Drawback(2024)

Phantasia(xx)

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to be the first cinema screening. Thus, both cinema and radiography fall within the scopic regime inaugurated by modernity. The use of X-rays on two sculptures from the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum generates images that reveal certain elements of them that would otherwise be invisible to our eyes. These images, despite being generally created for technical or scientific purposes, seem to produce a certain form of 'photogénie': they lend the radiographed objects a new appearance that lies somewhere between the material and the ethereal, endowing them with a vaporous and spectral quality. It is not by chance that physics and phantasmagoria share the term 'spectrum' in their vocabulary.

ECDYSIS(xx)

Dusk or dawn, stuck in subconsciousness until we can’t separate between the true self and appearances. Is it even possible that we will be free from our own sake?

Gunda(en)

A glimpse into the raw and simple power of nature through encounters with farm animals: the eponymous Gunda, a mother pig; two cows, and a one-legged chicken.

Palomita(es)

A hungry pidgeon finds a box of popcorn, down on a bench, and tries to reach it. The only thing it stops him to get it it's the rain.

Pulse(en)

A rhythmic film set to a drum beat with no dialogue that follows a downbeat jazz musician as he attempts to break out of his rut and achieve creative freedom.

Echoes in Freestone(en)

Using sounds from the past, over pictures of the present, the film glimpses a man’s life in pioneering days. Set in the historic town of Richmond, Tasmania, the film shows some of the classic colonial Georgian houses and churches.

Napoleon: The Ticket(xx)

Follow Napoleon Bonaparte, everyone’s favorite vertically challenged dictator, as he learns to interact with the modern day world. When his trusty stead gets a parking ticket, Napoleon is forced to come to grips with his new stature in society.

Soch(xx)

A doctor treats a mentally retarded child, but a simple action of her makes him question himself.

Clean House(th)

On an ordinary day off, a man starts his day by cleaning his room as usual. But when he tries to sweep up the dust, he finds that it won't go into the dustpan as expected. He then tries every possible way to make sure the room is spotless.

Powaqqatsi(en)

An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.

Fantasy(en)

What happens when an earth-splitting disaster destroys the home world of a lone living skeleton? As long as he has his most valuable treasure, he doesn't worry about anything else. But can he hold onto his treasure in such a cataclysm?

Cemetery of the Elephants(es)

An allegorical story about a young writer who leaves home with his manuscript determined to conquer the world, then returns home after years of struggle as an old man with the world still unconquered.

Blood Tea and Red String(en)

The aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak battle over the doll of their hearts' desire.

Nuclear Winter(en)

Waiting for his wife to come home from an expedition in the freezing wasteland, a man loses his sanity in a subterranean nuclear bunker.

Stringless Puppets(xx)

A young man living far from his beloved one wastes his existence absorbed in modern distractions until he loses contact with her.

Virap(xx)

In a secluded area near a chapel perched on a hill, an unknown man digs a grave, intending to kill a beggar and bury him with a black sack over his head. The title ‘Virap’ is the romanized spelling of the Armenian word ‘Վիրապ,’ which means ‘pit’ in English.

Blurred(es)

A mysterious old man and a dark past made up of classic cars, beautiful women and the excesses of his youth.

Offlight(fr)

Microcosmos(fr)

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.

Koyaanisqatsi(en)

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.