SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS + COBBLER'S LOT (SHORT)

Josef's visit to his father in a time-warped sanatorium is evoked in a bewitching blend of stop-motion and live action. Images on dead retinas, knee eroticism and bird masks are just some of the elements in the Quay brothers' latest film, which like their Street of Crocodiles is adapted from a book by Bruno Schulz. 

+ Cobblers’ Lot 

Peter Strickland

UK, 2017, digital, no dialogue with English intertitles, 14’

This short by English filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio, Flux Gourmet) , put together like a classic silent film, complete with intertitles, is a fairy tale where two brothers, who work as cobblers, are competing against one another in a series of unusual challenges in order to win the affections of a beautiful princess.