Nexus Laboratories

Sweet Dreams

December 2023 •English

A good night’s rest turns into a fight for her life when an anxious girl comes face to face with a stranger like no other.

LIMINAL

December 2021 •English

"LIMINAL" is an animated student short film where we follow a little creature trying to find an end to his monotony, isolation, and loneliness.

Road Ahead Closed

August 2024 •English

Meeting a closed road on his route home, a young man takes a risky turn, only to become hopelessly lost on a maze of backroads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3frum1ZbJmA

Empty Shelves

July 2023 •Spanish

Diana, a young woman who suffers from social anxiety, works in the supermarket which forces her to face her biggest fears; unable to communicate with others, she takes refuge in an ideal dream: a still and silent world where she can be free but gradually and without noticing this place threatens to swallow her into oblivion.

The Genie

March 2023 •Spanish

When a young boy tries to write the perfect song, the tip of his pencil breaks and frees a Genie who will only grant him one wish

¿Dónde estoy?

June 2021 •English

Lost in the hallway, where i am?

Teletext

June 2024 •English

A snappy animated diversion turns simple graphic symbols into colorful arrows of resistance. In the field of the rudimentary predecessor of the Internet, the author uses the tried and tested tactic of détournement in order to overcome the limitations of narrowly defined frameworks and transform the screen into a space of new meanings and the scene of a battle against the banalization of the mind. A battle that may have already been lost, but that does not mean that we can afford to lose the sharpness of the senses and the sharp sense of humor that the author demonstrates by repurposing outdated media technology in order to lucidly mock her and our reconciliation with the given state of affairs.

Orfeo ed Euridice

May 2024 •Italian

A love, a journey, perhaps an obsession, the thin line between life and death constantly questioned by love, an immortal feeling, yet experienced by mortals. This animated and musical short film features young Orpheus, the quintessential archetype of the poet, embarking on a journey that will lead him into the depths of the underworld, in a desperate attempt to bring his deceased wife Eurydice back to life

A Visual Poem

June 2024 •

Surreal environments take center stage in this visual odyssey.

Future Future

Invalid date •Portuguese

After using a strange AI device in a decadent course for unemployed people, a 40-year-old amnesic man gets obsessed with recurring absurd dreams, believing they are his life memories. Fourth feature film by the Brazilian director Davi Pretto.

Interchange

June 2023 •English

In 2006, a 20 year old animal and nature lover ventures into the woods with a camera and a sense of serenity, only to discover that he would emerge with his reality shaken, and that only his footage would be found.

Homebody

October 2023 •English

A filmographic essay featuring lines from "Bonedog" by Eva H.D. A pathos on memory, travelogue consciousness and the divets remaindered from environmental displacement.

Ombr

June 2024 •French

Théatre de Guerre

Invalid date •French

Limiar

October 2022 •Portuguese

NOCLIP

April 2024 •English

Two filmmakers set out on an adventure into a creepy old mall, only to find themselves lost in an increasingly claustrophobic maze of hallways, liminal spaces, stairwells and backrooms in this comedic found footage horror film.

IN_BOX

Invalid date •English

Two workers send emails to each other in their office cubicle.

[D R E A M V A L L E Y]

September 2024 •English

Someone recounts a recurring dream. Each time it would be the same, but this time something is wrong.

Stomach It

Invalid date •English

While struggling to emotionally detach from the deceased, a crime scene cleaner believes a monstrous presence is toying with him.

I Saw the TV Glow

May 2024 •English

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.