FEATURE ANIMATION
11PM- 1230PM
Dog of War ( Rotoscope Animation)
Directors Raitis Abele, Lauris Abele
Italy, Latvia, United States, 95 min
Dog of War is an award winning ( Tribeca, Fantasia) rotoscope animation.
In a 17th-century Swedish Livonian village, constant rain and drunkenness prevail. When a stolen relic sparks witchcraft accusations, an 80-year-old self-proclaimed werewolf named the Dog of God arrives with a mysterious gift: The Devil's Balls. This triggers a chain of unexpected events that climaxes in a wild sexual rave party, transforming the village into a frenzy of unleashed desires.
TRANSPERSONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL EXPLORATIONS
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
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.
Psychedelic Shack #4 (Afrofuturism)
Director Karl Nussbaum
United States
Psychedelic Shack #4 is a celebration of wild patterns and dazzling African wax print fabric. And it is a love letter to the historic and celebrated Vlisco fabric company
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 forms.
Hypnhadiqa
Director Chris Sagovac
United States, 5min
Hypnhadiqa is an experiment using imagery from hand woven rugs to represent hallucinogenic fantasmata encountered in the waning state of consciousness during the onset of sleep. The kaleidoscopic sequence, in this transitional state of reception, is intended to unlock the hypnagogic cognitive state of the viewer.
Surrealism: Portfolio I
Director Logan Fry
United States, 1 min
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.
The Little Swan
Director Rufus Jon Wilson
United Kingdom
This short film is both a reflection on our increasingly consumeristic and nihilist contemporary society and a quest for meaning, truth and freedom.
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY 1
PSYCHEDELIC WEIRDNESS
730pm-9pm
Judas
Director Natasha Gudermane
France, Latvia. 11 min
11:11
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?
Noise in Your Head
Director Anton Yurievich Kolmakov
Russian Federation, 17 min
Sergey turns to the Shum psychological help clinic to solve his internal self-esteem problem. Recently, his beloved cat died, and the young man has no one else to discuss it with. In the clinic, Sergey, as in the game, passes a multi-level bunker, filled with his diverse opponents, embodying Sergey's main fears. Each of them must be destroyed, improved and advanced.
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 min
Sly & The Family Drone Unleash ‘Glistening Benevolence’: Take the trip into slime-drenched folk horror and the cosmic unknown. . .
A MAGICAL REALISM FEATURE
9PM-10PM
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.
THE SATANIC SEDUCTION
10PM-1130PM
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.