Shorts Program 2: Body Horror
Wednesday 1st February / 22:00 / City Kino Wedding & Online
Shorts Program 2: Body Horror
If you like horror in which the body is an ever-changing organism whose limits know no bounds, then this is a program for you. Some of these films play with the supernatural, with people going to extreme lengths to fight the natural processes of the body, others depict these natural processes in all of their grisly, brilliant detail, others depict the borders of the body invaded by illness or another species. The body is a permeable and non-static entity, and these shorts don’t let you forget it.
Swallow (22:12)
Directed by Mai Nakanishi, Japan, 2022 | German Premiere
A striving actress is invited to a mysterious gourmet club only to discover that her competition has prepared a horrifying banquet to devour her.
First Blood (7:50)
Directed by Olivia Loccisano, Canada , 2022 | European Premiere | Available online
A teenage girl goes through a bizarre transformation after she gets her first period.
Shlop (2:09)
Directed by Luna Déléani, Noee Zahavy and Camilla Hoffmeister, Switzerland, 2022 | Available online
This movie explores the exploitation movie genre and its effects while also exploiting different ways of making and creating a movie.
Violet Daze (15:27)
Directed by Marisa Martin, Australia, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
Violet and Daisy have been best friends since they were eight. Total besties. BFFs. Joined at the hip. How close can two best friends get? What would they do if anyone tried to separate them?
Legs (15:33)
Directed by Celine Cotran, UK, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
Joy and Harry are trying to have a baby. One night, Joy swallows a spider in her sleep. When Joy subsequently develops an insatiable appetite for flies, it dawns on her that there may be more than one way of becoming a mother
Love is a Fire (11:49)
Directed by Sofie Somoroff, US, 2022 | European Premiere | Available online
Soon after moving in together, a couple is forced to confront their challenges with intimacy, exacerbated by a toxic yeast infection and deep rooted insecurities, as their relationship slowly devolves.
In The Flesh (12:44)
Directed by Daphne Gardner, US, 2022 | German Premiere | Available online
Tracey is jerking off with her bathtub faucet, when some old memories dredge themselves up, the pipes explode with dirty water and she starts leaking black goo.