Synopsis
- TUB is an 8-minute experimental short film, written, directed and edited by Gloria Endres de Oliveira and starring Melissa-Kelly Franklin as the mysterious water-dweller Doris.
It is based on & influenced by: Shakespeare’s Ophelia and her Pre-Raphaelite depictions; 19th century asylums for women & their treatment form for hysteria called Hydrotherapy; Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid; found footage horror films; Jung’s and Freud’s models of dream interpretation; the footage of Laura Palmer & Donna at a picnic in Twin Peaks & the Japanese, Korean and American screen adaptations of Koji Suzuki’s novel Ringu.
-Nominated for Best Short Film - Germany at the 2014 ZEICHEN DER NACHT International Film Festival (Berlin)
-Nominated for Best International Short Film at MACABRO - Festival Internacional De Cine De Horror 2014 (Mexico City)
-Nominated for Best Experimental Film at the 2015 NEXTFRAME Student Film Festival (Philadelphia)
-Screened at the 2015 SIGNES DE LA NUIT International Film Festival in the category “Focus Allemagne” (Paris)
-Screened at BIDEODROMO 2015 - Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Experimental (Bilbao)
-Screened at CineAutopsia | Bogotá Experimental Film Festival 2016
Crew
- Regie: Gloria Endres de Oliveira
