Clarity

A short film about creation and how it doesn't always go to plan.

An abstract horror artefact conceptualising trans doubt and dysphoria as a physically invasive force - a virus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewaVwmReGKM

A washed up actor performs night after night in a grimy theater to a nearly empty audience. However, everything changes when a clueless dog jumps on stage.

The light's in a student's room begin to shut off around him. He must escape the room before he is swallowed by darkness.

ONE NIGHT IN HELL

An experimental and video art film in which an ox is butchered by a butcher.

Surreal environments take center stage in this visual odyssey.

An experimental film documenting a river leading up to a waterfall, depicting both its natural beauty and its inherent danger.

Upon becoming aware of an ancestor guilty of several cruel acts who bore a striking resemblance to himself, a man begins to fear he too could be capable of similar sadistic deeds.

A teenage boy is forced into making a decision within 60 seconds between a possible death, or being pulled into an unknown reality.

First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London.

A sequel of Be a Patient. Cherry is a nurse in a torture room, while living her normal life. She contributes to a gruesome action.

Pigpen has a snore. Bailey has a lot of nerve. And Curt Garrish has a gun.

Trapped and alone, a young man must confront the pain he's ignored when he finds himself face-to-face with consequence.

Trapped between the frames of time.

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

Four friends leave Seattle for a weekend in a remote, rain-soaked corner of Washington State's rustic Skagit Valley. The foreboding October landscape begins to warp their minds, plunging each of them into alternate realities where they must grapple with personal demons, sexual tensions, and a sinister natural world as they claw their way back to sanity.

Dealing with his pill addiction, Jinn suffers from vivid nightmares, featuring a monster that plagues his everyday life.

Inspired by their putrid desire for this butch hustler named Hollywood, this queer triptych follows a clan of revolutionary femmes as they are driven to righteous violence. It’s pro-drug anti-fascist queer propaganda in gorgeous Super 8mm!

A girl wanders her apartment deep into the night attacked by visions of Mother.