Experience Unique Cinema with Fringe Flicks
Discover a World of Thought-Provoking Films
Fringe Flicks is a quarterly underground short film night curated by People Versus TV CIC, showcasing strange, bold, and experimental cinema from around the world. Each event features a curated lineup of local, national and international short films — from surreal micro-docs and animated oddities to lo-fi horror and poetic absurdities — alongside a featured cult short.
We champion work that pushes boundaries, plays with form, and speaks from the margins. Whether it’s DIY, dreamlike, or defiantly unmarketable, this is cinema with bite, wit, and heart.
🎟️ All events are Pay What You Can
📍 Hosted at DoES Liverpool
🎨 Alternative film posters by local artists
🍹 Free ticket & drink for Patreon supporters
🏆 Audience vote: pick your favourite short
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Season 3 Events
- Friday 4th July 2025 — Altered Selves, with Reality+
- Friday 10th October 2025 — Absurd Performance
- Friday 6th February 2026 — Uncanny Desires
Fringe Flicks Season 3
Our July screening explored identity, transformation, and fractured perception — from intimate inner shifts to full-blown metamorphosis. The night featured esoteric horror, poetic dreams, neurodivergent monologues, surreal detours, and even a documentary written entirely by pigeons.
Audience Choice Award: My Uncle Bonito’s Creative Epiphany (UK), directed by Things Found and Made, took the top spot, with an honourable mention for ADHD Potpourri (Liverpool, UK), directed by Tom Shennan.
Featured Short: Reality+
Written and directed by Coralie Fargeat — the filmmaker behind The Substance — this lo-fi sci-fi satire on digital masks, augmented beauty, and fragile self-image played like the prototype for Fargeat’s now-infamous feature.
JULY 2025 Recap
Friday 4th July 2025
July Lineup
ADHD Potpourri (Liverpool, UK)
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD - Honourable Mention
Directed by Tom Shennan
A scouser seeks an ADHD diagnosis and wrestles with the chaos of his own mind.
Colors of Passion (India)
Directed by Kunal Biswas
An experimental rework of My Best Friend’s Wedding, reframing love through abstraction.
Dastgir is Disappearing (USA)
Directed by Khwaja Hamzah Saif
“Dastgir is disappearing. How embarrassing! And, does health insurance cover this?”
Gaze Box (China/UK)
Directed by Shan Huang
A poetic vision of the future where non-verbal eye contact replaces spoken language.
Kalp Fiction (India)
Directed by Siddharth Kumar
A surreal tale of disrupted routines, coincidences, and philosophical flatulence.
La Croix (France)
Directed by Fleurot Joris (Spline Studio)
A designer loses her grip on reality after an esoteric ritual awakens something sinister.
Moonlight Haunts (UK)
Directed by Kayal Karuppiah
A haunting reflection on what happens when we ignore the noises in the night.
My Uncle Bonito’s Creative Epiphany (UK)
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD WINNER
Directed by Things Found and Made
A Cypriot Yorkshire uncle discovers the infinite truth of creativity, Swayze, and Gail from Corrie.
Sjhlrùl (Belgium)
Directed by Anna Mancuso
Written by pigeons. Really. A cross-species poetic documentary.
When Anxiety Leaves – (Liverpool, UK)
Directed by Oksana Cherepashchuk
A young woman battles chronic anxiety on her way to see whales — and herself — clearly.
Limited Edition Poster
A special glow-in-the-dark screen-printed poster was created for the event by Liverpool artist Rhonda Davies as part of our ongoing collaboration with Liverpool Community Print Station. You can buy this unique artwork in our shop.