Opus #5

Sombras de Thule

Pirelli Film's first promotional short, starring John Malcovich and Naomi Campbell.

Clown work. Features a noise soundtrack by Dead Bait, Anthony Boobier.

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.

The Sin as a dream? A dream that is stolen and being controlled? A bizarre Trip between dream and reality. Welcome to the witch house of Gretel F.

A costume designer is sent to the Catskills for an interactive theatre piece set in the 1920s. When she arrives things seem dark, strange and off. She soon realizes she is part of a student film.

The film shows an event immediately preceding and following an act of extreme violence.

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.

A young man befriends a limping demon to get rid of a woman who's after him.

Late at night, a man washes his hands. Things go downhill from there.

Ian Haig’s The Foaming Node essays the discovery and emergence of new bodily organs in meticulous and captivating detail. We follow the last remaining observers, members of a cult of sorts, who have experienced both the transmissions of The Foaming Node, and their own personal and strange bodily transformations. They discuss exactly how the changes associated with The Foaming Node have affected them, telling fascinating, visceral, detailed tales that reach beyond science, alternative medicine, and corporeality.

A young model falls victim to a sadistic cult of sexual slavery, snuff tapes and black magic.

David struggles with the aftermath of a tragic accident and his innocent musings of feeling powerless slowly turn into a bizarre nightmare.

A woman goes hunting night after night, looking for someone, anyone, to satisfy her hunger in an alienating urban landscape.

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

Artist Statement: "Lovesick" is an abstract analysis of idealization, objectification, and the Other; a dark fantasy peering into how we view and explore the complex darkness of human sexuality.

Filmed before his feature-length Arrebato, Zulueta’s Frank Stein is a personal reading of horror cult classic Frankenstein (1931), filmed directly from its television broadcast and reducing Whale’s original to only three packed and dizzying minutes, during which the film's sensitive monster evolves at an unusual rate.

A short experimental cutup film by Jon Moritsugu.

A young man walks into a meticulously clean and sterile bathroom and proceeds to shave away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene. Many film critics have interpreted the young man's process of self-mutilation as a metaphor for the self-destructive involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War.