Olympus Reborn - Dream

Quando Ele Deitou Pela Penúltima Vez

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Bed & Breakfast

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After a feverish dream, a paralysed dreamer finds themselves trapped within a purgatory of their sleep, as they begin to fuse with their bed. The purgatory begins to refract the dreamers mind, as they are confronted with multiple incarnations of themselves struggling to awake. Bed & Breakfast is inspired by the neurodivergent experience of procrastination, and inertia. Questioning the nature of memory, identity, and the fabric of reality, by plunging you into the psyche of a paralysed dreamer where reality is far repressed.

Transmutation

October 2024 •English

A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.

Peixes Elétricos

April 2024 •Portuguese

Lamiai

September 2024 •English

Shot on Super 8mm film and digital video, Lamiai is an experimental dream film. Lamiai is loosely derived from the Lamia in Greek mythology as well from John Keats’s poem Lamia and Peter Gabriel’s song The Lamia from Genesis’s The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album. Lamiai is the third part of an experimental dream film trilogy that includes Dream Screen and Pizzica.

My Neighbor Wants Me Dead

March 2019 •English

The Tenant continuously fails to escape his deadly apartment under five minute time limit as his blood-thirsty neighbor threatens to break in and exterminate him.

HOLGER

May 2024 •Danish

Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'.

Dos Galhos Prateados

November 2023 •Portuguese

House

August 1977 •Japanese

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

PROLIX

February 2024 •English

A young woman watches TV with her cat in the room. A dying man explores what's left of his psyche.

The Waltz of a Lonesome Pigeon

May 2023 •English

An experimental fairy tale about life, death, and spreading your wings. After Cecilia witnesses a bird smashing into her window, she begins to notice her body transforming. Her skin starts to peel and little feathers start to grow out of her back. Will she fly away or end up like that poor little bird?

Tyngsboro

April 2024 •English

During his visit to a graveyard, a young man is suddenly projected into a dream-like realm. Empty and removed from time, the familiar landscape forces him to confront certain pains when blood suddenly effuses from his hands.

Forbidden Zone

March 1980 •English

A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the Hercules family and friend Squeezit Henderson to rescue her.

The dream of the absurd man

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An absurd man, feeling hopeless, decides to end his life. The night before, he dreams of a perfect world with no pain. In this dream, he sees how good people can be and how he can change. When he wakes up, he understands he must choose between giving up and finding hope. He realizes that even a silly dream can bring big changes.

Re/cycle

June 2019 •English

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-effect time sequence.

Magic Conch Shell

January 2024 •English

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.

Blue Egg

June 2024 •English

A queer stop-motion animation live-action hybrid film following four women in a surrealist parallel narrative unconstricted to heteronormative space and time.

Sombras da Primavera

June 2023 •Portuguese

Mágoa das Flores

May 2023 •Portuguese

Experimental college short film. Two servants plan and execute the coronation of a delicate and machiavellian entity until sunset.

Alter Ego Film Project

November 2024 •English

5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.