Movies: Surreal

Two village boys are very sick, they are foaming at the mouth, they are sitting near a huge well and they hate each other....

In the middle of the night, Nicki is once again haunted by intense feelings that she can't explain. A visit to the doctor is supposed to help and behold: the more he pokes around in the past, the more a connection between Nicki and her twin sister Ka...

A collector of occult artifacts endangers himself when he seeks forbidden knowledge....

Lovell lives with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. One day he experiences strange goings-on and is led down a path of horror after a near-death experience alters his life completely....

A woman searches in familiar and lost territory....

Jimmy lives through a nightmare of blood and violence. Surreal images are replaced by brutal splatter. An inferno from which Jimmy is only too eager to wake up. Young director Lars Cramer presents his first work, accompanied by dark Italian sounds....

A slow-burning prairie grotesque. On the grounds of a rural sanitarium, three young women search for wellness, as a cult leader seeks to control their bodies through labor and daily rituals....

A classic sitcom set is victim to strange, otherworldly forces....

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A woman answers a knocking at her door. Inspired by the short "Peephole"....

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A man sleeping is haunted by surreal and everyday images: a grotesque dream-scape of the socialist countryside....

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, co...

A depressed man contemplates the imminent end of the world....

A delightful short film shot in reverse in which the main protagonist enjoys a day on the town....

A portrait of the moment in which a previously grand, luxurious lifestyle is revealed to be woefully unstable. Following the parallel experiences of several tenants of a luxury hotel, we witness the ways in which different personalities react when fa...

Two hit men are sent to kill the same woman not knowing that they are competing to assassinate her....

An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Kristian Day randomly documented the art and actions of the award winning metal sculptor, James Bearden. Refusing to make a...

This short surrealistic film portrays a growing boy and the bizarre world of imposed conditions and contradictions he evolves in. Made by students of Queen's University, A One/Two/Many/World is social commentary expressed in symbolic language....

A troubled man searches for flowers but ends up being tormented by a mannequin....