Sean Hardaway

Set in the desert-weird wilds of Joshua Tree, California, Serpentine Pink is a distinctively visceral and surreal independent, female-centric film that digs into the various and rigorous ways a heart heals from trauma. Inspired by France's Grand Guignol style of horror theatre, and utilizing a lyrical language both visual and verbal to capture the strange poetry of the Mojave land and soundscape, Serpentine Pink follows a reclusive biker woman and her John Wayne-obsessed exotic dancer lover's disturbing fallout after a violent acid attack. An ethereal psychic and her aspiring healer companion converge with supernatural forces in an attempt to confront and then heal the women's - as well as their own - deep-rooted, personal pain that comes from trying to break the cycle of possessive love.

A young woman seeking treatment for her schizophrenia is taken captive by a deranged doctor and subjected to illegal experimentation. Her every attempt at escape is blocked by those around her, as she loses touch with her already infirm grip on reality.

After a hapless fisherman is tricked out of his skin, he teams up with a mermaid to seek revenge on his malefactors.