From cosmic horrors to a 60w light bulb, no amount of illumination will shake the feeling that something just isn’t right.

PROGRAMME

THE VIEWING
Dir. Nick Blake | 19 mins | UK
A house viewing spirals into a surreal nightmare for a young woman with a troubled past.

SKULL
Dir. Marion Guerrero | 15 mins | France
It’s morning. Sabine discovers a pregnant woman in the shower, then a soldier at the breakfast table. A blood stain grows on her left breast when she sees her companion having sex with a woman at the kitchen table. She has to change her blouse. This day is off to a bad start. Yes, a bad day…

THE BIRDWATCHER
Dir. Ryan Mackfall | 14 mins | UK
Investigators visit the site of a strange disappearance, a solitary birdwatching hut, deep in the forest. A tale of someone so lost in another time that they can never make it back to reality, and those who seek to help but are only dragged down with them.

BULB
Dir. Guy Taylor | 12 mins
An abstract comedy about a family that only owns one lightbulb.

THE POROUS BODY
Dir. Gabrielle Hoad | 4 mins | UK
This experimental short explores the dark and claustrophobic world of the late 19th / early 20th century seance room — from the point of view of a female medium. It is based on first-hand accounts by believers, sceptics and scientists.

POC’HAN
Dir. Thom Limb | 11 mins | UK
On a Cornish island, a puffin researcher and her visiting nephew observe and conserve the natural landscape. The islands declining puffin population provokes mystery and when the eccentric local farmer is discovered to be catching the puffins and turning them into crude oil, the nature of rural existence becomes a journey into the metaphysical.

HER BABIES
Dir. Letícia Bianco | 19 mins | Brazil, Italy
Winter break at the beach house. A rising middle-class family is in quiet decline. Until something calls from the sea — and makes them whole again.

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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