After a meetup goes wrong, a sex worker is killed, and her killer undergoes a series of increasingly bizarre and surreal tasks to rid himself of a haunting spirit.
Imagine if David Lynch cast a pensioner or a mummified figure from Pompeii as the star of an experimental short film, and that's what 'Absence' comes close to.
An anthology of surrealist 3D animations set to music by Japanese visual artist, musician, and game developer Osamu Sato.
In this surreal multimedia deconstruction of The Simpsons, Hommer deals with his guilt and masculinity after killing his baby, as the world disassembles around him.
This is a story about a man who believes that he has two “selves” - external and internal. That is, an organism is a certain conglomerate of cells, each of which is a separate individual. This hybrid creature has a certain common personal “I” that uses the entire organism, and is the organism itself, which has its own will. According to the character, one can communicate with him, which is what he is trying to do. He wants to reach him and comes up with different ways of communication: injecting substances under the skin or intravenously, tattooing texts on the body, swallowing objects. The answer would come in the form of a rash or other physical manifestation that had to be interpreted. As a result, communication is carried out and the second “I” agrees to die.
A rural school bus driver turns to theft but is held accountable for his actions.
A dream-like animated short. A woman cries, and her tears undergo a beautiful metamorphosis.
Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of love, what it means, and why it matters.
A short experimental film that thematizes dreams and nightmares in a surrealistic way. The basis of the movie is found in the poetry created by the two directors, so the film partly seems like stringed lyrical motifs, open to arbitrary interpretation, giving the impression of poetic images arranged in sequences. Combined techniques were used, so in addition to recording with a camera, pixilation, object animation, collage and liquid animation are featured.
A lonely man tries to enjoy a regular evening
A tour through a labyrinth of mysteriously linked Los Angeles McMansions circa Y2K provides a dreamlike glimpse into the lives of five unique women who live behind the front gates.
Quinn is a burnt-out college student on the verge of a breakdown while seemingly trapped inside her major’s building. Losing faith in herself, she becomes encompassed in a battle of her mind as her alter ego presents her with a box and a choice to make that will change her life forever.
A small figure discovers that he is not alone, and he goes on a quest to find the other.
A man in distress.
On a historical grave site, a teenage girl with low self-esteem, a white rapper, and the ghost of a confederate soldier become entangled in a love triangle.
An animated film based on the painting about Max Ernst of the same title, he said that a “fevervision” he had experienced when he was sick with measles as a child inspired him to compose the haunting scene that unfolds in Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale. Merging collage and painting, he affixed a wooden gate, parts of a toy house, and a knob to a dreamlike painted landscape. A blue sky dominates the composition, and in it a small nightingale hovers above two young girls. The painting features what would come to be identified as the defining preoccupations of Surrealism, a movement in which Ernst was a central figure: dreams and the unconscious; sexuality (as represented, for example, by the girl’s phallic knife); and incongruous juxtapositions.
The protagonist is haunted by cruel forces. Or is it all just a bad dream?