Recalling the shifting surrealism of filmmaker David Lynch, the paired works of Diptych (The missing door and The lost room) bring together a collection of odd and archetypal individuals and subjects them to a corkscrew journey of extraordinary proportions.

Founded by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, the Belgium-based Peeping Tom obliterates the border between theatre and dance, roping together a hyperrealist aesthetic with real-world settings to fashion a disquieting mix of performance genres.

With elements of film noir, dark comedy, and foley-effects, the work undermines the seeming solidity of actual places (a ship’s cabin, a banal hallway) with nightmare logic. Within the slip and slide of altered perceptions and an unreliable narrative, the characters act out a series of increasingly bizarre scenarios. Coherence and stability fracture, then shatter, as theatrical conceits are revealed to be just that.

As the story shapeshifts in real time, peeling back the layers of cinematic convention to pose unsettling questions about the nature of reality, nothing is as it seems.