The story is set in communist Prague of 1950s, a banal coincidence sends a math student Adam on a quest to find the famous Prague Golem and bring it back to life. In an old anatomy book, he finds an old photograph, which shows a group of people standing with a tall dark figure in the back. He also meets mysterious Mr. Moller, who pretends to know the secret of bringing Golem to life. In the ruins of an old hotel, he finds an enormous figure, but the Golem that awakes is not the obedient servant of Rabbi Löwe – it is an ever-growing shapeless figure of clay can even defeat human ingenuity. Adam has to stand up against the person behind and stop the hidden machine of the hotel.
“Belladonna Museum” is a short film that portrays a personal experience of a transgender woman in a tragic love relationship: it is a visual poetry that reinterprets iconic paintings from surrealism and post-impressionism to address themes such as emotional dependence, loneliness, objectification, the attachment and the abuse both emotional and physical.
A man is haunted successively by seven women who have lost their keys. He reacts to the request that he be allowed to use the toilet with increasing helplessness and despair, which is discharged in violence.
A young woman’s connection with the life force of nature. Using her taxidermy talents to “return” the animals to their natural habitat. But the true search for answers begins when she finds a roll of undeveloped film in each of the animals that she treats.
Sixteen-year-old Joanna has been living with her overbearing Aunt Martha in a low-income NYC tenement building ever since a violent outburst left her fighting a feeling she can only describe as the "darkness." Little did she know that weeks after moving in, a biological threat from the Soviet Union would leave the building boarded up and the tenants locked inside. It's been one month since they were first sequestered. With food dwindling and Martha's controversial role as leader expanding, Joanna realizes that she must face both her darkness and her aunt in order to save the tenants. But can she take on the leadership without letting the darkness take over her entirely?
After opening a chest of memories, a girl narrates events from chilean dictatorship and the murder of Nadia Fuentes Concha through the figure of bread, which is present in chilean everyday life.
An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.
A woodsman runs amok.
An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
Vivi finds herself in a mysterious world and must face an ominous Queen to unlock the secrets of this mystical world, as well as her own existence. Under the Rainbow is a psychedelic dark fantasy/horror adventure.
A nameless scavenger finds a body in the swamp. Moss is set on fire. The horror of being alive leads to a loving embrace. We might be seeing the beginning of a new life or perhaps a nightmare that endlessly repeats itself. Starring Paul Soileau (aka Christeene, Rebecca Havemeyer) & Llywyn Máire. This dark fairy tale was filmed in glorious 16mm, in the late 1990s, and then remastered, with an original score by Curtis Heath, in 2019.
Toxic Temptation is a short art film combining a poetic spoken word and strong cinematic visuals rich with subtext, debating the inability of a woman to find love based on fairytale expectations and her own life choices.
If you repeat the word 'fly' for long enough it sounds like you are saying 'life'. This is of no help to Peter. His answers lie in the brain of the beetle.
In this follow-up to his stop-motion hit Western Spaghetti, director PES transforms familiar objects into Fresh Guacamole.
Characters morph into objects and each other in this stop motion animation made with sand.
"Travelling Through Brush and Ink" is a stop-motion animation of a little modern man traveling through four significant ancient Chinese paintings, transforming himself into animals and plants, and becomes part of the nature. Each painting represents four important stages of landscape art in Chinese history. Based on the original paintings, we built the sets and animated little character inside- all frame by frame. The animation is the opening film of 2016 annual exhibition National Palace Museum Taiwan.
Life can arise anywhere, nature behaves strangely and days can last for minutes. Although everything is familiar to us, nothing is what it seems in this place. The cycle of life seen from a different perspective.
When Tom shows up late to an assessment, he’s thrown into an unexpected, surreal purgatory-like place called L.I.M.B.O. Trapped in this strange, bizarre state, he’s forced to confront his habits, face the consequences of procrastination and find a way to move forward - or risk being stuck in L.I.M.B.O forever…
Mankind can no longer reproduce because of gene manipulation aimed at making life longer. The clones ruling the bottomless underworld may have become fertile. Parton is selected to go on a mission through a subterranean labyrinth crawling with monsters to secure humanity's future.
Surreal dark comedy about a man's journey through his fears and desires. After his gift to his girlfriend Lana (Elena Saorin) is poorly received, Ray (Adam Ezagouri) lets himself wander down a dark path.