A French academic is seduced into a world of untold histories in her scholarly quest to uncover the mystery of a history-capturing camera-like machine created by clandestine Benedictine monks. An academic-noir, armchair mystery in the lineage of Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco.

A feature-length midnight anthology hosted by drag horror icon Peaches Christ, BAD CHANNELS fuses three Fantastic Fest-selected animated shorts — including a cosmic death metal stop-motion horror from underground art legend Skinner — into a single hallucinatory broadcast from the forbidden side of the cartoon dial. Screens with Jimmy ScreamerClauz's MOTHER EARTH. Q&A w/ Skinner!

A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.