Fringe Flicks: Uncanny Desires
Friday 6th February 2026
2020 (USA)
Directed by Tom Bessoir
2,020 flickering colours, one unforgettable year. A visual barrage with a score by Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth). Best played loud in a dark room.
Dear Ceiling (Portugal)
Directed by Sarah Legow
A surreal, heartfelt musing on love, longing, and architecture. What happens when the floor falls for the ceiling?
Diva (Canada)
Directed by Rémi Fréchette | Written by Charlotte Poitras
Estelle discovers new pleasures — and unexpected power — through a menstrual cup. Witty, weird, and wonderfully frank.
Equinox Moon Cup (Liverpool, UK)
Directed by Rachel Wilton | Spoken word by Hayley Gordon aka twisted tales
A handmade collage of poetry, politics, and ritual. A lunar ode to bodily cycles and mythic connections.
Living Dolls (UK)
Directed by Dimitris Vrouvas | Written by Carolina Rodrigues & Dimitris Vrouvas
A porcelain doll brings her perfect man to life — but he won’t play along. A gorgeously stylised gothic tale of obsession and rejection.
Merkurio (France)
Directed by Sébastien Pesle
A gigolo makes his rounds in the Basque Country… but he’s messing with powers far beyond him. A wild horror-comedy about seduction and comeuppance.
Set Menu (Spain)
Directed by Denim Candenza
Charlie and Josiño head out for lunch — but one joke too many turns their set menu into something far darker. A sharp, gruesome little thriller.
Tap Tap Tippety Tap (Liverpool)
Directed by Mrs Luva-Luva
When a woman accidentally harvests herself, she winds up becoming supermarket stock in a digital hinterland.
February 2026 Lineup
We are always on the lookout for new and interesting work and artists. If you have a piece you'd like to share or want to get involved, please get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!
Experimental short films in Liverpool
From seductive rituals to porcelain heartbreak, Fringe Flicks: Uncanny Desires dives into desire, transformation, and the strange urges that shape us.
Expect unsettling intimacy, mythic flirtations, dark humour, and surreal reflections on love, lust, and longing. This is a night of dark charm, offbeat sensuality, and strange seductions, where nothing behaves quite as it should.
The programme brings together international, UK, and Liverpool-made short films, headlined by a cult Welsh short and curated for atmosphere, tone, and emotional impact rather than genre.
About the event
Headlining short
The Girl with the Haunted Vagina (2023)
Director Samantha O'Rourke | Writer Rachel Tookey
Sexually repressed Meghan desperately tries to reach climax but is thwarted at every turn by the ghost that haunts her vagina.
A bold, darkly comic short exploring bodily autonomy, shame, desire, and humour without sanitising lived experience. Confident, funny, uncomfortable, and impossible to ignore, it sits perfectly at the heart of Uncanny Desires.
Community Preview
Dogshit (Liverpool, UK)
Developed through PVTV’s Creative Meet-Ups
The programme includes the preview of Dogshit, a new short developed collaboratively through PVTV’s Creative Meet-Ups, our open monthly sessions for making and experimenting together.
As a man searches for his lost edge, a cheerful promise of sunshine and happiness leads him down an unsettling path of self-discovery.
Created through group discussion, hands-on experimentation, and shared decision-making, the film reflects Fringe Flicks’ wider aim to connect making and screening, and to give space to work that evolves collectively rather than through traditional production hierarchies.
This is a one-night screening with limited capacity.
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
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Season 3 Events
- Friday 6th February 2026 — Uncanny Desires
Season 4 Open Call for Short Films
Submissions are now open for Fringe Flicks: Season 4 — Liverpool’s grassroots short film night for the bold, the surreal, and the subversive. We’re looking for weird, funny, experimental, satirical, and genre-bending work from filmmakers anywhere in the world. Whether you’re working in lo-fi DIY, absurdist comedy, political satire, or dreamlike visuals, we want to see your vision.
Free entry for all filmmakers until 22 August 2025, and free entry year-round for films from Merseyside and Africa. The Audience Choice Award winner will receive a free Digital Cinema Package (DCP) for a future project, courtesy of The DCP Works — perfect for getting festival-ready.