an abstract short film about a boy left alone
A desperate woman experiments with leaving reality within the digital technology of today and yesterday.
Charlie is a failed writer who tries to conceive fresh ideas for his new script. Meanwhile, his roomate Emi will try to help with some ambitious (if not stupid) attempts.
Precariado
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.
The consequences of the lockdown during COVID-19, putting the minds of two beings in an apartment to the test.
A birthday spent in solitude turns into a haunting descent into the self, where silence grows louder than any scream.
Alone. Empty. Followed. How fast does fear make you run?
The Smiling Man descends into hell, and, trapped in the walls of his own homosexual longing, he must now confront his motherly obsession.
While you wait to hear if they'll pay your claim, there is almost nothing like the silent buzz at the other end of the line. Or when you say something that requires a response and the world says back, "no worries". There's an art to miscommunication, unthinking, the void, and the customer service call. Phoning it in might just be a necessary part of life. This rough-edged sketch mixing performance art living and film is a study of the phone call, American doofiness, and blank minds under the reign of the corporate call script. Everyone is impotent in the institutional setting.
Isaac travels to Mount Moriah with his father to make a sacrifice to God.
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.
Alta Morte
A cine-essay about the ego death and consciousness rebirth.
It's just another day at school until everyone disappears. A boy tries to find out what happened, but falls into a spiral of unspeakable madness.
Das Ziegenkäsemachen aus der Sicht der Ziege
Procedurally-generated frames slowly expand in density to visually explore the mind of a psychopathic, narcissistic teenager, up until the demise of the subject.
A failed writer relives the past since he's unable to write something new. His search for inspiration will make him delve into his mind and face his internal conflict.
Atali'i O Le Crezent (Sons of the Crezent)
A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When lovely exchange student Frenchy slips through the door, the diminuitive King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the Hercules family and friend Squeezit Henderson to rescue her.