Menschen in Gespensterkostümen(2024)

The Royal Secret(en)

Ten includes all other numbers. It is called the number of perfection, or the sacred number.

Dantes Traum von der Hölle(de)

An attempt to bring texts from Dante's "Divine Comedy" to life. Nine episodes from the Inferno with a concluding episode from the Purgatorio.

The Garden, the Artist, & the Vampire(en)

Inspired by Edvard Munch's "Hands"

Consummation(en)

When the world's first woman conceives, she must use her blood-soaked hands to gain enlightenment.

Wild House(en)

Laura, 16, is held hostage by her father who believes she is possessed because she is pregnant.

Shapeless Tracking(es)

Inside a computer a space-time is revealed in which image and sound become numbers and motion manifests as rhythm, flow and chaos. This tracking and integration experiment removes the superficial identity of video to detect kinetic disturbances in everyday environment.

"DOG" a short film by shinrabit(en)

A short film about creation and how it doesn't always go to plan.

Friend of the World(en)

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.

An Experiment in Image and Form(en)

Trapped between the frames of time.

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest(en)

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

Piecemeal(de)

An approaching loss threatens the of a middle-class family, whose dark secrets gradually come to light and begin to gnaw away at the family members - literally.

Cain Rose Up(en)

Pigpen has a snore. Bailey has a lot of nerve. And Curt Garrish has a gun.

Subsurface(en)

Trapped and alone, a young man must confront the pain he's ignored when he finds himself face-to-face with consequence.

Beyond Doubt(en)

Upon becoming aware of an ancestor guilty of several cruel acts who bore a striking resemblance to himself, a man begins to fear he too could be capable of similar sadistic deeds.

A Visual Poem(xx)

Surreal environments take center stage in this visual odyssey.

Peckish(en)

A young couple struggling with infertility seeks the aide of a healer with a promised remedy, while unknown forces also work to provide them with what they wish.

ONE NIGHT IN HELL(de)

Skagit(en)

Four friends leave Seattle for a weekend in a remote, rain-soaked corner of Washington State's rustic Skagit Valley. The foreboding October landscape begins to warp their minds, plunging each of them into alternate realities where they must grapple with personal demons, sexual tensions, and a sinister natural world as they claw their way back to sanity.

.... in trouble(ru)

A Paw Over Dark(en)

A washed up actor performs night after night in a grimy theater to a nearly empty audience. However, everything changes when a clueless dog jumps on stage.