Love & Fascism In The 21st Century(2018)

formula(en)

formula, a constantly evolving work updated with each presentation, is a perfect synchronisation between sound frequencies and the movements on the screen. It places the viewer in a binary geometry of space and exploits the darkness to amplify one's perceptions. There is a complete integration of the various elements, composing music, images, lighting and orchestrating the relationships between them through a highly precise score.

The Steel Trap(en)

Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.

Raal(en)

A young man and his dog encounter a sinister force while on a walk through the woods.

Harbinger(en)

A Los Angeles detective discovers the unbelievable while searching for a missing child and in the aftermath his life begins to unravel.

The Routine(en)

This animation is about a young man trapped in a daily routine where every single day is so very similar to the previous one. There are no happiness, satisfaction and love for a long time in his life because of such a routine days, weeks, months and even years.

#movieofmylife(en)

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency(en)

In this video I share my experience as the first Resident of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin during the winter of 2016-2017. Produced for the Goethe Institute.

Amacabra - The Metempsychosis of Justine S.(de)

In the outer districts of West Berlin something strange is happening. Justine is getting a mysterious device by a person, which is called "The Hairs From The Cross Of Jesus". After her life is in total change. A surreal multi layer narration mindfuck film by Cosmotropia de Xam revisting the original locations of Zulawski's Possession (1981).

Into Thin Air(en)

A young man is brutally beaten and left for dead by three hoodlums. Horribly scarred, he is nursed back to health by a mysterious hooded individual who reveals a powerful scientific discovery - the secret of invisibility. Unable to face his friends and family, he ingests the formula to seek revenge on those responsible, spiraling him deeper into a world of deception, betrayal, and murder.

Gravity(en)

The cinematic kiss is probably one of the most archetypical images to be found in film history. It is usually a reassuring and sometimes climactic element in a movie's storyline. Not in Nicolas Provost's 'Gravity' though: with stroboscopic effects, more than a dozen kissing scenes, most from stereotypical 1950s romantic dramas, are edited together and superimposed. Narrative is subverted as the kissing is isolated from its context entirely; the action slows down and flickers back and forth. Every now and then, shots from different films overlap and match; protagonists merge and diverge again a few seconds later. The sugary and dramatic soundtrack of romantic film music contrasts with the deconstructed images; together, they form a dazzling 6-minute vertigo where love becomes a passionate battle.

CFA Presents: Waxwing Slain (1968) by John Boggs (commentary by Charles Minnimatsu)(en)

A former student of a recently deceased and forgotten '60s filmmaker provides commentary to the late director's film, offering a unique interpretation as only he could.

Spiderweb(en)

A rabbi is murdered. Detective Llonrot is called in on the case and looks for a 'rabbinical explanation' for the murder. Other murders are committed and deliberate clues left in chosen locations. Llonrot, convinced he is on the trail of a 'mystical intrigue' is lured to the 'crime scene' when the tables are turned by his nemesis, the master criminal Red Scharlach.

Look Who's Talking Now!(en)

When high-powered executive Samantha LeBon hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee – the unsuspecting, blithesome James – his wife, their kids and their two dogs, Rocks and Daphne, must rescue him before he makes a terrible mistake.

Finnischer Tango(de)

Cashback(en)

After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.

Hamlet 2(en)

Failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz rallies his Tucson students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Maniac Summer(fr)

Maniac Summer consists of images and sounds recorded in Paris in the summer of 2009. It is a sprawling triptych without a beginning or end and with no specific subject or topic. The camera is positioned in front of a window and left running. It observes movements, registers noises coming from the street or nearby park, captures Chantal Akerman going about her business in her apartment: smoking, working, talking on the telephone. Fragments from the artist’s everyday life are featured in the installation’s central video, while the adjoining panels are more symbolically charged; in them, various images from the former have been isolated, modified and repeated. These abstract afterimages act as a kind of memory, looking back to the images in the installation’s centrepiece as so many shadows of its reality.

The Other Side of the Witching Hour(en)

A spellbinding journey into the mind of an insomniac, who spends each night haunted by strange and wonderful illusions from another world.

I Am Time(bn)

A photographer is fascinated by the concept of time. He captures self-portraits with a large clock, trying to frame moments. During this journey, he discovers different ambiances and landscapes, gradually facing the mystery of time and trying to touch the enigmatic moments of life.

Antiporno(ja)

Young artist Kyoko wreaks havoc on everyone that she encounters when Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.