In a dimly lit jazz club, a widower cinephile battles his buried desires. That's until he stumbles upon a mysterious cinema that unveils his suppressed longings and leads him on a journey of self-discovery through his enigmatic reflection.
White flower shoes, a keepsake of the madam, left to the young lady.
Midori, the maid, wants to have these beautiful flower shoes.
With the aim of finding Desire, so-and-so performs a ritual to go down in the depths of himself.
This is not a pipe, it is adolescence in the feminine with its ambiguities, its whims, its desires, its impulses and above all, its very very expensive (and enormous) libido.
After a close friends suicide; Will, a Punk and Post-Punk musician living in the US is struggling with doubts about his relationship, his identity and ultimately what he wants to do in life. Will becomes isolated, reliant on substances and is sent down a path of pain, suffering and existential terror.
A rock radio. A girl on air. Boys with long hair. A dog. There’s love and fragmentation. Nothing is easy. Everything can happen.
It's Tonio's first time in Corsica. He wanders across the island and on dating apps until stumbling upon the Oracle, a user who tells him about gay life in Corsica. Their conversation is reenacted with an actor who seems to connect deeply with the Oracle's story.
A three channel installation of desire.
Embark yourself to embrace temptation with Anna Henderson, a blogger getting out of town to work on her latest article on sexuality. Alone in her mountain retreat she finds out much about her own desires, as it becomes harder and harder to differentiate dream from reality.
A person enters the frame dressed up as a bird. In a dressing room, John Malkovich sheds the costume of Casanova. A young woman's skirt is just as orange as the beak of a zebra finch singing in a cage. White lilies stand at the foot of a statue of the Virgin Mary, red roses in front of the window of an SM studio. There the quiet game of submission in exchange for money, in a museum an embrace, a poem whispered in the ear. Children playing in a forest in autumn. A forest in summer, framed by light. An orgasm and a dance.
Meek factory worker Emma accidentally stumbles into a hidden nocturnal world of passion, mystery and desire but is she really ready for her dreams to come true?
"Sprößling” tells the story of a woman who grows her dreamchild in a flower pot. But the perfect motherhood has unexpected side effects."
Eight-year-old Tilda’s memories of her family as surrealistic visions come into life: the circus member ex-mermaid grandmother, the erotically overheated mother and the disappeared father whose broken heart, anger and jealousy manifest as a rhino. Tilda’s life is full of grotesque, bizarre characters hungry for love.
In Paris, 25-year-old Damien has sex with men who pay him. He also has a life in his housing estate, and tries to keep these two lives as separate as possible. But problems start to arise and Damien feels he must make a choice.
A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol. Four mechanics eye her off and, as one of them walks towards her car, a full-blown erotic fantasy develops.
A girl frustrated by her work begins to realize that she has the power to make her wishes come true. All this leads to a tragic end, not only for her but for all humanity, which she will not be able to remedy.
Serpent in the Bottle is a tragic tale of one young man's desire to conform to societal pressure in the face of his own personal internal conflicts.