Search Results for "metafiction"

Isaac, once a celebrated model and actor, is now a part-time worker at the campsite. When a familiar face from his past, Director Quark, reappears, Isaac yearns for a second chance in acting. Meanwhile, Mary, burdened by the knowledge of her adoption from Korea to Japan, grapples with lifelong mental issues. Her journey leads her to the same campsite, where she crosses paths with Isaac, setting the stage for an unpredictable encounter.

This is the 24rd volume of a collection of terrifying psychic images that could not be released to the public and have remained sealed.

An effort to solve two lifelong mysteries---who was David Whiting (who died mysteriously in an Arizona motel during a Hollywood film shoot) and what was the cause of his death? And what was the mythic 'Cesar Romero joke' which all the filmmaker's classmates still remember as utterly hilarious (but nobody can recall what the joke actually was)?

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.

Struggling director Sing is forced to make a Category III film for a triad boss who wants his girlfriend to star, leading to conflicts over artistic integrity, nudity, and his relationship with his own girlfriend.

The film deals with the filming of an episode of the series with storylines that take place both within the fiction with the characters of 'Aída' and outside of it with the actors themselves and their relationships, which reflects on topics such as the limits of comedy, the work of a comedian and fame.

From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way, he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus Himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.

A series of vignettes involving various Biblical characters, including 'The Divine Mr. J', the Virgin Mary, a lecherous priest, King Herod, among others.

In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.

MG, a policewoman who has been expelled from the Corps due to the problems with alcohol and drugs that she has had since the loss of her son, receives a call from a man asking her to look for Macarena Gómez, a popular TV actress.

After a public spat with a movie star, a disgraced director retaliates by kidnapping the actor's daughter, filming the search for her in real-time.

A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing objects, feels overwhelmed by the weight of memories and her new responsibilities. Fortunately, the former inhabitants of the house soon come to her aid. (An account of the life and work of Fernando Fernán Gómez [1921-2007] and his wife Emma Cohen [1946-2016], two singular artists and fundamental figures of contemporary Spanish culture.)

Three couples and a lonely friend visit an isolated escape room in the middle of the desert run by a mysterious Ukrainian performance artist.

Ryan and Daniel, two childhood best friends and aspiring actors, spend one final weekend together before RYAN has to move to Canada with his fiancé. Wanting to create one lasting memory, they decide to make a movie... about two guys making a movie.. about two guys making a movie. Along the way, they unpack their decades-long friendship and prepare for the next chapters of their respective lives.

Members of an opera company performing Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" find their lives parallel those of the characters.

Julia, a first-time actress, has to decide on the path of her career when being put in a compromising situation with the director of the film.

A horror screenwriter working on the very location of his story searches for the perfect terrifying antagonist—until he becomes the creature’s first victim himself.

A no-budget metafilm filled with pop cultural references, Metatitanic deconstructs the performative essence of romantic love.

Edward, a thirty-something filmmaker and former critic, tries to make his first feature by turning his failed relationship into an autofiction script. As he meets with actors, producers, and friends, the line between memory and invention begins to blur, and the ghost of his ex-girlfriend Aurora quietly returns to haunt him.

An experimental study of nature through three stories and how we have destroyed it.

Two robbers, having a philosophical debate about fate, realize that their deaths are imminent.

A writer struggling with addiction attempts to write a Western with the help of his brother.