Just outside Philadelphia is a suburb full of trust fund kids and bored old men. In the heart of that suburb is a brothel run by women who are nothing more than a rite of passage to those men. House of Little Deaths explores every thing they do to get through a day, everything they hope for, everything they want to forget, everything they do to escape. A film about the mundane and bitter truth behind a world of fantasy.
A ghost realizes her ex-boyfriend can see her as she languishes in the afterlife.
An essay about films about flying.
There is a vampire who has been quietly stalking the streets of New York City for a hundred years. When she saves a young woman from being sexually assaulted on the stairwell of her building, she has cause to reminisce on a life spent in shadows, fearing the daylight and everyone who walks in it.
Two soldiers lost behind enemy lines reminisce about their lives before war stole their identities.
An imagined plague diary
A woman goes hunting night after night, looking for someone, anyone, to satisfy her hunger in an alienating urban landscape.
A riff on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, examining the passions that have anchored love stories for centuries. Jane loved Roderick, until they slept together and she learned he'd been keeping his long-term relationship a secret. Now she is nagged by questions: Why did he wrong her? Who is this other woman? What happened to the seemingly sweet man she fell for? How does infidelity still happen? She finds him and confronts him without malice or spite, attempting to make the self-identified "nice guy" explain his chauvinistic behavior.
A young woman's life flashes before her eyes as she succumbs to an asthma attack.
A woman gathers her oldest friends for a weekend in Atlantic City to celebrate her engagement
Grieving widows, a detective, an errand boy, and more vie to be the one to kill a gambler.
A man takes his life and is reincarnated as a bridge.
An incomplete document of a music scene
An essay on the end of the world
A depressed filmmaker takes on a new project that might help him break into the mainstream or drive him further into despair and reclusivity.
A film about Rachel Thompson
A woman recounts the greatest tragedy of her life to a stranger
A woman relives the worst night of her life in a house full of ghosts.
In the near future plays are staged that feature live murder on stage. Adam Morris, a young struggling actor, has just taken the lead in one. His co-star, Noelle, wants to know why.
Not long ago the people of an unnamed country were involved in a civil war. After the armistice, both sides noticed hundreds of bodies unaccounted for. Looking through their land, there was discovered a place where men would vanish from sight. Those who returned spoke of a zone governed by cruel logic. This place, dubbed The Ulterior, was closed off and a guard was placed at its entry. The curious have found their way to its borders believing it holds healing properties and that it can reunite the living and the dead.
