Explicit Television (2022)

Goodbye Blue Sky

Long after the end of the world, five strangers sharing an abandoned desert motel are forced to decide between love and survival.

Flowers

Over a spring weekend, a high school boy reconnects with an old friend and begins to discover what it really means to be in love.

Preface to a History

A man becomes engrossed in an audiobook while walking home on a summer night.

Dreams

Once a dream wove a shade, and pitying I dropped a tear. But I saw lights near, that light the ground while the soul wanders.

Halfway

The unbelievable true story of actor CJ. Bloomfield, who rose from a childhood of horrific abuse - and incarcerated leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang - to an actor alongside the world's biggest movie stars.

The Sequence of Parallel Bars

The film opens with a rubber-clad woman stepping sensuously out of a limousine. The camera lovingly closes-up on her stilletoed foot... She enters a dark desolate warehouse, and meets two men, who proceed to chain her up and worship her body. Originally projected on three screens simultaneously. Music by legendary noise musician Merzbow.

Eleanor

Golden-globe winner Ruth Wilson plays three different women whose lives become fatefully intertwined over one night. A truly innovative and haunting examination of the human psyche - Eleanor will replay in your dreams. A cinematic installation presented on three screens (one per character) that interplay as the narratives intersect.

To: Gerard

A sprightly elderly man brightens the day of a little girl through magic.

The Long Goodbye

A short about racism and Islamophobia in the UK.

Time & Again

Eleanor and Isabelle meet again, sixty years after their relationship break up...

The Great Debt

A single banknote travels through town and clears all debts. Where does it end up?

The Return

It has been a year since his older brother has left and Willy, fifteen, is waiting impatiently for him to come home. He thinks he knows everything about Théo, but shortly after his return, he discovers a secret about him.

Ivan

A solitary dinner for two in a dehumanized society that has a craving for itself.

The Unreason

In this fun sci-fi comedy we meet Ruth and Megan, two best friends who run a vintage shop in North London. One day their lives are forever turned upside down when an abandoned time machine appears outside their shop.

J'ador

Rome. Claudio is 15 and wants to be part of the clique. He admires the 18-year-old leader Lauro. If he wants to fit in, he has to lose his little boy smell and learn to smell like a man.

The Traitor

Tomer and Shmulik are a couple. One evening, during a causal supper, one of them announces he wants to break up. Pain takes over their intimacy and the night takes an unexpected turn.

A Man from Nowhere

Rafa is a guy who dreams a lot and sleeps very little. He’s no longer a teenager and he’s one step ahead to become an adult, this would become more difficult than he ever thought. Love, drugs and uncertain future, are the thing that go with him through his journey to find out who he is as a person.

The Greatest Showman

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

The Marathon

The director Misha Tumelya and animators Sasha Dorogov and Alexandr Petrov presented this short to Roy E. Disney as a tribute for the 60th anniversary of Mickey. A little over two minutes in length, the cartoon shows a young boy in black silhouette going to a line that divides the screen image in half. It is like a mirror with the young boy on one side and the classic black and white Mickey Mouse in black silhouette on the other side.

A Fish Story

Two men and a fish runs through the country.

Soft

Sam - 16, queer, and falling in love - struggles to untangle himself from his abusive martial arts coach.

Fast Forward

Life is too short... no time to waste.

The Olympic Champ

A narrator explains the history of the Olympic Games while Goofy demonstrates events.

Connie

Ambivalent about her pregnancy, Connie attempts to withstand the desert, her husband and herself.

Mécanomagie

A landscape in which everything moves is afflicted with a figure which is in itself static, but which moves - a kind of mechanic man? In Mécanomagie both the borders of perception and (natural) laws are infringed so that something new may emerge: nature as a boundless state of ecstasy!