A New Kind of Clean (2026)

Haunting, philosophical horror for these modern times about what one aspiring actress is willing to give up in exchange for making her dreams come true—a groundbreaking collaboration from the author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things and the filmmaker of Our Father, the DevilMissy Djalo has been pounding the pavement for several years, running from audition to audition, juggling a dead-end security job, no closer to her dream of playing Helena in A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream. Since Missy’s perpetually broke and desperate for a change, a commercial audition for a cryptic company appears to be the light at the end of the tunnel—the big break she’s been waiting for. But as she journeys deeper into the experimental audition, boundaries are crossed, day becomes night, and the limits of reality and fantasy are increasingly blurred, all pushing Missy towards a critical decision.Told in spare, hypnotic prose, A New Kind of Clean is a surreal, philosophical suspense story about memory, identity, ambition, and reality; how the lines between what's real and what's not are becoming increasingly blurred; and how much we are willing to forfeit our individuality, our memories, our relationships, our identities, as we give ourselves over to the illusion and artifice of a virtual life that more closely mirrors our fantasies.