The Acrobat

Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Watson’s avant-garde film is a unique example of dadaist aesthetics in early sound cinema. A minimalist and virtually expressionless acting style on a claustrophobic set characterizes the melodramatic love triangle. Watson considered the film a failure, though it appears extremely modern today, and suppressed its existence. - Jan-Christopher Horak

The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack, a mix of animation and acted scenes tells the story of Youth and Love meeting one night. They dance, embrace, and kiss. As the night wears on, exuberant Death, a skeletal figure with a violin, pursues the couple. They try to elude him. Eventually, Love swoons. Youth is powerless to protect her. Is she doomed?

A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot to fame, A Society Sensation was cut down to a meek 24 minutes so the lead would be in every scene. Title cards tried to make up for the lost scenes.

Based on the sadomasochistic novel by Dominique Aury, "Story of O", tells the story of a voluntary female submission.

In a quiet neighborhood of a small town we find a family in turmoil as a man struggles for balance in his relations to himself and his family. Wrestling an inferno of emotions he ventures into himself, finding the most primal of all truths... ...the beast within.

Young Nazi skinhead, Väinö, comes home from prison. Mother is not around, but big brother is. Big brother is not telling whereabouts of mother, but for some reason there's a lot raw meat around the apartment.

A young Jewish artist has shunned his heritage. Upon the realization that he is alone, doubting humanity's willingness to extend help to one another, he has been referred to as a wimp, subsequently resulting in a fear of weakness and being incapable.

A fire captain struggles with memories that haunt him, even after 20 years.

"Poor Mother" is a Serbian melodrama film.

A short drama directed by Holger Mandel.

For Flow

To save his ailing son from certain death, a father voluntarily sells himself into slavery through an underground corporation. After entering into a contract with the company, he learns of more sinister intentions that threaten the life of not only himself, but his family as well.

In South Los Angeles, a young mother's love for her daughter is put to the test.

Bob is a longtime, aging taxi driver. Josh, his last fare for the night is a young man who has had everything handed to him in life and is discovering it's all unraveling. The two men could not be more different. But when Josh begins to divulge his grievances to Bob the two quickly discover that they share a dark and destructive bond that will change their lives in an instant.

A series of 3 shortfilms, shot for Canal+ and broadcasted during Cannes Film Festival 2005, starring Eva Herzigova.

Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.

“Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both laugh. Meantime the man in the chair is shaved and has his hair cut. Very funny.” (Edison's Latest Wonders, 1894)

An insane man first loves then grows to hate his neighbor, an old man whose penetrating gaze unnerves the insane man. He plans a perfect crime and executes it one night. The next day, two officers knock on the insane man's door, investigating a shriek heard in the night. The insane man invites them in, answers their questions, and submits to an examination of his eyes by one of the officers, who proclaims him innocent. The insane man invites them to stay and relax awhile, then regales them with his theories of crime. His heart begins to beat louder. Angles on the set are skewed to suggest the man's internal disarray.