In conversation with Kenneth Anger's avant-garde classic, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), After the Pleasure Dome fuses slow hypnotic performance, live visual effects and underwater footage inspired by a myth overheard while visiting a Sacred Cenote (Cenote Sagrado) at Chichén Itzá. The psychedelic imagery asks: what precious jewels threaten to drown you? Which riches must your expel to survive?
Burnt Reynolds
In conversation with Kenneth Anger's avant-garde classic, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), After the Pleasure Dome fuses slow hypnotic performance, live visual effects and underwater footage inspired by a myth overheard while visiting a Sacred Cenote (Cenote Sagrado) at Chichén Itzá. The psychedelic imagery asks: what precious jewels threaten to drown you? Which riches must your expel to survive?
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
An outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors, dancing boys, slaves, and leather-clad bikers.
On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of his hotel. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants.
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Wenches Scarlett and Giselle fix each other up for their wedding, in which they would each marry their groom. Upon realizing that both their grooms were the same man, Jack Sparrow, the two wenches found themselves in an auction led by the Auctioneer. This short film serves as a prequel to The Curse of the Black Pearl, and explains just why Jack Sparrow's boat the Jolly Mon was seen sinking at the beginning of the whole story; why the wenches were so upset with him; and how Cotton lost his tongue.