Affairs of my Wife (1973)

형사 하티건은 천사와 같이 순수한 댄서 낸시를 지키기 위해 자신의 모든 것을 버리고 총을 잡는다. 그러나 상원의원인 아버지의 권력을 이용하는 유괴범 로크는 낸시를 손에 넣기 위해 하티건을 죽음으로 몰아간다. 거리의 파이터인 마브는 하룻밤 사랑을 나눈 금발 여인 골디가 다음날 아침 싸늘한 주검이 되어있는 것을 발견하게 된다. 살인 누명을 쓰고 쫓기게 된 마브는 그녀를 위해 복수를 시작한다. 한편 올드 타운에서 부패한 형사반장이 살해당하는 사건에 휘말린 사진작가 드와이트는 타운의 보스인 게일과 함께 경찰의 비호를 받는 갱들과 한바탕 전쟁을 준비한다.

닐 블롬캠프 감독이 설립한 실험 영화 제작사. 단편 영화들을 제작하여 유튜브와 스팀을 통해 무료로 공개하고 있다. 만들어진 작품들은 반응과 피드백에 따라 장편 화 되거나 어떤 방식으로 든 내용을 확장해나갈 가능성이 있음을 시사했는데, 그가 단편 영화에 뿌리를 둔 감독이란 걸 생각한다면 블롬캠프다운 제작 방식이라고 할 수 있다.

[엑스트라오디너리 테일]은 에드가 앨런 포의 다섯 편의 소설을 각자 독특한 그래픽 디자인 스타일로 그려낸 작품이다. 비주얼 아티스트의 다섯 작품은 포의 어두운 세계의 심리적인 깊이와 복잡함을 가장 잘 드러낸다.

A fragmented view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships.

Siblings find their dead uncle's secret stash VHS tapes. The tapes feature sick solicitors, gruesome dares, patricide, demonic technology, monstrous fruit and many more horrors. As they eagerly watch each of these shocking, bizarre, comedic and bloody movies, little do they know that they are conjuring something very ghoulish and gruesome. In the tradition of horror anthologies like V/H/S.

Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.

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A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.

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On a train journey, Saki meets Mrs De Ropp, an oppressive aunt and guardian to an unruly brood. Inspired by the meeting, he imagines a tale of repressed children who find solace in their childish wonder, and are saved by their imagination.

Five directors tackle five short stories playfully tied together in one dark, twisted, humorous film about what goes on behind the door of room 316.

Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.

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