(Mon 10th - Wed 12th / 8pm / £5/4/3 TTT)
(Kristina Buozyte / Lithuania / 2012 / 124 minutes)

This distinctive Lithuanian sci-fi follows a scientist through neural transfer into the consciousness of a young coma victim and into a world of sensual oddness. Clear traces of 2001 and Solaris can be found in the visuals – impressive in itself given the limited budget – but Vanishing Waves weaves its own spell and has won over audiences at festivals across the world.

"The film's trippy, dreamlike sequences within Aurora's psyche suggest a rotating house of mirrors in which the environment is a mere manifestation of its occupants' fucked-up head space; a splintered-apart beachside house brings to mind the elusiveness of an M.C. Escher drawing, while the influences of David Lynch and Salvador Dali are felt in a nightmarishly pulsating black hole. Writer-director Kristina Buozyte has studied and fully digested her visual and thematic influences and produced something at once borrowed and unique, particularly in her raw acknowledgement of human emotion." SLANT Magazine