Cruel Summer

Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing Tobimaru, she brings great misfortune onto the land. Tobimaru soon discovers that Tomamo is actually a kitsune, and now has the task to unmask and kill her to save his land.

"A theatrical anime comedy short based directly on the hit mobile game. Released alongside major theatrical events in Japan, it features an entire army of bizarre, surreal "Nyankos" executing chaotic plans for world dominance on the big screen." A lost media movie, created by PONOS Cooperation. This was a highly exclusive, limited-time interactive attraction, screened only inside physical event venues in Japan. PONOS Cooperation had never released it on DVD, Blu-ray, or any streaming platforms.

A variety-style show designed around Frankie Howerd, featuring musical guests, comedic monologues, and his characteristic interaction with the audience, promising a "star-studded" feel despite his ironic complaints about the lineup.

In 2017, a short anime film called Hypersonic Music Club was produced in Japan. It was directed and written by Osamu Kobayashi, a veteran of the industry who passed away in April 2021. For various reasons, this short anime was never released. It was made public on August 1, 2023.

A Latinoamericano experimental film. The first version of this 1957 film, a single copy drawn and painted directly onto blank 35mm film, was sent to and lost during the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival in 1968 and remade 1989 Desenho Abstrato n° 2!

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

In this recently found and restored banned underground classic from 1984, four girls go into a bathroom to hide in the middle of a war and, after an impulsive act by one of them, they find themselves trapped there. As panic gives way to despair, tragedy approaches.

In the 20th century they called it avant-garde cinema, expanded cinema, kitsch cinema, structural cinema, psychotronic cinema, underground cinema, experimental cinema, kinoeye, cult cinema, lysergic cinema, bizarre cinema, Ahora lo llaman cine de DDLM´S.

The action takes place during the January Uprising. A Russian commander imposed a tribute on a town inhabited by Jews; the money was appropriated by an adjutant, and eleven hostages faced court martial for allegedly failing to pay tribute and forging the commander's signature. A legend is woven into the plot: the sacred number 36 indicates thirty-six righteous. Nameless, unknown to anyone, they live as paupers or simpletons, carrying the burden of the world's sins on their shoulders. A good deed or a miracle that averts misfortune betrays them; however, the perpetrator of the miracle must die. The film has not survived to this day.

Lost Todd Sheets short about a killer using a blender.

A youth waits for his brother to return home from a bloody war. He encounters something very nasty and evil in the basement of his house, claiming his older brother has in fact died.

A documentary produced and directed by Amanda Feilding, an advocate of trepanation. In the film, Feilding, a 27-year-old student at the time, drills a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill. In the documentary, surgical scenes alternate with motion studies of Feilding's pet pigeon Birdie.

15 Thousand Drawings

A lost student film made at Columbia University, plot is unknown.

Lost Media

Photographer Peter Christiansen, University of Miami student, does a picture story at an LSD party on the beach.

During a lonely night, Julia recites a poem about loss, reunion and overcoming.

Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was screened only at Warhol's art exhibits. A fan of the Batman series, Warhol made the movie as a homage. Batman Dracula is considered to be the first film featuring a blatantly campy Batman. The film was thought to have been lost until scenes from it were shown at some length in the documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.

Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the truth, and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would be invaluable for future generations. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, but now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized and they'll be searchable online.

An unedited memory card from a camera shows Leah Sullivan's school project about a cold case murder that doesn't seem to be so cold after all.