One-Third (2006)

Loosely based on Dante's Inferno, One-Third (2006) is an almost-silent slice of cinema about East Village neighbors who almost never meet. Diana Gitelman stars as Lotusia, a professional bed bouncer who gets strumpeted up in knee-highs and Catholic-school skirts for a steady parade of pervs. On the other side of her paper-thin wall lives Buddhist monk Ivo Velon, a solitary sort who sells his drawings in the park and watches Di through a peephole for sport. There's not much narrative or dialogue to be had, but there's plenty of weirdness and a genuine Girl Gone Bad. Abstract images meet sound collage while trumpets accompany the luscious strumpet. One-Third, fittingly enough, is the first of a Dante-inspired trilogy planned by director Yong-man Kim.