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Streets, apartments, offices, bars, the countryside: all are normal, calm, familiar - until a chasm opens up to reveal another, darker world lurking underneath. The uncanny is so interwoven with modern material reality that it becomes hard to know where one leaves off and the other begins. These movies are classics of the wildly imaginative independent cinema that flourished in lower Manhattan from the late 1970s to the 1990s, but they were hard to find - until now.
- You Are Not I (1981)
Based on a short story by Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky), is the story of Ethel (Suzanne Fletcher), who escapes from the lunatic asylum and decides to remake the outside world after her own ideas.
- Sleepwalk (1986)
Nicole (Fletcher Again) is braced by two men who want her to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript for them, but when she gets to work, the world she is rendering come to alarming life.
- When Pigs Fly (1993)
Tell of Marty (Alfred Molina), a jazz musician down on his luck who gets help from two friends ghosts (Marianne Faithfull and Rachel Bella), with peculiar consequences.
- Bowery - Spring (1994)
Is a promenade down that thoroughfare and across the centuries, several of which seem to be present at any given time.
Marianne Faithfull