The Bek Show: End of Civilization (2024)

Il telefonetto

A killer hates and punishes people who are using the small phone.

Copy/Paste

A man contemplates whether or not it is possible to do something unique.

EGGspression

Egglantine loves salt on her eggs. Eggbert prefers pepper. Who blinks first in this playful Easter ritual?

Tempo Rubato

The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducted by three ghouls.

Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid

A collection of five short films tackling the military industrial complex, the rise of fascism, political polarization and various issues in modern society.

reMemBer2.human

In an indeterminate future, forbidden memories challenge a database containing all human memories. An experimental cinematic search between past and future, fiction and fact, Prishtina and Tirana. The future, a glitch.

House

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

Plague Mass

A conceptual live concert by Diamanda Galás, "Plague Mass" continues the themes of the suffering and misery of the infected found in her "Masque of the Red Death" trilogy.

Shearing Animation

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

Drums West

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstrates his working method.

Om

A film about haircuts, clothes and image/sound relationships. - J.S.

A Fair Trade

In this black comedy crime epic, eighth grader Tommy Uris is pushed into a teenage drug dealing business run by his two classmates Frank Newton and Patrick Reynolds after walking in on a drug deal between them. As their business falls apart, so does their trust for each other, and they need to either resolve, or kill each other in the process.

1,2,3... Barcelona!

Tourists eating and taking photos. Tourists strolling and taking photos. Tourists bathing on the beach and taking more photos. Barcelona has become an overexploited photocall to the point of paroxysm, and this is what this film shows by turning the camera and pointing towards the visitors. A small gesture that, added to a powerful sound contrast and a caustic sense of humour, exposes without subterfuge a grotesque normality.

Nocturne

A musical fantasia on religion and the nature of exploitation.

Lohengrin

A short experimental film shot on Super 8, inspired by the music of Richard Wagner.

Cant Cant

An anthropomorphic creature has trouble sleeping.

115

A girl trapped in a time loop leaves an AI replica to relive her final days. Glitches and burned-in subtitles reveal the machine’s fractured view, until the loop shifts to the real her — blurring the line between memory, code, and consciousness. "Told from the memory stream of a trapped A.I., the film visually glitches as it attempts to 'escape,' including encoded flashes of an 'ESC' key."

Winterreise

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A Heist Film

In a local cafeteria, an unlikely trio of friends argue about how to rob the bank from across the street. It all changes when the waitress who serves them discovers their plans.

5am

A collection of solitary urban images intersect with each other.

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.

Fragments on the flow

Fragments from Brussels, about the flow of the city, A cinema, A body, A film, and a wind that blows through the town. The film is a Schizomentry experience that blends real stories and fiction. After all, where is the border?

The Third Rule

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The Connection

An influencer gets canceled and goes on a journey that forces him to view his life through the lens of social media.

Heartstorm

A young woman goes on a cathartic journey through memory and imagination inspired by the performers at an open mic.

The Sunset Special 2

This exclusive luxury cruise presents itself as the perfect holiday and family utopia. However, all artificial facades of this attractive consumer product dissolve, as a psychedelic dream world unfolds, illusions break and the crude reality beyond superficial comfort is unveiled.

Mit mívelt Isten

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The Damned Shoegaze

Demoni through a performative act reflects on the musical genre shoegaze, from the deformation of the image and the distortion of the audio to generate its own chaos that leads to a comment on cultural hegemony in Chile.

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.

I Am Your Grandma

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