Two middle-aged men, one of them Moroccan-Dutch, sit in a misty sauna and discuss the state of their lives. Their friendly banter begins in a typically defensive male style: racist, homophobic and sexist jokes, complaints about other people. Slowly, the Dutch man’s defences crumble as we learn about the emotional ruin of his life. Can he reach out to his children, his ex-wife, even his soon-to-depart best friend?
In a crescendo of visual hints and sonic traces, Objet d’énigme plays with thriller tropes to depict homes as a dense space in which the memory of murder can be surmised in every frame. Using lo-fi scans of domestic spaces, Objet d’enigme lies bare a pattern in which the female body is the ever-returning protagonist.
When tasked with an open ended writing exercise, Tetsuya Maruyama used the opportunity to write a near diaristic text about his artistic practice. But, crucially, he decided to forgo words, and instead inscribe his meaning through light on a roll of Super 8. FOTOGRAFAR is a film about a glass of water.
Politics meets personal survival, in this urgent, courageous and poetic bricolage diary that traces an exiled filmmaker’s escape from violent repression to the West via Thailand – only to face new forms of onerous control. Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos is not the real name of the director who made Unerasable! And when the film is over, everyone in the audience will understand why.
Hearts are being grown in pigs to save human lives—blurring the boundaries between the two species. Could this be the impetus for a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and pigs?
35mm of collaged film material reading like a diary without linear thought or narrative. A hodgepodge of photographic images spliced and taped with ecstatic handmade explosions of colour and texture. A fragmentary experience that revels in the material and provides an opaque and impenetrable portrait of the maker.
Liump! Heuriger is the event bringing together a traditional Austrian pop-up wine tavern and a moth-watching set. The idea of inviting both people and insects to the same table is appealing for its simplicity, its naivety, and its likely failure.
Vilma, 22, prepares for the Theatre Academy entry exams, like she did last Spring. Striving for her place in the world, she finds herself in a limbo. There's a Monster stuck within her. She decides to prepare for the exams, despite the scary Monster.
This short film was inspired by the composition of the same name from the musical cycle of the Georgian experimental improviser-percussionist Zura Makharadze dedicated to Dionysus. This visual work in abstract form shows classical transformations experienced during the Dionysian mystery, passed through the personal connotation of the eternal cycle of death through destruction and rebirth; individual and global mental processes that go through the path of either destruction or creation, and the line between spiritual process and deep madness is completely blurred here.
In a weathered house among dense rows of trees, an elderly couple spends their days in peace. The approaching storm signals the presence of a young man whose arrival they have been expecting.
As mining projects excavate and extract, new landscapes and third mountains are formed. Part of an ongoing series based on 35mm slides given to Tetsuya Maruyama by the Brazilian mining company MBR (Minerações Brasileiras Reunidas), the film reconciles the awesomeness of these sites with their inherently destructive and enduring impact.
Filmmaker Marcel Wyss explores the potential of psychoactive substances in mental health treatment, blending documentary and animation to navigate personal demons, scientific breakthroughs, and the shifting landscape of therapy.
The film Jeev is about a tribal Kokani family from a remote tribal hamlet,if any member of the family dies on the day of the Holi festival,then from that year onwards,until a new life is born in their household or in the household of their close relatives,neither that family nor their relatives celebrate any festival.
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