Bleak Times

Alaine's day hasn't been going great, partially because this isn't the first time they're experiencing the 27th of September in 1985. A strange film from two years into the future, a seemingly cursed VHS tape, and a mysterious masked figure that appears in their kitchen every night - these are not meant to be understood separately; they are pieces of the puzzle, they are all but fragments of Zepotha.

While trying to domesticate an anthropomorphic rat, a man finds himself in a difficult situation as the rat begins to demonstrate violent and sexual behavior.

A short horror comedy following Muckman, that grotty dirty fellow who targets the elderly with his rot coated fingers, causing a fuss and being a bother.

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.

A surrealistic allergory on the loss of language and identity in the city from an indigenous perspective.

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-made decay. In the blink of an eye 66 years pass by and a savings bank replaces a church.

On the 10th anniversary of his band Rall Tide’s debut album, artist Peter Kotas takes you on a flowering multimedia tour of Detroit musicians trying to survive in a world where you can’t even enjoy a baseball game without supporting The Bay of Pigs. Along the way he shows you how the band’s abrupt break-up led to his career as a political journalist peeking behind the curtains of Kansas to find diplomatic wizard Mike Pompeo, Trump’s CIA Director and Secretary of State, wears no clothes. Iowa Writer’s Workshop hero Kurt Vonnegut (or some entity that knows all about his life) hosts this documentary as the ideal human from his 1985 novel Galapagos: a penguin with flippers unable to pull triggers or press buttons to bomb and kill people.

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

A surreal, experimental, minimalistic animated film that dives into the inner recesses of creativity, imagination, longing and inspiration. Taking place from the somber point of view of a young wizard as he lives out his day, watching over a little town. Le Geniaque pays homage to Georges Melies and 1920s silent films in general.

Round My Place follows a gentle yet slightly twisted northern bloke, called Richard Crimble, as he gives us a guided tour of his old run down apartment. To Richard it is more than just an old apartment though. It sparks his strange imagination, making him consider the place's past and how each little detail came to be.

A popular live streamer gets invited to a podcast where the questions begin to blur the line between reality and his traumatic past.