Te vejo de novo(2024)

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray(en)

An immersion into the surreal and dreamlike world of painter, photographer and filmmaker Man Ray (1890-1976), one of the most prolific American visual artists, through four of his short films, brought to life by the atmospheric music of SQÜRL.

Flowers #3 (Kissed by the Sun)(en)

This motion picture photogram was made during a 5 hour plunge into the darkroom; a procession of herbs.

back home(en)

In 1999, 11-year-old Nisha Platzer lost her older brother, Josh, to suicide. Twenty years later, her search for a specialized medical treatment leads her to the door of someone who was once exceptionally close to Josh. And so it is that she finally has the chance to truly know her brother through his chosen family. Captured over five years in which synchronicities continually manifested, Platzer’s documentation of these encounters gently asserts that both grieving and healing are meant to be communal experiences.

Dreams of the Past(ru)

A Love Letter to Cinema(en)

An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.

A Witch Lives In the Attic(en)

A witch and other strange things live in the attic above lonely, dope-addled artist, Grey Neilson. After meeting Renee, Grey struggles to appease these beings, as she tries to find her place in the outside world.

Dionisia(en)

“The lakes, their rounds palms, they drowned the face of the Sky: I have turned the sphere to look at the Sky". Victor Segalen. Estelas

La Demoiselle de Coeur(fr)

The kings of the card game, tired of serving for the amusement of men, decide to participate in the lives of humans and behave like them.

Inland Empire(en)

An actress’s perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.

to boyhood, i never knew him(en)

Archive footage from 2006 - 2010 of a young girl growing up during the ages of four to eight. Only fragments of what is remembered exists. Words from a transgender man float to the surface as fleeting memories go on.

Discipline and phylogeny(xx)

The video is a montage of elements, still images and found footage, which, in the resulting combination, revolve around the theme discipline/form, as related to organisms in general and the human organism specifically.

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.

Teatro Circo de Orihuela(es)

Augusto M. Torres makes a tour of images in honor of the CIRCUS THEATER of Orihuela.

Gradiva(en)

Gradiva deals with a man who constructs/creates an idealized image of a woman, seductive but false.

Roman : I’ll be who I was(en)

Born in 1981, Roman was a brilliant young man, promised a bright future but he died crushed by a car in 2015. His friend Eugenia could not accept this disappearance and decided to create an “intelligent” chabot. Feeding it all his texts, the software learned to speak like him thanks to an artificial intelligence.

Seasonal Concerns(en)

A triple exposure on EXR 50D 16mm film: two layers shot in summer, and the third captured on the cusp of winter. A collection of statues fading in and out of consciousness, around the Weissensee lake in northeast Berlin, where the filmmaker lives.

All Star Video(ja)

A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Queride Bowie(pt)

The Scary Movie(en)

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.

Fossil(xx)

An old man's vision of a drowning world is clouded. He decides to take radical actions inflicting damage to his surroundings. Instigating a self-destructive chain of events, coming from the dark abyss of his subconsciousness.