Care and violence, acknowledgement and reprehension, to give or withdraw support: the video finds performative, sculptural, bizarre and poetic images for this range of diverse gestures and actions. They line up like a series of tests reflecting interpersonal relationships and current social conditions.
Three artists work in stride to translate, in sound and motion, the heart of a poem. They collaborate with life’s unexpecteds – snapped clotheslines, drained swimming pools, terminal diagnoses – and learn what falls away is not necessarily gone.
Coast, a 17-year-old transman, navigates the maze of his traditional Christian mother and his relationship after he comes out as female-to-male or "FTM" transgender. Feeling trapped in suffocating suburbia, Coast finds acceptance from an unexpected source when he can't find it at home.
An aging security guard walks his beat along an abandoned strip mall, contemplating the suburban landscape and his purpose in guarding the vacant property.
Crushed under the unbearable weight of time, an airplane has an existential crisis and hijacks itself. Exploring the suspended space in the air as a zone between life and death, anxiety and calm, technology and spirituality.
An animation inspired by train delay messages and their poetic potential. An examination of all the things that can go wrong: on the train, in the urban environment, and in our lives. All drawings done while riding the Chicago metro system.
Amidst the ivy-draped remnants of once-notorious public housing projects, FOR THOSE THAT LIVED THERE weaves a visual tapestry, navigating the poignant impacts of gentrification, the displacement of Black legacies, and the emergent migrant narratives. Against Chicago's ever-evolving skyline, this evocative exploration immerses audiences into the soul of a neighborhood transformed.
A collection of films facing facets of self-revolting indulgence to sustain, oil and water of truth and artifice, perpetuated objectification, an external tragedy self-imposed, and an attempt to wash it all away. Trauma dilutes one’s grasp of reality.
The film portrays the lives of people from the Mexican border city of Tijuana. Through a combination of photographs, animations, and audio recordings, the film delves into the daily realities of four individuals who have different connections to the Mexican-American border.
Aravind has been gifted with two angels in his life ever since his birth namely Right and Left, one of them accidentally takes Aravind’s life much before his time on Earth ends. By the time they realize their mistake, his body is taken away by Rocket and Murder Mani. Chaos ensues as the dominoes keep tumbling as one untoward incident follows another .
Abir and Sreeporna are childhood friends. They grew up working together with an amateur theatre group. Nilavra, a close friend of Abir, joins the group and falls in love with Sreeporna. Although Abir is also fond of Sreeporna, he fails to express his feelings to her.
Julián is a single father, who will try everything to give his daughter Renata, a very special birthday present. Meanwhile, he will realize Renata's mother is further he thought.
Boris and Jonathan have been a couple for many years. But their relationship has reached a point where they might as well spend their evenings together separately: One lies in bed reading, the other works at a desk in the next room. While actor Boris digs deeper into rehearsals for a new film with an ambitious director and begins to mix real and fictional characters, Jonathan tries to redefine his voice as a writer. Ghosting through these days of wrestling with distance, closeness, trust, desire and fear of loss is Jonathans' young niece Josie, who is trying to deal with the approaching end of her childhood in her own idiosyncratic way. BONES AND NAMES, the feature debut of Fabian Stumm, portrays people searching for their place in life in different ways. A sensitive and humorous reflection on the dissonances in relationships that both connect and distance us from each other.
Brutal torturers of Pinochet's dictatorship are serving sentence in a luxury prison at the foot of the Andes. Fearing of transferring to a regular jail, the officers will go to great lengths to stay fury and violence in the mountains.
A woman earns a living by smuggling exotic animals and illegal goods, developing a mobile app that links users with mystical marabout healers, but one of the user's consultations takes a tragic turn facing a violent backlash.
A couple returning from their engagement party must escape from a seemingly endless forested backroad causing them to lose their grip on reality... and a killer hunting them from the surrounding woods.
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