Martin E. Kearns

An independently made work of video nonfiction that follows the lives of a group of people running a Christmas Tree shop.

A documentary about the 2021 Atlanta Surrealist Group art exhibition "Egregore", an exhibition in which the lines between a traditional gallery and impromptu theater were blurred.

Two men who live next door to one another spiral into paranoia when they find a box in their apartment.

A young woman is trapped in a bizarre medical university that's run by a deranged eugenicist. With no memory of how or why she was even enrolled, her attempts to seek answers instead unearths a disturbed secret that is practically hidden in plain sight.

The discovery and analysis of a wolfman.

Inspired by the works of Shuji Terayama, O / O / O / O is a film-based one act play that features silent human figures, a shattered sky and a giant flying grasshopper.

A documentary about the 2019 Polymorph Bodyshop surrealist exhibition that was showcased in Atlanta, GA and Birmingham, Alabama. It crosses footage of the exhibit and live performance with surrealist games.

A documentary about the making of the 2022 album "Thank You Mr. Bacharach" by guitarist Grant Green JR. Shot in a new wave style, the film gives a candid unfiltered "narrative nonfiction" view on the process of recording a jazz record.

Kafka's Supermarket is an experimental surrealist science fiction dystopian horror film that concerns the issues of a current capitalist America, focusing on the alienation and dehumanization of commercialism. Market obsessions are rendered to their most primal states, flooding a present-day utopia with a nihilistic fixation over death and sexuality, rendering the whole city as a conceptually cannibalistic market of flesh. Market researchers and psychoanalysts watch in indifference as the mental states of their subjects quickly collapse into depressive torpor.

A man lives in solitude under the assumption that he is a god. Confined to a writing room, he explores a chaotic existential subconscious to seek paradise in the midst of his obsessive nightmare-like fantasies.

A hermit obsessing over a numbers station is left to live within an absurd Twilight Zone based reality. It will be either one of the funniest horror films you’ll ever see or one of the most unsettling comedies to ever be made. It is the cinematic rorschach test.