The Achalunés

The Searcher and The Spark meet.

'Is it a plaisir' is an experimental short film that explores femininity and the body as a sharp territory, crossed by the tension between desire and imposition. Through symbolic, sound and visual saturation, the film acts from pleasure (plaisir), revealing a liberation that emerges in the midst of excess, where intensity and lightness, dark and light, intertwine, collide and converge.

Count Romansky is a newspaper columnist who specializes in romance issues. When he loses his job, he opens up a school where he instructs his pretty pupils on affairs of the heart.

A family vacation and birthday celebration in Skagen, Denmark, is beset by the unexpected.

A girl returns home in the middle of the night. In one of the streets she finds a mysterious chair that catches her attention. The girl, attracted by curiosity, approaches to rock it. That little gesture will wake up something disturbing.

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstrates his working method.

man gets hired to steal a valuable item but does not know what it is

Amidst a series of female kidnappings, Samantha has a date with a mysterious man she knows very little about.

When a Photographer sees a figure in one of the photos, unsettling events uncoil itself through the supernatural.

Hard-boiled private eye Hamilton Drake is called in by notorious society dame Georgia Thurlow to chase down the rat who's been blackmailing her and a famous movie star. But in this sapphic underworld, nothing is ever black and white.

After inheriting a mysterious old clown doll from her late grandmother, a drifting twenty-something conducts a late-night ritual with friends and discovers that one of them is not who they seem.

In the stillness of the night, a disillusioned man pours out his thoughts to a silent companion: a perspective on life, death and poetry.

Past and present collide when a mythical beast is reawakened by a couple exploring a historic castle on the Isle of Man.

This short film, built around a randomly chosen name and composed of scenes shot within a single room over the course of three hours, features an introspective monologue that was shaped and adapted during the editing process. The narrative aligns closely with the emotional tone and visual rhythm of the piece, particularly in harmony with the non-original music selection, Maggot Brain by Funkadelic.

PLAVE 'Dash' in Cinema

A woman tries to keep her family together when her son falls ill after he's bitten by a mysterious creature.

After discovering his eviction notice, a tricycle driver goes on a desperate hunt for money.

A loose interpretation of the poem of the same name by Dutch poet M. Vasalis, "Time" follows a grieving man who is plagued by a strange and prophetic dream.

During the annual blackout, a couple says goodbye in a taxi.

A poetic, semi-autobiographical short film of the sun setting over a village, shot from behind the curtains of a small, dimly lit room.