Fringe Flicks Season 4 continues PVTV’s quarterly underground film night in Liverpool, bringing together strange, daring, playful and boundary-pushing short films from around the world. The season combines international shorts, local work and a distinctly DIY curatorial approach, building a welcoming space for audiences and filmmakers who want cinema to feel alive, unusual and communal.
United States
Written, directed & produced by Sophia Gordon
A study on synchronicities and phenomena of high strangeness, 11:11 examines the connections between initiation, ritual, and the universal sequences surrounding us.
France
Directed by Dylan Hall & Maya Hatar
Agathe, aged 90, lives as a recluse in a snow-covered cabin. When her daughter visits to bring her into town, the encounter takes a darker and stranger turn.
United States
Dir. Robert M Steinberg | Wri. Robert M Steinberg | Prod. Aaron Klopfner
A short absurdist sci-fi comedy about digital footprints, algorithms, and the promise of living forever through the systems that outlast us.
United Kingdom
Dir. Shaun Clark | Prod. Ariadna Fatjo-Vilas
In the brutal chaos of life on the roads, cars clash, flirt and fume in this savage reflection of human impatience and absurdity.
Spain
Written, directed & produced by Lorenzo Damián García
Itziar prepares a dinner to get the truth out of her boyfriend, Borja. When he finally confesses what is really inside him, honesty proves harder to live with than either of them expected.
United Kingdom
Produced by Lucy Ellis
Exploring the interaction of motion and sound, Bits and Bobs plays with the forms and movements of found materials through stop motion and shifts in perception.
Iran
Dir. Ehsan Majouni | Prod. Sepideh Norouzi
A woman is determined to bring her beloved back to life after he vanished into the waters in search of a place to call his own. She waits for his impossible return, washed back to her by the tides.
Norway
Written, directed & produced by Maren Dagny Juell
Set in a dystopian future shaped by social media’s community guidelines, this sci-fi talk-show drama follows a former content moderator whose surreal experiences begin to blur the line between censorship, empathy and artificial consciousness.
United Kingdom
Directed by Laura Spark
A claymation music video inspired by 1980s animated videos and children’s TV, made for OORYA’s track Community Lives, a call to build and expand communities that love, resist and grow together.
Uzbekistan
Written, directed & produced by Anton Evdokimov
A music video combining live action with stop motion animation that asks why there are so many fools around.
Written & directed by Jenna Bolena
What happens when the person serving you wine in the restaurant is evil?
United Kingdom
Written, directed & produced by Vanessa Staunton
A comedy about Bernard Nutter, a man who falls in love with a pineapple, only for his overbearing mother to see the fruit as a rival and set out to destroy it.
United States
Dir. Yann Carrillo & KC Ho | Wri. Yann Carrillo & KC Ho | Prod. Jules Pincus
The independently animated pilot for a brand-new web series in which a self-assured but weak goblin hero embarks on a mysterious quest through a world of absurd residents and epic nonsense.
Netherlands
Directed by Fatemeh Zare
An animated look at how people act differently in different contexts, following a couple at work, together, and alone, where they can finally express themselves beyond social pressures and norms.
Spain
Written, directed & produced by José Carlos Martín Nieto
A surreal parody about trying to make work inside an AI ecosystem. Not-so-dystopian, not-so-serious, and wilfully disgusting.
Estonia
Written, directed & produced by Rao Heidmets
A surreal stop motion warning that war must be confronted long before it reaches your doorstep, because once it arrives, hiding behind the curtains will not help.
India
Directed & produced by Debjit Bagchi
A micro experimental short that questions familiar stories about light, attention and attraction in a brief, abstract burst.
United Kingdom
Directed & produced by Jamie Harry Scrutton
Performing as alter ego Hattie Go Lucky, Jamie Harry Scrutton offers a ride into a strange and playful burlesque world through dancing hands and lofi performance.
United States
Dir. Anne Ciecko | Wri. Anne Ciecko | Prod. Anne Ciecko & Ahimsa Rahul Roy
A stop motion exploration of iconography and chromatics.
Netherlands
Written, directed & produced by Richard Wareham / Grüntyers
Unfortunately for Henk, he finds himself stuck in an infinite loop on a damp Wednesday afternoon.
Taiwan
Produced by Lin Yen-Ju
A surreal, low-fi sci-fi piece exploring alien imagery, television, media simulation and the impurities that emerge when cultural fantasies are reproduced and fed back to us.
Spain
Directed & produced by Alex Rey
Hayao Miyazaki has announced his retirement, but the muses of inspiration have other plans for him.
France, Mexico
Dir. Rodrigo Alonso Reyes Fabre | Wri. Rodrigo Alonso Reyes Fabre & Liam Colomer | Prod. Rodrigo Alonso Reyes Fabre
Strange creatures roam the night in search of passion and love, only to encounter the dark side of the city and the price that comes with desire.
Germany
Written & directed by Louis Fraser
Seeking refuge in a bathroom at a house party, Ginger is confronted by a resident creature whose slippery words push him towards breaking point.
Slovenia
Written & directed by Danaja Kurnik
In the middle of a conversation about psychoanalysis, a girl stumbles upon a sign.
United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Jones
An ethereal homage to birds, nature, cups of tea, music, skateboarding, bike rides and foxes, filmed on the Wirral.
Netherlands
Written, directed & produced by Richard Wareham / Grüntyers
A surreal music video following kiwi mobsters as they escape gaol, take in the sights of New Zealand, and attempt to steal the Prime Minister’s falafel balls from parliament.
Portugal
Written & directed by Sarah Legow
A childhood memory re-enacted through public photos, staged scenes and stop motion animation, The Man Cave is a brief and exuberantly strange journey through two girls’ shared vision of manhood.
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Dir. Negah Sohrabi | Prod. Abolfazel Amir
Farhad, a young historian, is hired to organise a dead man’s diaries. As he falls in love with the old widow’s niece, he begins to realise he may be living a life that is not entirely his own.
United Kingdom
Dir. James Button | Wri. James Button | Prod. James Button & Paul Marke
A grumpy Welshman reluctantly visits his grandmother, only to discover she has got herself cursed. Now he must save her, and possibly the world, from a demon duck before midnight.
United States
Written, directed & produced by Tucker Wooley
When you have one of those weird dreams.
Spain
Written, directed & produced by Ángel Rodríguez Fernández
On the dusty main street of a Western town, a duel to the death turns into something stranger when a spectator transforms the violence into a dark work of art.
United Kingdom
Directed by Kieran Shayle
When two lazy cleaners accidentally break a beloved taxidermy cat, they are forced onto a dangerous journey to replace it.
United States
Written, directed & produced by Tyler Baum
A strange music video that kidnaps your ears and eyes away to an undisclosed location.
United States
Dir. Josh Helaughstra | Prod. Brooklyn Demme
A surprising expansion of the Word of the Day universe in which Ms. Goat and Brian move closer to the light.
United Kingdom
Dir. Laura Jayne Hodkin | Wri. Laura Jayne Hodkin | Prod. Sierra Martin-Persi, Michelle Chu & Domitille Adebimpe-Collardey
On the windswept Yorkshire moors, emo teen Helena embarks on a turbulent journey of love.
United Kingdom
Written, directed & produced by Alice Hopwood
Three friends with an interest in the occult experiment with a Ouija board and discover they have summoned more than they bargained for.
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