The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers

Images from 2000s music videos are transferred onto the film strip, torn and abstracted until the visuals convulse and shift—a tactile, poetic exploration of materiality, memory, and medium.

A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours its environs). He deserts his rural home for the imagined joys of urban life.

Do you really go to heaven when you die? It’s just air; you would fall down! Seven-year-old Christoffer and his sick grandfather discuss death. The grandfather thinks that you probably go to the moon. When his grandfather dies Christoffer builds a rocket to visit him on the moon.

Manolo and María. They live together and love each other. He loves to constantly play pranks on her. She is very patient and has a great sense of humor. But Manolo doesn't realize that when you play a prank, you have to accept all the consequences.

He is conductor on the railcar to Vänersborg. She is a conductor on the Herrljunga train. For two minutes once a week, their trains stop at the same platform.

Theo and Louis, two gay gentlemen, embark on a train journey to Paxmal. They are carrying an urn - it is the last journey for a friend. On their way deep into the Swiss Alps the two men, struggling with their fate, meet various people. While some of these people remind Theo and Louis again of the beautiful things in life, others confront them with ghosts from the past.

A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.

Madrid, Spain. A mutilated man, a war veteran, walks, leaning on a crutch, through the stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria, a place that still preserves in walls and buildings the terrifying traces of one of the bloodiest battles of the Spanish Civil War.

Mike is trapped in an elevator. His only solution is "The Cloud" an Operating System Phone which saves a copy of his brain.

Filmed to praise the work of the Spanish Ministry of Housing in solving the problem of shanty towns in Bilbao, it was made to be viewed by General Franco and not for public screening or distribution through the NO-DO newsreel. Although the short film was commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, director Jorge Grau produced a subtly critical work.

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting.

A woman struggles to reconcile the prospects of raising her unborn child alone, and her fears become vivid nightmares.

In the homogenous world of Liberty High School, Justin Meyers has a dark secret: he's straight. In this parallel universe where gay is the norm, Homecoming is only day's away. Bobby, the most popular guy in school, wants Justin to be his date. But will Joanne, a quiet beauty from Biology class, out Justin's true feelings before the dance?

Something pierces the boredom and unconscious dailiness of life for a young woman working in a dress shop.

Reflections in a surrealist tone about the art of cinema.

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A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.