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Made as part of the Winnipeg Film Group's "Super 8 Special" film incubator. This picture was captured on super 8 film, drip dyed with a mixture of india ink and water collected from Lake Winnipeg, then digitized and captured on VHS.

Fabrications

This Super 8 short film was discovered on May 22, 2024, at the Paraguayan-German Cultural Institute in Asunción. The film is the result of a workshop produced by the ICPA's film department in 1987, led by filmmaker Marie Louise Alemann, a pioneer of experimental cinema in Argentina.

EHHHH!

EHHHH! is a Super 8 film edited in-camera and projected with a tape delay from two projectors onto a screen, which travels through the parking signs of Buenos Aires, where the letter E dialogues with a sound composition / phonetic poetry of voices saying "eh", a typical Argentine filler word

Reflextion

A woman returns, after a long time, to an empty house to confront her memories.

1999

Analía and Andrés are neighbors but barely know each other. On the night of December 31, 1999, both are forced, for different reasons, to spend New Year's Eve alone.

A love worth while

Someone waiting, a letter arriving, an unexpected kiss in the garden, a doorbell ringing, someone on the street waving with their suitcase in hand. One-by-one camera montage. No reshooting or interruptions.

I thought we thought

Can love transcend boundaries, trapping us in a seemingly inescapable cycle? The fantasy of being one with each other becomes flesh and destruction. A couple stripped of everything and everyone, fused to the point of losing their sense of self, faced with the possibility of a third party interfering, she decides to have an abortion.

The Axe

Served as the inspiration for Jerry O'Sullivan's 'Gut Pile'.

Scarecrow

Served as the inspiration for Jerry O'Sullivan's 'Gut Pile".

Poilu[s]

A young filmmaker is commissioned to write a documentary about the First World War. He tries to find a way to tell the story of the war. What is to be done with all these films waiting in the archives to be shown again? He tries his hand at different styles of writing and editing, keeping in mind the question: can you make a montage film without transforming the images?

KARATISTA

Alessia initiates a discussion with her father in an attempt to discover the moment when the separation between them occurred, but along the way, everything becomes uncertain, memories mix and intersect, and no one seems to have an exact answer.

The White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights

Concert footage of The White Stripes recorded in January of 2004, featuring tracks from the band's four studio albums as well as live favorites like the Dolly Parton cover "Jolene"

An Unholy Dance

Every winter, a small town in Castilla-La Mancha called Luzón transforms into a little hell. Its inhabitants, dressed as devils, venture into the darkness and roam its streets with horns, bells, and smeared with soot. Una dança non sancta could have been just an anthropological documentary. Instead, it delves into the inferno with the town’s residents to participate in and immortalize this unholy ritual.

Two hundred and eighty billion images

"In 2010 I filmed the encounter commemorating the Bicentennial of the Argentine Republic. In the passing years I sporicadally edited the material. I projected it. I seal it. Recently I projected the images again and in some way I saw a group of young, strong and beautiful people to which I belong and represents me. Collating this images with the present, I also saw a void and a debt."

Blanquiados

Peronoise is a being who tells us a story, who proposes the senses as currency instead of using Argencard or Mastercard, who presents and provides emancipation as a path, who establishes a Ministry of Hearing, who announces that we can dance, that it's a party!, whose enemy is Dr. Mutantis, the white male patriarch of holy causes from the Austro-Hungarian suburbs.

The Cranker: A Bar on Borrowed Time

A short documentary following the story of a local pub in Adelaide facing threats of demolition.

Cuerpo

A negative film in black and white, inspired by Focault's text Utopian Body.

Pele Nómada

Happiness Is...

A trip to the supermarket, an awry medical procedure and a nonsensical figure compose an exploration into what makes us happy. Recorded on Super 8 film without editing.

The Butcher Filmmaker

This is the story of Roger, a former pork butcher, who worked for 40 years in the beautiful town of Beaune in Burgundy. Since he retired, he has started a new life as a filmmaker: Roger films only on Super 8. Insects, birds, everything he can find in the countryside are his favorite subjects. His short films have won prizes all over the world, some of them have been shown during the Cannes Film Festival. Josette, his wife and number one fan, happens to work for him from time to time.

42 Up

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Cousins

When Larry and Maria learn that their respective spouses are cheating on them, they try to turn the tables on them by pretending to have an affair. However, they soon find themselves falling in love.

Love, Divided

Valentina is a young pianist starting over. Her neighbor David is an inventor who hates noise. And a paper-thin wall is about to become their matchmaker.

Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20

An inside look at one of the most anticipated movie sequels ever with James Cameron and cast.

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which was brought to the big screen in 1996. How director Richard Stanley spent four years developing the project just to find an abrupt end to his work while leading actor Marlon Brando pulled the strings in the shadows. Now for the first time, the living key players recount what really happened and why it all went so spectacularly wrong.

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today.

Red Nose Day Actually

Fourteen years after the events of the original film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.

The Devil's Double

A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.

Hands of Stone

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

Jackass 3.5

Johnny Knoxville of 'Jackass' releases unused material of stunts, tricks, antics and shenanigans shot during the production of 'Jackass 3D' that didn't make it into the film, as well as the hilarious outtakes.

Xtreme

Two years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafted revenge plan against the killer: his own brother.

Shadow of the Vampire

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."

The Unforgivable

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.

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

Our Little Secret

After discovering their significant others are siblings, two resentful exes must spend Christmas under one roof — while hiding their romantic history.

Death at a Funeral

Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies in from New York, broke but arrogant. To top it all off, a mysterious stranger wants a word with Aaron.

Champagne Problems

A driven American exec heads to Paris determined to acquire a champagne brand by Christmas — and accidentally falls for the heir to the bubbly empire.

The Brady Bunch Movie

The original '70s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.

Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh

Step brothers Drake and Josh must give a foster family the best Christmas ever or face years in jail for a Christmas party gone wrong.