Moon Garden

When a five-year-old little girl (Haven Lee Harris) has a terrible accident and slips into a coma, she finds herself thrust into a dark industrial purgatory. Haunted by a nightmarish spectre that feeds off her tears, she must follow her mother’s radio-static voice to find her way back to consciousness. Blending the twisted stop-motion dreamscapes of Jan Švankmajer’s Alice into an eerie amalgamation of Neil Gaiman’s MirrorMask and Nobuo Nakagawa’s Jigkou, Ryan Stevens Harris’s exquisitely crafted film is a childhood nightmare of illusion bombarding with traumatic and unsettling visuals that will virtually guarantee you a bad night’s sleep. Shot on expired 35mm film stock with vintage rehoused lenses and featuring jaw-dropping practical effects by Harris, Jeffrey Olney (Mirrors, Spiderman: Homecoming), and Michael A. Martinez (Stranger Things), Moon Garden is a phantasmagorical odyssey and a visionary work of art that shows how a child can shine light even in the darkest places.