Failed Experiments

Sleeping Dogs

October 1997 •English

A master jewel thief in 21st century Los Angeles targets the illegal emerald smuggling operations of a highly-connected crime syndicate. During what he believes to be a routine heist, cat burglar Harry Maxwell discovers that his target, notorious criminal Sanchez Boon is also the target of a police raid. In attempting to evade both the law and Boon's well-armed men, Harry meets Pandora Grimes, one of dozens of young women Boon kidnapped to work in his factory. When Boon sets a group of social deviants free and hijacks a space transport ship and its crew, only Harry and Pandora's cunning can save the hundreds of innocent people aboard.

All Beauty Queens Have Broken Bones

May 2024 •English

Marlo believes God has told her to win the Miss Teen Indiana Pageant. Her older sister Rose is skeptical, but she's been drinking a lot lately, and the word of God is a mystery to her.

Hair

January 2010 •French

Philippe, about thirty, discovers that he is becoming bald. For this backward adolescent musician, the loss of his hair is a real disaster. When he asks his dermatologist how much time he has left, this one tells him that only his father detains the answer to this question.

Sun in My Mouth

June 2010 •English

A young man confesses his sexual past to an unseen phone sex operator. He reflects on his sexual identity as we follow him on a solitary excursion to a beach.

Fairytale of London Town

December 2010 •English

Blister

June 2022 •English

Stranded in a vast arid desert, two resentful lovers are forced to endure one another as they await their rescue.

The Demented Cartoon Movie!

September 2001 •English

The Demented Cartoon Movie! is a 2001 Flash cartoon written, directed, drawn, animated, created, recorded, conceived of, responsibility claimed, filmed, edited, converted to standard transport elephant zucchini format and converted back again by Brian Kendall.

Astronaut

April 2024 •Chinese

The girl, born into a wealthy family, seemingly has everything but is constantly surrounded by an overwhelming sense of boredom, prompting her to chase after excitement incessantly. Upon receiving an invitation from a mysterious man, she gambles everything in a billiards match, only to discover beneath the bandages wrapped around the man's wounds a sorrow she had never imagined. The gentle oxygen of her comfort zone feels suffocating, and perhaps only by journeying together can one catch a glimpse of the dazzling deep space beyond the atmosphere.

Fake Me A Happy New Year

November 2012 •Latvian

Anita and her children, Santa and Kristaps, live in an apartment in Riga. Every year, they celebrate New Year’s Eve with grandma, uncle Peter and a feast fit for kings…

Jemima + Johnny

September 1966 •English

A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.

Vocación de Martirio

January 1999 •Spanish

Time Lapse

May 2014 •English

Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

Beauty Marks

September 2021 •English

A young girl worries she shouldn’t have left her mother with a handsome drifter after wandering off with his unreliable daughter.

Off Purpose

April 2021 •English

Alex is a broke college student whose family is under constant financial strain due to his late mother's medical bills. So, when his friend tells him about a group of guys with a supply of ecstasy, Alex decides to steal it in hopes to sell it all in a huge one-time deal.

Dirt Devil 550 XS

November 2020 •German

Residents of a flat share discuss the purchase of a new vacuum cleaner. A genuine film about group dynamics, daily living together and democracy, in which banality, poetry and humour are mixed.

Mi Madre, My Father

May 2018 •English

Reared by an abusive, pill-popping mother and an absentee playboy father, six-year-old Valentina must fend for herself. She does what she can to craft the illusion of normalcy: makes herself lunches that look just like the ones her classmates tote, dresses and grooms herself expertly, and lies to cover up for her mother Anita's erratic behavior.

Abbey of Thelema

October 2007 •English

Based on actual facts and events, explores the Thelemic Commune in Cefalu, Sicily from 1920-1923.

Autopsy

October 1973 •Spanish

Mondo-style docudrama about a war correspondent who comes back home and has a spiritual crisis about his own mortality. Surreal fantasy sequences are mixed with graphic real autopsy footage.

Hot

May 2015 •Hebrew

A rumor spreads through a small desert town that a girl has been raped. A respected veteran tries to stop the girl's cousin, a soldier in vacation, from taking the law into his own hands.

Léo l'impassible

January 2010 •French

In Leo's world, people have a single expression face. Leo wears the mask of impassiveness. Invisible to the beautiful Suzie, he will have to employ an artifice to be noticed by her.