Black Lodge + Kogershin

BLACK LODGE
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Narrative; 2022; USA; 68-minutes; Michael Joseph McQuilken
Using dance, industrial rock, classic string quartet, and opera - “Black Lodge” takes viewers through a Lynchian psychological escape room, somewhere between death and rebirth, where a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making while mining fractured and repressed memories for a way out. Inspired by the complicated mythology of surrealistic writer William S. Burroughs (“Naked Lunch”), the film questions what it ultimately takes to face ourselves.

KOGERSHIN
Short; 2022; Kazakhstan; Malik Zenger
Kogershin is a story about kids playing cardboard wars. With this innocent child play we want show the whole tragedy of humanity and call for peace.