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.
The film explores the informal architectures of Taipei, seeing them as a representation of an Autistic Architectural Approach, which calls for disabled people to be—not included—embedded.
Lifelong Syrian friends Qusay and Nabil spend a day in their Berlin apartment, drifting through dreams, archival footage and present-day events to confront the shifting faces of political violence. Together, they hold on to love and care as the most radical acts of resistance.
Through the act of painting, Jinny explores uneasy and shifting realities - what does it mean to be a painter, and an activist? In an increasingly complex and divided world, artist Jinny Yu asks, what is on the other side of us? Through the act of painting, Jinny explores uneasy and shifting realities - what does it mean to be a painter, and an activist? Could one navigate being an insider and an outsider at the same time? Through this meandering conversation on migration which inspired her work for the 56th Venice Biennale, Don't They Ever Stop Migrating? we are brought along a journey of self discovery that leaves viewers with important questions we must ask ourselves. The film was a collaboration between Jinny and a team of frequent collaborators, Hingman Leung, Adrienne Row - Smith, and Justin Li, supported by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
Through the lens of a child experiencing their first death of a pet, this video work muses on the ways that humankind distances itself from the truth of our animality, and how the digital realm we have fortified in the past 20 years pretends to be separate from our physical plane.
Song Without Words, a two-movement short film by pianist and artist Olivia Ting, explores the gestures of piano, conducting, and sign language to reveal listening as an embodied act through distorted sound and visual rhythm.
While embarking on a journey to buy water ice in West Philly, two women reach a tipping point in their secret relationship as they celebrate their unbeknown final day together.
The first movement of, "More Must Know the Wonder of my body in Pleasure", "of my body", is an exploration of grief and self through relationship and ritual with red burgundy okra.
To fulfill her dream of opening an animal shelter, Gundega worked as a strip dancer and purchased a property where she, together with her mother Iveta, began building a new life devoted to caring for animals. This is a story of three generations of women — Iveta, Gundega, and Gundega’s daughter Ronja — revealing how interests, traits, and affection are passed down from one generation to the next, forming an invisible yet enduring bond between mother and daughter.
Aphantasia, the inability to generate mental images, affects 1 to 3% of the population. In my early twenties, I learned that my mind was blind. It was quite a paradigm shift to realize that "visualizing" isn't a metaphor.
As a storm of violence sweeps through the Philippines under President Duterte's drug war, Martika helps her employers adjust to parenthood abroad. Haunted by guilt over the inability to be there for her son, her two worlds intertwine.
Sara is drawing at home. When her father arrives from work, they start playing, unaware that their peaceful family environment will soon be plunged into a situation in which a game and Sara's innocence will be of vital importance.
An eclipse begins the ritual. In an endless desert, two ancient peoples divided by a cleft in the earth gather to celebrate a unique and magical event: Tinkú. In the darkness of the eclipse, this ritual will require the greatest display of courage and strength: self-sacrifice.
When Sammie Mckenzie's low-stakes boyfriend cheats on her with the girlfriend of Drew Stark - Sammies high school ex - Drew and Sammies lives collide together in one night that will re-contextualize their pasts, presents, and futures.
The fog rests on top of a field nestled up against a secluded road, two individuals stand side by side as they survey the land. Francis, (43, Black man) is accompanied by his partner Kiko, (40, Asian woman). Together they retrace the steps of Francis’ memory at the place where his home once stood. Francis seeks to express how the effects of childhood trauma have permeated into the present day, ultimately affecting their relationship. Through their togetherness they work to unpack these suppressed emotions in a way that’s conducive to furthering their growth.
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