Meditations on Melancholia

It's Teh Doctor(en)

Emily has a doctor's appointment. Sorta. Kinda. Not really.

Pending Title(en)

Experimental middle school short

Soft(en)

A portrait of new found sobriety and love unravels as a young woman moves through the motions of melancholic life in seclusion.

De Lune(en)

Two women find companionship in emptiness.

Admissions of Desire(en)

A man and a woman talk on the phone and express their feelings and desires for each other for the first time. We watch as they listen to the other's admissions.

The Angel Was Born(pt)

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.

We Didn't Start The C-Trash(en)

An experimental and short compilation of rhythmic documents about the devolving state of entertainment and reactionaries in it's entirety. From the parodic controls between the obscure artifacts of media-consumed culture, to the real world consequences of how film discussion shapes the political and mental state in a society.

Preface to a History(en)

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.

Lost In Harmony(en)

Jessica, a young carer, and her mum, who is deeply paranoid and who sees and hears unexplained things have a strong and loving relationship. But the misfit relationship they have brings many challenges they struggle to overcome. The mum's deterioration in her mental health causes her to be sectioned, leaving Jessica lost in her life.

El Editor Versión Final(es)

Marcos, an independent film and video editor, works editing late into the night. On a typical night at work, he has a seizure that causes him to lose consciousness. Upon waking up, he discovers that his way of perceiving life has changed in such a way that he now lives everything and sees it in the same way as a cinematographic montage.

Woman of the Metropolis/Juli in Central Park(en)

a man has an unusual encounter with a stranger in central park

Ōta Shōgo's The Water Station(en)

The Water Station is a film adaptation by playwright, director, and NYU Abu Dhabi professor Abhishek Majumdar of a play by Japanese playwright Ōta Shōgo, written in 1981. It is about our experience of the world and how it is shaped by what we have to leave behind, who we can leave with, and what happens when we meet others in our journeys.

Self Portraits or: How to talk endearingly to possible victims(en)

Quinn is a grade school teacher who is exploited by a group of memoryless individuals who reeducate his long-term partner Amy.

PRÓXIMO!(pt)

Lázaro(es)

Magenta(en)

Blue gets transported to an alternate universe through her TV and meets Red, an alien-like woman who she has an immediate connection with.

Sticky Fingers(en)

A microscopic view into American youth in suburbia through the eyes of Robert, a young man who becomes fixated on his own identity after moving back to his small Texas town.

La otra mirada(es)

Aimé sees her reflection in the mirror and does not recognize herself. After several days of moving, she allows herself to look at herself. Objects such as a camera, a mirror and a window will push her to go through a rediscovery of pleasure and the transformation of her body. Themes that have always been recurrent in her head and that she decides to show through an audiovisual journey that she will undertake.

My Body, My Rules, & Them(tl)

The film is an exploration of the queer body’s struggle to attain validation and evade exploitation. In a society where queer identities have always struggled to be recognized, our bodies have often been a medium of our expression and avenue for satisfaction. However, we, as a community, have subjected ourselves as victims to a system that exploits our vulnerabilities and bodies, to the point of moral decay.