Parallel of Dreams

Haiku 27

The story follows the lead singer of a punk rock band who is haunted by an enigma of a woman after a terrifying encounter with the newest street drug, Black Toad.

David Bono is a hitman hired to target Orshanabi Nazzar, a high-ranking priest-bureaucrat in a temple corporation in the fictional city of Babylonia (Brussels-based). The corporation has invented a way to avoid death by recording people's lives. While gathering information and preparing for the job, David meets Ellie, with whom they slept together. However, Ellie is a member of a cult called Children of Ishtar, and David's job would interrupt their life-recording ceremony. Facing an obsessive dilemma, David tries to find a way to do his mission without killing Ellie. First, he tries to convince Ellie not to attend the ceremony, and then he hires a local crook to kidnap her while he does the job. After the successful job, Ellie frees herself from the kidnapper, discovers the truth, and leaves for Akkadia. Meanwhile, David calls to receive the rest of his payment but gets ambushed by the contractor.

The arms company PLY-Industries suddenly has every reason to be concerned: dozens of employees in the bacteriological war research department are unknowingly infected with the new psycho-drug "Return-3". When the side effects, such as anxiety and hysteria, manifest themselves in telepathic abilities, the company takes action. A mass layoff is followed by a veritable purge. Specially hired hit squads are tasked with clearing out the infected before they can jeopardize the company's monopoly position and image. One of these killers, Verve Helios, penetrates deeper and deeper into a swamp of drugs, violence and perversion during his "jobs". Helios, the "Cleaner", discards all forms of discipline and conscience and becomes a major threat to everyone involved...

An electric transition. The void left by a vice disguised as false promise to escape, is reclaimed by a new frequency, louder, colder, more transcending: C.R.Y.S.T.A.L. (Cognitive Rupture Yielding Synthetic Trance and Luminality). Through a synesthesia of stroboscopic light and sound pulses that pierce the viewer's consciousness, this short film is a sensorial trance that documents the disintegration of an individual. There's no narrative, only the vibration of a substance that reprograms the body until light is the only thing left within them. A feedback loop where the flash is, at the same time, consumption and the end of being.

Devland, a scrappy punk who has had psychic visions of a girl his whole life, finally meets her, Mal, piercings and attitude and all. Their chemistry is instant, but when he finds out she's moving across the country and won't stay for a man she just met, he'll do whatever it takes to keep her.

A young woman on the run must survive a news cycle frenzy in order to escape a dangerous plot involving a notorious girl gang.

Cara de Ángel's sexuality is about to explode. His masculinity is constantly being tested, threatened by Colorete and the pack from his neighborhood. To prove his manhood, he joins a robbery; however, driven by his hormones and his attraction to Gabriela and Johnny, a punk singer, his plans will change.

Late Bloomer is the story of Sumida-san, a severely handicapped man, and his downward spiral into hell.

After being tricked into burning his cash on the stock market, a man embarks on an odyssey through the business underworld with a single goal: revenge.

A teenage skateboarder suffering from a recent family tragedy comes up with a money-making scheme that embroils him in something far bigger than he ever dreamed. Only his mum and emo ex-girlfriend can save him from a terrifying fate.

EMO SUPERSTAR finds himself stuck in the city of Las Vegas after the rapture has occurred on Earth. A low life ex drug dealer primarily selling SSP (Soul Sucking Piss), tries to find Jesus, heaven, and God. He attempts to escape sin city, traveling through the desert, and the suburbs in order to find redemption. Temptations of drugs, sex, and freedom whisper in his ear as he falls in love with a beaten up old sex doll.

A punk guy, gifted with perfect pitch, invites various people in his recording studio to participate to his odd project.

In a city consumed by violence, a cowboy walks through dark corridors in search of his missing partner. Between torture, revenge, and supernatural forces, something far greater seems to be watching him from the shadows.

Ireneo de Valpo

Los demenciales chicos acelerados. Pt 2: Barcelona y alrededores

Rebellious and outspoken Kat befriends lonely introvert Amanda, but when a bully from Kat's past outs her against her will, their budding friendship is put to the test.

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

The ghost of a delinquent punk befriends an odd young girl who lives in the house that he haunts. After encouraging her to skip school as well as her meds, he finds himself the only one who can protect her from both the living and the dead.

Alkaline Trio performing at the House of Blues in Las Vegas on their 2008 "Agony & Irony" tour.