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- Fifteen individuals tell how it was to be children of dissidents killed, imprisoned or "disappeared" by a Brazilian military dictatorship. The camera becomes a kind of confessional as these survivors time-trip back to childhood. The directors themselves participate in this testimonial.
- A drama documentary recreating real-life painful experiences through the eyes of Philippos, a prisoner of war. The stories are facts told by life eyewitnesses in a diary/interview context. Philippos describes his own ordeal as a 17-year-old student who fought a war, was a prisoner of war, and a refugee of war. The feelings of angst and pain in captivity were the reason Philippos became a passionate renowned sculptor. Historians confirm the truth behind this never been told before story.
- We regard minor news as economical, social, ideological and political micro crisis'. We put emphasis on the way mass media handles it, making it appear as daily life's impact on history. We do think, as a matter of fact, that democratic societies are based on the management of all these parasite crisis'.
- 8 Days of Parlor observes the work of academic sculptor Leonidas Spanos, based in Cyprus, where a Parlor guitar is being made over a period of 8 days. The pace of the film focuses on the art of guitar-making and the importance for the material to justify its own existence.
- Ms. Pak Suet-sin's adoration and devotion to the Cantonese opera awakened the souls of the dainty actresses in many classic plays. Together with the characters, she laughed, cried and experienced the sorrow and joy of life. At the time when she faded out from the stage, the characters were forced to return to quietness and loneliness. On what ground do the arts rest?
- An inspiring creative documentary that follows the story of one of Uganda's unsung heroes - Robert Katende. Popularly known as 'Coach Robert', he was able to transform a little unknown slum in the outskirts of Kampala, into an internationally recognized army of Chess Champions.
- An eco-feminist salute to the epic book Ulysses by James Joyce ; 'A Ulysses Journey' is art hand crafted film using experimental projection, effects and filters: based on a fantasy backward journey from Castle to Gutter, of a Dublin prostitute called 'The White Lady' so called for the thick white cream she wears on her face. She was scarred in mind and body when a lit lantern was thrown into her locked room: She sees herself as an earth Goddess, if a fading one, like Mollie Bloom in Ulysses, she is a Calypso, held captive by her past and the mirrored reflection of herself.
- Abiding is a short film created from a single 35mm photograph. Taken from a train window between Dordrecht and Rotterdam, the artist has pulled the film manually in a shutter-less camera. The movement of the film and the continuous influx of light dissolved both the center of perspective and the spaces between frames. The work leans on the notions of fluidity and continuity to question the sequential recording and the frame-by-frame ideology in photographic and cinematographic processes. In this attempt to record without division, trees and houses lose their solidity and oscillate between abstraction and figuration. The piece evokes a filmic matter in flux in which the movements of the body, the apparatus and the sensitive surface coexist.
- Set against the backdrop of ISIS' imposition of the "jizya" tax on non-Muslims in its territories, a Christian family devises a plan to protect its only daughter. However, their "perfect" solution might end up having more tragic consequences than intended.
- Abyss is a chain of 10,000 images found through Google's reverse image search. The visual development is based on the misunderstandings that happen in the AI's reading of the image material. The AI doesn't care about scale, emotions or context but is only interested in patterns, colors and correlations. We are watching a primal chaos before the creation of an artificial consciousness. And the awakening consciousness is looking back at us as a species.
- After losing his family, Salem, an old nomad leaves Tindouf, the headquarters of Sahraoui separatists and embarks on a long walk to Laayoune on the Atlantic coast of Sahara. He is back to the «best country of the world»: his childhood. On his way, he meets Demba, a Senegalese refugee trying to reach his family in Casablanca, Morocco. Without judging each other, both men will share moments of emotion, fear, hope and doubts. In a no man's land, an amazing friendship will unite the two men, each one of them having his «own Morocco» in mind, often imaginary, sometimes nostalgic, magical, cruel, dreamy and timeless.
- Because the driver is unable to fulfill correctly his order to kill somebody, he and his friends have to pay the price. "Alabama" is a road-movie. The camera is constantly in the back of the car shooting through the back window... But more important than this story is how the song "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan is changing when it is interpreted by Jimi Hendrix. And the recurring album of the Stones "His Satanic Majesty's Request".
- Seethalakshmi was born in an uprooted tribal family, now settled on the banks of a river in North Kerala, India. She grew up adhering to the traditionally well-defined roles of a girl child in the society that gave prominence to male children. About three years back, she discovered a strange transformation she had been undergoing. Her sexuality was in an ambiguous flux, and she was slowly becoming a male child. Later the feminine self in her slowly vanished and she was 're-born' a male child, now re-christened Sreedharan. With the transforming sexuality and gender relationship he had a re-defined role in his family and society.
- A work produced for the Morimura Yasumasa Exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, (April 6 to June, 1996). It was shown in an old-style theater constructed within the exhibit space that featured photographs of Morimura playing famous foreign and Japanese actresses.
- B/Side is a poignant and intelligent exploration of the urban homeless, combining sensitive footage of their exterior situation and entering imaginatively into interior deliriums. Framed by footage of the encampment locally known as Dinkinsville on New York's Lower East Side, where some of the homeless of Thompkins Square Park settled after the riots of June 1991, the movie begins with the encampment's first night and ends with the fire and subsequent destruction of the lot in October of the same year. Applying rhythmic construction, poetic license and a generous eye to bodies in poverty, B/side documents beautifully a gritty vision of late 20th century urban life.
- Babette is a collage made of pictures, talks, sounds, poems and music. A video of confrontation, war and art, fiction and documentary, facts and fantasy, experiences and second-hand information. These different poles wander very naturally through the space of this video without disturbing each other or taking itself ad absurdum; no, they stand very close together, because they are closely acquainted.
- A small Polish village. There is an ongoing mass wild boars hunt because of the spread of the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus, which is dangerous for pig farming. Kalina lives in a wooden cottage in the company of hens and a whining dog, which she keeps chained in the yard. One day the dog disappears. While searching for him, Kalina learns about liberty.
- A family meeting. Lack of adult attention, upbringing mistakes, as well as unstable emotional ties and disrupted relationships, lead a young neglected child to destructive behavior from which there is no turning back. A tragedy hanging by a thread.
- The United Nations selected Finland as the happiest country in the world twice in a row. Finns are still very skeptical about this recognition - they tend to see themselves as melancholic, pessimistic and dreary. Is this really the best possible life? A poetic documentary that plows deep into the nation's soul and visits places where these Nordic people can be found at their happiest.
- Based on a family bakery operating since 1915, the Bittaci family withholds traditions of a dying trade in Cyprus. Hatice Bittaci tells her story over the droning soundtrack produced by decades old machinery used to continue their family legacy.
- In Black Mountain Marianna Christofides follows a fisherman on the Adriatic coast during his work. He is one of the last in the region employing an outmoded fishing method that is characterized by hard labor and little to no return. He repeatedly has to start anew, while his nets, constantly filling up with seaweed, tear apart. His catch is so sparse that he throws the few fish back into the sea. Yet he does not give up: we are confronted with the power of the will and persistence, with another perception of time.
- The destruction of a home for the building of a road is captured and contrasted with quotations from the residents.
- In brief flashes, as if a snapshot is taken, the face of one person changes to that of another, developed into a lookalike or remembrance of a face ever known. The installation "Blink" shows how we generalise apparent differences and agreements and poses questions about personal identity. Each pair has its own sound identity that exposed on two projections grows into the acutal musical scene.
- The sheik of a village in Afghanistan marries a woman whose ex-husband has died in an accident in Iran many years ago. The first husband, however, returns after a few years and, according to the laws of some Islamic sects, the woman must return to the first husband, and she will be forbidden to the second one even if the first husband dies.
- Holiday season. Two friends, Diana and Katy, meet in Caffe Cerutti after not having seen each other for a while. Diana is spontaneous, enthusiastic and ready to hear her friend's news. However, their meeting is about to have an unexpected twist when the cafe's interior decoration causes strange reactions to Katy.
- A man is released from prison. All he wants is to live in peace with his wife. His former partners intercept him since as an accessory to their crime he is a risk. The man is not intimidated. His "friends" kill his wife to make him change his opinion. The man cracks up and gets himself a machine gun to fight the killers who destroyed his life.
- Chronic is an experimental narrative which explores the life of Gretchen, a woman who began using self-mutilation as a coping mechanism when she was a girl. The visually surreal scenes, which are comprised of both scripted and documentary footage, illustrate the culture Gretchen lives in, her inner life, and various relationships. A number of optical printing techniques and different film stocks were used to create different levels of perception so the viewer might experience Gretchen's story on an emotional or visceral level. The elements of the film are assembled together in attempt to create an understanding of the suicidal mind that goes beyond intellectual knowledge.
- Cinderella wishes to go to the palace, Ciderella must go to the palace. Cinderella's shoes are a gift, Ciderella's body cast is a burden. They both wear them with pride they both go to the dance. What is the palace? Whom do you want to be like? What are you gonna find there that you don't already have? Wake up Ciderella.
- When Rosa came to this place the earthquake had just happened and the building was one enormous ruin. People say it was a cinema, but Rosa, who has lived here for many years, has never seen a film in her life. So many things happen in "Cinema Alcazar" that it's all Rosa can do to keep up.
- Come as You Are is a stylised and colourful exploration of three individuals who have created an alter ego which offers an outlet from their normal daily lives. Each is a separate journey into the terrain of sexuality, identity and fantasy within the urban landscape. A drag queen, a sexual outlaw and an urban cowboy reveal what lies behind the 'mask'.
- Two audiovisual and film basics - sound and image - are created by the same lines engraved directly on primary audiovisual medium - film track - in order to trigger the most harmonic relationship that is possible between them. In this film you can see the sound and hear the image.
- The film is set against the backdrop of the severance of an intimate and joyous family relationship between an only brother (narrator) and his sister (Maria). Their relationship is torn apart by schizophrenia. The onset of the disease results in the debilitation of Maria, taking with it her personality. This leaves him stranded, angry, confused and terribly sad. The inability to understand what has happened leads to attempts to escape until finally to the realization that there is no escape. After several body blows from a merciless world, what follows is an understanding that there is no way out but to return to face his demons. To find a way to come to terms with this loss. From the debris of the ravages of the disease he attempts to pick the pieces together. How will he come to terms with a condition that seems to be irreversible? How does he restore and achieve peace?
- Marc, a young city dweller, goes into the countryside where he stays on his own in a lonely house. He is expecting his girlfriend Louise who is supposed to come and join him soon, but she is late showing up. Marc is keen on keeping fit and becomes obsessed with the healthy daily routine he has set up for himself, but the silence grows heavier and heavier, and Louise hasn't arrived yet. In the anxious surrounding calm, Marc gradually falls prey to the assault of all kinds of sounds that are usually ignored and sounds that are not usually heard.
- Clémence, a flight attendant and single mom, is raising her teenage daughters, with the occasional help of her father, Patou a former-hippie. One day, Dalva, her 16 years old daughter, comes back from school wearing a tiny bra-like crop-top. Mortified, Clémence forbids her to go outside wearing that as an outfit... The visions and feminist battles of three generations get confronted. A story inspired by the #lundi14septembre movement.
- "Crush" is the story of a man who wants to turn into animal as told by the man himself, and one or two observers. He employs a variety of techniques to transform himself into a beast. He cuts off parts of his body. He exercises. He swims. He wants to return to the water; to speed up evolution a little. Has he gone mad, or is he just tired of being human?
- Crystal Aquarium was the name given to tanks set up on Music Hall stages for underwater performance, at the turn of the century. There are four performers - a drummer, a swimmer, an ice skater and a fourth woman. Although the protagonists never appear together they are inextricably bound up by their actions.
- After moving to a new house, the hero meets an unknown girl-neighbor and immediately becomes a witness of inexplicable events. Trying to understand the mystical events, the hero enters into a confrontation with the girl's father, who keeps a shocking secret.
- Three colors. Three virtual others trying to coexist in a rhythmic mind. Three personalities are trapped into an inadvertent repetition. Although framed, they manage to invade other neighboring fields. How does the brain control the chaotic behavior of a distorted identity?
- On a different level than the magnetic tape in a video recorder runs a stream through my hands. These opposing realities result not so much in a video but rather in a sculpture. The sculptors have been working on it since the beginning of world history; we have met while searching as channel and medium. This strip, part of the exchange between one's own and the strange, completed by relationships of the seemingly impossible to a sculpture. A sculpture, which is existent as long as these relationships are maintained.
- The coffee table smokes a cigarette, the floor lamp looks over the shoulder of the lonesome boss laying on her sofa. In a series of short surrealistic vignettes, the viewer is invited into an inward facing world. Themes as loneliness and oppression will be addressed on first sight light manner. Seen after each other, the scenes create one storyline; a glimpse of an absurd yet maybe ordinary day in the life of the main character Carlijn Fransen.
- This great compilation of shorts film consists of 11 animated short film for children aged 3 to 7. There entire compilation is without any dialog. Used animation techniques vary from 3D computer animation, via pencil drawn animation to beautifully water painted techniques.
- A space-time traveler traverses dimensions of matter and energy, crossing parallel, unique realities. A dream trip through her memories, nightmares and fantasies. Novel or reality? Nothing is static, nothing is permanent. Everything disintegrates.
- The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historical patterns of discrimination and oppression might be either repeated or overcome in a reversed gendered world. It challenges the viewer to confront their own assumptions and biases, and to consider the possibilities of a more equitable society.
- On September 11, 2001, Sarah Postle is called to the law offices of Julian Ritteman on the 64th floor in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. During the chaos of evacuation, Mr. Ritteman hands her an envelope and sends her safely home. The next day Sarah opens the envelope and begins a journey that leads her to the doorsteps of Pearl Ritteman in Holland and to the answers to Sarah's mysterious past.
- The story of Sylvia and Martine is an initiatory road movie between two solitudes. A journey between Paris and Rome whose destination is none other than the place where two hearts meet to create a spark of life. Giving life, leaving it, the film explores the tenuous link between these two great passages.
- The film opens on an idyllic sunrise over the ocean where a whale swims while singing the song "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical Les Miserables. The song weaves through different animals as the singer (in addition to the whale, a rhino, a seal and a pelican) and takes the viewers through beautiful, tender moments. The tone and mood shift to doom as the lyrics turn dark and threatening with the introduction of Man and the impact of actions - hunters, poachers and an oil spill take the animals from their perfect world to one of terror.
- The protagonists of the film are a father and his son. The man is struggling with basic financial problems and his child has diabetes. They are refugees who left a closed immigration center, trying their luck and looking for a quiet place to live in Warsaw. They find a desolate square where they occupy a trailer, as their temporary home. Their appearance, however, triggers the reluctance of the owners and the conflict with Polish neighbors escalates immediately.
- Northern part of Cyprus, where the gravity is low and the time flows in circles on a daily basis. A zone of contrasts where each experience lived is both unfamiliar for its transient nature and familiar at the same time for its repetitive pattern. While kept hostage at the station of the never-coming future, so-called passengers are hypnotized by the dynamic scene of the road. The confusing pace of the circular time blurs the relationship between the road and the station, turning it into an enigma. The enigma itself, then becomes the road. To be unable to act is opted for, against to be unable to know. And those that are known are either lost in the familiarity of the circular time, or float in low gravity.
- An exploration of the origins of the language, of emotions and human experience. By renouncing every familiar convention, the three performers create an intense performative landscape manifested through an idiosyncratic physical idiom, which seems to connect the members of a peculiar tribe. While going, both literally and metaphorically, in circles, the three characters are attempting to experience intimacy, first with themselves and then with each other.
- The newest work in a series of works employing 16mm film to exchange correspondence between the two filmmakers Nobuhiro Kawanaka and Sakumi Hagiwara. The principal theme of the series, begun in 1979, was "the landscape of memory", and the theme of this film is "travel". The thoughts of the two filmmakers intersect as Nobuhiro Kawanaka presents a return to the past through "time travel" and Sakumi Hagiwara uses a narrative method to portray "the destination of travel".