Flower

The Eve(it)

Simon is an eight-year-old boy who seems to have everything from life. He’s a handsome child, he’s rich yet unhappy. He senses that there’s something wrong with his life and this leads him to wander off thanks to his fervid imagination. His greatest wish is to leave the materialistic world behind since he isn’t fond of it. That’s why the only present he wants for Christmas is for Santa Claus to take him away to live in his fairyland toy factory. At the same time, a secret that his family has been keeping for a long time suddenly comes to the surface and it is feared that the worst might happen soon. The expectation for the stroke of midnight on the night before Christmas is transformed into reality for everyone on the eve of something truly different. Something terrible that might happen.

Nothing Happens(en)

On the cold outskirts of town, something is about to happen. In our own way we are all waiting for something to happen.

In Ictu Oculi(eu)

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-made decay. In the blink of an eye 66 years pass by and a savings bank replaces a church.

Sweep The Streets(en)

An avant-garde collection of vignettes of street sweepers across Liberty City throughout a day cycle. An ode to workers across the nation and the countless sweat drops across their foreheads.

Phantasia(xx)

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to be the first cinema screening. Thus, both cinema and radiography fall within the scopic regime inaugurated by modernity. The use of X-rays on two sculptures from the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum generates images that reveal certain elements of them that would otherwise be invisible to our eyes. These images, despite being generally created for technical or scientific purposes, seem to produce a certain form of 'photogénie': they lend the radiographed objects a new appearance that lies somewhere between the material and the ethereal, endowing them with a vaporous and spectral quality. It is not by chance that physics and phantasmagoria share the term 'spectrum' in their vocabulary.

Puparia(ja)

Something is about to change drastically, and the only thing to do is to witness it.

Hotaru(pt)

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

chimera(en)

A child is attacked and turned into a chimera and must learn to navigate his strange world as an entirely new kind of being.

Pop Cycle(en)

Playful and colorful, Pop Cycle is an experimental short film mixing drawn-on-film animation and live-action sequences. The movie takes inspiration both in synthwave genre and in aesthetics of punk music albums.

bonny(en)

Memories cascade and fade as Bonny remembers the one she loved and the life they lived on the run...

The Sacred Disease(en)

A bereaved epileptic ditches her pills and follows a mysterious woman to the outskirts of her town, where she slips back into the fearsome yet ecstatic throes of the seizure.

Amor de Plástico(pt)

Reila(nl)

Archimime!(en)

A damned stupid mime befriends three psychotic lunatics living on the streets who stalk and harass his former lover.

lente / ruido(pt)

Casual Workers(en)

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

Once More Unto the Breach(it)

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)

Frederic Rzewski eats spaghetti at Carlone Via della Luce 55(de)

The composer Frederic Rzewski ordered a film from Gerd Conradt for his piece “Selfportrait”. The film was supposed to be shown while he was playing his piece of music, he didn't want to be seen. The film shows Frederic Rzewski sitting down at the table in the Trattoria Carlone in the Trastevere district of Rome from a bird's eye view. He orders wine, salad and a portion of spaghetti. We watch as he eats, pays, gets up and walks out of the picture. All in one setting.

Santa Lucia(de)

This film has no story - one could be born at any moment. His characters are the composition of the composition that, in the time they live in, is the composition of the time in which they live. The situations are exemplary, they come from the reality of dreams, a movement takes on several dimensions, gives the impression of simultaneity, the passage of time is not perceived.

Caught(es)

In this innovative blend of documentary and fiction, Rosa and Paloma, two trans Latina sex workers in Queens, New York, fight transphobic violence, persecution from the police, and defend their cases of trafficking in an increasingly anti-migration political environment in the U.S.