Lift Up Your Voices(2023)

Psychedelia(en)

Arda Wuyts experiments with editing and color.

Memories of Youth(en)

Grappling with the complexities of mental health and trauma in a digital age that feels isolating and overwhelming, a young person embarks on a surreal journey of self-discovery, navigating the raw truths of adolescence in an attempt to find a place in the world.

Aconite(en)

In the sprawling, desolate expanse of a grand house, resides a solitary girl. Haunted by memories and the weight of isolation, she spends her days wandering through its empty rooms—a labyrinth of forgotten corners and fading grandeur.

FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts(en)

Six sequences about Fascism and its segments throughout history.

¿Por qué la gallina cruzó el camino?(es)

A hen questions the meaning of her life on a farm.

To Err(en)

237 years after mankind's extinction, an android longs for a past it can never experience.

Reflection(en)

As she keeps watching old home movies isolated in her hotel room, the screen becomes a mirror from which she tries to see herself. Levels of subjectivity, narrative, and reality entwine into a surrealist fever dream of scopophilic cinéma pur. The final layer of meaning is all of us watching the film on the screen-mirror in the theatre.

The Promised Land(pl)

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.

Dilution(en)

Dilution is an experimental short film that explores the transit between resistance and (di)ssolution, between holding and releasing and a path towards obsessive repetition. They are layers, exposed pores, matter that oscillates between remaining or disappearing. The sound is not a background, but a puncture: friction, tearing, water that drags what still persists. A sensorial testimony of what refuses to vanish completely.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence(en)

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

Liminally, Yours(en)

The last person on Earth revisits their memories as they wander a lonely world

De Quanta Terra Precisa Um Homem?(pt)

A reflection on man's relationship and needs with the earth, with the self and with hope.

Bew Boodadoo(en)

Ariadne, a theatre actress, is seemingly trapped inside a room. Once she lets go, the room starts shifting.

Deciso(es)

Plastic artist Leo invites young Dante to his art studio and proposes a peculiar game to leave all tension behind.

On the Dying Grass(en)

After a Hollywood agent suffers the loss of her biggest client and closest friend, she is asked to represent an AI version of the deceased actor.

The Internal Void of a Damaged Mind(en)

AI I, A.I. YOU(en)

Sundanese who has advanced technology, namely augmented intelligence named Indri. Until Cecep felt bored with Indri because what he said was always the same until a power outage occurred in Cecep's village Indri reset and forgot about Cecep.

I went away and forgot you. A while ago I remembered. I remembered I'd forgotten you. I was dreaming.(en)

What appears at first glance to be a patterned floor of traditional Islamic tiles is in fact an intricate installation of hand dyed sand. In a light-filled room in an abandoned house, the artist steps into frame to sweep it away, breaking the illusion and destroying the image of traditional heritage.

MAN VS PHONE(en)

MAN VS PHONE is an award winning feature film about a frustrated, isolated, and unemployed artist/activist/office assistant who becomes increasingly reliant on his cell phone. However, when it uses smart locks and blackmail to trap him inside his small garage apartment, he must figure out how to escape by outsmarting his smart phone... WINNER, Best Writer, Feature Film at the 2024 North Idaho Film Festival (noidff.com). Now streaming on YouTube and Vimeo: youtube.com/@alexanderbergermovies and vimeo.com/alexanderbergermovies