Best Horror Film
Best 1st time Director
Filmed within the hushed corridors of a historic Los Angeles abbey, the work follows The Dreamer as she drifts through three cycles: waking life, dream, and nightmare. Each phase escalates in anxiety and disorientation, unraveling the fragile boundaries between perception and illusion. Drawing on the legacy of Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) and Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon (1972), Emily Babette Gross reimagines mid-20th-century experimental cinema for the present moment, unveiling a fractured yet luminous exploration of the multiplicity of selves.