Sunlit Sorcery(2022)

The Garden Cadences(de)

Jone is ready to fly. She finds herself at the beginning of something new, but before she moves on, there needs to be a closure. Jone is one of Mollies, the queer-feminist collective that had been living for a decade at a trailer park next to Ostkreuz, Berlin.

STRATA INCOGNITA(es)

STRATA INCOGNITA, is a trans-scalar and trans-temporal journey across the geographies that articulate soil as an agro-industrial infrastructure, but also as an ecosystem and a somatic archive of crimes, memories and myths.

Mental Toughness(fr)

Reworking and alteration of Soviet sports films from the 1980s depicting wrestling and pole vaulting.

Lilith and the Body(cs)

Lilith and the Body is a short feature film based on the story of Lilith, a taboo figure from mythology and, according to biblical interpretation, the first woman of Eden. The film works with the theme of trauma, ambivalence and finding inner strength, taking this myth and presenting an alternative continuation of it surrounded by a surreal landscape. After escaping from the Garden of Eden, Lilith finds herself on a new, unknown planet, where she gradually encounters several mysterious figures during her journey.

Before Noon(xx)

An unfinished short student film about dreaming

Routine(hu)

An experimental half-documentary half-fiction about a young person’s routine of getting to sleep and waking up.

Make a Cup of Tea(en)

A depressed man is told to make a cup of tea by his therapist.

Dirt(en)

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

Fungi(en)

As he falls down the spiral of personal obsession; a delusional mycologist finds himself in the midst of seeking the unattainable. Morals won't play a role in his relentless pursuit of transforming his being into fungus.

The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I(en)

"In the final format for MAGELLAN, Frampton had planned to disassemble these two films into twenty-four 'encounters with death' that were to be shown in five-minute segments twice a month. In their present state, seen together and roughly the length of an average feature film, the two parts of MAGELLAN: AT THE GATES OF DEATH constitute perhaps the most gripping, monumental, and wrenching work ever executed on film...Frampton in 1971 began his filming of cedavers at the Gross Anatomy Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. He returned to the lab four times over the course of the next two years and then spent nine months assembling his 'forbidden imagery' into an extraordinary meditation upon death."–Bruce Jenkins

Boulez-Répons(xx)

In this vivid transposition of contemporary music for television, Cahen "responds" to the complex musical transitions of Répons, a work by French composer Pierre Boulez. Performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain and conducted by Boulez, the intricate Répons was designed for an ensemble of twenty-four musicians, six soloists and a "real-time" digital processor. In Cahen's re-composed interpretation, he responds with visual and temporal transformations, "opening" the images in space and time and applying electronic techniques to engulf the instrumentalists in ocean, sky, and trees. Mirage-like superimpositions, temporal shifts, mirroring effects and de-synchronization result in a rhythmic confluence of the illusory and the real. Immersing the viewer in image and sound, Cahen mirrors the transformative process of Boulez's music.

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.

Jeff(en)

A phone sex operator loses her grip on reality, caught in a hypnotic relationship with a caller making disturbing confessions.

Chewy Thanksgiving(fr)

Retro and satirical vision of Thanksgiving.

Sangria(pt)

Track_ing(ko)

A set of 500*500 pixel boxes analyzes a group of image data produced on a train—a train running between Korea and Kazakhstan. Mostly, the detection process appears to be random. However, despite the incoherency, the boxes can generate an output, a story that can make sense.

Il telefonetto(it)

A killer hates and punishes people who are using the small phone.

La beata mancata(it)

Not even the beam is perfect

O Cego(pt)

20 years and other untranslatabilities(xx)

By reversing the image of the burning and destruction of Chinese-Indonesian homes and cultures in the May 1998 tragedy, the filmmaker documents a funeral and cremation she conducted in response to the ethnic hatred that was still being discussed 20 years after the 1998 atrocities. Can memories be erased? What can we choose to forget? What continues to haunt us?