BLOCK: utterly macabre
SCREENING DATE: saturday, february 4, 2023 at 7:30pm
Location: Jessie Ball duPont Center - Northern Trust Seminar Room
Domestic Bliss
US - Directors: Jennifer Scott & Nicole Townssend
A woman with a surprise up her sleeve hopes to get a commitment-phobic man to propose
The Graveyard Shift
US - Director: Téa Lynor
Bernie is a teenager who works with her cousin Santiago at the local 24 hour diner. While wasting time getting high on the clock, the two encounter a pair of suspicious customers. Little do they know, the meal is on the house.
While Mortals Sleep
US - Director: Alex Fofonoff
When a cold case novelist’s career implodes, she seeks refuge in her friend’s remote vacation home. Upon arrival, she encounters a strange couple who claim to be the caretakers. As tensions build, a dark secret begins to emerge.
Zoon
Germany - Director: Jonatan Schwenk
Small shimmering animals are in heat. A two-legged forest dweller encounters the lustful group. He and his companions snack on the little creatures and soon a feast begins.
Bad Seeds
Canada - Director: Claude Cloutier
In a bizarre world, carnivorous plants can change shapes the way a chameleon changes colors. The film connects growth with rivalry and evolution with competition, crafting an increasingly shocking duel that’s peppered with allusions to the western, the Cold War, board games, and much more.
Tony and the Tree
Florida, US - Director: Pacey Hansen
A young boy living with his estranged mother finds the comfort he craves in his relationship with a tree. However, this tree believes in revenge.
Familiar
UK - Director: David J. Ellison
It’s 1942, in the dark woods of Pennsylvania, Richard Mason is the Familiar to a hideous ancient vampiric creature living in the bowels of an isolated mansion. Every day he must bring a new victim for it to feed on and tolerate its physical and mental abuse.
Earthworm
US - Director: Grace Gregory
Contains nudity
When twenty-year-old Claire finds out she’s pregnant, she knows she wants to have an abortion. With confidence in her choice, support from her family, and good healthcare, it should be straightforward. But the night before the appointment, skin-crawling hallucinations begin to shake her resolve. At the gynecologist's office, what should be a routine medical experience becomes a waking nightmare with lasting repercussions.
MeTube: August Sings ‘Una Furtiva Lagrima’
Austria - Director: Daniel Moshel
The intergalactic music nerds, August and Elfi, conquer the opera stage and orchestrate their final adventure in an opulent manner.
The Sprayer
Iran - Director: Farnoosh Abeo
In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. When a soldier finds a seed buried deep down in the dust, his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary.