Of Cats & Women

A young woman brings a friend over for family dinner...

Ana, a poor woman, agrees to be locked in an anechoic chamber, the most silent place in the world.

A radical remix of the recent Transformers film, via synthetic collapse and critical revenge on its old & new fascist tropes > celebrating SPEED. NOISE. + DANGER. The fervent declarations & violent poetry of the Futurists are superimposed on the mythic morphology of the Autobot blockbuster’s machine mayhem. Images of death & destruction reign in a delirium of transformations as, to quote Marinetti: “We Decompose the Universe!”

When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night’s work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Desperate, she reaches out to the last person she wants to ask for a favour.

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.

The main character of the picture - military scientist Major Kovpaev Sergey Alexandrovich is working on a secret government project codenamed "Cerebrum". He is so passionate about his research that he does not notice how from year to year he is moving more and more away from his family, bringing work to the fore. By a tragic coincidence, Sergei's family gets into a car accident, during which both of his sons are killed, and his wife is in critical condition in intensive care. Realizing the depth of his loss and blameing himself for what happened, the protagonist decides to take advantage of the ghostly opportunity to realize the results of his ten-year research.

When Brian meets Amy after a night out on the town, things move a lot faster than he'd anticipated.

A homeless eats a strange biscuit and begins to hallucinate; everything around him becomes an evil space.

Different people visit an oracle that has wish granting powers.

Struggling with the pressures of homophobia when her partner is taken away by a hateful mother, a young gay woman struggles to cope with the traumas and anxieties of her life. Her dreams descend, taking the shape of shadows which reach into her life.

Two prisoners have the perfect escape plan but something unexpected happens that changes everything.

90s, in the middle of the night, while a narcissistic policeman and his clumsy intern stand guard on a street, a thief comes to completely disrupt their evening…

A teenage boy tries to hide from a sinister figure prowling around the house.

Sága is a strange, withdrawn, androgynous young girl. She has no friends and spends most of her time locked away at home. But Sága wasn't always like this; her life and personality changed dramatically at puberty when a terrible curse took hold of her. For years, she has managed to hide her dark secret from the world... But for how much longer?

While exploring the local area Jill discovers a small Chinese box in an antique shop and takes it home to add to her collection. Over the next few days Jill's dreams become troubled, turning into disturbing nightmares that stay with her when she wakes. After being prescribed sleeping pills the nightmares seem to fade and Jill begins to relax. Then the waking dreams return, far more intense than before, blurring Jill's perception of reality.

El Camino del Diablo

A woman wakes up and makes breakfast.

A U.S. Marshal travels abroad to confront a Texas fugitive hiding in England.

In this allegory about paradise lost, Ildze yearns to find peace and fulfilment by moving from the city to the countryside. However, her thoughts are consumed by the illness of her child, her estrangement from her husband and his absence. In the meantime, Ildze’s grief is enveloped by nature’s promise of comfort, which never arrives. She tries to understand where to find the beginning of the cycle of sacrifice and where to find its end. And who is her victim, or is it herself?

An ideologically opposed couple attempt to survive a home invasion by a masked assailant on the single most dangerous night of the year...