The Serpent’s Skin first published by SciFiNow, for its Canadian première at Fantasia, 23 July 2025 Quiet, shy Anna (Alexandra McVicker) is in transition, and uncomfortable in her own skin. Caught between adolescence and young adulthood, she suffers strange dissociative episodes, and regularly cuts herself, leaving a ladder of scars on her upper thighs – and…
CAMP had its world première at Fantastic Fest 2025, 21st Sept In the impressionistic, home video-like opening sequence, part-monochrome, part-colour, of Avalon Fast’s CAMP, a 16-year-old woman is driving along the road in the half light of dusk. A song by the film’s composer Max Robin plays on the soundtrack, setting a whimsical if fey…
Honeycomb opens with a slow zoom away from a painting on a wall. It is a portrait depicting a woman before a background which comprises the interlocking cellular hexagons of a honeycomb, even as she herself sports a sweater striped in apian blacks and yellows, and has two giant bees perched on her hair. There…