Willy, a photographer, visits Gilda's luxurious boarding house to make a photo series about Gilda's daily life in her room before she moves abroad. When the photo session started, a mysterious smell came to disturb Willy's concentration.
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark on a harsh journey to fight the curse of the Satomi family. Hokusai is drawn into the story that Bakin is telling, and visits Bakin on various occasions to hear the rest of the story, and a strange relationship between the two begins. The serialization becomes Bakin's life's work, with the idea of "rewarding good and punishing evil in a world where evil is rampant," but after 28 years, as the story finally approaches its climax, Bakin begins to lose his sight. With the completion of the story in doubt, he receives an unexpected proposal from his daughter-in-law. Will the story ever be completed?
Cockroach-man Mute underbug Bob lives in the tri-factional city of Pitchfork and gets the fuzzy-pop when he must find a cure for Sunshine, the nation’s one and only poisonous beer, after an attack leaves his niece deathly ill. But ... Mutes are banned from beverages. Amidst escalating chaos at work and the terrible orchestrations of a master puppeteer, can Bob be the hero as his investigations into the sound of things hit a clanging pitch? What is wrong with everybody’s ears and what has it got to do with beer? He must literally put himself into his work if he is going to top the charts (and get the girl) but will anybody listen?
"The Yang Notes" records a legend about a mythical creature known as the "Shahuadu" (shark-deer). It is said that in western Taiwan, residents often share tales of this bizarre creature that can switch between the form of a deer and a shark; when on land, it appears as a deer, but when it enters the water, it transforms into a shark, retaining a One day, a half-fish, half-deer creature with antlers crawled out from a fish pond filled with black water, slowly making its way towards a town that continuously discharges waste. Is it the manifestation of the mythical creature from legend, or a "fish pond monster" conjured up by the local residents
Dive into the retro world of the classic toyline in this experimental film accompanying a dungeonsynth, 80s, cheap-fantasy-VHS, vaporwave-adjacent album from musician/artist Dreamcastle™.
In the heart of the Gobi Desert, a herd of Bactrian camels follows the well-walked paths of the camels that came before them, but one camel dreams of a greater purpose outside the routine. Gatsby follows a mysterious voice into the desert in search of adventure, but the brutality of nature leaves him with a difficult question: are his dreams legitimate or just teenage delusions of grandeur?
David, a successful therapist, is the creator of a never-before-used method in modern psychology: a device that allows him to alter the most painful memories of his patients. His wife, Lucia, is the victim of a strange disease that will shortly end her life. The solution for David's plight appears in the shape of Sofia, a patient of David's who asks him to use his machine to rewrite her entire life.
Little dinosaur Diplodocus dreams of having a great adventure. Unfortunately, his overprotective parents won't let him explore the beautiful but dangerous world beyond the wall they have built to protect their home in the jungle. Diplo doesn’t yet know that his world is actually part of a comic book created by Ted, an artist dreaming of success.
Katie, Craig, and Mikey are the final three members of a cult that has prepared for years to achieve transcendence by stepping through a luminous portal in the woods. After completing their final duties, the trio enter the portal... only to find themselves back at the start of the previous day. In an attempt to transcend, the trio must figure out why they are unable to get through the portal as their fellow cult members did. Will adhering closely to the cult's teachings help them finally achieve perfection, or will they need to learn more about themselves - and each other?
After the sudden death of his son, a grieving father inadvertently unleashes the ancestral Nagual power of a young Latin woman whom he has done wrong by.
Mathis, a film student, answers an ad offering the possibility to do a documentary on Albina Mayer, an eccentric, aging actress. He is welcomed into her fabulous villa and meets Laura, her young renter. Mathis is instantly smitten by the young woman and senses he has the possibility to accomplish his dreams: doing the job he loves, earning enough money to buy the camera he’s longing for and finding love. Yet making the documentary proves to be far more difficult than imagined... Mathis must cope with the actress's capricious mood swings, Laura's strange submissiveness, and the sudden appearances of an enigmatic butler. Feeling oppressed by the disturbing atmosphere and troubled by his feelings for Laura, Mathis decides to go outside for a moment, only to realize he is trapped inside the villa…
Shot on Super 8mm film and digital video, Lamiai is an experimental dream film. Lamiai is loosely derived from the Lamia in Greek mythology as well from John Keats’s poem Lamia and Peter Gabriel’s song The Lamia from Genesis’s The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album. Lamiai is the third part of an experimental dream film trilogy that includes Dream Screen and Pizzica.
Reinterpretation of the philosophical parable "The Little Prince". A six-year-old boy dreams of becoming a pilot more than anything in the world. His older brother, reincarnated as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, plunges the boy into a magical sleep, where, finding himself on the planet of the Little Prince, he begins to understand the true meaning of his dream.