After her boyfriend leaves for the night, a curious young woman is left alone to deal with the horrors of her mental health.
Struggling to finish her late father's novel, a young writer blurs the lines of reality while planning an impromptu wintry getaway with a childhood friend.
Katie has escaped an abusive household with her dog and younger sister Haley, in exchange for a less than ideal temporary housing environment. They soon realize that someone is too eager to welcome them to the neighborhood.
Deep in an ocean facility, Aryanna, must face the unknown, as drips from water-tight air vents and scratches from within empty cells drive her to the brink of madness.
Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child who becomes obsessed with taxidermy.
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
A young girl experiences the horrors of getting her first period.
Jamie struggles at work, contributing to her alcoholism. Meanwhile, her neighbor, David, has a growing obsession with pornography. Soon, each of their habits become all consuming as they sink into the horrors of addiction.
An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.
A night of tortured and solitary sleep, in which fears unfold and a bell tolls.
This is an amateur student mood piece comprised of footage I've filmed with my Camcorder at uni over the course of the first half of 2023. The prompt given for this was 'belonging' and so I've gravitated it around the premise of navigating a place that you feel as though you don't belong in, to the point where you become detached and alienated from your own identity. - Toby.
Mara—the spirit of the night, the weaver of darkened dreams—pressed upon my chest as sleep held me captive. My memory. In the haze of a dream, I saw those I loved, their faces bathed in an otherworldly glow. The nightmare was not the shadows nor the fear they whispered, but the cruel certainty of waking—of losing them to the morning light
In Bloom is an abstract Gothic Romance short film by writer-director Christopher Rosica, blending experimental cinema with the timeless themes of love, loss, and memory. Crafted with a meticulous attention to atmosphere, the film offers a haunting exploration of the boundaries between the living and the dead. Shot in evocative black-and-white on a Fujifilm XT-30 by up-and-coming cinematographer, Xuepei Hou, In Bloom pays homage to the aesthetic traditions of visionary filmmakers such as Bergman, Tarkovsky, and Fellini, while drawing narrative inspiration from literary icons like Mary Shelley and Henry James.
After discovering her boyfriend's plan to propose on their weekend vacation, a young woman undergoes a crisis of commitment which attracts the attention of a sinister cult.
A funny reflection in a mirror has a funny consequence.
An abstract short film about an alien invasion.
Jack, a failing writer, spends his days waiting for his big break. But when that day arrives with a lost tooth, he begins to spiral into a habit of self-mutilation and delusion.
A girl gets ready for a ritual.
Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught teenager performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.
After years of routinely smoking to relieve stress, Veronica notices her body rotting from the inside out.