A new physical media label called Video Visions will bring recent indie festival hits — including Todd Rohal's "Fuck My Son!," Grace Glowicki's "Dead Lover," and Mike Cheslik's "Hundreds of Beavers" — to Blu-ray shelves, with a release schedule tied to the lunar calendar.

IndieWire exclusively announced the formation of the label, founded by Cartuna founder James Belfer, who produced indie films such as "Boys Go to Jupiter," "OBEX," and "Moonfish." Video Visions will serve as a physical distribution outlet for both past Cartuna titles and other recent festival hits that share the same offbeat sensibilities.

"I found it imperative not just to help films get made and seen, but also to preserve and archive them," Belfer said in a statement. "Movies have been disappearing digitally for years. But to quote Guillermo del Toro, 'If you own a great 4K HD, Blu-ray, DVD, etc., of a film or films you love… you are the custodian of those films for generations to come.'"

The business model departs from industry convention. A handful of new titles will be available to pre-order each month, with selections changing as the moon does, and specific drops remaining secret until the lunar cycle turns. The company is launching with five titles in its online store and will announce a new slate on October 26, when the Hunter's Moon begins.

The initial pre-order lineup spans the strange and the sublime. "Fuck My Son!" (2025), Rohal's adults-only tale of a desperate mother dragging an innocent stranger into an absurd, filthy nightmare, sits alongside "Dead Lover" (2025), Glowicki's aromatic monster romance in which a lonely gravedigger goes to morbid lengths to resurrect her drowned dream man. "Hundreds of Beavers" (2022) arrives in a new Fur Slip Edition, chronicling a drunken applejack salesman's rise to become North America's greatest fur trapper.

The launch slate also includes "Boys Go to Jupiter" (2024), Julian Glander's animated story of 16-year-old Billy 5000 zigzagging around suburban Florida on his hoverboard with one goal — make $5,000 — and "The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man" (2024), Braden Sitter Sr.'s tale of a paranoid young man launching a bizarre crime spree against the citizens of Toronto.

Future lunar cycles will bring an extensive roster of titles. Penny Lane is represented twice, with "NUTS!" (2015), the story of Kansas doctor John Romulus Brinkley, who claimed to cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men, and "Our Nixon" (2013), built from the seized Super 8 home movies of Nixon's top aides. Nick DiLiberto's hand-drawn features "Nova Seed" (2016) and "Empress of Darkness" (2020) join Bruce Bickford's legendary 1988 claymation epic "Prometheus' Garden," a 28-minute dreamlike, violent struggle for survival inspired by the Greek myth.

International selections include "Sultana's Dream" (2023), Isabel Herguera's film inspired by Begum Rokeya's 1905 feminist utopia Ladyland; "The Hyperboreans" (2024) from "The Wolf House" makers Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña; "Olivia & the Clouds" (2024), Tomás Pichardo Espaillat's shape-shifting animated exploration of lingering love from the Dominican Republic; and "Dog of God" (2025) by Lauris and Raitis Ābele, set in a rain-soaked 17th-century Livonian village where an 80-year-old self-proclaimed werewolf arrives bearing the Devil's Balls.

The full announced slate runs to more than two dozen titles, also featuring Adam Green's "Aladdin" (2015), Toby Jones's "AJ Goes to the Dog Park" (2024), Matt Barats's "Cash Cow" (2022), Alan Resnick and Robby Rackleff's "Dance Freak" (2025), Kade Atwood and Megan Rico's "Edie Arnold is a Loser" (2026), Constantine Costi's porridge-championship documentary "The Golden Spurtle" (2025), Graham Mason's "The Reveries Trilogy" (2018–2025), Aristotelis Maragkos's paper-animation thriller "The Timekeepers of Eternity" (2021), Jonni Pepper-GoLions's five-part anthology "Wasteland" (2019), and Eric Power's "When You Get to the Forest" (2023).

The online Video Visions store is now live. In 2027, residents of Chatham, New York, will be able to browse the same catalogue in person at a brick-and-mortar video store of the same name. As digital platforms continue to pull titles from circulation, Belfer's label positions physical ownership — in del Toro's words, custody "for generations to come" — as the counterweight.