Movies: Digital surrealism

Waking up in the middle of the night, a woman walks through a dark house looking for a way out....

An AI takes millions of inputs and rehashes them into something semi-new. The same thing human brain does when sleeping. Humans call it "dreams"....

A lonely college student downloads a dating simulator app only to find her pixelated partner may be more real than she thought....

The plot revolves around two completely different and distant women — a nurse and a fashion model — who are haunted by their own spectre after going through the same experience: they can no longer see their reflections in the mirror....

"Button Eyes" is a 2D animated short film set from the abstract perspective of a strange beast born without eyes who travels across the land hoping to find a way to regain his sight....

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After volunteering for an experimental medical trial, a schizophrenic man confronts his past actions....

Representations of manipulated, incoherent, unclear communication in either a personal relationship, from authority/institution, or between media and audience, followed by a conversation on communication itself. 2021-2022....

A cine-essay about the ego death and consciousness rebirth....

Someone wanders through a house while fleeing from a mysterious presence. Their body dissolves on-screen, and their mind is invaded by a strident gray noise....

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This experimental short film follows a used car salesman... or a politician... or a man painting a toilet red....

Nobody knows how it started. One day, the Sun just started screaming. And it never stopped... Amidst the chaos of this new world, two old acquaintances reunite and spend one last night together, as they attempt to rediscover their humanity....

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

A transmission of an algorithmic content stream called "The Feed" reveals the innermost desires and psychological underpinnings of a politically charged future- the year 2024....

On a sleepy summer night in 2004, eyes peer into the world-wide-web: traveling between conspiracy sites, malware, porn, and mp3 databases in an attempt to lose (find) themselves. Passing through blog graveyards, broken hyperlinks, and digital spirits...

An ambient short film of seaside cinematography accompanied by Stars of the Lid's 'Broken Harbors pt.2' and 'Broken Harbors pt.3' It is shot in black and white, but switches to color near the end....

Over the course of one night, we witness an isolated young man descend into the digital underworld, where carnal footage and looksmaxxing rhetoric erode intimacy into violence....