I’m looking for two things I saw pieces of somewhere between maybe 15 and 20 years ago on IFC. I don’t know if they were feature length or just short films. Both were black and white, but were not old films.

The first one features a twenty-something couple apparently on a long drive on a two lane highway. At one point, the kinda curly, dark-haired girl is asleep and dreaming in the passenger seat, and her dream sequence involves stomping grapes for wine. It’s a bit slow-motion with weird dream music, and the camera angle is a bit from below and you can see that she’s wearing nothing under her dress. She wakes from the dream disgusted by a gross smell, which turns out to be the liverwurst sandwich her boyfriend is eating and he offers her a bite. She declines, of course, because she’s disgusted and annoyed. At some other point, they’re stopped and outside of the car, and she’s singing an awful made-up song with the words “love in the desert.”

The second one I’m looking for, I caught the end of like three times, and that’s all I’ve seen. It appears to be about girls in school, about 12 or 13 years old. I remember that they had kind of bold make-up, like really dark lipstick, but that could just be the saturation and contrast of the black and white film choice. The last scene is of one girl sitting under a tree writing in her journal with the last line being “…and life goes on.” Then she gets up and walks…home, or back to school, or something.