The Pursuit of What Was

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City(de)

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Shelter(sh)

Petek is very versatile and is experimenting with all possible formats, the Zagreb film school of animation-influenced parts, the quasi SF childish games, the color splashes, the psychedelic timbres, the pop art/ collage experiments and a swirl of other 60s gestures.

Duration-Landscape: Rocks(gl)

"The evaporation or the centralization of the self. Everything is there." —Charles Baudelaire A sensorial approach to landscape In the deep contemplation of landscape the senses are altered. We feel a sublimation experience where the mental image of landscape undergoes a metamorphosis. The actual space is distorted, time flows in a different way: it stops in our consciousness. It is the connection at the "full instant," the idea of "durèe" of Henri Bergson, where the intensity of the experience makes the image of landscape expands.

Death Certificate(bn)

A water server in a small railway station in Eastern India doesn't return home one evening. His wife comes to term with inhumane reality while looking for him far away from her picturesque village surrounded by mountains and forests. While she and her friends arrive at the rail station they hear someone has been run over by a train. Where is he? Will she succeed in finding him? Is death certificate merely a document?

Number Two(en)

Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama in between image and sound as a reaction . It treats the surface of the film itself as a digital artefact that forms an image with a human intervention .It can be seen as an enlargement of a moment in time where form and space breaks inside an indefinite reality .

Ripple(en)

RIPPLE, 2020. HD digital video loop & steel & hardware, duration: 5 minutes. Soundtrack by Kevin Carey.

Alma(en)

"The details of the script for Alma were modeled from data that the artist collected from her own digital devices. The film describes a woman who enters into a private contract with a room. The objects in the room monitor how she feels as they respond to her in real time, comforting her with their physical presence and touch. The room tracks the character’s steps and her screen time, but it also monitors impossible data points, like what she would have accomplished if she had lived a different life. The first half of the film celebrates the unreality of her wishful thinking that technology is capable of solving any problem. In the second half of the film, these optimistic ideas are traded for a catastrophic vision of her digitally connected self. In the end, she is immersed in a space that describes what it once was like to be among other people. While physically separated, she waits indefinitely in a digital rendering, surrounded by a phantom of human presence." — Jane Lombard Gallery

Nikbin Sirto(tr)

How can a DSLR camera move in the ruins of a 19th century mansion that is battered to be covered with glass and steel in the days to come, for that’s a more appropriate image as a shopping mall. How to get up and to do what in the ruins; the scenery of late ones to come? Here, this occurs: there are holes in some walls releasing specters to haunt which that makes impossible to reach. What is an Istanbul, where is Aleppo.

Day 500(en)

Two roommates suffering from cabin fever descend into madness.

and now?(en)

#13, glancing, or avoiding.

Day of the Dead(sh)

Experimental film by Ivan Martinac.

Breakup in 9 Scenes(en)

This is our documentary, it is about you and me. One day after you disappeared, after you sent that break-up message, I made you this video letter. A day after the military took power. In a matter of a day, you and I lost us, and we all lost a revolution. I am not angry, I am disappointed. But how does one live disappointment? What is the physical action associated with disappointment? Anger is much easier. Sadness is much easier. Hatred is the easiest. But I don’t hate you. You are too innocent to hate. We were too innocent to win. It is life.

How to Hold a Cloud to the Ground(pt)

What happens after THE END? The fable of Isabela, a phantasmagorical journey of a girl searching for her true self.

Taking Moses for a Ride(fi)

Ten groups of kids from various parts of Finland, aged between 12 and 15, improvise an episode each based on one of the Bible's Ten Commandments.

A Choreography of Violence(en)

A woman must safe herself and escape from a bizarre black room where she waltz with her biggest fear and trauma. A Choreography of Violence is a short experimental film that tells a story about love gone wrong, domestic violence, and freedom. The story is told through contemporary dance, with no dialogue, for the entirety of the film.

Snake in Home(zh)

The C-list TV actor Jonnie Zhang decides to change career as an estate agent. While preparing for the interview, he hires a cleaner to tidy up his long non-visited mansion. A cleaner receives a task to a vacant house, and she decides to stay over night realizing that the bus service has been suspended. Out of every clue hidden in the house, she fantasizes its whole family and secrets, along with her own previous life she comes across.

A White Butterfly on a Bus(zh)

She plays an actress. He works as a filmmaker. We are making a film in Xining, Qinghai, China. She says that this is the furthest place that she's ever been from home. As days go by and under the pressure from the production, we start to wander on the border of life and fiction.

N.P. 1977(sh)

Neša Paripović's film N.P. 1977 (1977) is a film about a walk through the summer green city of Belgrade. In a way it´s a self-portrait of the artist who plays the main protagonist in the film. For the film title he has chosen his initials – as is the case with the two other films in a series of three produced between 1975-78.

Endless(en)

A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.

Ara crema(ca)

Munchsferatu(fr)

Munchsferatu is a painter who has become a vampire by living only for his art. An experimental narrative mashup film with David Bowie, Gérard Depardieu, Christina Hendricks and Josiane Balasko.

Lumberjack(en)

Julie's husband has been murdered and land agents want her to sign away her property rights. Hoppy warns against this but she does so anyway. It looks as though she will be unable to deliver the timber called for in her agreement. Hoppy has to make the lumber deal happened and solve the murder.

Rio(en)

Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.

Slipknot - Slipknot - 10th Anniversary Edition DVD(en)

Of the Sic: Your Nightmares, Our Dreams (documentary film) Live at Dynamo Open Air 2000 (full concert): 1. 742617000027 2. (sic) 3. Eyeless 4. Wait and Bleed 5. No Life 6. Liberate 7. Purity 8. Prosthetics 9. Spit It Out 10. Get This 11. Surfacing Music videos: "Spit It Out" "Wait and Bleed" "Surfacing" "Wait and Bleed (Animated Version)"

Pocahontas(de)

Roaming around with her best friend Wabuu, the curious and cheeky raccoon, Pocahontas, the beautiful chieftain daughter discovers a ship with a lot of strangers on the shore. "These White people will bring much woe to our people" predicts the chieftain. And actually, the gold-greedy captain of the ship starts a war on the Indians. Will Pocahontas succeed in preventing the inevitable fight and to save their people?

Leaving Amish Paradise(en)

Documentary following the lives of two Amish families leaving the only world they've ever known and trying to get to grips with the modern world. The Amish travel by horse and buggy and dress exactly as their forebears did when they first arrived in America almost 300 years ago. They have countless rules which keep them separate from the modern world, with electric lights, mobile phones, television and radio all forbidden. For those born into this culture, leaving is the biggest decision they'll ever make.

All Eyes on Sharon Tate(en)

Promotional short film on an aspiring young actress Sharon Tate and her first film Eye of the Devil (1966).

Bosomy Backhouse Girl(ko)

Mi-yeong, who lives in the backhouse comes between the strong friendship of Deuk-chan and Cheol-soo. Mi-yeong is usually blunt and cold, but in bed, it's a different story. Deuk-chan approaches her with love, but Cheol-soo only wants to remain sex partners with her. Meanwhile, Deuk-chan who loves Mi-yeong had an old sex partner, Hee-jin. Cheol-soo shows interest in Hee-jin. The love story of two youthful men and women begins...

The Kung Fu Kid(cn)

The Kung Fu Kid is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Chan Wai Man and Eric Tsang

Smile For Me(tr)

#Moscow on the Beach(fr)

Olga is a young woman who decides to change her life after an unexpected event. She wants to see if new technologies can help her makes her dreams true. Nothing better than letting the algorithms manage yours holidays for you.

La otra ciudad(en)

Mexican feature film

SX-70(en)

A promotional film for the Eames designed Polaroid Sx-70 camera.

Blood of the Iron Maiden(en)

An actress gets the lead in a movie, not aware that the director specializes in nudies and intends to use drugs on her during the filming.

Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer(it)

American Rampage(en)

Ex-San Francisco vice cop Samantha Roarke and Hollywood homicide detective Ryan Hayes team up to investigate an international drug cartel in Los Angeles, leading them to an ex-CIA operative turned drug kingpin who's organizing a heroin distribution center in the city.

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