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The Art(ta)

Human, Tears, Art

Ravage(en)

While you wait to hear if they'll pay your claim, there is almost nothing like the silent buzz at the other end of the line. Or when you say something that requires a response and the world says back, "no worries". There's an art to miscommunication, unthinking, the void, and the customer service call. Phoning it in might just be a necessary part of life. This rough-edged sketch mixing performance art living and film is a study of the phone call, American doofiness, and blank minds under the reign of the corporate call script. Everyone is impotent in the institutional setting.

Three Venus(es)

Love and admiration in 16mm. The fusion a beauty that exists throughout three generations; my three Venus.

Isaac(en)

Isaac travels to Mount Moriah with his father to make a sacrifice to God.

Las Preguntas que Perdimos(es)

Picnic(es)

Journey to Somewhere(es)

A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing objects, feels overwhelmed by the weight of memories and her new responsibilities. Fortunately, the former inhabitants of the house soon come to her aid. (An account of the life and work of Fernando Fernán Gómez [1921-2007] and his wife Emma Cohen [1946-2016], two singular artists and fundamental figures of contemporary Spanish culture.)

WOMaN(en)

WOMaN is a visual exploration of the becoming and realizing of what it means to be a woman in this day and age. An experimental film told from the heart of SUBLIMEBBABY and eyes of Angelo Bote — complex, strong, independent, aggressive, soft, vulnerable. We embrace both masculine and feminine aspects following the woman on screen. “To maintain an interest in life, to laugh at the little/big things. To embrace my feminine energy but let my masculine shine in coexistence. These are my promises to my younger self.”

The Quiet Silence(jv)

Bustoni, a performing arts worker who lives with his mother who are dying, has a question that distract his life. What will happen to a woman after death?

EGGspression(xx)

Egglantine loves salt on her eggs. Eggbert prefers pepper. Who blinks first in this playful Easter ritual?

Fractal(es)

A journey in which the human being is only a fragment of the whole, experiencing and being one with the whole.

Interview with Júlio(pt)

An excerpt about the troubled, passionate and intriguing relationship of an actor with his own life.

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion(en)

After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and historical events, ultimately transcending the limitations of the senses and into a new cosmic rebirth.

Anamnesis(en)

A reclusive former star of British cinema reflects on the loss of her child and her past life in the spotlight.

A Passenger in Love(en)

An introverted guy randomly asks a girl out at the Delhi train station on a day date. They spent the entire day getting to know each other. One is keeping a secret and the other longs for love. Will destiny intervene?

Pulvaaliraghu(ta)

The fan's self-sacrificing blades dance in the air, generating a refreshing breeze that wipes away the sweat of others and brings solace on a scorching day.

Solitary Eyes(en)

An isolated filmmaker struggles to connect with others in the absence of cameras. When he becomes creatively stuck, the world around him begins to dissolve.

Caucho(hy)

Caucho is an experimental drama which tells the story of three artists: а theater director (Arsen Grigoryan),an actress (Lucie Abdalyan) and an actor (Manvel Khachatryan) who are engaged in staging the play "The Ping-Pong Players" by William Saroyan. They decide to speak only using the dialogues from the performance before the first night of the play. The game will be over if any of them breaks the rules.

Orchard Vale(en)

A group of characters deal with the aftermath of catastrophe.

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.