PVTV Fringe Flicks

Hosted by People Versus TV CIC at DoES Liverpool, Fringe Flicks is a welcoming quarterly underground film night for people who like their cinema strange, playful, inventive and alive. Expect a low-pressure communal screening, an interval midway through, a social afterwards, a raffle, and the Audience Choice Award. Entry is Pay What You Can.

A bold and darkly comic short film screening exploring desire, shame, and bodily autonomy. Part of Fringe Flicks, PVTV’s regular short film night, and is presented alongside a curated programme of international and Liverpool-made short films exploring desire, transformation, and emotional unease.

This screening includes a curated programme of short films shown alongside the headline short, The Girl with the Haunted Vagina:

• 2020 (USA), dir. Tom Bessoir
• A flickering visual response to a year like no other, scored by Thurston Moore.
• Dear Ceiling (Portugal), dir. Sarah Legow
• A surreal and tender meditation on love, longing, and architecture.
• Diva (Canada), dir. Rémi Fréchette
• A witty and frank exploration of pleasure and power through a menstrual cup.
• Equinox Moon Cup (Liverpool, UK), dir. Rachel Wilton
• A handmade collage film combining poetry, ritual, and mythic imagery, with spoken word by Hayley Gordon (Twisted Tales).
• Living Dolls (UK), dir. Dimitris Vrouvas
• A gothic tale of obsession and rejection, told through porcelain perfection.
• Merkurio (France), dir. Sébastien Pesle
• A dark horror-comedy following a gigolo who crosses forces beyond his control.
• Set Menu (Spain), dir. Denim Candenza
• A sharp, escalating thriller where a casual lunch takes a darker turn.

The programme also includes a preview of Dogshit (Liverpool, UK), a new short developed collaboratively through PVTV’s Creative Meet-Ups.

Plus Short Films:

A Time of Two Joys (US): A joyful exploration of joy.

Aperture (Italy): Rebuilding a connection to one’s hometown.

Brother’s Horn (Iran): A younger brother rebels against a big brother who always wins.

Bubbleman Superstar: Mission El Cobra (France): A secret agent’s chaotic mission to tear down walls.

Poughkeepsie Pictures (Liverpool): A unique and imaginative local work.

Salaryman (Netherlands): A work party spirals into chaos.

Skinny Dip (Ireland): A revealing swim goes awry.

The Plant (US): A hand-drawn and scratched 35mm film story.

🎥 Short Film Lineup

Alongside Lucifer Rising, we’re screening a selection of strange, absurd, and thought-provoking short films that explore transformation, reality shifts, and unseen forces at play:

• Compulsory Conscription (Iran, Abbas Tahaie) – A group of children, forcibly enlisted as soldiers, return years later to reclaim their space.
• Deaf Orphans of Streamcast (US, Zazie Kanwar-Torge) – A neo-surrealist road trip blending maximalist interiors with the vast, open highway.
• Deep Space Laika (Mexico, Rodrigo Alonso Reyes Fabre) – The first dog in space travels beyond the known universe, unaware of what awaits.
• Dream Code (US, Narottama Panitz) – A pixel-art autobiography exploring the blurred lines between reality, gaming, and simulation.
• Principito (Spain, Yann Gil) – A child’s beloved toys disappear into a mysterious dark hole, transforming into bizarre adult objects.
• Snakes & Ladders (Iran, Mostafa Rostampour & Atefeh Rezayan) – A child is caught in a twisted game of power and fate.
• Vasomotor Rhinitis (Georgia, Mikheil Gabaidze) – A surreal Chekhov-inspired satire on fear, status, and the absurd consequences of a sneeze.
• Yesterday I Found… (Poland, Kinga Klajbor) – A surreal animated short reframing the meaning of everyday objects.

🎟️ The Audience Choice Award Returns!

Vote for your favourite film of the night—whether it left you laughing, unsettled, or completely speechless.

🎨 Exclusive Screen-Printed Poster by Rhonda Davies

A limited-edition, hand-crafted screen-printed poster will be available on the night, designed by Liverpool artist Rhonda Davies and printed at Liverpool Community Print Station.

🍻 What Else to Expect?

✔ Special Screening: Lucifer Rising (1972) by Kenneth Anger

✔ Short Films: A mix of cosmic horror, surreal comedy, and cinematic chaos

✔ Drinks & Raffle: Snacks + refreshments, and a chance to win unique prizes

✔ Community Cinema Atmosphere: Hosted at DoES Liverpool, an open, welcoming creative space

📅 Event Details:

📍 Where: DoES Liverpool, The Tapestry, 68-76 Kempston St, Liverpool, L3 8HL

📅 When: Friday, 4th April 2025, 7:30 PM

🎟️ Tickets: FREE (donations welcome to support the event)

🎟 Reserve your ticket now before we sell out!

Fringe Flicks is a quarterly underground short film night in Liverpool, showcasing bold, strange, and experimental cinema from around the world. Our July screening, Altered Selves, explores identity, transformation, and perception — from ritual horror and neurodivergent monologues to surreal detours and a film written by pigeons.

Tickets are Pay What You Can — all are welcome.

Limited-edition screen-printed poster by Liverpool artist Rhonda Davies available on the night.

📍 DoES Liverpool, a relaxed, creative venue with wheelchair access.

Short Films Lineup – July 2025

• Reality+ (France) – Directed by Coralie Fargeat
• ADHD Potpourri (Liverpool, UK) – Directed by Tom Shennan
• Colors of Passion (India) – Directed by Kunal Biswas
• Dastgir is Disappearing (USA) – Directed by Khwaja Hamzah Saif
• Gaze Box (China/UK) – Directed by Shan Huang
• Kalp Fiction (India) – Directed by Siddharth Kumar
• La Croix (France) – Directed by Fleurot Joris
• Moonlight Haunts (UK) – Directed by Kayal Karuppiah
• My Uncle Bonito’s Creative Epiphany (UK) – Directed by Mario Gregoriou
• Sjhlrùl (Belgium) – Directed by Anna Mancuso
• When Anxiety Leaves (Liverpool, UK) – Directed by Oksana Cherepashchuk

Fringe Flicks returns this October with a programme of surreal, absurd, and experimental shorts from across the world, curated by People Versus TV CIC, a Liverpool-based community cinema collective.

The lineup brings together twelve distinctive films:

• Alone by Negah Sohrabi & Abofazel Amir (Iran) — a poetic visual reflection on post-war loneliness.
• Call of Nature by Donal O’Dea (Ireland) — a fisherman’s urgent search for a toilet becomes absurdist comedy.
• Hand Painted Wooden Reptiles by Jim & Joseph Dethick (UK) — a Lynchian late-night detective tale.
• Hello Again and Lost in Galactic Translation by Rasmus Lindkvist (Sweden) — inventive micro-thrillers and melancholic sci-fi.
• Keijo on the Go by Katrina Oll & Alex Toodu (Estonia) — a reality-TV-obsessed reporter meets an Estonian myth.
• Les Bêtes by Michael Granberry (USA) — a lavish stop-motion fantasy from an animator whose credits include Severance and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
• Must Ash by John Akre (USA) — a hand-painted flicker film about birds, moustaches, and dread.
• No Trespassing in Transylvania by Michael, Maxwell & Emmett Dorfman (USA) — mummies trespass on vampire land in a riotous monster comedy.
• Stopclock by Maxwell Hicks (UK) — a leaking tap turns domestic space into uncanny horror.
• The Rime by Paris James (Liverpool, UK) — a slow-burning drama by the docks.
• The Ultimate Weapon by Romain Revert (France) — lo-fi monster cinema at full volume.
• To Dinner by Robert Rabanal (Spain) — children sit down to a dinner that isn’t what it seems.
• Typing… by Pablo Olewski Díaz (Spain) — a satirical look at workplace dynamics in the digital age.

Presented on a Pay What You Can basis at DoES Liverpool, Fringe Flicks creates a welcoming space to encounter independent cinema in all its absurd and inventive forms. Refreshments will be available, and audiences are encouraged to stay on for conversation after the screenings.

This screening is a collaboration between Paraphysis Cinema and PVTV Fringe Flicks, two grassroots film collectives dedicated to showcasing bold, strange and creative cinema in Liverpool. Alongside Possibly in Michigan, we’ll be showing a curated selection of shot-on-video shorts - raw, inventive and full of DIY spirit.

The event is Pay What You Can, to keep it open and accessible to all.

Limited-edition screen-printed posters will be available on the night.