National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham.
Whilst a boy mourns the passing of his younger brother, hope of unity is found in his grief.
Marya Lamotte is a famous photographer who recreates scenes from her dreams, starring herself, and immortalizes them in pictures. Marya, desperate new dream inspiration, suddenly finds herself suffering from insomnia. Her live-in boyfriend, Sheldon, tries to help her get through the darkest moment of her art career. With Sheldon's support, Marya finds a new world in her dream life that infuses fresh energy into her work. But Marya's happiness is short-lived as shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Eventually Marya wakes up and understands the disturbing secret behind her new dreams.
Two people attempt to connect over a great distance.
A young man on the brink of irrevocable despair crosses paths with a mysterious messenger, who warns him that his future is in danger and urges him to reconcile his past in order to save himself.
After two men find the corpse of a woman in their back garden tensions rise as they debate about what exactly they should do next.
FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises, and deformities, throughout.
A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he hook up with someone? Borrowing the form of a diary-movie, the director unfurls an unpredictable and imaginative look into his own persona. 8mm experimental film by Murakami Kenji, the film that made his name.
A slow and ugly fairy tale based on the drawings of inmates at a psychiatric clinic where LaLoux worked.
2 flatmates unfold the layers of their relationship on a random Sunday afternoon after they encounter a power cut.
A young couple's honeymoon is disrupted by the groom's childhood obsession with Mother Goose. Unable to consummate the marriage, they head off to the psychiatrist, where the fun really begins.
A socially awkward, neurodivergent youth struggles to adapt at a social gathering that quickly takes a turn into the uncanny and surreal.
A student moves into their accomodation, only to find their room already decorated, a strange, inhuman flatmate, and a kettle that won't stop boiling.
A loop of a guy in Maine hanging out in his room.
In a dimly lit jazz club, a widower cinephile battles his buried desires. That's until he stumbles upon a mysterious cinema that unveils his suppressed longings and leads him on a journey of self-discovery through his enigmatic reflection.
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Images of our Earth appear, woods, a part of a body, a nude woman perhaps giving birth. Imagery evokes movement across time. Part of the Dog Star Man series of experimental films.
Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and the ghost's present-day guardian. In fact, the two characters seem to be the shade of Anton Chekhov and the young man who tends a Chekhov museum in the Crimea, though that is never made explicit."
A woman returns to her childhood home following her father's death, and begins to remember the horrors of her past.
The restlessness creeps into a claustrophobic situation where a typist confronts the recorded voice of the writer she works for.
A young woman finds herself stuck with a clump in her head. Unsure what to do about it, she roams the streets of Dublin in an attempt to rid herself of the monotonous thuds and escape her roommate's acting practise. Safe travels you old clump.