Bliss Bastardized

An experimental anthology about mental turmoil. Nine subversive perspectives from young filmmakers from around the world who lament over depression, alienation, loneliness, and heartbreak as universal experiences.

Filmmaker Luke Eadie documents his uncle Glen and acquaintance Cheech on their quest to find the end of the rainbow - and the riches that come with it.

Scenes of a city shrouded in fog, as a poem is recited

Told entirely through a laptop screen, Red Lips follows Lisa as her academic research into online vampire communities collapses into something far more personal when she finds Caroline.

Ten filmmakers were tasked with making surreal short film segments that loosely involve a cigarette. The result is Lynchian chaos in anthology form - the good ends, the bad ends, the loose ends, and the burnt ends. A sprawling anthology about all things cigarettes.

An interaction with a stranger leaves our hero physically scarred and tormented by a strange voice.

A film director. A protest against the 6x1 work schedule. And there is always this guiding, meditative voice that controls the impulse to revolt, that isolates, atomizes the being. In this confusion, it's necessary to choose a side - or at least be aware of the side chosen. There is no not choosing.

A cuck smokes a cigarette backwards while a failed rapper reminisces on his downfall. They come to realize a startling existential truth.

A love letter to cinema and a personal reflection on loneliness. Segment from Fringe Hippo's anthology film "Elegy Apokalypto".

A man experiences a psychotic break and secludes himself in the woods with his inanimate lover.

A man starts to lose his sanity after his vape mysteriously vanishes from his pocket.

In a culmination of distress, a man must decide between his family and his way out.

Two femmes dish over their dating lives as they split a pack of cigarettes

David is tormented by Ciggi as he is pressured into smoking

A girl jumps rope on a hill while a sonnet is recited. Segment from Fringe Hippo's anthology film "Elegy Apokalypto".