Other Land (2024)

Three Mirrors Creature's Flashes of Flesh

In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes pervaded by a sensory spirit and undertakes a purifying voyage.

Inland Empire

An actress’s perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.

Birth

During Childbirth, a mother is told the child is stillborn, and she struggles to finish the birth in order to survive.

The Scary Movie

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.

¿Hypnosis?

We propose an experiment to an Artificial Intelligence chat: answer all the questions trying to generate terror.

Begotten

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

Chimera

Lost in the woods, a panicked Griff desperately tries to find his way home, but as he moves deeper into the depths of the woods he faces more nauseating uncertainties. Bewildered and disoriented, he must leave the woods.

House

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

In Bloom | A Ghost Story

In Bloom is an abstract Gothic Romance short film by writer-director Christopher Rosica, blending experimental cinema with the timeless themes of love, loss, and memory. Crafted with a meticulous attention to atmosphere, the film offers a haunting exploration of the boundaries between the living and the dead. Shot in evocative black-and-white on a Fujifilm XT-30 by up-and-coming cinematographer, Xuepei Hou, In Bloom pays homage to the aesthetic traditions of visionary filmmakers such as Bergman, Tarkovsky, and Fellini, while drawing narrative inspiration from literary icons like Mary Shelley and Henry James.

The Window

A drifter spends the night in an abandoned house and encounters a Window of Consciousness. This award-winning film combines elements of art house, avant-garde, surrealism, and experimental horror.

Those Who Wander

What are they? What do they seek? When all the lights go out, they will wander. And you will never see them.

Plaga Alada

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The Shining

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

Rampo Noir

An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.

Flaming Creatures

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.

Bunnyhood

What could possibly be more important than feeding your daughter?

Ray's World

A guy named Ray tries to go to sleep and a sasquatch gets into funky business.

Deiphago

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Beyond the Black Rainbow

Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for her next session with deranged therapist Dr. Barry Nyle. If she hopes to escape, she must journey through the darkest reaches of The Institute, but Nyle wonʼt easily part with his most gifted and dangerous creation.

Fire Shall Come

Video art piece by Michigan artist Gio Orlando.

A Train Arrives

A woman is chased by the wind of an arriving train. What follows is a visual ride, the camera becomes a protagonist of the film itself. The levels of inner film reality and the film material itself influence each other more and more to the point of physical destruction.

Bogbaby

Two sisters with a bog body obsession, are overjoyed when they think they've discovered a creature from a nearby bog. But the creature turns out to be an enemy from the past, an enlarged and possessed appendix that has come back to haunt them. Can the sisters nurturing nature save them from the evil organ?

The Vikar

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ALL THE ANGELS

Dealing with the loss of a loved one, Riley begins to torment themselves. Grappling with the guilt, they begin to change. Something is haunting them, and they must figure out what before it's too late.

Majestic Mountains

Relax and unwind with this stunning collection of beautiful scenery, filmed in high-definition, from some of the most beautiful places in the world. An original music soundtrack blended with natural sounds accompanies the scenery in 5.1 surround sound. The pristine natural scenery combined with soothing music will create a calming, peaceful atmosphere in your home.

Lurker

A voyeuristic night photographer discovers that she has become the subject of some thing's lens.

I Am Your Grandma

An autobiographical video diary log recorded by Jillian Mayer for her unborn grandchildren.

Man O War

Old ghosts celebrate the past as it intrudes on those who think it past.

Midríase

Is the eye the window of the soul? - Mydriasis is a movie that reflects about the early discoveries of queerness and its impact on the self perception of a person.

Possibly in Michigan

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.

Flying Daddy

One morning, Papa transforms into a giant insect in the futon, emerges instantly in front of the astonished family, breaks through the window and flies into the sky. Short animation by Keita Kurosaka for MTV Japan.

The Grey Machine

In 1921, an untitled text reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's writings was discovered in Boston. It was made by unknown creators, perhaps a techno-spiritualist cult of enthusiasts, for an automaton, that would attempt to model Poe's mind.

A Minds Abyss

Painful memories are unleashed following an act of violent suicide.

We Make the TV Glow

A feature-length queer glitch art remix – or, "wave" – of Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow (2024), divided into 9 segments... each helmed by different editors.

Foreign Surface

An experimental reinterpretation of 1950s science fiction B movies.

Warm Embrace

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Routine

A man goes through his daily routine, long after it has begun to destroy him.

INFRASTRATA

Amongst the contemplative static shots of decaying architecture weaves an abstract narrative unveiling the life-cycle of a higher perception, too large to perceive. Shot at various sites across south-east England, INFRASTRATA is a study on the concept of super-organisms, and the relationship between structure and nature.

Negativ

A photographer during the Soviet-Afghan war becomes obsessed with a mysterious figure that appears in his images every time the person photographed dies.

LIMINAL

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Enys Men

A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.

Submit to Me

Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard Kern's camera. Originally created for DTNY acid parties; Submit to Me was eventually edited down to 10 minutes and given an accompanying score.

Visceral

Visceral is an exploration of love and vulnerability found in new relationships. Meat and organs mix under the camera in a beautiful union to represent the intricacies of a relationship.

chronophobia

something suffers from a phobia of the future

Static

A man dreams about his wife while stuck in an unknown place.

Fine

After a period of time where her hearing begins to overtake her sight, Casandra searches for the cause of her problem, isolating herself from society. She starts having visions that remind her of the past and promise an apocalyptic future.

Toxoplasma

In the aftermath of his father's death, a young man navigates a developing relationship with a brain-eating parasite.

A Paw Over Dark

A washed up actor performs night after night in a grimy theater to a nearly empty audience. However, everything changes when a clueless dog jumps on stage.