Painful memories are unleashed following an act of violent suicide.
Clara Blyth
as All female characters shown
Theo Barnard
as All male characters shown
A human larva, viscous, faceless, covered in wounds, moves through an ordinary day of its existence: bathing, getting a haircut, watching its favorite film, and working on its art. A self-portrait about the loneliness and self-acceptance of filmmaking.
An average company employee is thrust into a delirious night after a mugging and faces a world of lost souls that he had not considered before.
In the reality of this film, there is a curse that calls itself Bardensra, a curse that feeds off of spreading across realities. It's attached itself to the apartment in which the protagonist is a new tenant. All's well and good, until the the borders between the different worlds start becoming illusions and the protagonist starts suspecting that in a parallel universe, there's a serial killer who lives in his apartment
A night of tortured and solitary sleep, in which fears unfold and a bell tolls.
A surreal horror short that follows a young artist caught in a creative block. He find himself in a surreal nightmare that feels too real to get out of. Going through hell might be his way out of it.
In Bloom is an abstract Gothic Romance short film by writer-director Christopher Rosica, blending experimental cinema with the timeless themes of love, loss, and memory. Crafted with a meticulous attention to atmosphere, the film offers a haunting exploration of the boundaries between the living and the dead. Shot in evocative black-and-white on a Fujifilm XT-30 by up-and-coming cinematographer, Xuepei Hou, In Bloom pays homage to the aesthetic traditions of visionary filmmakers such as Bergman, Tarkovsky, and Fellini, while drawing narrative inspiration from literary icons like Mary Shelley and Henry James.
An old VHS tape shows the mysterious, disjointed broadcast of an unknown blonde girl materializing from the trees. From their hunger, she discovers she too has violent appetites, leading her down a path of monstrous consequences that the town and its people around her are forced to reconcile with.
A father must face his dark past when his gifted daughter has visions of a young girl reborn from her deceased mother. This award-winning metaphysical thriller combines elements of art house, avant-garde, surrealism, and experimental horror.
The plot revolves around two completely different and distant women — a nurse and a fashion model — who are haunted by their own spectre after going through the same experience: they can no longer see their reflections in the mirror.
An abstract short film about an alien invasion.
"Three tales of sex and violence presented by TORO LOCO, a blood thirsty, perverted killer cowboy seeking and killing people that starred in some exploitation movie. He is showing his victims the movies before torturing and killing them with a cow skull. The first story deals with two inspectors hunting a cannibal serial killer called "The Tiger". The second is about a 'not-so-devoted' husband interested in having a night of perverted sex with a prostitute in a motel room. The third is a tragical love story between a poor, little man oppressed by his wife and an handsome boy with self-destruction tendencies.
we live in a dream...
A girl gets ready for a ritual.
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This is an amateur student mood piece comprised of footage I've filmed with my Camcorder at uni over the course of the first half of 2023. The prompt given for this was 'belonging' and so I've gravitated it around the premise of navigating a place that you feel as though you don't belong in, to the point where you become detached and alienated from your own identity. - Toby.
A funny reflection in a mirror has a funny consequence.
A woman commits a violent suicide in a bathroom, involving the use of Harakiri. "I wonder how it feels to cut your own stomach open. Even though it is very scary, I dream about it as if someone deep inside me is provoking me. Just thinking about what would happen if I had to have my stomach cut off makes my heart pound in my chest. The self-deprecating desire of an office lady who dreams of the pleasure of hara-kiri."
A Xerox movie with flowers
A skin flick