Pillow Pounder
Directed by Volatize
United States · 2023 · 9 min 25 sec · Comedy
Submitted to OnShow International Film Festival 2026Synopsis
A man’s strange attachment to an innocently simple-faced pillow becomes increasingly intimate, ritualistic and unsettling. What begins as absurd domestic comedy is treated with the sound, pacing and visual seriousness of a psychological thriller, allowing the joke to slowly become genuinely uncomfortable.
Director
Volatize is an independent recording artist and filmmaker based in Hickory, North Carolina. After years of creating music, visual content and comedy sketches, he expanded into narrative filmmaking with PILLOW POUNDER, his first completed short film. His work moves between music, comedy, atmosphere and unconventional visual storytelling rather than staying inside a single creative medium.
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OnShow International Film Festival — Inaugural Edition · 2026