Foreign Surface

Time Traveling Through Time(en)

A wannabe film director becomes embroiled in a battle against the laws of time and space when his attempts to recreate the iconic black and white, photograph-only, time travel film, La Jetée, spiral out of control.

Self Portraits or: How to talk endearingly to possible victims(en)

Quinn is a grade school teacher who is exploited by a group of memoryless individuals who reeducate his long-term partner Amy.

Presence(en)

A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.

Linton Falls - A Study of the Force of Water(en)

An experimental film documenting a river leading up to a waterfall, depicting both its natural beauty and its inherent danger.

A Catalyst(en)

A teenage boy is forced into making a decision within 60 seconds between a possible death, or being pulled into an unknown reality.

Lux Æterna(fr)

Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches.

3STIGIA(es)

Doll(en)

On Halloween night, an unexpected guest arrives, to reclaim the doll.

A Short Film About My House(es)

Cremaster 2(en)

CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1.

Santa Sangre(en)

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.

Rain Shadow(en)

A drug artist designs a new piece that is triggered by exposure to audio visual static.

Static(en)

A man dreams about his wife while stuck in an unknown place.

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.

Mágoa das Flores(pt)

Experimental college short film. Two servants plan and execute the coronation of a delicate and machiavellian entity until sunset.

Night/Time(en)

A woman experiences past, present, and future through a nightmare.

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.

"DOG" a short film by shinrabit(en)

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

The Shining: Forwards and Backwards(en)

An experimental film comprised of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING played forwards and backwards at the same time on the same screen, creating bizarre juxtapositions and startling synchronicities