Grotesque Movies

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

Do we still know the grotesque when we see it? Muniz Sodré and Raquel Paiva, two of Latin America's greatest thinkers in the field of...

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to...

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

This collaborative video project is based on a short story by H.G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind"—about a man who travels to a country...

Yasha recently retired after serving many years at a factory, with a highlight of his career being a delegate of the Communist Party of the Soviet...

Life is not easy for Laika, a dog on the outskirts of a big Russian city. She is caught and forcibly retrained to become a pioneer in astronautics....

Three little girls open a lemonade stand, but in the grown-up world is never easy to do something simple.

A devout priest welcomes a struggling couple into his house at Christmas time. What begins as a simple act of kindness quickly becomes the ultimate...

Dario, a young electronics enthusiast, decides in the late evening to take a trip down the street to throw out the garbage to kill time - waiting for...

The film presents a series of unrelated "pictures": a police commissioner who, faced with four friars stripped by two women, must decide whether they...

In a lonely, rocky area dotted with human bones, the vulture takes its latest sacrifice. It then disappears into the rock hole to leave as a dove of...

Two friends enter an Emergency Room, seeking help after an incident. They will find themselves living a series of surreal experiences through the...

A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

A young man gets stuck in an elevator just as it passes the 13th floor.

A boy searching for answers to crucial issues finds himself in a strange place inhabited by Meanings, The Higher Tier, a superstructure above the...

After the death of Paolo Monte, his friends Nespolo, Maradona and Maicol have the idea of resurrecting.....................their friend???

An average company employee is thrust into a delirious night after a mugging and faces a world of lost souls that he had not considered before.