Box on the Hill

It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse, But the Situation in Which They Live

June 2021 •Portuguese

Two queer Brazilians go skinny dipping in a lake where they talk about love, sex, colonialism and migration, on a pandemic summer afternoon in Berlin.

Performance Anxiety

October 2012 •English

Two straight actors must rehearse for an impending gay love scene. How will they make out?

Tired

July 2014 •English

The tragic story of a spare tire who struggles to find a new purpose.

Pool Blue

January 2011 •French

Pool Blue is an attempt which tells, without dialogue nor rationality, a connection fantasized between two men. It is the fantastical projection which reveals certain eroticism. Pointless and discreet, the desire is present, two men are careful, gauge to the point to create a link of seduction. This link is intelligently staged, it is invisible with the eyes of the other swimmers, mysterious for both men and very explicit for the spectator.

Conflit de canards

January 2004 •French

Watchers

December 1988 •English

A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that it's an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unbeknownst to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature that's not quite so friendly.

White Night

January 2010 •English

Explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy.

Paralysis

April 2016 •English

Struggling with the pressures of homophobia when her partner is taken away by a hateful mother, a young gay woman struggles to cope with the traumas and anxieties of her life. Her dreams descend, taking the shape of shadows which reach into her life.

Curse

January 2018 •English

A group of friends find themselves the center of attention when a scorned ex-boyfriend utilizes the dark web to exact revenge.

How Am I Driving

February 2002 •English

An expressionless man drives along a sterile freeway. Unaware of his concrete and steel surroundings he is consumed by the surface of his world. But is he so consumed that he is unable to see what’s underneath?

Mimic: Sentinel

April 2003 •English

A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.

Visiting Birdie

July 2024 •English

Sixteen year old Sam explores her relationship with a new friend during an anxiety inducing day at Grandma's.

Humuq: Do Not Sleep at Dusk

December 2022 •Indonesian

The two girls decided to do their daily prayers in the school, but turns out one of them accidentally fell asleep instead. But when she woke up, she felt uneasy with her friend that's undergoing the prayer without her.

The Ship of Fools

January 1996 •English

Admiral Flipside is one crazy sea-dog. Driven by a darker than black alter-ego he embarks upon a bizarre voyage of destruction and self discovery. Haunted by his subconscious he is driven by ghostly manifestations into a surreal world of circus and theatre inspired by Sebastian Brant’s 1494 book ‘Das Narrenschyff’ (The Ship of Fools). Unbeknown to him he is the leading actor in a stage play based on the ship of fools. He leads the witless fools on a disastrous voyage to find ‘Narragonia’ (Fools Utopia). Flipside finds himself the sole survivor after the ship is set upon by fire breathing monsters from the deep. He is washed up on the very beach that he left many years ago, only to discover his innocence waiting for him. Here at last, after so many long years searching, he is forced to confront the grim reality that is himself. These short films combine computer animation, traditional animation, video and concepts of theatre to produce a bizarre visual story.

Frankenweenie

December 1984 •English

When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky's still the good loyal friend he's always been.

Pepper

November 2014 •French

The painful awakening of a couple after an evening of fantasies ...

Paseo por una guerra antigua

January 1949 •Spanish

Madrid, Spain. A mutilated man, a war veteran, walks, leaning on a crutch, through the stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria, a place that still preserves in walls and buildings the terrifying traces of one of the bloodiest battles of the Spanish Civil War.

Don't Sleep

October 2024 •Thai

In the heart of Bangkok, a group of friends is unknowingly drawn into a deadly game with an ancient and malevolent spirit. After a tragic accident, Thai, a guilt-ridden biker, struggles with sleepless nights and haunting visions of a young boy he hit in a hit-and-run. Desperate for peace, Thai turns to his friend Tle, who leads him to the mysterious Mhom, a medium who specialises in dark rituals and the occult. Mhom introduces them to the Phi Thuai Kaew, a cursed Ouija board that supposedly holds the key to lifting Thai's curse.

Just 20

June 2016 •English

An experimental look at the harsh reality of date rape in youth or college culture inspired by the statement made by Dan A. Turner, the father of convicted Stanford rapist Brock Turner, urging a judge to sentence his son to probation, which sparked outrage. The key to that statement was ""His life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve. That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life." Just 20 is an unflinching look at what 20 minutes of "action" looks like, let alone wondering its effects for the victim for a life time to come.

We Die Alone

August 2020 •English

A chance encounter dangerously intertwines the lives of three people with differing perspectives on love.