CUSTOM is the first feature of award-winning Brazilian-born and UK-based filmmaker Tiago Teixeira. In this paranoid horror thriller, a couple of arthouse pornographers struggle to make ends meet while working on custom erotic films. That’s when they encounter ‘The Audience’, a mysterious client offering life-changing money to perform strange rituals on videotape.
An introverted young woman uses a deepfake app to watch romantic films featuring herself and a neighbour until a new government restriction forces her to pursue a relationship in real life and learn that love isn't quite like the movies.
Odin has dispatched his knights, led by Elvind, to eradicate the Forest Elves, the Huldra, from Asgard. Maiken and her sisters Thyra and Lisbet are the last. Maiken and Thyra have conflicting plans for survival. Can the siblings work together and survive the last Odin hunt?
In an alternate world where having sex means swapping bodies with the other person, a young woman struggles to be herself, defying her small conservative community where swapping is taboo. A deeply intimate portrait of identity in transition.
Official Selection Tampere Film Festival 2023
In reverence to the British paintings that watch over her from inside a desolate stately home, a young Pakistani girl aspires to become the perfect upper-class lady.
Annag is lost and alone, fighting for her sanity. Awake and dreaming, she is drawn to the shoreline, yearning for the deep coastal waters. By day she feels the eyes of The Herring Girls on her trying to hide her slipping grasp of reality. Do they know something she doesn’t?
The gothic story of Dracula is reimagined in a solitary séance in which an animated pop-up book serves as a conduit for Dracula’s curse to re-enter the modern world. The participating audience are 'The Invited'. One guest at a time enters a dark room and is presented with a theatrical set up containing an AR device and a hand crafted pop-up book. Each turn of the page reveals an intricate kirigami world that fills with AR holograms to tell the story of Vampire X’s unholy desires. The 15 minute experience is an emotionally touching, uniquely poetic, haunted ride through the torments of unconsummated love.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - XR Experience Competition
A blind ballet dancer is being stalked by Tommy, a dissociative identity disorder (split personality) street artist.
A surreal image of Tommy descending the lonely path of the seeker, his suit made bespoke. A blind ballet dancer. Both will be on Wolfman Radio. Some say that there is a permanent and a temporary personality within a human being. A twisting walkabout in the worlds of separateness beyond dreams and reality. Unfolding with the logic of a dream, which can be interpreted but never explained. Punctuated by a series of occurrences that twist and turn where the lamb becomes the wolf.
4th International Film Festival of Crete & Awards 2023 - World Premiere -
Best Feature Film Award, Best Script, Best Female Actor, Best Male Actor
Set within the fictional smart city of SimBeijing, the CGI animation follows a self-driving car as they discuss their troubles with their built-in therapy program called Guanyin. The video is made within the custom-made virtual world of SimBeijing: an intelligent replica of the Chinese capital built to test self-driving cars. In this fictional scenario, the smart city has turned into a ghost town. Accompanied by CGI drive-through renders of SimBeijing, the narrator of this video is the eponymous ‘Theta’, a self-driving police car who patrols the streets of an uninhabited cityscape. Over the course of their dialogue with Guanyin, Theta reveals the darker reasons behind why the city has been abandoned...
Continuing Lawrence Lek’s ongoing ‘Sinofuturist’ cinematic universe, in which he explores the psychological impact of technology on emerging forms of nonhuman life.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
