent suicide in a bathroom, involving the use of Harakiri. "I wonder how it feels to cut your own stomach open. Even though it is very scary, I dream about it as if someone deep inside me is provoking me. Just thinking about what would happen if I had to have my stomach cut off makes my heart pound in my chest. The self-deprecating desire of an office lady who dreams of the pleasure of hara-kiri."

A witch and other strange things live in the attic above lonely, dope-addled artist, Grey. After meeting Renee, Grey struggles to appease these beings, as she tries to find her place in the world outside of her home.

A young woman finds herself completely lost in a nightmare.

After volunteering for an experimental medical trial, a schizophrenic man confronts his past actions.

A desperate woman experiments with leaving reality within the digital technology of today and yesterday.