Saturday, December 13 , 2025
The Sonnet Theater
at
THE PRODUCERS CLUB
358 West 44th St.
New York, New York, 10016
2 Day Pass $ 45
Update:
THY KINGDOM COME has been moved to 11am
All Individual Film Blocks $20
BLOCK 1
FEATURE PRESENTATION
THY KINGDOM COME
11AM- 1230PM
Thy Kingdom Come
Director Mathias Averty
France, 93 min
To fight the anxiety that haunts him, a young artist decides to explore the dark side within him. An initiatory quest which will lead him in the footsteps of Satanism in France, from the legends of yesterday to the black masses of today.
BLOCK 2 -
THE SEARCH FOR TRANSCENDENCE
1230- 200PM
Rapture
Director Andrea Khôra
United Kingdom, 24 min
RAPTURE is an experimental short film exploring the budding realm of psychedelic capitalism. It takes the form of one of the psychedelic community’s favorite mediums — a podcast. In a wellness-inspired office, the CEO of the fictional psychedelic startup TranscendX is being interviewed by a Kate, the host of the fictional podcast “Mystical Misadventures”
Dizzy
Director Zac La RoC
United States, 17 min
Dylan and Lizzy are best friends, growing up in a typical dystopian suburbia. Dylan has a plan to take her mom's boyfriend's car for the night. The two of them drop acid, steal the car, and the wild sequence of events that ensue over the next nine hours is one for the books. Dylan is all gas, no brakes
Naguala
Director Claudia Minerva Medina
Canada, 15 min
Naguala” delves deep into the rich Mexican traditions of nagualismo, loosely translated as shapeshifting, offering a captivating and immersive experience.
The Little Swan
Director Rufus Jon Wilson
United Kingdom, 7 min
This short film is both a reflection on our increasingly consumeristic and nihilist contemporary society and a quest for meaning, truth and freedom.
Satans Sacrilegious Saga
Director Dylan Bruvold
Canada. 3 min
Using early 1900s films, and experimental filming making. The Story of Lucifer’s fall from grace is told.
Coda
Director Thor Sivertsen
Norway, 5 min
Pulsator is an abstract experimental animated film. Organic shapes are drifting, changing and making constantly new form
Through The Fog
Director Brandon Reid Iobbi
United States, United States, 20 min
Through The Fog is a surreal B&W film picturing a boy - turned mummy - turned featureless wandering soul - taunted by a performer whilst navigating a futile search for understanding
BLOCK 3-
FEATURE PSYCHEDELIC DOCUMENTARY
200PM-350PM
Psychedelics and Addiction Recovery
Director Paul Lisy
United States, 90 min
What now? To many, the idea of using a psychedelic "drug" to cure an active addiction to some other drug(s) seems counter-intuitive, but a new perspective is surfacing suggesting that when administered in a safe environment with serious therapeutic and/or spiritual intentions, impressive gains can be made. Also discussed is the surprising origin of all 12 step (addiction fighting) programs..
Q&A with the Director after the Screening
BLOCK 4 -
PSYCHEDELIC FEATURE PRESENTATION
350PM-450PM
Sun Opener
Director Alvin Case
United States, 45 min
A former rock n roll drummer from NYC, gets a call from a club in Utah to act as house drummer. A quoting fan of the artist Robert Smithson, he is ready to make his pilgrimage to Smithson's most recognizable work, The Spiral Jetty, when he realizes his long forgotten drums are stored at an old friend's house and retrieving them will come with an unexpected condition.
Q&A with the Director after the Screening
BLOCK 5
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
450PM-555PM
The Ether Ship
Director Greg Mallozzi
United States, 65 min
A group of eccentric artists led by Willard Van De Bogart form The Ether Ship, an experimental music collective whose otherworldly sounds catch the attention of a secret government program attempting to contact UFO
Q&A with Director
BLOCK 6
THE PSYCHEDELIC SPECTRUM
555PM-800PM
Trailer for Cross Paths
Crossed Paths
Director Luis Solarat
Peru, United States, 66 min
Crossed Paths follows the journey of two friends and former veterans, Luke Jensen and Rob Kugler, as they seek healing in the Sacred Valley of Peru. Blending plant medicine with neuroscience, their path reveals a powerful fusion of ancient wisdom and modern science to transform trauma into purpose.
Q&A with Director
Dancing in Fire: Khalikhane Fire-Walking and Ritual Healing in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, 2024
Director Ramesh Khadka
Nepal, 45 min
Anthropologist, Alfred Pach, and film director, Ramesh Khadkas’ documentary takes us into the depth of the ritual world and social life of a rural Hindu community in Nepal
Q&A with Director
Savior ( music video)
Directors Zack Bauer, Zoe Larsen
United States, 5 min
Button Buddy hears a mysterious knocking from within. With microscope in hand, he searches throughout the forest looking for the answers. He meets many kindred spirits along the way, including but not limited to: slug, caterpillar, creek, amanita, and winged woman. With a little help from a small mushroom, BB discovers that the answers were in himself all along.
BLOCK 7
THE FANSTASTICAL, THE SURREAL, THE BIZARRE 800pm-915pm
Judas
Director Natasha Gudermane
France, Latvia. 11 min
The solitary man has nighttime visitors – a strange procession behind his door that he watches through the peephole. Between the void and the light of life, the man must make a decision: to be or not to be. Will he choose to open the door?
Psychonaut
Director Zareh Tjeknavorian
Denmark, 1 min
An invocation goes terribly wrong when a hapless adept summons up powers greater than his own.An analog analogy for our digital dystopia, of disappearing Down the black holes that we peer in: A No Wave necromantic metaphor
The Entropy of Truth (nv)
Directors jing wang, harvey goldman
United States, 6 min
Entropy of Truth is a poetic work reflecting upon our search for “truth” while meandering through the universe on this stone we call earth. It is also a meditation on the “permanence of impermanence”
Conductor
Director Sergey Sergeevich Valikov
Russian Federation, 17 min
The boatman is going through an internal crisis, leading to unusual events. His reality turns into something similar to the water on which he moves, constantly changing and impermanence
Throne
Director Jake Silber
United States, 6min
A surrealist sci-fi family drama dealing with the troubled relationship between an old king and his grandson. During a visit to the galactic king’s throne room, his grandson uncovers the truth about who really controls the kingdom and what has distorted the king’s mind.
Ghost Rider
Director Big Top Collective
Canada, 3 min
Shot on 8 mm Kodachrome film in West Berlin in 1988, this dream-like hallucinogenic film explores our shadows.
Little Black God
Director Paul Tartaglia
United States, 7 min
After the FBI arrives at her door, a woman is confronted with found footage showing the last moments of her missing husband.
Daughters of Evil
Directors Adam Taylor, Natasha Malone
United States, 12 min
In 1966, a girl group consulted a spirit board in order to find the perfect band name. They got one, Daughters of Evil, but they also got possessed by demons. Decades later, a YouTuber accidentally summons the band to the land of the living by playing their album backwards
Death Of Fles ( animation)
Director Zechen Huang
China, United Kingdom, 6 min
A headless body is found brutally torn apart. Three enigmatic witnesses recount fragmented memories of its soul, their testimonies unraveling a surreal trial where reality dissolves into nightmare, each note deepening the descent into darkness.
Glistening Benevolence
Director Matt Cargill
United Kingdom, 6 minutes
Sly & The Family Drone Unleash ‘Glistening Benevolence’: Take the trip into slime-drenched folk horror and the cosmic unknown. Filmed at an undisclosed, shadowy music festival in the heart of Hampshire, the visual journey is a macabre ritual of psychedelic sludge, blending live performance footage with ominous vignettes of slime-coated landscapes, cosmic dread, and unholy rites under the moon.
Simulator 2.0
Director Aldo Romero
US, 12 min
SIMULATOR 2.0: A computer game that becomes too real when elements of its artificial intelligence become self-aware, the prerequisite for true intelligence. LIZ is the estranged girlfriend of “TOM, THE USER”, a computer designer who has developed an interactive computer game called SIMULATOR.
BLOCK 8
FEATURE -
SEWING A NIGHTMARE
930PM-1045PM
Sewing A Nightmare - Alternate Version
Director Louise Mason
United States, 64 minutes
After taking some time to read outside, a young, loyal, urban tailor is harassed and menaced by an unknown and foreboding entity, possibly from outside the city, while finishing a sewing project for her boss and being neglected by her fiancé. She asks for advice from a long time friend but much to her dismay no amount of anything seems to help her.