At SLASH, we have a complicated relationship with death—horror, fear, fascination, and occasionally we allow ourselves to have a little fun with it. We’ve learned that it’s hard to trick the Grim Reaper – unless you take advantage of his surprisingly bureaucratic workflow. Death might also bring the opportunity for a fresh start and to free yourself from outdated ways of thinking. While we wait for our great departure, we’re often confronted with the horrors of everyday life, which can be harder to bear than the inevitability of death. Trapped in the web of privilege and disparity that entangles our society, we’re forced to play by the rules of life’s cruel variant of Monopoly, in which the haves are pitted against the have-nots and we’re willing to pay almost any price to fit in. From the day we’re born, we try to exorcize the haunting specter of systemic oppression; a struggle that can take us to unexpected, violent extremes, when all we really want is to be recognized and respected for who we are.

Sickened by society’s disregard and disrespect, two senior ladies strike up a brave friendship and go on the run when a bureaucratic Grim Reaper starts giving chase.

Today is the 167th annual moult, a ceremony to promote ideological renewal. This year, in this countryside village, it is Ben and his parents’ turn to experience the moult.

Evan is on house arrest in a haunted house. Or so he thinks?

When a homeless tannery owner keeps finding apartments reserved for “foreigners only,” he’ll do whatever it takes to have skin in the game.

Young Madeleine accompanies her mother, a nail beautician, to meet new clients. As she arrives at the stately home, three girls invite her downstairs to play a ruthless board game…

When Mai, an eleven years old Chinese girl, learns that her parents only ever wanted a boy, her body undergoes a strange transformation at her baby brother’s first birthday party.