The Train Conductor And The Cross Dresser

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated by Lydia Lunch. The film was initially dismissed and dismayed by critics such as J. Hoberman, but the criticism of The Right Side of My Brain received only pushed the two to go one step further with Fingered (1986).

A folk singer in 17th-century Kerala discovers a mansion. Inside, he encounters an enigmatic cook and a powerful master, setting in motion a chain of events that changes his life.

A misty afternoon returns a Mapuche couple to their wedding video. In their civil ceremony, they are noted as one of only two couples married in the indigenous language of Mapudungun.

A father travels through five stages of grief after discovering that his wife is having an affair. The father is portrayed by five different actors and actresses.

A failing actress is haunted by a silent double that seems intent on taking her place—forcing her to confront what it means to be seen, remembered, or erased.

A fragmented story of unrequited love in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the last colony on Earth, Puerto Rico.

A stream of mysterious rituals and symbols are encountered as a young boy journeys to school in the fantastical world of Kshya Tra Ghya.

In this experimental short film, a young man and woman enter into a relationship with one another and quickly learn the ups and downs of intertwining their life with the one they love.

An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.

Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.

A documentary about the sea and memory. Its movement is its form. Its strength.

The restlessness creeps into a claustrophobic situation where a typist confronts the recorded voice of the writer she works for.

People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Mary Magdalene, konsolerar the oppressed, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, the locals often break out of ethnic song and dance. While tracking a fascist military and his girlfriend to him..

A couple enjoy a hot summer's day together.

A young man named Phillip finds himself in a purgatory reality that's littered with clues of his past life. From the discovery of his own corpse to the mysterious connection with a woman scheduled for an abortion, Phillip slowly reveals this doomed fate by his own hands.

Alinur, a student filmmaker, tries to make a film about the apocalypse for his capstone project. The movie itself happens to be about a mercenary named M who inadvertently causes an apocalypse. As he tries to “create” the destruction of this supposed apocalypse through utilizing technical gimmicks that he has enforced onto the production of the film, this supposed effort also creeps in as a force that starts to “destroy” him, piece by piece. The outcome of it tests the sincerity of not only the film itself but also of the performative efforts that Alinur has made as a filmmaker—even this test might not be as sincere as it seems.

A 16mm experimental short film loosely following a cormorant as it attempts to dry its wings.

An experimental lo-fi love story told through still photographs, an unseen character longingly admires a young woman from afar.