Season 4 closes with a programme of glitches, false patterns, digital unease, broken messages and surreal fragments, where meaning flickers in and out and nothing can quite be trusted.
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.
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
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.
Written & directed by Jenna Bolena
What happens when the person serving you wine in the restaurant is evil?
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.
Slovenia
Written & directed by Danaja Kurnik
In the middle of a conversation about psychoanalysis, a girl stumbles upon a sign.
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 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 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.
Expect a low-pressure, communal film night with space to settle in, watch something unusual, and enjoy it with other curious people. Films start around 7:50pm, with an interval midway, and finishing around 10pm, followed by a social for anyone who want to hang around and chat. Plus there’s a raffle for fabulous prizes and you can pick your favourite film for the Audience Choice Award, sponsored by The DCP Works.