A mind-bending mix of the year’s best psychedelic shorts, offering eyeball-melting experimentations that will take you on a trip down the rabbit hole of the year’s most visceral and aesthetically adventurous films. Pushing the boundaries of form and function with gleeful ingenuity; who needs drug-induced highs when you can experience the hallucinogenic fever dream that is LSD FACTORY?

An experimental short about our love-hate relationship with Instagram and our photo-editing mania.

@scroll_alice

Having just arrived in paradise, Jerome sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course of his search, he sinks into a surreal and colourful world in which no one seems to be able to help him. Jerome wants to continue the relationship he had when he was alive with his wife, but in this paradise Maryline no longer wants to be with him, she wants to experience something else. The story of the film could be summed up by the phrase "until death do us part"!

Au revoir Jérôme!

Sheila is a self-obsessed aerobics fanatic who accidentally ingests some toxic hair gel while doing her usual morning workout to Aerobisexy Vol. 14, transporting her into the world of Aerobics Cult Leader John Flexi. Executive Produced by writer/director Sam Fox's Foxy Films and Candice Molayem of Animal Crackers Clothing. Produced by Greatgrandma Film Collective and featuring Bonavega, Number One Popstar and music from DJ Harvey.

Bad Acid

CHICKS is a genre-defying coming of age short following a shy Polly who arrives at a sleepover hosted by popular, unapologetically confident girls. What starts off as a bubbly, stereotypical teen slumber party quickly spirals out of control when Polly discovers that

Chicks

This little planet may soon shake us off like fleas. It really doesn’t matter, and I bet the trees won’t miss us, but I bet the earth will breathe a sigh of relief as she erodes this condom of concrete that we imposed upon her.

Enjoying a Nice Life

When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me.
A charming animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting.

In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny Weeny Pocket

Mak, an isolated woman during the height of the pandemic, prepares for a night of hallucinogenic healing after purchasing an unknown drug from a mysterious woman.However, the drug is more than a happy good time but a terrifying spiral into psychedelic trauma.

Paracosm

A femme hand is both drawn to and frightened by a world of interplanetary wonder.

Speck

The grandiloquent blood-and-thunder saga of a young child lost in Manchuria’s deep jungles. His sudden presence creates complete anarchy in the fauna’s primitive world, which was until-then perfectly organized.

Swallow the Universe

Hold me like an amphitheater, I need space to stretch my longing. Touch starved and hell bent, an animated exhale of earthly hungers.
Created from a series of paintings, Up Close is a rumination on loneliness, sexual desire, and tactile comfort. After a year of so many screens, sterility rejected in favor of a more texturally satisfying environ. Where is your favorite place to rest your chin? A neck, a soft curve, a pocket of nestled flesh? Stay here, with me, and we can count each stroke.

Up Close

Finally, Vadim goes out of a tight square space where he has been used to sitting. He embraces the brave new world and his renewed life.

Vadim on a Walk

The tables are turned when a plant monster grows a human houseplant in a torturous room of gore and existential dread.

Your Houseplants Are Screaming

LSD Factory

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