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Things get weird in Amalia Ulman’s kaleidoscopic film, a colorful comedy of errors and an imaginative send-up of millennial media. Starring Simon Rex and Chloë Sevigny, this story of a frantic search for an internet sensation is electrified by wit, subversion, and distinctively fluorescent style.

Physical touch has been eclipsed by taps and clicks, but Eugene Kotlyarenko’s absurdist comedy proposes a spicy aphrodisiac for the modern couple: digital surveillance! Swapping foreplay for spyware apps and screen recordings, this film-within-a-film romp searches for love in the time of drones.

A whirlwind mix of DV tapes and 16mm stock, Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s singular debut transforms the concrete jungle of New York into a delicate tapestry of emotions. Charting the four seasons of a magnetic young woman unsettled by change, Tendaberry composes an urban symphony in the key of love.

Starring Rooney Mara, Alonso Ruizpalacios’s ebullient vision of a bustling Times Square kitchen underlines the resilience of employees all too aware of cycles of exploitation. Powdery monochrome cinematography evokes dreaming, while spectacular forays into allegory let humanity shine through.

It’s not easy being broke when you’ve got expensive tastes. A real-life mother-daughter duo find clever ways to hustle in this deadpan, monochrome debut from rising star Amalia Ulman. Transposing the langor of Hong Sang-soo to post-crisis Spain, Ulman takes an absurdist yet tender look at scamming.

With theaters shut during the COVID-19 pandemic, two actors, Sam and Mark, are uncertain about their futures. Finding solace in the virtual chaos of Grand Theft Auto Online, they decide to stage Hamlet in the game’s unpredictable world. This film was produced independently by Project 1961Ltd.

Refracting the iconic image of lo-fi band Pavement into new, hybrid forms, acclaimed filmmaker Alex Ross Perry innovatively distorts the music documentary. Joe Keery stars alongside the ’90s group, toying with their slacker-indie commitment to alternative culture with dazzling, hilarious subversion.