Psychopompos

PERFECT MUTILATION

When the frontman of a metal band takes an unfamiliar drug sold to him in exchange for the lives of his bandmates, he must fight off a drug-induced psychosis as well as the horrific thought of this deranged deal.

A Sentença

Dante's Inferno

A two-reel adaptation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno from the Divine Comedy by Helios Film. It is less well-known than the five-reel feature produced the same year by Milano Films, but it was released earlier in 1911.

Barn Swallow

When Death knocks on old carpenter’s door, he tries to convince her to let him live a little longer.

Granted

A girlfriend breaks up with her boyfriend, only for a vampire to try to seduce her and kill her boyfriend.

Dedication

"Dedication" is the story of a maid working in a hotel who uses a black magic spell in the hopes of harnessing the talent of one of the hotel's frequent guests - an eccentric writer - and passing it on to her unborn son.

Forest Without a Face

Starring Tess LeBlanc and Jordan LeFort Lighting by Tyler Ross Written, Directed, and Edited by Zachary Deveau

The Limited Bird

John's first independent work from 1989. Won Best of Fest Shorts at the Cinequest Film Festival, CA. The film is comprised of highly rendered drawings with very little moving parts to tell a complex story of relationships "gone to the birds".

Akuji: Dead and Awake

Isolated by their mind, Akuji is a sophomore in college that moves in a draining cycle. When they start preparing for an upcoming group project that is most of their final grade, they start to enter a state of exhaustion and illusion. As they battle with their group members, they also battle their mind for peace and control.

The Oasis

A young witch tries to find 'the oasis' and has captured a young man who knows it's exact location. But before he tells her where she can find this mystical place she first has to convince him that magic is in fact very real.

Pumpkinhead

When a group of teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley seeks the powers of a backwoods witch to bring the child back to life.

Occurrences of Questionable Significance

When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.

Golden Bird

Whispered to by an ancient tree, a young shepherd dreams of more than his simple existence among grass and sheep. The journey he embarks on brings him into contact with golden birds, a dragon and a fair damsel.

Paranoid

A visceral descent into depths of a depraved mind, Paranoid takes the viewer on a dark trail into the roots of insanity where only fragments of reality remain to color the desperate existence of a tortured woman.

Hora do Cálculo (Calculation Time)

Meurtre du tableau

An artist, surrounded by the mess in her studio, struggles with frustration as she tries to find inspiration for her new painting.

Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays

Hungry for sun, light and warmth, a group of teenagers embark on a dream trip to the Balearic Islands.