The Park Closes at Sunset. (2022)

The Bek Show: End of Civilization

The versatile artist, BEK Hyunjin ventures into theater direction, leaving the actors in a state of confusion. His unconventional direction unfolds into strange scenes on stage. Scenes of people howling, a woman's monologue, another woman lip-syncing a song appear in random order, and BEK Hyunjin himself appears on stage as a primitive man, a singer and a narrator.

Memory

Memory is a collaboration with musician Noah Lennox (Panda Bear), exploring the relationship between a musician and filmmaker and their personal reflection on memories. From Super 8 home movies and entirely handmade, this film explores familiar memories, the present moment combined with past experiences and how it all seems to evade from our present memory.

1/2 Man

A visual documentary of Einstürzende Neubauten, the German underground band, by Japanese cult director Sogo Ishii, made during their 1985 tour of Japan. The band makes an elaborate and remarkably choreographed appearance in the ruins of an old ironworks which was scheduled for demolition; footage of same was incorporated into the movie and a brief appearance on stage.

Revés

The portrait of a world in reverse, a society of different tonalities and shades. Aspiration as a refuge from systematization.

I’d like that corner seat over there

An omnibus film based on Kim Oki's album Hip Hop Retreat. Twenty characters share the same table at different times, in different emotional states, each with their own story. Shot in one day, edited in one day.

Revolution or Bust

A surreal music video where a pop-up world of greed, rebellion, and revolution unfolds as cherubs, a devil, and a modern-day Jesus clash in a satirical battle for justice.

I Am Your Grandma

An autobiographical video diary log recorded by Jillian Mayer for her unborn grandchildren.

Possibly in Michigan

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.

Lohengrin

A short experimental film shot on Super 8, inspired by the music of Richard Wagner.

A Very Lonely Solstice

Robin Pecknold brings light to the bleakest of winters with Fleet Foxes’ ‘A Very Lonely Solstice,’ a 13-track career spanning collection recorded in December 2020, at Brooklyn, NY’s St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church.

5am

A collection of solitary urban images intersect with each other.

THE BLUEPRINTS

A rat goes out to look for something in a tower.

Winterreise

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Heartstorm

A young woman goes on a cathartic journey through memory and imagination inspired by the performers at an open mic.

BMFD

The all powerful goddess of feet showing off her very interesting, soft and thick assets to you in every way she can imagine, while the sounds of the rave club rage on. Loaded with tons of sole scrunching, big bunching, feet waving, heel wagging, meat jiggling, toe wiggling, pad waggling, arch curling, foot furling, body bouncing, fancy dancing, sweating wetness and much much more ensues in this exciting experimental generative ai visual album.

Different Love

Max Devereaux and Suko Pyramid documentary about the making of their first three albums together as a duo and the story of their inspiring, international collaboration. Produced entirely remotely, featuring never-before-seen photos, videos and audio as well as interviews with close collaborators from all over the world.

Pig's Inferno

Kaito lost his sister who was his lover in his childhood. He severed all contact with the outer world for twenty years and devoted his time to writing down memories of his sister. One day, a week before the manuscript is to be completed, a woman visits his room. She burns all his papers and takes him to the city to cut him off from his memories. Nevertheless, Kaito cannot stop writing about his sister. The woman decides to lead him on a journey to ultimate hell.

Nocturne

A musical fantasia on religion and the nature of exploitation.

It's a Mind Game

In a dimly lit room, two boys engage in an intense chess match. As tension rises and strategies unfold, the game becomes a battleground of wits and wills, leading to an unexpected climax that goes beyond the boundaries of the board.

EGGspression

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

A Day In LC

A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home.

The Connection

An influencer gets canceled and goes on a journey that forces him to view his life through the lens of social media.

Spectral Ascension

Music by Byron Westbrook, 16mm film by Paul Clipson.

ghost town.

A young man has an anxiety attack and in an attempt to feel something, he skips through Kanye West's 2018 release, ye, until he lands on Ghost Town.

NEO-VIBE

An experience through neon visuals, things you've seen before in ways you haven't seen it. Neon distorted imagery through visuals consisting of gaming, clubs, film, cities, nature, and unidentifiable moving imagery.

Broken Harbors

An ambient short film of seaside cinematography accompanied by Stars of the Lid's 'Broken Harbors pt.2' and 'Broken Harbors pt.3' It is shot in black and white, but switches to color near the end.

Shearing Animation

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

SIN PIEDAD

Under the relentless sun, a killer stalks through the mountains, where the innocence of a young couple becomes prey. With no shadows to hide their fate, the hunt is a macabre game in broad daylight, where fear is not hidden in the darkness, but burns with the rawness of the unperturbed noon.

Plague Mass

A conceptual live concert by Diamanda Galás, "Plague Mass" continues the themes of the suffering and misery of the infected found in her "Masque of the Red Death" trilogy.

Stiletto

Leaf lives a solitary life, in harmony with nature. Her world takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a mysterious red stiletto. Upon inspection, the beautiful shoes bridge a gap between her idyllic home and a vibrant nightlife.

Cant Cant

An anthropomorphic creature has trouble sleeping.

Mourtes Adventures

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Winter in Pluto

The myth of a goddess who rebels against traditional romance and falls in love with herself.

Made of Air

A dream lament for a drowned world. Filmed in London, Zurich, San Francisco, Berkeley and Napa. Music by Grouper.

Cecilia

Cecilia, a newbie dancer, finds happiness in her dance. As time passes, she becomes increasingly famous and receives a lot of appreciation. One time, someone expresses hatred towards her, forcing her to take action so that she doesn't sink into despair.

Miami In Movements

Symphonic documentary exploring the Miami identity in six movements. It was performed and projected live by the New World Symphony, led by Michael Tilson Thomas on Feb 22, 2018. The film is made up of five separate and synchronized video channels, projected onto the walls of the New World Center concert hall, above a full symphony orchestra.

Death in Vegas

The life, death, and resurrection of Elvis Presley, as he is transformed from man into product. Composed primarily of an illustrated biography filmed with a microscope camera.

Odyssey

A new world in a new lens

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A visual essay shot entirely on a Nintendo 3DS

The Wurst Has a Master Plan

A rain parade of sausages meets camels and kings in the 32 minute experimental syncing of Pharaoh Sanders' "The Creator has a master plan"

Theophany

a young timid boy who is doubtful about faith and religion is beaten by curiosity and ends up wandering into a peculiar church and encountering a celestial yet godlike girl.

reMemBer2.human

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 Visual Poem

Surreal environments take center stage in this visual odyssey.

Late Anthropocene

Hand processed expired Kodak 7291, Camera: Beaulieu R16, Lens: Angenieux 12-120mm with +3 Diopter, Polarising filter for the clouds. Hand processed in C-41 chem using a Lomo UPB-1A tank. Still haven't mastered removal of the rem-jet anti-halation layer (thats all the white 'static' on the film). The film expired about 40 years ago.

Drums West

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstrates his working method.