The Illusion of Despair

Farah hits the road with her buddies to stump for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election, hoping the trip will be her opportunity to finally shed her unwanted virginity. She soon finds her efforts on both political and sexual fronts continuously thwarted.

A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.

After crossing into the U.S. with no family to speak of, young Cecilia finds herself in the charge of Francisco, a lonely Cuban immigrant long separated from his own family. Francisco operates a way station for border crossers on the outskirts of Lake Los Angeles, a surreal, desiccated lakebed in the California desert. While he copes with the alienation of living alone in a foreign land and the impossibility of realizing the American dream, Cecilia aimlessly wanders the dusty landscape, accompanied only by her fantastical imagination and distant memories of motherly love.

Surreal, offbeat short film about a cockroach who falls in love with the woman whose apartment he infests.

A young woman goes on a cathartic journey through memory and imagination inspired by the performers at an open mic.

An aspiring influencer documents her journey to booking her first horror film but receives a bloody surprise when a real-life killer begins murdering her cast mates on set.

A tale about death, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.

A Chicago street performer pays a visit to the Detroit suburbs. He encounters two teenage girls and has an Icarus experience.

A woman in a loveless marriage seeks to escape her mundane life through a bizarre ritual.

A man, in a deep state of psychosis, wanders through a series of disturbing vignettes uncovering a personal reality.

Sometimes childhood dreams come true.

Alfonzo is having a restless evening. Home alone with only an Aleister Crowley book for company, he yearns for some excitement. As though in answer to this unspoken wish, an intruder invades Alfonzo's space—in more ways than one. Meanwhile, two of Alfonzo's friends are planning their own surprise visit.

When the eccentric cast of a mid-90s Public Access show in Detroit reunite after 20 years to make a new episode, they are forced to take a hard look at their lives and reconcile their teenage dreams with the realities of adulthood.

An unemployed carny visits the ruins of the carnival where he used to work and muses over a bygone era.

A woman in New Orleans receives a rune reading and has visions.

A woman contemplates her image in a mirror and prepares herself ritualistically.