Golden King

Grinder-Man - G-VTR01

A 19-minute short film featuring the six performances of the Japanese performance art group Grinder-Man. Only released on VHS.

S·G·N·A·L

A young PlayView channel owner, dedicated to preserving and digitizing archived television footage across the United States, discovers a mysterious DVD containing recordings of a signal hijacking incident from 2007. The broadcast, once belonging to a Mexican television channel that aired in California, reveals a disruption that was never officially explained.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood

An adaptation of the original five volume arc of the popular JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, covering the Phantom Blood chapters. Jonathan Joestar is an aristocratic boy whose life is suddenly turned upside down by a mysterious new boy who arrives, Dio Brando. Dio has a connection to his father, and over time, a rivalry forms as Dio becomes obsessed with a mysterious, ancient, and mystical stone mask that Jonathan's father keeps. This film has not been publicly released outside of its original limited run in Japanese theaters and is considered virtually lost.

Nyanko Great War: The Movie

"A theatrical anime comedy short based directly on the hit mobile game. Released alongside major theatrical events in Japan, it features an entire army of bizarre, surreal "Nyankos" executing chaotic plans for world dominance on the big screen." A lost media movie, created by PONOS Cooperation. This was a highly exclusive, limited-time interactive attraction, screened only inside physical event venues in Japan. PONOS Cooperation had never released it on DVD, Blu-ray, or any streaming platforms.

HYPERSONIC Music Club

In 2017, a short anime film called Hypersonic Music Club was produced in Japan. It was directed and written by Osamu Kobayashi, a veteran of the industry who passed away in April 2021. For various reasons, this short anime was never released. It was made public on August 1, 2023.

DMC Devil May Cry

Film adaptation of the 2013 game DmC: Devil May Cry.

Lost Media

Friends Are Forever: A Barney Analog Horror Film

After purchasing a Barney doll, friends Kyle and Derek uncover a piece of Barney lost media that ensnares them in the schemes of a mysterious and dangerous superfan. Friends Are Forever unfolds as a grounded, psychological analog-horror told through found-media fragments, ARG breadcrumbs, and 2010s digital ephemera to explore how fandom, nostalgia, and exploitation collide in the internet age. Praised as “insanely well executed and thought out,” viewers highlight its “high production quality for a first-timer to the horror genre.”

Sobre Nós

During a lonely night, Julia recites a poem about loss, reunion and overcoming.

Heartbeat in the Brain

A documentary produced and directed by Amanda Feilding, an advocate of trepanation. In the film, Feilding, a 27-year-old student at the time, drills a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill. In the documentary, surgical scenes alternate with motion studies of Feilding's pet pigeon Birdie.

Фарс с Зимовым — «Русским Поксоном»

The Square Root

Photographer Peter Christiansen, University of Miami student, does a picture story at an LSD party on the beach.

One of the Thirty-six

The action takes place during the January Uprising. A Russian commander imposed a tribute on a town inhabited by Jews; the money was appropriated by an adjutant, and eleven hostages faced court martial for allegedly failing to pay tribute and forging the commander's signature. A legend is woven into the plot: the sacred number 36 indicates thirty-six righteous. Nameless, unknown to anyone, they live as paupers or simpletons, carrying the burden of the world's sins on their shoulders. A good deed or a miracle that averts misfortune betrays them; however, the perpetrator of the miracle must die. The film has not survived to this day.

15 Thousand Drawings

Episódios Perdidos: Uma História

El Chavo, El Chapulin Colorado, Chespirito: The biggest phenomenon of Latin American comedy in 50 years. Behind the success, there is a mystery that has never been solved: the lost episodes.

In Search of the Pacifier

Once upon a time, the world was still a good place, nature was pristine, and Sebaldius played happily with his pacifier. But when he lost this pacifier, everything changed and chaos broke out...

My Brain Goes Insane

An obscure independent German splatter film about a man who goes on a murderous rampage, with plenty of bloody special effects. Filmed from 2003-2004 and finished in 2005, the film was screened during Tromanale in Berlin, Germany in 2006. It has received a limited, extremely elusive physical release.

The Bannfoot Ferry

A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first locally-produced network drama, Boatman Do Not Tarry.

S4E9

Characters in a children's horror TV show realize that their reality is not what it seems.

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the truth, and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would be invaluable for future generations. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, but now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized and they'll be searchable online.