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Tag: surreal

  • Rectangle & Rectangles

    This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, colour filters and a camera. This animation film, without words, is designed to expose the power of the cinematic medium, and to illustrate the abstract nature of time.

  • Fear the Walking Dead

    What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in “The Walking Dead”? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.

  • The Reflecting Skin

    In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.

  • After Hours

    Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

    An account of Baron Munchausen’s supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

  • Marquis

    On the eve of revolution, French activist and author Marquis and his talking penis, Colin, await judgment in the Bastille for allegedly plotting against the state. While Marquis dedicates himself to his art and Colin longs for action, the provocative pair unwittingly rouse the interest of competing ideological factions.

  • Santa Sangre

    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.

  • The Nightwatchman

    A nightwatchman who works at a pesticide plant manipulates chemicals (of which he treats a strange garden of marrow-like vines in his apartment) , causing evolution to accelerate, in this short illustrating the harmful effects of human interference with nature.

  • The Third Planet

    Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s 1971 novella ‘Piknik na obochine’ (‘Roadside Picnic’) as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film adaptation (‘Stalker’), ‘Tretya planeta’ tells the story of a father seeking a cure for his ill daughter by venturing into an area known only as “The Zone” to request help from the mysterious healers that dwell within its forbidden borders.

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.