The Protagonist
The Video Demon
VIDEO PAL takes place in a shattered reality where all media is incomplete - films without faces, voices lost in distortion. Wholeness lies in seeking the 'Video Demon', a mythical, metaphysical being that completes all media...but demands total submission. When the demon is instead killed, what becomes of an already fractured reality?
2024-12-20
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO COMPLETE EVERYTHING?
Andy zaps through channels when Lucy sees something remarkable on TV.
A traumatized cheer captain races to stop a masked killer and the new tourist attraction aimed to exploit her tragedy from a year earlier.
Exiting is an experimental silent short film by the Bomar Brothers that was entirely improvised and shot on an iPhone in under two hours, about a man lost in a mazelike compound...
Young Cal believes he sees subliminal messages in television static. His dad Ray spends countless nights looking up, convinced that a UFO he saw as a child will return. When his wife Tess convinces him to tend to Cal and his family instead, Ray discovers something deeper.
A politician learns just how quickly things can go terribly wrong when a career-defining live TV interview goes off the rails due to a surprise coughing attack.
A father sees live how his son becomes the protagonist of a TV program.
A man stuck inside his house during a worldwide lockdown starts to lose not just his friends, but also his sanity.
Pierre Carles questions the privatization of the leading French televisions channel : is it not scandalous that the TFI-Bouygues concession has been automatically renewed since 1987 ? Taking up the anti-television fight he initiated with "Pas vu Pas pris", his first film, he confronts the people responsible for the news who have always avoided tackling this taboo subject. But the investigation does not go as planned : the old dinosaurs and young guardians now how to handle this media critic. To find his "fighting spirit" again, Carles calls to arms his friends and changes methods : Henceforth, no more concessions !
As a teenager in the '90s, Soleil Moon Frye carried a video camera everywhere she went. She documented hundreds of hours of footage and then locked it away for over 20 years.
Amina, Djeneba and Zineb are three inseparable teenagers who find themselves in hot water when they post a video on social networks identifying an assailant who attacked one of the three. The video draws a public outcry, and they will have to choose between continuing their fight or giving in to pressure.
The Stooges are entrusted with taking care of their friend's house while he goes off to get married.
A 3-minute short skate video filmed by Ian Ostrowski featuring skaters, Zion Wright, Louis Lopez, Dylan Clark, Romel Torres, Jasper Levine, Caden Smith, Darrian Williams, Tj Robinson & Apu