No Ink (2022)

Leda + Swans

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short film “Photographing a Female Crook” (1904). Leda, who may or may not be a falsely accused young woman, is brought in for a mugshot by two officers. She first attempts to avoid the camera’s gaze, and, when overpowered and manhandled, contorts her face to ruin the photograph. However, her small rebellion proves futile; she was already being recorded, objectified, mapped, and co-opted by the Godhead of the director. As her body and image are repurposed and transmuted ad infinitum, the filmic universe also explodes into a supernova. What is born out of this suffering and manipulation is another example of our sublime medium and modern muse. She will not be last the Leda, and she may not even be the first. Who is the guilty party here? Is beauty a chimera in traditional cinema? Has the ephemeral cinema of the attractions and distractions era gone anywhere?

Pyre

Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.

Now They Experience It All the Time...

The newest film by SamHel

Barbara

Previously lost exploitation film which chronicles the sexual journey of a teenager who introduces her own family to the liberated ways of the free love rebellion.

House

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

Inland Empire

An actress’s perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.

The Scary Movie

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.

Foreign Surface

An experimental reinterpretation of 1950s science fiction B movies.

My Neighbor Wants Me Dead

The Tenant continuously fails to escape his deadly apartment under five minute time limit as his blood-thirsty neighbor threatens to break in and exterminate him.

Friend of the World

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.

3STIGIA

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Linton Falls - A Study of the Force of Water

An experimental film documenting a river leading up to a waterfall, depicting both its natural beauty and its inherent danger.

Those Who Wander

What are they? What do they seek? When all the lights go out, they will wander. And you will never see them.

The Begotten Cycle

Themes of death, rebirth and mythology combine in this compilation of the subversive and surreal experimental films "Begotten", "Din of Celestial Birds" and "Polia & Blastema."

VAZIO

A painter struggles with an empty canvas as a void grows inside of her.

Benasco

Kiart, Scoops, Yeepa, and the Queerbaiter take a trip to a different dimension (Huesca)

Skinamarink

Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.

Iloveyou, Iloveyou, Iloveyou (...)

In a distant world ruled by a queer dictatorship, a non-binary couple's decision to marry challenges societal norms, blurring the lines of gender and love in a universe where inversions are the norm and limitations are mere illusions.

Other Land

You find yourself in a foreign landscape. Two other people are on the horizon. Something about the world around you is off. It isn't long before something is released from a caged pit. There is limited time left as something ugly consumes the land around you. Is this Earth?

Fossil

An old man's vision of a drowning world is clouded. He decides to take radical actions inflicting damage to his surroundings. Instigating a self-destructive chain of events, coming from the dark abyss of his subconsciousness.

Dernier Péché

In an unsettling context, a dark event is looming: the night of the purge. The country is plunged into uncertainty and fear, politics seems to be nothing but a mirror of lies and betrayal, while the people's riots become incessant. Given this alarming situation, a group of friends, aided by an anonymous informant, decide to leave the city of Tours and seek refuge in a peaceful, remote village. This experimental short film is based on a horrific project produced in September 2023 by a team of 10 people.

Salem's Flames

A chauvinistic young man pays a visit to a new nightclub named "Salem's Flames", unaware that he is about to meet his comeuppance at the hands of a coven of witches.

Enys Men

A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.

Midríase

Is the eye the window of the soul? - Mydriasis is a movie that reflects about the early discoveries of queerness and its impact on the self perception of a person.

Empty Memories of Broken Hearts

An atmospheric look into loneliness and heartbreak, all through a highly experimental lens.

Barreira

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Electroma

Two robots embark on a quest to become human.

Stained Night

The light and the noise stain the dark night.

Cyclepaths

An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

Baby Invasion

An ultra-realistic, multiplayer FPS game follows a group of mercenaries using baby faces as avatars. Tasked with entering mansions of the rich and powerful, players must explore every rabbit hole before time runs out.

Kino Kopf

Born from steel and glass Kino Kopf is created by two inventors. They are assembled by their mother, a nurturing artist, and their Father a greedy entrepreneur. Kino Kopf is the first of its kind a sentient humanoid VHS camera. They are given a life by their mother but presented to the world by their father. Kino Kopf is the next big sensation and spurs a technological revolution. They are soon forgotten and alone as new models surpass them. Kino Kopf is left alone to contemplate if they ever had a soul, as visions of an electric cowboy dance through their dreams.

EGGspression

Egglantine loves salt on her eggs. Eggbert prefers pepper. Who blinks first in this playful Easter ritual?

Endless

A meditation on the inevitable deterioration of certain traditional values that have been established (or destroyed) throughout civilization. This elegiac account uses symbolic representation from natural elements in order to convey the inevitability of remembering the social and cultural erosion, and places a layer of texture in front of the elliptical glimpses of imagery, separating the viewer from the past. The re-occurring image of flames remains untouched by the erosion aspects of reticulation, ultimately alluding to nature's powerful quality.

winter, my words immure

After moving to Bucharest, Sânziana reflects on how this change has affected her perception of herself and her body.

Idéal

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Quando o sol se pôr, o amanhã será tão incerto quanto antes

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Dyspersjo

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