Estelar(2024)

Song of the Flies(es)

The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945–2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places, as a transit over the course of a day (Morning, Day, Night) a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analogue materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.

Anthropic Principle(en)

arc of the natural world’s evolution from the primeval environment to the Anthropocene and back again premiered in program Death is Green at the Whitney Museum of American Art part of Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016 organized by Chrissie Iles

Ambient Chaconne(en)

A time-lapse animated meditation on geothermal energy, erosion, seismic activity and magma. Shot above the Yellowstone Caldera and amongst the Bryce Canyon hoodoos, the film explores how they connect these past cataclysms to the present endangered environment within the sixth mass extinction and future threats to an ecosystem already in collapse. The musical accompaniment, composed and performed by Pauline Kim Harris, is based on a reimagining of the Chaconne from the Partita No.2 in D minor (BWV 1004) by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Secret(en)

A family pod of three dolphins navigates decay as an inevitable register while also having a secret ascension to a higher ground.

Hotaru(pt)

Nova, immersed in metaphors that cross her unconscious, is guided by fate, door to door.

Cymatic Cocoon(en)

This film explores cymatics and telepathy among twins

Psychedelic Heimbold(en)

A surrealist animation of the Sarah Lawrence College art building.

Stay(en)

Needles are used to repair the damage. Stay is a 5-minute animated film made using hand embroidery on tracing paper, depicting the relationship between a daughter and her absent father. Don’t forget to spend more time with the people you love even though you are busy.

gylden load(xx)

A load of Halloween monsters freak each other out in a strobing cacophany.

A Short Vision(en)

The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.

Chronopolis(fr)

In a gargantuan city lurking in the sky, powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ultimate gift to arrive.

Ghost Town(en)

Seraphim Cloud and his life size doppelgänger enter the netherworld of Calico Ghost Town deep within the Mojave Desert.

Tony's Dilemma(en)

A saxophone, bandits, a plane and ...

Debt Quest(en)

In this 90-minute epic (comprised of community sourced experimental animation from the Hellavision Television Network) - the story follows Clover, a carefree spirit who joins a party go on an adventure as they try to pull themselves from financial despair by fulfilling the Bug King’s Debt Quest.

Dwell With Me(xx)

Jack O’ Lantern folktale about the origin of the Will-o’-the-Wisp retold through a haunted doll’s mind’s eye.

Fiz Amizade com um Fantasma(pt)

No Magic for Socialists(my)

Artist Htoo Lwin Myo excavates the lesser-known and wildly joyful history of Myanmar’s horror and genre film industry in the 1950s that has persisted through political turmoil and archival neglect, told directly by the people who made it.

Seraphim on the Go!(en)

a life size stop motion child puppet races through memories and daydreams reflecting on the cyclical nature of life.

Vortex(pt)

A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a mise en abyme: it’s a pure enclosure inside the image world, it’s the Descent into the Maelstrom.

Functional Block Diagrams(en)

A synthesis of sound and movement; colourful characters dance and move in repetitive patterns to percussive and melodic elements. A combination of motion and music that is hypnotic and beautiful. At first it feels structured and orderly but as more elements are added becomes quixotically expressive.