Hell Bank Presents: Running Ghost

Hulyo faces a few obstacles on the way to his 8AM exam.

In a futuristic world like earth, androids act, feel and appear like humans. But when Azimov, the dictator of the last remaining city, Syntax, decides to use androids for power, the humans left on this world start to view androids no longer as their equals. In a revolt, the androids aim to escape. Revyn and Ava almost break out until Ava is captured and Revyn is shot. When a scavenger reawakens Revyn in a scrapyard, he must journey far and wide, fight wasteland nomads and maintain what is left of his humanity, in hope of finding Ava.

On the 10th anniversary of his band Rall Tide’s debut album, artist Peter Kotas takes you on a flowering multimedia tour of Detroit musicians trying to survive in a world where you can’t even enjoy a baseball game without supporting The Bay of Pigs. Along the way he shows you how the band’s abrupt break-up led to his career as a political journalist peeking behind the curtains of Kansas to find diplomatic wizard Mike Pompeo, Trump’s CIA Director and Secretary of State, wears no clothes. Iowa Writer’s Workshop hero Kurt Vonnegut (or some entity that knows all about his life) hosts this documentary as the ideal human from his 1985 novel Galapagos: a penguin with flippers unable to pull triggers or press buttons to bomb and kill people.

Fleming, a futuristic cop, saw his daughter kidnapped by Flame and Rain, two aliens that were born out of his own dreams. Much later, the two aliens are kept in cryosleep; but Flemming's daughter is not dead, just a prisoner inside Flame's mind.

Seven’s a downtrodden Junior Creative at a cosmic agency that creates worlds. When he’s unexpectedly gifted the opportunity to create his dream world, he finds himself in a life or death race against the clock to overcome his creative block before his head explodes.

A man purchases a new fridge that automatically prepares food for him. Over the coming days, he discovers that there may perhaps be more to this miraculous appliance than he bargained for.

After failing to make it big as a rock band, four Indian Americans in 1960s San Francisco attempt one last rebrand to ride the hippie wave and finally get their big break.

Nathan is a young musician in London. When he witnesses a terrible crime committed by the Mafia, his life spirals out of control. Dropping his father's guitar at the scene of the crime, he must find a way to reclaim his family legacy.

To mark his passage into manhood, young Ilias is gifted a magical bow by his father and embarks upon a journey into the wilderness to rid the land of evil, all the while battling the witch Ocron, who wishes to steal the bow for her own nefarious ends.

In the year 2150, Johnny, a lazy Space Delivery Man, must deliver a package on a planet he does not fully understand.

A king steals crowns from various other rulers.

In a world where lake monsters exist, we follow the daily life of Giacomo Rosetti, the one who takes care of Isy, the monster of Lake Iseo.

Professor Jeremiah Watson unveils his new serum for the world to see...

Therapy begets new beginnings.

In a surreal universe where bananas fire laser beams and soup cans are used as grenades, a wacky cast of gangsters are thrown into a deadly game to battle it out over a mystical longboard in this trippy take on the Tarantino crime genre.

In post-apocalyptic Yokohama, a hard-boiled cop and a mellowed out drifter hook up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap the cop's son, the wheels are set in motion for an inevitable showdown.

A cynical loner joins a handsome rogue on a drug enhanced odyssey to meet the devil.

One night, while working as a handyman at a bizarre medical facility, a lonely man named Charles meets a young woman named Chloe. The two share an immediate connection as she recounts having met him in a dream. When Chloe disappears, Charles sets out to find her in a strange world that seems intent on keeping them apart.

A group of friends venture into their imagination to find ideas for their school project.

"This is a nice fruit tree here. Why don't you eat from it? " Working from about 2,500 images, all painstakingly drawn and painted and textured onto clear 70mm film leader, Nina Paley’s brilliant, camera-less short film paints the proverbial "Fall from Grace" as a labyrinthine trip through Pandora's box. It is a mad race, a dance with death and a rollicking good time in this raucous, vibrant set of color images shimmering and shimmying over a black background, all to the driving insouciance of Scottish punk rockers the Revillos' "Yeah Yeah."