A Colt Is My Passport - Takashi Nomura, starring Joe Shishido
A Field in England - Ben Wheatley
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night - Ana Liliampoor
A Man Escaped - Robert Bresson
Amalie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Assault on Precinct 13 - John Carpenter
Akira - Katsuhiro Otomo
Alice in den Städten - Wim Wenders
Falsche Bewegung - Wim Wenders
Arrival - Denis Villeneuve
Annihilation - Alex Garland
Blind Chance - Krzysztof Kieślowski
Blood Simple - The Cohen Brothers
Blood Tea and Red String - Christiane Cegavske
Branded to Kill - Seijun Suzuki, starring Joe Shishido
Carts of Darkness - Murray Siple
Coffee and Cigarettes - Jim Jarmusch
Daisies - Věra Chytilová
Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch
Delicatessan - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Dog Star Man - Stan Brakhage
Doomsdays - Eddie Mullins
Down by Law - Jim Jarmusch
Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Dune - Denis Villeneuve
Emotion - Nobuhiko Obayashi
Escape from New York - John Carpenter
Escape from L.A. - John Carpenter
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
eXistenZ - David Cronenberg
Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrick
Fish Tank - Andrea Arnold
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai - Jim Jarmusch
Ghost in the Shell - Masamune Shirow
Hausu - Nobuhiko Obayashi
Hets (Torment) - Alf Sjöberg, screenplay by Ingmar Bergman
Hollow in the Land - Scooter Corckle
It Follows - David Robert Mitchell
Ivan’s Childhood - Tarkovsky
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade - Hiroyuki Okiura
Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows) - Marcel Carné
La Jetée - Chris Marker
Lady Vengance - Park Chan Wook
Lady Snowblood - Toshiya Fujita
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance - Toshiya Fujita
Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais
Late Spring - Ozu
Le Samouraï - Jean-Pierre Melville
Let zthe Right One In
Mandy - Panos Cosmatos, starring Nick Cage
Marketa Lazarová - František Vláčil
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Hiyao Miyazaki
Night on Earth - Jim Jarmusch
Nosferatu the Vampyre - Werner Herzog
Oldboy - Park Chan Wook
Only Lovers Left Alive - Jim Jarmusch
Parasite - Bong Joon-Ho
Paterson - Jim Jarmusch
Pearls of the Deep - Jiří Menzel, Věra Chytilová, Jaromil Jireš, Jan Němec, and Evald Schorm
Permanent Vacation - Jim Jarmusch
Persona - Ingmar Bergman
Princess Mononokai - Hiyao Miyazaki
Rashoman - Kurosawa
Ratcatcher - Lynne Ramsay
Red Desert - Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Monica Vitti
Sanjuro - Kurosawa
Seven Samurai - Kurosawa
Stalker - Tarkovsky
Stoker - Park Chan Wook
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - Park Chan Wook
Stranger Than Paradise - Jim Jarmusch
The Bad Batch - Ana Lily Amirpour
Croupier - Mike Hodges
The Dead Don’t Die - Jim Jarmusch
The Handmaiden - Park Chan Wook
The Lighthouse - Robert Eggers
The Limits of Control - Jim Jarmusch
The Lobster - Yorgos Lanthimos
The Northman - Robert Eggers
The Red Turtle - Michaël Dudok de Wit
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya - Isao Takahata
The Shining - Stanley Kubrick
Train to Busan - Yeon Sang-ho
To The Ends of The Earth - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Törst (Thirst) - Ingmar Bergman
The Hidden Fortress - Kurosawa
Thelma - Joachim Trier
Thirst - Park Chan Wook
The Worst Person in the World - Joachim Trier
Three Colours: Blue - Krzysztof Kieślowski
Three Colours: Red - Krzysztof Kieślowski
Three Colours: White - Krzysztof Kieślowski
Waterworld - Kevin Reynolds
Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman
Wolf and Cub (1-4)
Yojimbo - Kurosawa
Your Name - Makoto Shinkai
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Others Watched
The Place Beyond the Pines
Valhalla Rising - NWR
Pusher - NWR
Pusher 2 - NWR
Drive - NWR
Only God Forgives - NWR
The Neon Demon - NWR
The Holy Mountain - Joderowsky
Snowpiercer - Bong Joon-Ho
The World of Kanako
Fist of the North Star
The Alchemist Cookbook
Ashes of Time Redux - Wong Kar-wai
In The Mood For Love - Wong Kar-wai
Naked - Mike Leigh
You Were Never Really Here - Lynne Ramsay
Blade Runner 2049 - Denis Villeneuve
Enemy - Denis Villeneuve
A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
Border
Under the Silver Lake
Vampire’s Kiss
Dread
The Law of Desire
The Green Knight
Oculus
Zardoz
Sicario
Lock
The Black 41
Cop Car
Unbreakable
Split
Glass
Spartacus
Barry Lindon
Army of the Dead
The Last Duel
Jungle Cruise
The Snowman
The Man Whoe Fell to Earth - Nicholas Roeg
The Sixth Sense
Beast
The Spine of Night
Girl on the Train
Prisoners of the Ghost Land
Time Bandits
Diabolique
Don’t Look Now - Nicholas Roeg
Ninth Gate
Chaos Walking
The French Dispatch
Ninja Scroll
The Shadow of the Vampire
The Retreat
Werewolves Within
Hollow in the Land
In Dreams
The Girl Who Leaped Through Time
Romancing the Stone
Loupes
Nope - Jordan Peel
The Cloverfield Paradox
Hellbender - John Adams, Zelda Adams and Toby Poser
Videodrome - David Cronenberg
Crimes of the Future - David Cronenberg
Only The Animals - Dominik Moll
The Dry
Who You Think I Am - Safy Nebbou
Twins
Eo
Films To Watch
A - D
’71
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
Alps - Yorgos Lanthimos
American Animals
An Elephant Sitting Still - Hu Bo
Army of Shadows - Jean-Pierre Melville
Beyond the Black Rainbow - Panos Cosmatos
Black Narcissus - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Deborah Kerr
Blood Simple
Brand upon the Brain! - Guy Maddin
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Brick
Broken Flowers - Jim Jarmusch
Bronson
Captive State
Casablanca
Chasers - Dennis Hopper
Code Unknown - Michael Heneke, starring Juliette Binoche
Cold War - Paweł Pawlikowski
Constantine
Contempt - Jean-Luc Godard
Cosmos - Andrzej Zulawski based on book by Witold Gombrowicz
Crash - Dvaid Cronenberg (based on J. G. Ballard novel)
Dark Star - John Carpenter
Desert Hearts - Donna Deitch
Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief - Nagisa Oshima
Dogtooth - Yorgos Lanthimos
E - L
Eastern Promises
Endgame: Template For Global Enslavement - Alex Jones
Europa Europa - Agnieszka Holland
Every Man for Himself - Jean-Luc Godard
Fantastic Planet - René Laloux
Future World
Gilda
Gimme Danger - Jim Jarmusch
Hanna
Head - Bob Rafelson
Hester Street
Ida - Paweł Pawlikowski
Ikiru
Il Pugni in Tasca - Marco Bellocchio
Im Lauf der Zeit (Kings of the Road) - Wim Wenders
Intacto
Johnny Mo - 5th generation Beijing film academy
Kinetta - Yorgos Lanthimos
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Klute - Alan J. Pakula, starring Jane Fonda
Knowing
Layer Cake
Le Pacte des Loups
Les Escargots - René Laloux
Les Tontons Flingueurs
Leave No Trace
Legend of the neon something or other
Local Hero - Bill Forsyth
Louder Than Bombs - Joachim Trier
Love is a Dog From Hell (Crazy Love)
M - S
Marie Antoinette
Malá Morská Víla - Karel Kachyna
Moon
Morvern Callar - Lynne Ramsay
Mother - Bong Joon-Ho
Mystery Train - Jim Jarmusch
New RobinHood
Okja - Bong Joon-Ho
One Hour Photo
Abre Los Ojos - Alejandro Amenábar (Spanish film that Vanilla Sky is based off of)
Oslo August 31st - Joachim Trier
Paradise Highway - Anna Gutto, With Juliette Binoche
Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders
Peace - Kazuhiro Soda
Peau d’Ane (Donkey Skin)
Phone Booth
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time - Lili Horvát
Pierre Le Fou
Primer
Quadrophenia
Quinzaine des Realisateurs
Replicas
Reprise - Joachim Trier
RocknRolla
Roma
Roman Holiday
Savages
Suspiria - (1977) Dario Argento
Suspiria - (2018) Luca Guadagnino, Music by Thom Yorke
T - Z
Take Shelter
Terminal
Tess - Roman Polanski
The 39 Steps - Hitchcock
The Cell
The Favorite
The Fearless Vampire Killers - Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate
The Fountain
The Guard
The Gunfighter - with Gregory Peck
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things - Asia Argento, animations by Christiane Cegavske
The Hole
The House That Jack Built! New Von Trier Film!
The Hunted
The Inland Sea - Kazuhiro Soda
The Innocents - Jack Clayton, starring Deborah Kerr (adaptation of The Turn of the Screw)
The Last Big Thing
The Last Starfighter
The Limits of Control - Jim Jarmusch
The Long Ships (old film with Vikings vs the Moors)
The Majestic
The Man From Earth - Richard Schenkman
The Man Who Fell To Earth - Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie
The Shoplifter
The Sisters Brothers
The Thief of Baghdad (original of Aladdin)
The Wednesday Child - Lili Horvát
The Yellow Sea
~~Thirst - Park Chan Wook ~~
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! - Pedro Almodóvar
Time Crimes
Todo Sobre Tu Madre - (has song tajabone by Ismael Lo)
Cria Cuervos - (has song Porque Te Vás)
Triangle
Vast of Night
Walkabout by Nicholas Roeg
We Are Little Zombies - Makoto Nagahisa
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay
Weekend
Year of the Horse - Jim Jarmusch
The Staircase
Halloween
Sleepy Hollow
The Thing
The Blob
The Fly
The Invisible Man
Housu
Aliens
Kwaidan
Vampires
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) - Werner Herzog
Only Lovers Left Alive
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Thirst
What We Do in the Shadows
Vampire’s Kiss
The Shadow of the Vampire
To Watch:
Dracula
Nosferatu - F. W. Murnau
Vampyr - Carl Dreyer
The Hunger - Tony Scott
Near Dark - Bill Paxton
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary - Guy Maddin
The Fearless Vampire Killers - Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate
To Watch With Quinn
The Host
AI
Beyond The Black Rainbow
VHS
Event Horizon
Dagon
Amazon
★ Otisánek
★ Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds !!!
★ Cold War
★ Morvern Callar - Lynne Ramsay
★ Miss Hokusai
Ten Nights of Dreams
Heroic Purgatory - Yoshishige Yoshida
Apple Pie - Howard Goldberg
The Night the Prowler - Jim Sharman (Director of Rocky Horror)
From Inside
Ravagers - Richard Compton
Shape of Things to Come - George McCowan, Novel by H. G. Wells
Gor - Fritz Kiersch
Starflight One
Stranger From Venus
Buzzard
Coherence
Murder on the Orient Express
Nothing Really Happens
A Matter of Time
Blow The Man Down
Hot Summer Nights
The Great Escape
Siberia (Keane Reeves)
Kill Chain (Nicolas Cage)
Escape from New York
Color Out of Space
A Simple Favor
Detective Pikachu
Forbidden World
The Commuter
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Sleeping Dogs
Too Old To Die Young - NWR
Netflix
Copenhagen Cowboy - NWR
Horror / Thriller
Beyond The Black Rainbow
The Visitor
The Crescent
The Void
Anime
★ Millenium Actress
Night on the Galactic Railroad
Like the Clouds, Like the Wind
Galaxy Express 999
Whisper of the Heart
Lily C.A.T.
Golgo 13: The Professional
Black Jack: The Movie
Arcadia of My Youth
A Wind Named Amnesia - Kazuo Yamazaki
Fire and Ice
Wizards
Dragon’s Heaven
Terror on Rezonance (Zankyou no terror)
Shows to Watch/Finish
The Kingdom - Lars Von Trier
Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre - Claude Barma, 1927 novel by Arthur Bernède
Too Old To Die Young - NWR
Copenhagen Cowboy - NWR
Neon Genesis Evangelion:
Original Anime
End of Evangelion
The rebuilds in order (1.11, 2.22, 3.33, 3.0+1.0)
Ergo Proxy
The Sinner
That animated one with bob odenkirk in texas
Made for Love
One-Shot No Cuts
Real
Victoria (2015)
Utøya (2018)
Timecode (2000)
Iravin Nizhal
Hojoom/Invasion
Boiling Point
Fake
Rope (1948)
Birdman
Charlie Work (IASIP Episode)
Just Scenes
Tony Jaa’s Protector 2, for the one take Pagoda section
By Year
2018
Thoroughbreds
Disobedience
Searching
Blindspotting
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Read the book first!)
Leave No Trace
Unsane
Bomb City
Upgrade
2019
Under the Silver Lake
The Lighthouse
1917
Nimic - Yorgos Lanthimos
2020 / Unreleased
Innocence
Colour Out of Space - Richard Stanley, starring Nicholas Cage, story by Lovecraft
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Assistant
The Wave
Peninsula - Yeon Sang-ho
Upgrade
Wind Princess (live-action tribute to Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hiyao Miyazaki)
2021 / Unreleased
Seed in the Sand - Christiane Cegavske - Support the Patreon!
Phil Tippett’s Mad God
The Girl from the Other Side
Stray - Elizabeth Lo
Faya Dayi - Jessica Beshir
2022 / Unreleased
Suzume no Tojimari
Three Thousand Years Of Longing
Emily the Criminal
See How They Run
Amsterdam
Spin Me Round
The Menu
Joyride
The Banshees Of Inisherin
Decision to Leave - Park Chan Wook
2023 / Unreleased
Copenhagen Cowboy (show) - NWR
Mickey7 - Bong Joon-Ho
Suzume - Makoto Shinkai
Operation Fortune
Fool’s Paradise - Charlie Day
Directors / Movements
Alain Resnais
Je t’aime, je t’aime
Hiroshima mon amour
Muriel
The War Is Over
Stavisky
Providence
My American Uncle
Life is a Bed of Roses
Love Unto Death
Mélo
I Want to Go Home
Smoking/No Smoking
Same Old Song
Not on the Lips
Coers / Private Fears in Public Places
Wild Grass
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!
Life of Riley
Béla Tarr
Családi tűzfészek / Family Nest (1979)
Szabadgyalog / The Outsider (1981)
Panelkapcsolat / The Prefab People (1982)
Macbeth (1982)
Őszi almanach / Almanac of Fall (1984)
Kárhozat / Damnation (1988) - Screenplay, novel by László Krasznahorkai
Sátántangó / Satan’s Tango (1994) - Screenplay, novel by László Krasznahorkai
Werckmeister harmóniák / Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - Screenplay, novel by László Krasznahorkai (The Melancholy of Resistance)
A londoni férfi / The Man from London (2007) - Screenplay by László Krasznahorkai, novel by Georges Simenon
A torinói ló / The Turin Horse (2011) - Screenplay by László Krasznahorkai
Andrzej Wajda
Three War Films
A Generation
Kanal
Ashes and Diamonds
Werner Herzog
Signs of Life (1968)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Heart of Glass (1976)
Stroszek (1977)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
Cobra Verde (1987)
Scream of Stone (1991)
Invincible (2001)
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009)
Queen of the Desert (2015)
Salt and Fire (2016)
Family Romance, LLC. (2019)
Val Lewton
Cat People
Curse of the Cat People
I Walked With a Zombie
The Seventh Victim
Ghost Ship
Nagisa Oshima
Pleasures of the Flesh
Violence at Noon
Sing a Song of Sex
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Three Drunkards Resurrected
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Death by Hanging
Empire of Passion
In the Realm of the Senses
Terrence Malick
The New World
Lindsay Anderson
Mick Travis Trilogy with Malcom McDowell:
IF…
O LUCY MAN
BRITANNIA HOSPITAL
Chloé Zhao
The Rider
Nomadland
Eternals
Dracula
Berlin School
Christian Petzold
Angela Shanelec
Thomas Arslen
Film Noir, Neo-noir
Detour - Edgar G. Ulmer
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart
Hangmen Also Die! - Fritz Lang
Rogue Cop - Roy Rowland
Get Carter - Mike Hodges
The French Connection
The Italian Job
Charlie Varick
The Outfit
Prime Cut
Night Moves
Framed
Japanese
Stray Dog (1949)
Black River (1956)
I Am Waiting (1957)
Stakeout (1958)
Rusty Knife (1958)
Take Aim At The Police Van (1960)
The Bad Sleep well (1960)
Intimidation (1960)
Zero Focus (1961)
Pigs And Battleships (1962)
Youth Of The Beast (1963)
High And Low (1963)
Cruel Gun Story (1964)
Pale Flower (1964)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
Branded To Kill (1967)
Cult, 70’s, 80s, etc.
The Craft
Johnny Mnemonic
Silent Running
Logan’s Run
Damnation Alley
Soylent Green
Teen Wolf
Forbidden World
Deathstalker
Sorceress
Cinéma D’Look
Betty Blue - Jean-Jacques Beineix
Chinese
Long Day’s Journey Into Night - Bi Gan
Kaili Blues - Bi Gan
Japanese
Love Exposure - Sion Sono
Recs
Tegan
The Girl and The Spider
The Strange Little Cat
The Loves of Anaïs
Meredith
Ya No Estoy Aquí
Maggie
The Favorite
Shirlee (about Shirlee Jackson)
Quinn
Galaxy of Terror
Fantastic Planet
Black Hole
Stargate
Zardos
Tales of Arcadia
Archenemy
Psycho Goreman
The Craft
Sunny
Otisanek
The Social Dilemma
Kyla
Under/Behind The Shadow (Iranian)
Roma
Under the Shadow
Fred
Tàr
Blowout
Heat
Ben
A Whisker Away (NF)
Barbarian
New Nosfwratu remake
Nate
Tower Heist
The Running Man
Freddy Got Fingered
90s Mario Movie
Jack
Gentlemen Broncos
Return to Oz
Gozu
Happiness of the Katakuris
Murder by Death
Primer
Looper
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Trail of the Screaming Forehead
Vanessa
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Peter Greenaway, starring Helen Mirren
The Quiet
The Commitments
Waking Ned Devine
Local Hero
Cat
Jung E
YT
Mauvais Sang (AKA The Night is Young) - Leos Carax
Trust - Hal Hartley
The Unbelievable Truth - Hal Hartley
Medianeras - Gustavo Taretto
Career Opportunities - Bryan Gordon
Happy Birthday to John
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography
Roller Boogie
To The Wonder
Sangaïlé
The Dissident
Comrades: Almost a Love Story
Endless Love (1981)
The Dreamers (2003)
Paranoid Park (2007)
La Chinoise (1967)
The Duelist
River’s Edge (1986) (with Keanu)
Miami Vice
Knight Rider
Cannonball Run
Cannonball Run II
Against All Odds
New Old (1979)
The Saragossa Manuscript - Wojciech Has
The Hourglass Sanatorium - Wojciech Has
I Believe In Unicorns (2014)
Other
Bednobs and Broomsticks
Film Ideas
Film where random crow in the background represents ‘toxic masculinity’ (yes this is a joke)
Lull
Film called “Lull”, all audio in film is just the song “Lull” off of Jessica Pavone’s album, “Lull”. 11:51 long. Have it be pretty concrete with a whole story, with emotional ups and downs to match the song.
Lonely-looking man walking around, anxiously looks at text messages from family or therapist or girlfriend who broke up with him. Then sees a lost dog poster, then sees the dog. Chases it all around, events happen, dog almost gets hit by car, say, or man and dog get chased through field by farmer with shotgun, etc. He chases dog for an entire day or afternoon, sun is setting, finally catches up to it at its owners house. She’s there, they meet and smile, Fin.
Man is drinking at home, runs out of beers. Goes to drive. Drives to Liquer store. It’s closed. Drives to Alsups. Gets more beer. Cracks one in the car. Driving around more. Almost hits a cat or something. Crashes car into a ditch. Starts walking. Etc.
Teen walking in forest starts pretending they have powers, gestures towards a tree or a rock, and it actually works. Tree limb shoots off, or rock flies forward. Film goes from there as teen expirements, and as night slowly falls in the woods.
Man goofing around on the internet finds link to mysterious old irc channel. Starts with him setting ‘Lull’ playing via mpv on riced-out system. In IRC he asks if anyone is there. Then mysterious user responds and they start conversing. User, D3Lph1 or the like, starts telling man all about his own life, asking personal questions, even stuff he’s never told anyone. He reacts accordingly, with wtf, etc. Then D3lph1 starts giving him instructions that seem completely illogical, like go to gas station and buy these random things, etc. He follows the steps, comes back, receives more instructions, repeat. Then it acts as some sort of cheat-code or spell. He checks his bank account at the end and has $999999.99 or something. Or he suddenly realizes he can speak and write fluent japanese, or read peoples’ minds, or easily do tons of push-ups or jump really high or punch through things, or something like that, or he goes outside and there’s a nice-ass car in the driveway.
Naked man removes monk’s or priest’s raiments, leaves on gold cross (i.e. he’s from hundreds of years past), perhaps european explorer lost in the U.S., conducts ritual in lake, swims down down down, camera angle flips upside down, and he is now swimming down to the surface, swims out and resurfaces, and he’s suddenly in the future (i.e. now). Walks around city, lost and bewildered by everything, the cars, the signs, the sounds, the clothes, the people, bikes, the buildings, etc. (This one could be called Ingot and have The slightly more brash ‘Ingot’ as the soundtrack, 8:09 length, or Midmost at 12:38.) Perhaps instead he comes out somewhere like William’s Lake. Some tourists give him a blanket or jacket to wear. Then they take him down with them, drive down out of the ski valley, down into town, and he is bewildered by the car, the houses, etc.. They try to speak to him but he only speaks (old old) Spanish.
Viewers
Two Mages alternately watch each other through enchanted fountains/bird-baths or the like, and when it’s showing what each sees, it’s very hazy, pinhole-camera like. Eventually, we realize that our view as the audience is the view of a third, more powerful mage, perhaps a sorceress the two where fighting over, and she’s set them against each other. But each mage learns to reach through the view and do damage to the other, so at the end the one triumphant one suddenly reaches into our view to attack the sorceress and that’s where it ends. Also: Image of hand reaching up out of the fountain/bird-bath the other is bent over peering into, attempting to strangle him or suchlike.
Fireside
Dude goes to backpack for a night somewhere on the continental divide trail, up in the mountains, camps in a clearing. Still day out but very cold so he gathers a bit of wood and lights a fire. Goes to gather more wood. Comes back and there is another person at the fire. Suggested they were perhaps hiking the CDT so he asks which way they’re heading, etc. Other person doesn’t have any gear with them perhaps. Eventually he goes to get more firewood, perhaps on the other person’s prompting. Comes back and there are more people. This sort of process continues and the people grow more outlandish. Eventually there are musicians, and people dancing and whirling about, and dogs.
Soundtrack: Mostly northern/eastern-european melodic and rhythmic folk style chanting and drums, in weird tempos and polyrythms, layered, some light guitar or harp accompaniment. Towards the end of the film some john-carpenter style thicc square-wave synths break in with arpeggiation, and the drumming and chanting match with them soaring up into dreadful heights.