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This debut experimental short film features a young woman trapped in the Midwest, and explores her views on life, and how she is perceived.
A journey into the complexity of life and the facade of old city doors, an attempt to convey the voice of those people behind the gates telling their stories.
A fragmented reflection on memory, love, and emotional limbo, unfolding through fleeting images and a drifting voice that questions their reliability.
A young girl experiences compulsive hair pulling and confronts her fear and shame associated with the disorder.
A japanese salaryman finds himself trapped in a spiral of routine and despair inside a society obsessed with progress and efficiency, where work becomes a silent ritual and industrial machinery their god.
Pet Shop works as an experiment on regret and suffering. A juxtaposition of a dog in a pet shop and a window. Narrated from the perspective of God, or the Devil, the text recounts discussions a person has had with Him. The person accuses Him of destroying his life. This could be for a sin, a murder, or for falling in love with a person of the same sex.
Some people are never happy, regardless of money and love. Eb wants to bribe politicians to win his election. Tabitha, a spoiled, bratty teenager, is constantly bugging her father for a new car at ANY cost, which results in dire consequences for the young girl. Leo is a professional working man who gets into a relationship with a selfish woman. Greed is a movie which gets into many characters' lives, the ones mentioned above and more, and shows how greed can ruin a person, no matter how old.
As a war threatens mankind, a pair of roommates tries to outlive a few crabs that they had purchased for a party.
This is the story of a sailor. How he got lost at sea, and found his way back.
An experimental short film that contrasts the beauty and intrinsic optimism of the coming of Spring with the grimy digital textures of lo-fi video. Backed by an atmospheric soundscape of distant birdsong, distorted static, and otherworldly sounds, the work explores evocative and contemplative themes of reminiscence, nostalgia and environmentalism.
Victor Neff moves into a new apartment and discovers a strange machine in the basement. Made of scrap metal, wires, and old television sets, it allows him to enter other people's dreams. But dreams are not empty, they are crowded with secrets, fears, and the dreamers themselves. - Based on the critically acclaimed point-and-click adventure game by Cockroach Inc.
In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.
Short Super 8mm film reflections on Hollywood Blvd with Orkgotik.
An omnibus film based on Kim Oki's album Hip Hop Retreat. Twenty characters share the same table at different times, in different emotional states, each with their own story. Shot in one day, edited in one day.
During Thanksgiving week, two college friends interview a group of students who have seen the ghost of a deceased father.
A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film unfolds mimicking a game of telephone, where sound’s feeble transmissibility is proven as the story bends and weaves to human interpretation and miscommunication. The result is a stunning contribution to cinematic language. O’Daniel has developed a syntax of deafness that offers a complex, overlaid, surprising new texture, which offers a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned private investigator – Marley’s search for what really happened leads her down a treacherous maze of deception and betrayal.
An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival....
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.
When an unexpected road rage incident puts his son in critical condition, an enraged father spirals down a dark path of emotional turmoil and vengeance.
A married couple on the brink of divorce becomes trapped in quicksand while hiking through a Colombian rainforest. It’s a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and must work together in order to escape.
Winter, 1843. A young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family's matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless forces behind the tragedy.
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences.
After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
A young woman seeking self-improvement enlists the help of a renowned hypnotist but, after a handful of intense sessions, discovers unexpected and deadly consequences.
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
As São Paulo erupts in an unprecedented wave of violence, a lawyer with underworld ties must strike a deal with the police to rescue her kidnapped niece.
An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
