Yo, Anything Goes in These Insane Ads for the Brooklyn Film Festival

Pregnant socks! Severed ears! Gimps!

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Lights, camera, cray-cray!

TBWA\Chiat\Day New York and OPC Films celebrate wild (and creepy) creativity in a set of commercials touting the 20th anniversary of the Brooklyn Film Festival, which runs June 2-11 at various neighborhood theaters.

“The attitude and cred of the festival really gave us license to push to envelope,” agency associate creative director Jake Greer tells AdFreak.

Indeed, bizarre imagery and absurdly goofy storylines abound in a campaign defiantly themed, “Because We Can.”

First up, things get gimpy in a commercial that would make Quentin Tarantino proud:

Notice the spelling of Brklyn.

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