Juan Garrido Salgado immigrated to Australia from Chile in 1990, fleeing the regime that burned his poetry, imprisoned him, and tortured him for his political activism. “My verse is born by the nights of the curfew… when I was clandestine.”
Ali has just been dumped. As a gesture of compassion, his ex-partner Léo gives him the orange sweater he loved so much. This one quickly becomes a daily reference point and an outlet for the pain of love. Gradually, the much cherished garment becomes the object of all the attention. The nerve center of his memories, Ali then moves in an obsessive relationship with the garment so much so that his reality will collapse in favor of a new one, beyond his expectations and reason.
After 140 years, there are alternatives to an asylum. Leaving Romero closely follows the experience of deinstitutionalization, focusing on the lives of the users and those who are the driving force of this process: the young people who make up the Movement for Deinstitutionalization in Romero.
A husband loses his wife – she throws herself out of a window. He tries to realize what has happened, to comprehend the whole situation and recall all the details of their life.
Yeison, an introverted young man who loves heavy metal and zombie movies, is in love with Laura, his only friend, but does not know how to conquer her or how to face this new stage of his life called adulthood, in which he must assume responsibilities within a home with a sick grandmother and an unemployed father.
Are we alone? What might alien species look like? And what could we learn from them? Proudly presenting Life Beyond Remastered, a film that weaves all 3 episodes of the series together with new content and updated visuals & audio into a feature-length experience.
Exiles is a conversation with oneself when the ground slips away beneath our feet. A forced journey, when we would rather remain grounded by our roots; the refusal of an imposed destiny, out of home. A dreamlike vision of a home-island that we cling to; our asylum from chaos.
Seven year old Eve runs away with the bejeweled key to the King’s castle, only to get lost – but with the help of a strange guiding force, she finds that she can build a castle of her own.
In the wake of a personal tragedy, a vengeful man returns to an island to hunt a creature of local legend. PARALIAN is an exploration of loss and a window into overcoming the scariest monster of all, ourselves.
In a world where poetry is an illegal substance, a dealer roams around an estate receiving cash in exchange for whispering lines of illicit verse into her customers’ ears.
This film invites immigrants with Asian heritage to join an immersive ASMR cooking show in which participants make dumplings together. It is part of an ongoing project called “From Scratch: Tasting the Tenderness in Food Production,” whose aim is to bring awareness to the often diminished labor of immigrants, as well as provide space for healing from the trauma of the global pandemic.
A house, a body, a wildish thing serves as an invitation to participate in sensory recollection and investigation of duality in the human experience, by leaning into the curious and whimsical. Generated during the 2024 Cadence Artist Residency.
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