Movies: Surreal

Painful memories are unleashed following an act of violent suicide....

A surreal horror film following an obsessive actress who finds herself trapped within a cursed theatrical production where she is forced to choose between her career and her life....

The animate body as a medium for the celebration of life is on display as a young Jane Korman dances with her parents and their friends, all of whom are Holocaust survivors, in an Australian forest....

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Lee Callahan begins to suspect her next-door neighbor is a serial killer....

Sebastian, an ambitious magazine creator wants to explore the world and document his experiences. During his maladaptive daydreams, reality comes crashing down on him....

A personal experimental exploration of the book of Psalms in the Holy Bible...

Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel...

A sinister game of poker....

The film tells the story of a woman reflecting on a painful part of her past as she writes. Although we do not see what she has written, we do see her broken memories....

Alone at night, a woman lays in bed as she reveals a traumatizing nightmare to her beloved cat....

An introverted man wrestles with his self image in the hours leading up to a party....

Shot entirely on vintage VHS-C tapes and loosely following the greek myth, The One and Only Aethon is a surrealist nightmare. The story follows Aethon as he struggles with his eating disorder and overbearing hyper masculinity. He is coxed by a seemin...

A professional novelist struggles to resolve an increasingly burdensome family situation, and his relationship with his partner, all the while attempting to finish a new book that encapsulates his situation....

A young, struggling couple is tormented by violent dreams....

A musical audiovisual journey in four parts. A young man finds himself unexpectedly taking an audiovisual odyssey into a world of surreality, slowly recounting his memories, revealing the puzzle pieces that led him to where he is, and maybe how he ca...

A dreamlike short with a switch in tone making it a surreal and uneasy experience....

A surrealist dance film about the history of Gerajak, a committee consisting of village apparatus and farm workers. Gerajak was formed to carry out agrarian reform in the midst of famine and suffering in Gunung Kidul, 1963. This condition became a mo...

Youtuber Patrick Frey lives with his mother at a transport hub in Zurich. Suddenly, nothing is the same anymore when his account is blocked by an algorithm and the homemade strawberry jam is stolen from the cellar....