Crazy, Not Insane
Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With each case, she came closer to developing a unified field theory of what makes a killer. Along the way - steering away from the conventional wisdom of her colleagues - she explored the world of multiple personality disorder.
Full
A collage film documenting dissociation, sexual assault, and all the times I didn't have words for myself.
chrysalis
a girl who's struggling to grasp a sense of reality, strains to feel bonded to the people surrounding her, as she falls deeper into her own illusive world. will she ever break out of her chrysalis?
Forever Nothing More
A trans woman stuck in a shadowy nightmare dimension stumbles upon a cryptic old Maiden, who may be her only way of escaping this terrifying (un)reality.
"Annie, Are You OK?"
After her release from involuntary hospitalization, “Annie” grapples with the trauma of her confinement, all while working as a lifeguard, a job that becomes increasingly challenging as she descends deeper into despair.
Despair
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
oneirophrenia
a girl struggles to grasp a sense of reality, as the world around her becomes illusive and dream-like.
I See Him
Having not been acting like himself lately, new recluse Randy is invited by his friend Adrian to meet after their high school's Halloween Party.
REFLECTION OF A DEADMAN
Haunted by a fleeting encounter, a man becomes consumed by his obsession with a stranger. Drawn deeper into the streets of Paris, he follows the figure through an urban underworld where identity blurs, time fractures, and meaning slips out of reach. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Man of the Crowd," REFLECTION OF A DEADMAN is a hypnotic descent into dissociation, anonymity and the quiet terror of losing yourself while trying to find yourself. Shot on location in the alleys, cemeteries and catacombs of Paris. Watch for free on Film Shortage.
Sunmoon
Sunmoon is a visual experiment in "blended reality," seamlessly integrating live-action with computer-generated animation. The film follows a young woman's confrontation with her inner selves: Piper, a bionic manifestation of her doubts; Phany, an animal spirit totem; and Sunmoon, her human core. As the timer counts down, poetry and imagination become the only tools left to bridge the gap between digital isolation and human emotion.
Alexander Not So Great
Alexander, a self-absorbed aspiring model and internet personality, spirals into delusion and self-pity after being dumped by his girlfriend for someone “much less impressive.” What begins as a diary of self-reflection soon mutates into performative egoism as Alexander tries to rebrand his heartbreak into an aesthetic. But the camera catches what he won’t admit — that his obsession isn’t with love, but with the idea of being seen as great. As Alexander's online persona grows more unhinged, hallucinations blur with reality. He records performative breakdowns, fakes emotional confessions, and eventually spirals into a monologue where his reflection mocks him.
Thawing Seeds: A Forest Fairy Guide from the Underground
You wake up alone in the forest. A fairy finds you and guides you underground - towards the ways of the ants, the roots, and the deep intelligence of the Earth. A poetic and enchanting offering for the frozen, dissociated and forgotten.
Call Me Nothing
Amaris lives inside a fractured inner world where memory and identity blurs together. She awakens chained within a cage. Her mind rebuilds the past through distorted landscapes and recurring visions of her childhood abduction, each revealing one of the film’s core motifs; the three masks we wear - the public face, the intimate face, and the hidden face. Stripped of her physical voice, Amaris narrates through a spiralling interior monologue as a masked figure stalks her memories, conscience and self‑doubt. Amaris becomes obsessed with finding Lila - the girl who once saved her and may hold the key to thawing her emotional numbness. The film follows Amaris’s descent and reconstruction as she confronts the truth her subconscious awareness buried to in self preservation. Her search for Lila becomes a fight to reclaim feeling, language and identity.
Ainda te Espero
Pounds of Matter
A kaleidoscopic perspective into one woman's experience with self-dissolution and urban alienation.
White Rabbit
A girl struggles with a dissociative episode in her bedroom.
