MAY RENDER(2023)

lente / ruido(pt)

In your place(pt)

Alone, during Christmas morning, Leah has an encounter with the ghosts of her past and her family traumas.

Deserted by the Masses(en)

Social media corrupts the mind of a young University student--but can he escape the psychological torment of alienation?

47 Days, Sound-less(en)

47 Days, Sound-less by Vietnamese artist Nguyễn Trinh Thi is a film that explores the relationships between sound and silence, vision, language, colours and their absence. Nguyễn identifies “peripheries”—including natural landscapes used as backdrops, uncredited characters and soundtracks from American and Vietnamese movies—that reveal more-than-human perspectives. Offering new ways of looking and listening, 47 Days, Sound-less invites audiences to reflect on the inextricable relationship between a place and its inhabitants.

Killer Girl, Odyssee III(en)

In 1989, Jun-Jieh Wang enrolled in Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, a year when the Berlin Wall was pulled down and the fall of Communism in the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. He was astonished by these dramatic events. Several issues concerning politics, ideologies, aesthetics as well as the forms, market and power of art had been preying on his mind for so long that he lost the ability to make artworks and even questioned the value of the existence of art. His passively reactionary state of mind in this period was clearly reflected in the works simulating low-quality B-movies or TV programs, such as Killer Girl, Odyssey III (1990), Love, Die, Daredevil, Odyssey IV (1991).

Toll of a bell(zh)

Chen Cheng-Tsai works primarily in video art, photography, and mixed media installations. This work was created during his postgraduate studies in Germany. The trees rotate 360 degrees, and the artit's face reflected in the water, distorted by the ripples, iss overlapped by the trees. The sound of a bell also plays a continuous rythm.

The Glass II(zh)

A ritual about"memory". The words and phrases written on the paper are easy to understand but difficult to define, substituting the usual " incantations to gods". The spat out red matter suggests kind of "refusal". This kind of "nauseous" mixture combined with these moods represents a space : a space for painting.

Beyond Doubt(en)

Upon becoming aware of an ancestor guilty of several cruel acts who bore a striking resemblance to himself, a man begins to fear he too could be capable of similar sadistic deeds.

Rain(cs)

Reverie(en)

An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream.

A Visual Poem(xx)

Surreal environments take center stage in this visual odyssey.

Seven Images of Disappearance(en)

Seven images, each staging their own disappearance.

ONE NIGHT IN HELL(de)

ANA C.(pt)

ANA C. uses videoart and videoperformance to express the relationship between the marginalized poet Ana Cristina Cesar with art itself.

No. 11: Mirror Animations(en)

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

FLES(en)

A young man sits at a local restaurant with his friend: but he isn't paying attention to her as she speaks. This film visualizes his chaotic state of mind and how he uses mindfulness practice to tune back into the conversation. Mindfulness is being able to sit with and observe your thoughts. Being mindful improves focus and mental health. FLES is SELF spelt backwards.

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest(en)

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

The Other Side(is)

A silent short. Water, footsteps, darkness and light. Shot and edited entirely on a phone in a single day.

Pena(pt)

A newly-born harpy discovers herself.

Epidemia Nacional(pt)

Boy finds it difficult to relate to his external