THE NIGHT SHIFT: DEPENDENTS - Reliant on others for support and sustenance: brother, mummy, granny, zombie. Running time: 89 minutes. THE NIGHT SHIFT: CO-DEPENDENCE - Unhealthy love between foot and mouth, fetus and fiend, living and dead. Running time: 93 minutes. THE NIGHT SHIFT: INDEPENDENCE - Separate yet equal, what skin is to flesh, not what Chang was to Eng. Running time: 78 minutes.
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema: Saturday June 9, 11:30 pm
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema: Sunday June 10, 1:15 am
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema: Sunday June 10, 3:00 am
| Requiem For A C.H.U.D.
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| A Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller seeks retribution after a traumatic death in the family. Forget an eye for an eye...
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| I Am Your Grandma
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| In the future, you get love by video. An uproarious vlog dedicated to an unborn grandchild.
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| Odette
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| An whiny, angsty, existential family dinner that ends as it should... with Grandma taking charge!
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| CTIN!
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| You're invited to a dinner party! Strange soups, re-animated guests and obtuse conversation are on the menu. RSVP to the mad doctor.
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| The Captured Bird
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| An idyllic playground, a perfect angel, a nuclear family. A little girl wanders out to a mysterious mansion and witnesses the birth of five horrifying monsters.
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| Ghost
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| A little ghost wanders the afterlife, trying to find her way back home to her parents. An expressionistic look at grief in this world and the next.
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| Children Of The Dark
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| Two young boys hold onto the past and search for their mother while struggling to survive in a world gone to hell. A dystopian thriller that hits close to home.
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| The Unliving
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| Thirty years after a zombie outbreak, people are taming the undead and using them as cheap labour. Katrine catches 'em and Mark lobotomizes'em. They're an awesome team, but work is starting to bleed into their relationship.
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| Crown
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| Crack is whack! Check out what all the middle-aged white dudes are doin', and take a hit off this supremely bizarre mix of street and meat - the tender, sweet, innocent kind.
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| Moxie
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| A baby bear is found dead. His last days are retraced in this pitch black animation from innovator Stephen Irwin (The Black Dog's Progress) as we count down to his demise. Sick, violent and twisted - just the way we like it.
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| The Myth Of Robo Wonder Kid
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| This cool anime music video blends Yo Gabba Gabba, and Frankenstein to create a catchy deadtime story about how a family is what (and how) you make it.
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| In A Musty, Misty Thicket
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| Pik Mama and Missy are stranded on a deserted island in this uncanny post-apocalyptic twist on master-slave dynamics.
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| Black Doll
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| A creepy tale of two sisters bonded and bound by the ties that bind: co-dependence, separation anxiety and routine. An incredible mix of time-lapse and puppetry.
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| Upstairs
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| The horroromance genre has been invented! A man hates his girlfriend but hates being alone just as much. A dystopian view of relationships to be sure, this fresh take on settling for the lesser of two evils reveals the horror and disgust lurking in romance.
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| Believe The Dance
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| Plumber, assistant, restaurant manager, dentist. No matter what you do, the power of dance will find you. Absurdist, hilarious, give in to the daaaaance. You know you want to...
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| Adjust Tracking
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| Flashback to the 80s in this homage to anthology horror on VHS. A teenage fanboy exacts revenge on his drunk dad for interrupting his movie night with a little help from his onscreen friends.
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| Rabbid
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| The hand of God and a fraction of animal rabies are bored... huh? Exactly.
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| Bobby Yeah
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| Bobby likes stealing stuff. But his sticky fingers get him into trouble and this time he's pressed his luck too far. Visceral and viscous, this stop-motion gorror is all tongue... and vomit and orifices and shape-shifting pustules.
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| Body Memory
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| What tale a tree would tell if you gave it a canvas and a pencil...
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| Decoration
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| An elegant vase inhabits the body of a young girl and mounts a subversive theatrical production using crazy porcelain figurines, warm puppets and a cellular stage.
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| Through The Weeping Glass: On The Consolations Of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
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| The inimitable Quay Brothers conduct a tour of the medical anomalies and curiosities on display at the Mütter Museum. Body horror is elevated to high art in this doc-meets-archive porn.
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