Santa Sangre (1989)

This story about guilt and oblivion shows that the distinction between fact and fiction can be small.

A group of young people enter a deserted house for a party. One by one they get brutally murdered by two Killers.

In artist Su Hui-yu’s signature style, a moody slow-motion pan captures a wild, glitter-scattered, blood-splattered orgy during the Tang dynasty. The film is an invocation of scenes from 1985 Taiwanese cult film Tang Chao Chi Li that only existed in the screenplay, unfilmed until now due to what can only be imagined as budgetary restrictions and censorship pressures during the Martial Law era. Presented without narrative context, the orgiastic murder scene plays out like an unsettling nightmare.

隅々まで探索されつくした世界に、唯一残された秘境の大穴『アビス』。どこまで続くとも知れない深く巨大なその縦穴には、奇妙奇怪な生物たちが生息し、今の人類では作りえない貴重な遺物が眠っている。「アビス」の不可思議に満ちた姿は人々を魅了し、冒険へと駆り立てた。そうして幾度も大穴に挑戦する冒険者たちは、次第に『探窟家』と呼ばれるようになっていった。アビスの縁に築かれた街『オース』に暮らす孤児のリコは、いつか母のような偉大な探窟家になり、アビスの謎を解き明かすことを夢見ていた。ある日、母・ライザの白笛が発見されたことをきっかけに、アビスの奥深くへ潜ることを決意するリコ。リコに拾われた記憶喪失のロボット・レグも自分の記憶を探しに一緒に行くことを決意する。深界四層でタマウガチの毒に苦しむリコ。リコを救ったのは成れ果てのナナチだった。ナナチを仲間に加え、ボンドルドの待つ深界五層へと三人は冒険を進める。そこで、プルシュカと名乗る女の子に出会い…

天才科学者で富豪のエイドリアン(オリヴァー・ジャクソン=コーエン)の恋人セシリア(エリザベス・モス)は、彼に支配される毎日を送っていた。ある日、一緒に暮らす豪邸から逃げ出し、幼なじみのジェームズ(オルディス・ホッジ)の家に身を隠す。やがてエイドリアンの兄で財産を管理するトム(マイケル・ドーマン)から、彼がセシリアの逃亡にショックを受けて自殺したと告げられるが、彼女はそれを信じられなかった。

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a man and woman engaged in surreal, erotic contortions. Their bodies are in a constant state of metamorphosis, as if to indicate psychological states or inner reflection as they contemplate their connection; they are being transported, transcending, merging and melting. - Pamela Turner

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside of his sphere of friends, being a collection of early experiments and directions. While lacking the sophistication and artistry that is found in his six finished works, this film provides invaluable insight to his first attempts at animation and clues to some of his later work. - Pamela Turner

Sequence digitally photographed and animated by Pamela Turner in 2009 from Beckett's original drawings; these untitled images may have been intended for use in Life in the Atom. Also included, Every Other, is a unique version of an animated "exquisite corpse" and is a delightful study of the two artists' drawings. Beckett and Kathy Rose took turns contributing segments to a sequence, each animating 24 frames, passing their final image to the other to continue. These 336 were discovered amongst Beckett's many drawings and were digitally recorded by his biographer, Pamela Turner, in 2010. - Pamela Turner

In Pareidolia, analog abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images, interpreted by an online search engine. Hundreds of these matching images were edited into abstract film clips, resulting in an exciting visual and psychological cinematic experience.

Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has repurposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a getaway for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.

The story of a sex worker struggling to connect with the people around him. As his world turns increasingly hostile, a descent into isolation brings him face to face with his past.

Nicholas is a boy with severe mental problems. During a night of celebration, because of a joke, his madness will explode causing a massacre.

Herbert Pomeroy's wife Juanita spends his money extravagantly and irresponsibly, finally driving him to bankruptcy. Desperate, he sends his son Frankie to live with his friend Henderson, a South Seas trader, then commits suicide. Although Juanita spends years searching for her son, she finally gives up and takes a world cruise on the yacht of wealthy Jules Lennox. One day the yacht docks on Henderson's island and Juanita, meeting Henderson, persuades him to let her be Frankie's governess. Complications ensue, involving a poor physician, a jealous island woman and a witch doctor.

A radio host is kidnapped on air and forced to tell secrets about his past.

Oluf Raillkattli is one of Norways most beloved humor characters. How's it been? How did the stories come to life? What's the story behind the 100-year phenomenon Oluf? These are some of the questions that's raised when Arthur Arntzen and his longtime partner in crime Tore Skoglund meet up at Folkets Hus in Narvik. The occasion is Arthurs 70th birthday and a look back at 50 years of memorable Oluf moments on stage and TV.

An existential odyssey through the unconscious.

A priest investigates the house of a family who has been missing for weeks on end. What he finds is horrifying.

A boy posts a message on the Internet seeking a suicide partner. A girl reads it and flies to meet him one week later. Together they jump off a 600-meter cliff. They found each other on an Internet newsgroup called alt.suicide.holiday, or ASH. Internet newsgroups are virtual discussion forums amongst people with common interests. The subject of this one is suicide. You come across thousands of letters. The unknown leave behind their open hearted life stories for us to read. Who are these people and why are they seeking each other on the Internet? What lives lay hidden behind the blue light of the computers. In ASH worlwide suicide we meet four writers of this newsgroup.

Were is a dark, tense and atmospheric horror short, about three girls camping in the woods who are approached by a sinister stranger. With a killer ending.

Young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants to obtain a list of Jakub’s fellow conspirators. As he follows his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub is affected by the overall chaos and moral corruption; he goes insane and becomes a mass murderer.

“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

とある砂漠ではりつけにされ、裸の子どもたちに石を投げつけられているキリストに似た風ぼうの盗賊（ホラシオ・サリナス）。自力で十字架から降り立った彼は、居合わせた男と共に町へ向かう。町ではキリスト像を売る太った男たちに捕らえられ、鏡の部屋に閉じ込められてしまう盗賊だったが、何とか部屋から脱出し……。

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.

On his 18th birthday, Jan Wen shoots randomly at the crowds in a night market for unknown reasons. The tragic incident causes a strong impact on the lives of his family and friends, the victims and the witnesses. However, if there was a chance for them to make different choices, would the tragedy still happen? Will it be a different outcome if they all changed their behaviour at the crucial moment?

ヘンリーは、服役中に知り合ったオーティスと共同生活をしながら、表向きは害虫駆除の仕事を坦々とこなす日々を過ごしていた。しかし、殺人への渇望は充たされることはなく、あたかもそれが日課のようなに殺人を繰り返していたのだった。やがてヘンリーの”狂気”はオーティスをも引き込んで、凶行はさらにエスカレートして行く。そしてある日、オーティスの妹ベッキーが彼らの生活に加わり、これをきっかけにしてヘンリーとオーティスの関係は均衡が次第に崩れ始めるのだった。

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

A man embarks on an increasingly obsessive search for his girlfriend after she disappears without a trace during a romantic summer getaway to France.

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.

散らかった部屋の中で、あまりの退屈さにうんざりしたアリス（クリスティーナ・コホトヴァー）は、人形で「アリス」ごっこを始める。とその時、ガラスケースの中の白ウサギが突然動きだし、懐中時計を手に慌てて駆け出す姿に驚きながらもアリスは後を追うことにし、いつしか不思議の国にたどり着く。面白半分にインクを飲み、あっという間に小さくなったアリスが、タルトを食べると今度は大きくなってしまう。

A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can collect body parts to reassemble her.

A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a bit.

引退を決意していた殺し屋ジェフリーは、クラブ歌手ジェニーを銃撃戦に巻き込んで失明させてしまった。彼はその償いのために最後の仕事を引き受けるが......。

ある日、サラリーマンの主人公は、自らの頬に金属の欠片のようなにきびができているのを発見。さらには出勤の途中、見知らぬOLが金属で膨張した腕を振りかざして彼に襲いかかってきて、必死で防戦するうち、いつしか彼の腕も金属と化していた。やがて彼の体はすっかり金属へと変身を遂げ、彼の恋人の体を引き裂くに至り、彼は快楽を覚えだす。そして彼は、やはり全身が金属と化した正体不明の“やつ”と対決するはめとなる。

長い単身赴任を終え、妻アンナのもとに戻ったマルクは、妻の冷やかな態度に傷つく。ようやく、その不倫相手ハインリッヒと対峙するが、彼から“第三の相手”の存在をほのめかされたマルクもまた愛に苦しむ。だが一人息子ボブの通う学校にやって来たマルクはそこで妻と瓜二つの教師ヘレンと出会い、彼女に強く惹かれていく…。

少年時代からいつも一緒にいる一卵性双生児の兄弟、エリオットとビヴァリー。容姿はうり二つだが、性格は兄エリオットが社交的で野心家、弟ビヴァリーが内気な努力家と正反対。兄弟はトロントで婦人科医の医院を営むが、ビヴァリーは診察した女優クレアの子宮が3つに分かれていたので驚く。やがてクレアはエリオットと肉体関係を持つが、クレアはエリオットに双子の弟がいることを知らない。こうして異様な三角関係が生まれる。

19世紀の文豪ヘンリー・ジェイムズの名作小説『ねじの回転』を原作にしたサイコサスペンス。中年女性ギデンスが田舎の広大な屋敷に住む幼い兄妹の住み込みの家庭教師として雇われるが、亡くなった前任者と使用人の霊に取りつかれる。

超能力をビジネスに利用している警備会社コンセックの科学者により、その能力をさらに開発された超能力者のベイル（スティーヴン・ラック）。ベイルの任務は、もう一人のスキャナー、レボック（マイケル・アイアンサイド）の追跡。しかし、驚異的な力で世界をわがものにしようとたくらむレボックは、彼の野望に逆らうスキャナーたちを虐殺し始め……。

「モンティ・パイソン」で知られる鬼才テリー・ギリアム監督が、ミュンヒハウゼン男爵の奇想天外な大冒険をつづった「ほらふき男爵の冒険」を映画化したファンタジー大作。 18世紀、トルコ軍占領下にあるドイツの海岸沿いの町。貧困と飢えに苦しむ人々であふれた崩れかけた城壁の中の廃墟と化した小さな町のロイヤル劇場の舞台に、バロン・ミュンヒハウゼンは突然姿を現わした。彼は、トルコ軍は自分を探していると語り、なぜトルコ軍に追われるはめになったかを話し始めるが、あまりにも荒唐無稽で誰にも相手にされない。