23-year-old Amélie is lonely. After an isolating childhood, she moves to Paris and becomes a waitress at the Café des Deux Moulins, a bar restaurant filled with a colourful cast of diners and employees. One night, Amélie happens across a box of treasures hidden in her apartment, left by a little boy in the Fifties, that changes the course of her life. Henceforth, she dedicates herself to giving back to her community, tracking down the owner of these keepsakes, consoling a widowed neighbour and befriending a reclusive artist. When completing these good deeds, she crosses paths with Nino, a photobooth collagist who shares her oddball sensibilities. She quickly falls in love with him.
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
A free man after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld. Reconnecting with his dancer girlfriend, Gail, Carlito gets entangled in the shady dealings of his friend Dave Kleinfeld, who also serves as his lawyer. When Carlito and Kleinfeld run afoul of shifty gangster Benny Blanco, it sets them on a dangerous path.
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
Presented with Intro and "Slitterhead" Music Video by our very own Jaden Stone aka 5:40 fantasy
Slitterhead is about that summer in your youth when you start getting into more “grown-up” things; when drug-use, street violence, police presence, and unfamiliar social circles begin seeping into your life, and that initial rush of excitement quickly gives way to a sense of paranoia. In particular, the song taps into the fears and anxieties of being a young man of colour, and the need to withdraw from those fears into art and media. Even if that media is scary. Because in a way, a piece of art that reaffirms how the world is a scary place can be quite comforting.
"This is where the influence of I Saw the TV Glow is felt. Because while real-life horror and anxiety envelops your life, sometimes the most sane thing to do is play Silent Hill 2. Or wait for the developer of Silent Hill 2's new game, Slitterhead... or indeed, watch I Saw the TV Glow."
Artist Bio:
5:40 fantasy is an exploration of the subconscious. The London-based project of Jaden Stone fuses visceral industrial hip-hop with eerie ambient electronica; inspired by dream states, sleeping disorders, and the subconscious, 5:40 fantasy draws as much from works of psychological horror as it does from Stone's musical influences, including Nine Inch Nails, Yeule, and JPEGMafia. Stream their latest EP, "i think that i feel sick", here: https://tr.ee/uOSakUU1Qd
