A Dark Place(2024)

Strawman(en)

After being exiled from his home by his mother, 11-year old Angel discovers a dilapidated scarecrow, and the pair develop an unusual relationship.

154(it)

The prototype [TEST TYPE • 154] is a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence, which is capable of autonomously acquiring notions from its surroundings and - eventually - developing autonomy of thought. Given the nearly human nature of its learning capabilities, the laboratory that programmed it hires a kindergarten teacher, asking him to instruct the machine as if it were a newborn child. The learning process - which spans 7 days - becomes increasingly insidious in the long run, posing a peculiar yet crucial problem: can there be a form of autonomous thinking that excludes emotions?

The Sin By Which They Fell(en)

After committing a gruesome act of violence, the fallen angel September reflects on their relationship with Rowan, the human who came to their aid.

Small World(en)

A teacher spends a day in their classroom where nothing is what it seems.

Lift Up Your Voices(en)

In a not so distant future artificial intelligence speaks to suffocating humanity. On the last journey, humanity is escorted by surreal entities, through twists and turns that led to humanity’s last breath.

Lullaby for the Lost(en)

A sleeping man’s fading memory of his late Mother unravels through a recurring, hypermnesic dream that reverberates and transforms throughout his life, tracing from his final dream back to his first.

The Peepy Chronicles(en)

An experimental feature film in seven parts following the rise and fall of a relationship over a year across the world as represented by two stuffed animals and an improvised combination of home videos, music, and poetry.

Torpore internazionale(it)

In a country house a patriarch lords over his community made up of a tired woman and a boy in the midst of an economic-adolescent crisis. The guest of the facility is Dr. Girarda, a chemist extradited from Poland.

Social Butterfly(en)

A socially awkward, neurodivergent youth struggles to adapt at a social gathering that quickly takes a turn into the uncanny and surreal.

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.

Queens of the Qing Dynasty(en)

A suicidal teen develops a candid rapport with the student from Shanghai assigned to watch her in hospital. A nightly exchange of secrets, text messages and possessions quickly expands the boundaries of their relationship and alters their inner chemistry.

White Tendons(es)

A lost traveler encounters a talking clown puppet that won’t stop looking at a mysterious orange light.

Último Desejo(pt)

Purgatorium(en)

After his death, a young man stuck in purgatory attempts to cope with the afterlife.

beer cans under my bed(en)

This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and into recovery.

hands(en)

A personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions.

Chelicera(en)

A neurodivergent man is stuck in the web of an abusive relationship, unable to free himself from his lovers grasp.

AA-PROXIMA-SUN(pt)

A girl approaches a divine entity that comes to the world in the form of a yellow umbrella, and ends up discovering her true self.

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.