(dey/dem): a choreo-doc(2023)

beer cans under my bed(en)

This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and into recovery.

wormhole (void)(xx)

A wormhole might connect extremely long distances.

the importance(xx)

Two screens of a graveyard, one during the day and one at night. The duality of everything that exists in the universe.

A Personal Fidget(en)

Based upon a habitual fidget of the filmmaker involving the tags in his clothing, Reilly Mitchell explores the feelings of his past by removing something that has always stayed so close to him and turning it into something new.

Lament to Waters(pt)

May our smiles not be forced for your enjoyment and may our pains no longer be hidden. May my mother Yemanja help me. A short film about the pain we carry alone and that we only confess to the sea, which is life, but for us, black people from the diaspora, it's also a memory of a past of sadness and death.

Death in Vegas(en)

The life, death, and resurrection of Elvis Presley, as he is transformed from man into product. Composed primarily of an illustrated biography filmed with a microscope camera.

Listen To the Wallflowers(no)

Extroversion is an attractive description, but why do we idealize this personality trait more highly? LISTEN TO THE WALLFLOWERS is a poetic short documentary about the need for quietness and spending time alone in a world that can't stop talking.

Hong Kong Mixtape(cn)

Political engagement spawned the wildest of wonderlands for Hong Kong’s creativity – but as a new law annihilates freedom of expression overnight, underground artists and creatives find themselves targets, and their works disappeared. Together we race to preserve the creative uprising amid China’s crackdown.

A Jornada(pt)

A mixture of a time travel, a documentary, artistic and performative record of the director's subjective view of the places, people and moments he spent from 2015 to 2018. Filmed on super 8 mm film.

I Can't Get Away(en)

I Can’t Get Away is a three-channel black-and-white silent video. The video depicts 4 sequences: a figure perpetuating walking away; a figure bounded to an immobile tree; a figure running away from another figure, and vice versa. The performances of stages within the grieving process, different modes and processes to grapple with loss and the sensibilities that comes with mourning impermanence.

Mind Mounter(ja)

This film is a secondary expression movie which is produced from much stuff of old postcards as souvenir of the mountain resort. It is an experiment for considering about the possibility that the old photo postcard become the device of sharing memories of the world of today.

A Field of Sheep(en)

A field full of sheep is observed through the camera, preserving that moment in time forever.

Vestige(en)

A room-scale VR creative documentary that uses multi-narrative and volumetric live capture to take the viewer on a journey into the mind of Lisa as she remembers her lost love, Erik. Within an empty void, fragments of past memories appear of their life together.

Nocturnal(en)

A one minute short film showcasing the sights, sounds, and people that characterizes Singapore's nightlife.

Oh butterfly, what dou you dream of when you flap your wings?(es)

The work of taxonomists hides more secrets than can be perceived.

An Asian Ghost Story(en)

A cinematic and conceptually inventive film that explores the haunting memories of Asia’s late 20th-century modernization through the large-scale export of wigs during the Cold War. Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past.

Dreamed to sea(es)

A monster that lives in the darkest part of the sea, a dreamlike representation of the journey towards the depths of something that one wants to avoid and that is finally faced.

Blue Suns(en)

A walk in the woods become a metaphoric journey in Chloé Leriche's short film. As a solitary figure moves through the forest, the texture of stone, the movement of water, all the infinite pageantry of the natural world is captured in its richness and detail. With the help of an orchestrated soundscape and composed cinematography, Blue Suns catches the miracle and mystery of this world as it unfolds.

¿Por qué la gallina cruzó el camino?(es)

The Pillow(en)

A dare from Swedishllama (UrolithicOak)