Hilo y Pastel de Sangre

Super-cut of three shorts I made by myself in quarantine.

A young chef cooks up a mysterious dish.

When viewed from far away, life on Earth can seem meaningless. But when a star inhabits a dying girl, they experience the tragic beauty found at the moment when the light goes out.

An average company employee is thrust into a delirious night after a mugging and faces a world of lost souls that he had not considered before.

A young woman's look at herself through a dream

Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? One day I decided to ask myself this question and I have been struggling to put the answer together ever since. “Enough of Myself” is my visualization of this process. When I finally had the headspace to consider my own emotions, it turned out to be a lot harder than I had thought. When you start to examine your own thoughts and patterns, the digging doesn’t stop. You keep digging deeper and finding new connections that you might have preferred stay hidden. But to ignore these things is to give in to them. Growth requires a certain level of vulnerability, not just towards others but towards yourself as well. To grow beyond those negative patterns, you need to look them in the eye first. In my film I tried to capture this emotional process in an array of animations. I hope that I haven’t just captured my own emotional process, but some deeper universal emotions as well.

A young man on the brink of irrevocable despair crosses paths with a mysterious messenger, who warns him that his future is in danger and urges him to reconcile his past in order to save himself.

A woman gives shape to octopuses out of her own flesh. When she runs out of matter, she has to face what she has created.

While trying to domesticate an anthropomorphic rat, a man finds himself in a difficult situation as the rat begins to demonstrate violent and sexual behavior.

In the deep country, Cain and Viktor are tasked with disposing of a mysterious object by a disembodied voice within a red room. As their sense of identity and reality begins to disintegrate in front of their eyes, they dip in and out of time in space in the hopes of completing their mission.

Alex bleeds out at a get-together. Thom searches for a vanished shoe. Jimmy seeks revenge through mind control.

Compulsively embracing his brooding homosexuality, the Smiling Man walks the final circle.

Perrone switches back to color and chooses European painting as the space for his tale and as his land of experimentation. The stage: paintings by Manet, Monet, Renoir, among other chosen artists; still, open-air landscapes put together through their similarities. The characters who move there: two men, two women, two hunters, two ominous creatures (one of them a tiny creature of the night with two eyes and a brutish and wild human body). Divided in 18 acts, the narrative of this film is limited to showing brief episodes about desire and violence as the fuel of human endeavors, while its characters roam in the woods. With no words at all, Perrone wagers all on the juxtaposition of textures, on superimpositions, and on the power of face close-ups – these are his main arguments.

Characters in a children's horror TV show realize that their reality is not what it seems.

An artist encounters his muse in the surreal realm of his imagination.

A man is led by his creative brain as he copes with his muse.

Karma, an international high school student from Sikkim struggles to fit in and hold onto his cultural identity when he is stuck at home with his host sibling, Alex.

Sylvie, a young birdwatcher with a disability, undergoes corrective surgery. As the anaesthetic takes hold, she is drawn into a world of feather, bone and blood.

Grave robbing, cannibalism, conspiracy- these and more make up the world our hero (name unknown) falls into after receiving a mysterious package meant for another address. On his attempt to bring the box to it's rightful owner, he witnesses some bizarre, possibly criminal behavior exhibited by the intended recipient. Fascinated, he begins an absurd journey to find out the truth of the package's origins- bringing him to the brink of sanity and good taste.

Two teenagers find lost footage from a years old cold case -and unknowingly awaken old nightmares.