By Yourself world première at Fantastic Fest 2026, paired with Nikias Chryssos’ Bloody Tennis “So none of it’s real, nothing’s real with you anymore,” Elliot (Tessa Jean) tells her girlfriend Syl (Zelda Adams), “You just don’t want to be alone.” This apparent overture to a breakup is in fact a flashback, as Syl now really…
Lady Puritan at Chattanooga, 19 June 2026 Lady Puritan begins with a nightmare. Through a confusing kaleidoscope of grass blades and petals in close-up, we glimpse two contrasting women. The first, the protagonist played with tangible intensity by Gustine Füdickar – who also co-wrote and co-directed with Justin Streichman – is completely naked, washing herself…
Double Take first published by Film4, 10 Aug 2010 As a human body is shown flailing and falling through the air in slowed-down black-and-white, the announcer from this old newsreel calls the explosive collision of a B-25 Bomber with the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in 1945 “a disaster that remains the most singular…
Superposition had its UK première on Saturday 28th Oct at the Halloween FrightFest Superposition opens with a duplicated image – there is blue sky, a lake, a distant forested shoreline, and an inversion of the same view reflected in the watery surface. What makes this picturesque shot instantly unnerving is that it has been tilted,…
Ego has its European première at Grimmfest Easter Edition 2022 Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas’ Ego, written by Jorge Navarro de Lemus, begins in a recognisable reality, before retreating into an inner space. The opening sequence is set to the sound of a news report situating events in Madrid on Friday 13 March, 2020 as national lockdown is…
Imitation Girl first published by SciFiNow “Alright, whoa baby! She’s gorgeous! Alright, that looks good, how much is it?” The speaker, in the opening scene of Imitation Girl, is a boy in his young teens (William Wakeland), diminished in static wideshot as he negotiates with two older men who have purchased a girlie magazine on his…