A narrative/documentary/experimental hybrid about a man who buys a new technology to record his dreams. Created in December 2023 for the FILMMAKING 1: FUNDAMENTALS final at the University of Pittsburgh.
After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.
Carrie (Jackie Kelly) is a socially-troubled young woman trying to mend a strained relationship with her mother. After her grandfather dies in a nursing home, Carrie finds herself attracted to William (Bill Oberst Jr.), an elderly man in a neighboring room. William's doctor offers Carrie a part-time position with the nursing home to keep tabs on the old man. William shares a series of tall tales from his life as a younger man. He claims to be immortal, cursed to never die but to grow old and sick. Before he can finish his final tale, William mysteriously disappears, and Carrie is implicated in his murder.
A tired writer lacks the energy or ambition to keep writing. The writer then gets transported into a DREAMSCAPE where he travels to his dreams and has an adventure of a lifetime...
An approaching loss threatens the of a middle-class family, whose dark secrets gradually come to light and begin to gnaw away at the family members - literally.
A young couple struggling with infertility seeks the aide of a healer with a promised remedy, while unknown forces also work to provide them with what they wish.
One night, 3 am in an almost-empty parking lot, a girl named Fran witnesses a murder. A murder between a lesbian couple, whom both seemed to enjoy the dark act. Fran is traumatised by what she sees and flees the scene, but for some reason even she doesn’t understand, never tells a soul of what happened. Fran feels her sanity slipping each day, but is this actually what she truly wanted all along? Is this what she was looking for in her life? A reason to truly let herself go? Her story is one of battling with one’s own thoughts, and the struggles to contain violent urges.
Two individuals get stuck in a reoccurring loop of dreams, strung together by the presence of a rotary phone, they must scramble for their survival to move through each layer of the dreamscape.
Thevan, a folk singer of the Paanan caste, has a fateful encounter when escaping slavery, leading to discover an ancient tradition altering his destiny.
As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws near, well-heeled Diana moves into an apartment within an otherwise unoccupied, sprawling London house where she starts to experience strange and terrifying nightmares. But are these troubling night terrors merely the symptom of an unsettled mind, or the sign of something far more sinister at work? Hounded by a pair of sleazy journalists, Diana soon crosses paths with American tourist Jenny, who appears to have a strange connection to the foreboding house and its dark past.
Daniel is an awkward loner, who has taken up stalking a girl from the neighborhood. His unhealthy obsession with Emily starts to warp reality. It leads him to an encounter that he'll never forget.