“Yeah, that’s pretty messed up.” When Cinequest gets dark, it gets DARQUE! This year, our annual feast of the weird, wild, mad, and macabre is one for the ages. These films eschew the everyday in order to deliver the heavy stuff that just won’t fit anywhere else. Stories of worlds that are familiar to our dream selves waltz mercilessly with dark gothic aesthetics, and those that dig deep into our relationship with technology.
These tales range from cyberpunk to grimdark to simply weird, but they all will stretch the limits of that you may think short films can do. Mindbenders is aptly named, and the forms they deliver will haunt and delight you.