an exploration of ennui split between two worlds
Social & External
The people behind it
A debt-settlement meeting turns into a surreal nightmare of ego, sexism, and chaos.
Time passes but nothing changes. Opportunities are missed one after the other. Until finally there's a way out.
History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.
An extremist, comedic, political, surrealist movie about control, a little cat boy, a color changing violent leader with unbelievable hair, and totalitarian violence
A lonely man tries to enjoy a regular evening
Two young film enthusiasts from downtown São Paulo are doing a film rehearsal and, for the final scene, inspired by "The Man Who Left His Will on Film," they want to film a projection onto a woman's body.
Oriana Mejer's niche poem-film style has created "NOISE!". The film dissects late stage capitalism and the effects social media has on the mind. This is a spoken word poem, performed by Mejer, combined with projections. It is a completely new approach to editing. Originally score by Sofia Camarena.
Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.
The story takes place in the landscapes of La Spezia, where urban and rural environments intertwine. Water plays a primary role as a form, alongside the circle (e.g., bicycle wheels, pizzas, clocks…), which sets the rhythm of the character’s life, dynamically accelerating until it becomes very fast. The overlapping forms invite the viewer into the cyclical rhythm of the short film, moving from the spinning bicycle wheel to the washing machine drum in the character’s bathroom, from a freshly tossed pizza to the delivery mailbox, and finally to a dead-end wall. Savana is a race against oneself and against others; it’s a matter of decision and unpredictability — it’s black or white.
To cope with a grieving process, Eli creates his own pink musical paradise, full of neon lights and a lot of gayness.
Omnibus film with 13 short films by students of the HfG Ulm
Reenacting the suicide episode of the last Ming emperor, Chong-zhen from the classic Cantonese Opera Floral Princess, this experimental short film blending Cantonese Opera and modern dance elements reveals the journey of the defeated emperor accompanied by his faithful eunuch, Wang Sing-yan, on their way to the summit of Coal Hill to end their lives. Apart from inviting new perspectives towards their ambiguous queer overtones, it also explores the crossroads of life and death, authority and obedience, love and sacrifice, power and duty, that befall under the traditional patriarchy.
The desire to grow closer to yourself will lead you to disappear. The simple desire to get a closer look at yourself makes you see yourself disappear. The possibilities of recording are limited.
A woman uses an AI chatbot to try to find closure with someone she lost.
A tiny bug crawls across an unknown landscape as it continually metamorphoses around the creature. Suddenly, there is a twist.
A documentary about the sea and memory. Its movement is its form. Its strength.
Two men reunite, struggling to reconcile past trauma, leading one of them to avoid the other at all costs.
A young boy wakes up one day with the inexplicable behavior of an ape.
Questions how we as individuals are psychologically relying on our inhabit spaces and how we as society are influencing and being influenced by our surroundings.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate, enlisting the help of the FBI Agent initially detailed to surveil her.
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned private investigator – Marley’s search for what really happened leads her down a treacherous maze of deception and betrayal.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
