Phantasmagoria

Within the realm of dreams there is a small planet called Phantasmagoria. These are tales from some exquisite locations found there. Based on Shigeru Tamura's illustrated book, Phantasmagoria, the series consists of fifteen episodes, each five minutes in length.

The downward spiral of a teenager into insanity as he is welcomed into the machine

Relict: A Phantasmagoria is an experimental documentary performed with antique magic lanterns and hand-drawn animation. Invoking the history of magic lantern phantasmagoria as an exercise in belief and perception, Relict considers the zeitgeist of pseudoscience, fake news, religion, and documentary ethics—all collapsed into contemporary cryptozoology. Reviving the lantern’s historical role as a tool for scientific lectures and adapting modern cryptozoological lore to handmade lantern slides, Relict wanders through histories of documentary animation used to visualize and legitimize monstrous creatures.

An 8mm animated short that was produced by Hiroshi Harada in his early college years.

A collection of 15 short episodes depicting the magic world of Phantasmagoria.

The film is a portrait of Yorgos Tzinoudis, a painter of pop art. We begin at his car and go on to the covers of Soul magazine, his refrigerator, his paintings... A restless spirit, he tries to capture in his paintings human alienation and oppression, the stress of the city which none of us are immune to. His paintings are “weird”; skulls and cockroaches, but also a playing card are his favourite themes, through which he satirizes reality in an allusive way. The film follows him at work, at the Wine Museum at the Gerovassiliou vineyard, at his house/studio, or as he wanders around the city. His friends and colleagues talk about him, until finally we let him take off again, far from Thessaloniki, on new journeys of the mind and soul.

Three shocking tales of horror that will get you beyond fear. From the mind of the filmmaker Domiziano Cristopharo (House of Flesh Mannequins, Bloody Sin of Horror, Poe: Poetry of Eerie) and Mickael Abbate (Festival Director of "Samain du cinéma fantastique"), Phantasmagoria is a Franco-Italian co production.

This is the DVD version of the video event held at Loft Plus One in Shinjuku on September 10th, supervised by Chiaki Konaka. 5 presenters gathered with "truly scary films" they had discovered. The DVD includes "Home Movie", "Honeymoon", "Blue Film", "Psychic", "Telekinesis Experiment" and "Reverberation".

Aisling and Callie’s connection is dreamlike, and almost always propped up by alcohol, so when they both start to realise they may want more, they’ll have to face reality and each other.

The double bass player is in a hurry to go to the concert, but he can't get into the elevator, and he has to climb to the roof on foot.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Phantasm is right here in this 97-minute feature with interviews from Don Coscarelli, producer Paul Pepperman, Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister, Michael Baldwin and Bill Thornbury.

US Radio KRAK reporter Diane Cooper travels to Europe to investigate strange occurrences with people becoming delusional in a small town. After mysterious encounters with a local girl, dreams and reality begin to melt into one.

Two women living alone are visited by a young strange man whose identity and intentions they begin to question as the evening progresses.

Phantasmagoria, 1945 is the story told by Nazi Propaganda Minister, joseph goebbels, to his six young children while presenting an after dinner slide show using a magic lantern and glass slides.

Experimental film by Curtis Opliger.

A writer moves into a remote mansion and finds herself terrorized by supernatural forces.

A student film inspired by the Lewis Carroll poem.

A photographer makes a haunting discovery in their studio...

Ghostly, eerily still bodies linger on a spectral subway platform, observed from a moving train.

A surreal look at Sydney, shot during 1988.