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
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Special Screening
- Monday 15th December 2025 — Possibly in Michigan (1983) — artefact
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.
15 December 2025 — artefact Liverpool — Pay What You Can
Possibly in Michigan + Shot-on-Video Underground Shorts
A collaboration between Paraphysis Cinema and PVTV’s Fringe Flicks, bringing cult horror, strange musicals, and underground shot-on-video cinema to artefact this December. We’re screening Cecelia Condit’s legendary Possibly in Michigan plus a curated programme of surreal, rare, and gloriously unhinged shorts.
Possibly in Michigan (1983, Cecelia Condit)
A feminist horror musical about two women hunted by a masked cannibal in a shopping mall. Part suburban satire, part nightmare fairytale, the film has become a viral cult classic, influencing generations of surreal and experimental filmmakers. Expect catchy songs, uncanny suburban moods, and jet-black humour.
Alongside Condit’s film, we’ll screen a set of underground Shot-on-Video shorts spanning horror, experimental performance, and analogue weirdness. Expect camcorder grain, outsider energy, and some rarely seen gems from the fringes of DIY filmmaking.
We'll also have a limited edition screen printed poster from Liverpool Community Print Station.
Paraphysis Cinema
A Liverpool-based queer, pop-up community cinema dedicated to outsider, cult and experimental film culture.
Accessibility info
artefact is fully wheelchair accessible, with no-step entry.
Date: Monday 15 December
Venue: artefact, 1 Roscoe Street, Liverpool L1 9DW
Doors: 19:00
Screening: 19:30
Tickets: Pay What You Can
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Fringe Flicks: Uncanny Desires
From seductive rituals to porcelain heartbreak, our final screening of the season dives into desire, transformation, and the strange urges that shape us. Expect unsettling intimacy, mythic flirtations, 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.
🎟️ Pay What You Can
🕢 Doors 19:30 / Screening 19:50
📍 DoES Liverpool, The Tapestry, L3 8HL
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.
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!
