Purest Form(2024)

FLES(en)

A young man sits at a local restaurant with his friend: but he isn't paying attention to her as she speaks. This film visualizes his chaotic state of mind and how he uses mindfulness practice to tune back into the conversation. Mindfulness is being able to sit with and observe your thoughts. Being mindful improves focus and mental health. FLES is SELF spelt backwards.

in this house(en)

A collection of images, existing films, and personal footage. All of these melted together to show the destruction of time, and the decay of beliefs. Ranging from religious fundamentalism, sexual identity, the collapse of Western Society, and humanity’s contribution to art, literature, and mixed-media.

Temporality in Movement(en)

A short experimental dance film about the use of the body as an instrument of temporal expression, focusing on how our memories are held and revealed in our movement.

PRÓXIMO!(pt)

The Female Offender(en)

An exploration of the space where femininity and criminality collide. The film collages archival footage clips culled from silent films, original footage and computer-generated imagery with a series of narratives drawn from true crime confessions, early criminological texts, and the filmmaker's own reflections. The result is a cool and piercing meditation on the way the categories of "woman" and "criminal" have been constructed.

Fajr(ar)

In the Moroccan desert night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. Dawn starts then to draw silhouettes of dunes while motionless figures punctuate landscape. From night´s abstraction, light returns its dimension to space and their volume to bodies. Stillness concentrates gaze and duration densify it. The adhan -muslim call to pray- sounds and immobility, that was condensing, begins to irradiate. And now the bodies are those which dissolves into the desert.

The Other Side(is)

A silent short. Water, footsteps, darkness and light. Shot and edited entirely on a phone in a single day.

Pena(pt)

A newly-born harpy discovers herself.

MAY RENDER(en)

Top of mind: linear burned by the infinity prism; De luce (1215–20) by Robert Grosseteste; ultraviolet tremolo; spilled image; decay as yet another layer of lifted light

Dizzy(en)

Dealing with his pill addiction, Jinn suffers from vivid nightmares, featuring a monster that plagues his everyday life.

Aleph Null(en)

Recording of video processing feedback which was "performed" live to the music of The Soft Machine.

Peckish(en)

A young couple struggling with infertility seeks the aide of a healer with a promised remedy, while unknown forces also work to provide them with what they wish.

Reverie(en)

An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream.

3/60: Trees in Autumn(de)

The first embodiment of (a) concept of structural activity in cinema comes in Kren's Bäume im Herbst, where the camera as a subjective observer is constrained within a systematic or structural procedure, incidentally the precursors of the most structuralist aspect of Michael Snow's later work. In this film, perception of material relationships in the world is seen to be no more than a product of the structural activity in the work. Art forms experience.

Linton Falls - A Study of the Force of Water(en)

An experimental film documenting a river leading up to a waterfall, depicting both its natural beauty and its inherent danger.

Belongings and Surroundings(xx)

A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings.

Disk(en)

A reclusive, neurotic young man is haunted by a mysterious figure that sends disks containing garbled footage of the young man's dreams. Student Short Film made for the London Film School.

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest(en)

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

Waves Burning in Wheat Color(en)

Song written and produced by Sokif Vocals by Calu (Matryoshka)

Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside)(en)

Deemed "too ambient for broadcast" by MTV's AMP, Thaemlitz' first video "Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside)" contrasts cinematic footage from drag performances in upstate New York with highly processed digital audio from his CD "Couture Cosmetique" (US: Caipirinha/Japan: Daisyworld, 1997). Thaemlitz is known for his fusion of computer synthesis techniques with non-essentialist transgenderism as two methodoligies which appropriate and critically recontextualize cultural signifiers, whether they be audio sources or gender constructs. The audio for "Silent Passability" deals with fears of violence while travelling in 'passable' drag between safe zones, and Thaemlitz' unsettling compulsion to remain silent in such circumstances so as to avoid confrontation. Antithetically beatific images from the transgendered stage question posturing as a means for alieviating and/or concealing such oppressive circumstances.