VISIONS_OF_NY(2019)

Liminality & Communitas(fi)

After the sunset, a man wonders between the edges of the highways gathering edible roadkill animals.

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City(de)

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Into the Meridian(en)

A musical audiovisual journey in four parts. A young man finds himself unexpectedly taking an audiovisual odyssey into a world of surreality, slowly recounting his memories, revealing the puzzle pieces that led him to where he is, and maybe how he can get out.

Made In France(fr)

Drink(en)

Film by Robert Todd

Bydlo(fr)

An experimental short film about wind and sunlight sweeping across tree leaves.

Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!(en)

This programme tells the story behind the conception, recording and release of this groundbreaking album. By use of interviews, musical demonstration, performance, archive footage and returning to the multi tracks with Ahmet Zappa and Joe Travers we discover how Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention created the album with the help of legendary African- American producer Tom Wilson.

Endless Sea(en)

Endless Sea is a textural, oneiric exploration of the inability to escape captured within the confines of Grand Theft Auto: Andreas.

Jeff Wall: Retrospective(en)

Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential photographers working today. His work played a key role in establishing photography as a contemporary art form.

Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage(en)

Philosophical excerpts breaking the rules of language overlapped with footage of nature, inscrutable voice recordings, strange noises, and classical music.

Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture(en)

Feature-length documentary examining the growth of the UK Counterculture in the mid-1960s, and Paul McCartney's involvement with this movement, which had a significant impact on the Beatles' music and their evolution during the latter half of the decade.

Poached(en)

Big ambitions clash in tiny kitchens, all in the name of Singapore’s beloved hawker dish — chicken rice. Apple presents a documentary about hawker pride and conviction, set against the backdrop of the famous Maxwell Food Centre.

One 11 and 103(en)

Avant-garde composer John Cage is famous for his experimental pieces and "chance music" but temporarily branched into video in 1992 with this art film about meaningless activity. The work is composed of two segments that are supposed to be played simultaneously: "One 11" contains the artistic statement, and "103" is a 17-part orchestral piece. Also included is a revealing documentary about Cage and director Henning Lohner.

Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part I)(en)

The fourth in a series of feature-length documentaries about Progressive rock written and directed by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. Krautrock, Part 1 focuses on German progressive rock, popularly known as Krautrock, from in and around the Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg regions of Germany. Artist featured include Kraftwerk, Neu, Can, Faust and others.

Third Shift Coming Home(en)

This audio-visual tone poem uses the language of filmmaking to offer a first-hand evocation of the turbulent psychological effects one can experience due to prolonged lack of sunlight.

The Female Offender(en)

An exploration of the space where femininity and criminality collide. The film collages archival footage clips culled from silent films, original footage and computer-generated imagery with a series of narratives drawn from true crime confessions, early criminological texts, and the filmmaker's own reflections. The result is a cool and piercing meditation on the way the categories of "woman" and "criminal" have been constructed.

Night Flight with Frank Zappa, Porn Wars(en)

Frank Zappa stopped by the Night Flight studios in 1985 to talk about music videos, censorship, the PMRC and what it's like to play in his band.

Casual Workers(en)

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

The Redeye Tapes(en)

The events following a surreal network hijacking thrust several characters into a crisis of existential proportions. Leading them on a collision course of human consciousness, technological evolution, and divine horror where fragmented identities dissolve and reconfigure in frenzied kaleidoscopic mania rapidly careening towards oblivion.

Brutalist Couture(en)

Hieronymus Rivera (Jonathan Rosado), a strong force in the New York fashion underground, is offered the deal of a lifetime by Cecilia Meadows (Jessica Shepherd), a government official who is the head of a new secret program called DAFTCA. What begins as a simple agreement to design uniforms for the organization, soon finds Hieronymus in the center of a vast web of conspiracy.