Movies: Surreal

Short animation by Isabel Garrett...

Linear of Nightmare is a tongue and cheek piece about the pointless of fear. The film is a surreal self-inflicted mental infliction that ultimately leads to its own demise. Fear is worry magnified leading to disconnection between the mind and the bo...

A damned stupid mime befriends three psychotic lunatics living on the streets who stalk and harass his former lover....

The routine of a motel housekeeper quickly disintegrates upon losing her cleaning glove. Now trapped in a surreal purgatory, she sets out to vanquish the perilous forces that haunt each room....

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"The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully moulded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian fields of Homer, Dante’s Purgatorio, de Chirico’s stitched plain. A moving single picture. Evolving the st...

A surreal, low-budget odyssey through time, space, and toxic relationships....

A nightwatchman who works at a pesticide plant manipulates chemicals (of which he treats a strange garden of marrow-like vines in his apartment) , causing evolution to accelerate, in this short illustrating the harmful effects of human interference w...

Giant apples appear in a city, and when people eat them, new apples start to grow from their heads....

A father must face his dark past when his gifted daughter has visions of a young girl reborn from her deceased mother. This award-winning metaphysical thriller combines elements of art house, avant-garde, surrealism, and experimental horror....

A surreal, experimental, minimalistic animated film that dives into the inner recesses of creativity, imagination, longing and inspiration. Taking place from the somber point of view of a young wizard as he lives out his day, watching over a little t...

Comedian and reluctant online hit, Eleanor Morton presents a brand-new surreal and offbeat stand-up show about goals, trying and failing. In 2020 Eleanor climbed a hill, and that was the only thing she did all year. Sharp, silly stand-up infused with...

Regina, Canada, 1958. Unable to decide what to eat on the morning of a job interview, a young woman is offered the chance to try a revolutionary new breakfast food by an eccentric television show host....

Navigating an emotionally intense, but out-of-sync relationship, Connell and Jesse fall prey to an entity that feeds on their detachment....

A character-based comedy show featuring imaginative staging and many laugh-points. The versatile Lorna Rose Treen introduces us to many characters, including her delinquent Brownie creation which has already won her awards. Character comedian Lorna ...

Sonata Maria is a film about a young man who has tremendous difficulty expressing his deepest emotions and has created an alternate reality within which he is able to vent out all his frustrations. It is a moving story of loss, madness and redemption...

A gorilla escapes from a Mexican zoo and goes on a bloody rampage through a small town....

In this 57-second short film, a dog-like doll faces another doll. It begins with an innocent, playful tone, but quickly turns dark and unsettling. Bach’s classical music adds a heavy, melancholic mood to the scene. The Dog of Sarandi Alley is a stran...

An animated short film about a person who's got their head stuck in a chamber pot and tries to get it off....

A man meets a woman at a deserted railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter; snow is falling. The two drive to a remote farmhouse. Two strange children, who never speak, appear at the window; an old woman calls th...