Modern, bizarre version of Little Red Riding Hood. Precocious girl takes a TV set to her grandmother’s. After a strange meeting on the way and a stop at the DVD store, she decides to let her friend go in. Disquieting, with chillingly fine acting by the two girls.
Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things Have Got to Change.” Filmed in Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey by activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas as his first project at UCLA, this short film poetically envisions the fantasy life of a hotel worker whose daydreams provide an escape from workplace indignities. —Allyson Nadia Field
Daydream Therapy
1977
0
Borrowing its title from an experimental text by Walter Benjamin. Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a way to escape it. The contagion touched everything and everyone: animals and plants, stones and soil, men, women and children, their thoughts, their dreams, their memories. An old woman once told me how all memories turn into trees, I could hardly make out what she was saying. She said she could hear the trees singing: To be a body, to be any body. After the years of contagion ended, the cities appeared untouched. One had to look hard to see the traces of the previous time. If one could listen to the trees, what would they say? A way out, a way out?
Phantasiesätze
2017
4
An agoraphobic man traps himself in an astronaut costume to avoid the disastrous consequences of his condition
Space Man
2025
0
Uncle Otto's Truck
2019
7
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
A Grand Day Out
1990
7
The year is 2022 and under mandate from the new city Mayor, a supernatural closet has been fitted into all New York resident's apartments. Now they must learn to embrace it, or wish it away.
The Closet
0
An aspiring race car driver fights off the recognition that he'll never progress beyond an amateur circuit. On this Saturday night race, however, he puts it all on the line to prove otherwise—at whatever cost.
Yellow
2015
5
水母
2019
0
When her imaginary friend is kidnapped, Olivia has to go on an epic quest to get him back.
Imaginapped
2015
7
Damien returns to the water to re-kindle memories of his late father and him surfing as a boy. Past and present begin to blend in parallels under the water and Damien's mortality is further threatened by a stalking siren.
Glass Tunnel
2013
0
Late night, a commuter bus was speeding along the coastal highway when, suddenly, a loud and panicky scream pierced the night’s silence. This wealthy and elderly lady had just woken to find her precious necklace stolen. What follows was a series of intriguing turn of events, chaotic mob justice, vengeful lynching, as the truth behind the theft unfolds. The film climaxes as the commuter bus went ablaze, burning and glittering against the pitch-dark coastal sky.
夜車
2019
6
Double King
2017
7
A strange woman arrives from the North to a prehistoric village bringing some bad news...
Evergreen
2012
5
A vibrant anthology of LGBTQ+ short films and music videos that delve into the complexities of youth, identity, and desire. This diverse collection showcases a range of cinematic voices—both emerging and established—exploring the exhilaration, vulnerability, and confusion of coming-of-age through stories that celebrate queer love, self-discovery, and the breaking of societal boundaries. Blending narrative shorts, experimental visuals, and music-driven pieces, the anthology offers an evocative, multifaceted portrait of innocence transformed.
Altered Innocence Vol. 1
2021
4
8-year old Joshua has never left his home for dangerous creatures live outside their isolated farmhouse - the Gorgers. But when his father Aaron mysteriously disappears Joshua is forced to go outside. A decision that will change his life forever for something is closing in on the little boy. Fast.
When Demons Die
2016
8
Descending into a cave, two men seek answers to a book of unknown horrors. What will they find and will their sanity prevail?
The Statement
2024
0
Homunkulus
1984
6
A loving mother must give the ultimate sacrifice to save her family from a supernatural force bent on tearing their world apart.
Spooked: Banshee
2014
0
Once a dream wove a shade, and pitying I dropped a tear. But I saw lights near, that light the ground while the soul wanders.
Sonhos
2019
0
A social worker recounts the case of Ella Jackson, a girl who sees a man standing behind her in the mirror
The Reflection
2018
8