Anything That Moves
The most scrumptious snacks on the SNAXXX delivery app are the drivers: Take Liam cycling through Chicago and fulfilling sexual desires for cash. Business is booming—until his clients start getting murdered left and right, and he gets caught in the crosshairs of some shady cops. Alex Phillips’s (All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, SLASH 2022) Anything That Moves oscillates effortlessly on gorgeous 16-mm stock between dreamy, whimsical kink comedy and grim erotic thriller. An homage to 1970s porn sleaze, this film is as alive and slinky as a dance in a golden shower and, despite all the comedy, is a sincere vindication of the dignity of sex workers. (Matthias Eckkrammer)
OPENING SHORT FILM
A Brighter Summer Day for the Lady Avengers
Birdy Wei-Ting Hung, TW, 2024, 11′, OmeU
Austrian Premiere
Taiwan, 1980s. A hot summer day, watermelon juice, and teenage girl Ming’s sexual awakening with her celluloid fantasies. Shot on 16mm.
Alex Phillips is a writer and director based in Chicago, Illinois. His debut feature, All Jacked Up and Full of Worms (SLASH 2022), premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montréal in 2022. The raunchy, violently funny serial-killer mystery Anything That Moves is his sophomore effort.
