Martha & Haroldo: An Essay on Living(2024)

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Internal Void of a Damaged Mind(en)

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.

Painted Gaze(en)

After a young girl discovers a fascinating art museum, she becomes attached to the artwork she comes across. Although over time, there is a strange shift in energy the more time she spends with the artwork.

Me + Her(en)

Creating a universe between two small pieces of Cardboard. When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's torrid illness, Jack must think outside the box to assure they will be together again.

The Artist and His Canvas(en)

An experimental film revolving around how an artist perceives a man and a woman.

l'eau tonne à minuit(fr)

Lacuna(en)

A prisoner belonging to a void known as “Lacuna,” longs to escape their entrapment. As they search for a way out, they confront the unchecked mental illness that plagued their former life.

L'orrore di vivere(it)

In a world with fantastic potential, an apathetic sedentary couple let themselves live till they die