We Were Born Today, When the Sky Was Heavy with Iron and Poison(2013)

Browsers(en)

Set in contemporary Manhattan, it follows four young people as they start their first jobs at a news website.

You Will Never Be Back(es)

Ana and David say goodbye like any other day. The young lady has plans, but she won't be late. However, something extraordinary happens; something that alters her reality and changes everything completely.

Thrashing(en)

A lonely marijuana farmer begins having strange waking dreams and gaps in his memory.

Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas(fr)

Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest of all pianists, plays and reflects on Franz Schubert’s last three piano sonatas. As he points out, Schubert can’t have known that he was soon to die, so they probably do not embody the air of resignation and finality future generations have sentimentally insisted they bear. They were however long neglected, all but forgotten, and only in more recent times have they come to be treasured and performed. The repose and wisdom of the maestro, together with the patient observation of one who is no stranger to the idea of the irrevocably lost, of the erasures of history, and of the value of fragile objects passed carefully from generation to generation, is a joy.

Las aventuras de Enrique y Ana(es)

Enrique is a gym teacher who along with his sister want to start a musical career with the support of their grandfather, a great scientist who wants to stop an evil despot from getting an artifact that would endanger the entire world.

Porgy and Bess(en)

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Tausend Takte Übermut(de)

German music film set in a seaside hotel.

Shadows(de)

Hansjürgen Pohland's short documentary is an audiovisual study that captures events and people on the streets on film. The special feature of the work is that the people and objects are portrayed exclusively through their shadows.

Prince Andrew: The Musical(en)

A hilarious, all-singing, all-dancing reimagining of the Duke of York's very public fall from grace, starring Kieran Hodgson, Munya Chawawa, Harry Enfield and Joe Wilkinson

Memory Room 451(en)

The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks – in Black communities on both sides of the Atlantic. Akomfrah has disguised this exploration as a science fiction story – in the manner of the groundbreaking writers profiled in The Last Angel of History – while providing a bravura display of the aesthetics of video art in the 1990s. The tale of visitors from the future who gather dreams from unwitting subjects in order to construct a history of the Black diaspora both defamiliarizes Akomfrah’s ongoing project and points to the danger that extracting history from memory can be a kind of expropriation.

In Hiding(en)

A 1984 fan film made as a school project.

The Cold Dark(en)

Erica has to confront her past as she gets stuck in a cabin during a dark storm with two dangerous men.

Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (A Short Film)(en)

The short film for Kelsea Ballerini's Grammy nominated album Rolling Up the Welcome Mat.

All Aboard for the Moon(en)

An animated interpretation of a rocket voyage to the moon demonstrates the scientific principles at play in theoretical space travel (such as gravity).

The Fundraiser(en)

An accompanying short film to TÁR (2022).

El Embrujo del Fandango(es)

Nothing Escapes My Eyes(en)

"Nothing Escapes My Eyes" is about a silent transformation of a place and a human being. Inspired by the texts of Edward W. Said, the poems of Mahmoud Darwish and Verdi’s opera Aida, the film depicts in a metaphoric form current issues of cultural identity, loss and the pressures to conform. With no dialogue, the film is backed by a musical excerpt from Aida whose lyrics express the difficulties of being loyal to one’s country and cultural identity. The personal and urban transformation tackles on issues of identity, loss and disorientation as a result of historical colonialism and contemporary globalization.

Oblivio(en)

An accidental encounter with an uninvited guest disrupts Alice's life. As her husband Tom's hidden secret gradually surfaces, Alice finds herself one of the bio-mechanical substitutes of his deceased wife.

In Caliente(en)

At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.

Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming(en)

"Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming" is a Proof of Concept for a possible Sequel from the television series "Battlestar Galactica".