Social & External
An essay in colour harmonics and visual overtones. Conceived and produced as part of the Images Film Festival's Minute Movies.
Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-century France. His outspokenness has amassed a passionate following of nuns and a respected reputation for protecting the city of Loudon from corruption. Grandier’s influence is then undermined following a sexually repressed nun’s accusation of witchcraft.
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.
A voyeuristic night photographer discovers that she has become the subject of some thing's lens.
A neurodivergent man is stuck in the web of an abusive relationship, unable to free himself from his lovers grasp.
A woman answers a knocking at her door. Inspired by the short "Peephole".
In an indeterminate future, forbidden memories challenge a database containing all human memories. An experimental cinematic search between past and future, fiction and fact, Prishtina and Tirana. The future, a glitch.
A young girl is playing on some waste ground when she finds a pencil with a face. Whatever she draws with the pencil becomes real. Just an ordinary day.
Lots of places connected through one object, the TV. In the beginning that’s just a coincidence, but as the rhythm of the music increases so does the connection.
After a threesome proposal, Beatrix drinks cranberry juice non-stop hoping it will improve her sexual life.
Jimmy lives through a nightmare of blood and violence. Surreal images are replaced by brutal splatter. An inferno from which Jimmy is only too eager to wake up. Young director Lars Cramer presents his first work, accompanied by dark Italian sounds.
A neurotic young man tries to care for his sick sister.
A man takes a mysterious pill that gives him the ability to teleport into different times and different places, but with serious consequences.
A woman confined to a colorless room finds herself forced to eat a mysterious meal while being tormented by strange creatures.
Lou is a young man in trouble who becomes paranoid because of the pressure of two mysterious judges.
Shot on 16mm film in New York and composed in Berlin, the work explores polarizing themes of the metropolis. Audibly and visually, the viewer is put in a flicker between serenity and intensity; harrowing ambience cut with sharp beeps, vulnerable steps mashed in high velocity.
A young adult has an existential crisis among his friends.
A dinner party turns strange as two couples can't decide which memories are real or not.
Lee Callahan begins to suspect her next-door neighbor is a serial killer.
Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen.