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The Demonology of Desire Rodrigo Gudiņo, 2007, 22 min. Written and directed by Rue Morgue founding editor Rodrigo Gudiņo, The Demonology of Desire is a confrontational short film about a young girl with a very unusual need. Late one night Ramona makes a powerful wish, setting in motion a bizarre chain of events involving an unsuspecting boy, her own best friend and the sinister thing they keep locked in a cage. This "brave, provocative, blackly comic and deeply perverse film" (Fantasia Fest) has been nominated for Best International Short (Raindance Film Festival) and been awarded Special Jury Prize for Best Actress and Best Effects (Fantastic Fest). "One fucked up number" -Ain't It Cool News. |
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Kanashibara Jaimz Asmundson, 2007, 11 min. Following the death of his girlfriend in a car accident, a man suffers from post-trauma and attempts to maintain his grip on sanity. Now renting a dingy basement suite, he is plagued with constant interruptions from his landlady and terrifying bouts of sleep paralysis. His sense of the real and the illusory world begins to blur when he is visited nightly by hallucinatory representations of his depression in the form of a Succubus. Shot on mixed media including hand-processed and hand-painted 16MM, Super 8, VHS and Digital. |
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The Legend of Boruta Bartosz Nowakowski 2007, Canada, 10 min. The year is 1939, a regiment of Nazi soldiers arrive upon a small church nestled in the sprawling wheat fields just outside the small town of Leczyca, Poland. As they enter the church grounds, a lower ranking soldier is sent into the catacombs deep beneath the church to search for valuables and other items of historical and cultural significance that can be appropriated. Reluctantly, the young soldier heads down, only to discover that he has been tainted by the stolen goods he possesses and soon realizes that he will consequently help build the Legend of Boruta. |
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Les Drujes Izabel Grondin, 2004, 14 min. Montreal, Christmas Eve: Two young women are stranded when their car breaks down. |
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The Mime Massacre Colin Decker, 2006, 6 min. When it comes to mimes, people either love them or hate them. This movie is for the haters. |
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The Pit and the Pendulum Marc Lougee, 2006, Canada, 7 min. Ray Harryhausen presents this haunting, stop-motion adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's tale. |
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Sebastian and Alan Adam Brooks, 2007, 10 min. Two men travel by night, but where are they headed and why? Are they father and son or something else? Sebastian and Alan follows these two characters who only seem to exist on the periphery as they wait for their own plots to unfold before them. |
