Come out of your shell (2024)

Inland Empire

As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Dyspersjo

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Topeng Bramacorah & Media Sosial

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Here are some Images

“Here are some Images” is an short film exploring the interplay between internal and external images, using hand-processed 16mm footage and musings on perception and memory.

Quantum Cowboys

Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician. The complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons!

Metamorfosi

Metamorphosis is a real ballet dance on the rocks, interpreted by a great climber, Patrick Berhault, and set in the picturesque countryside of Cote d'Azur and the Lingurian coast. Berhault's evolutions, in the sea, in the grottoes, on the rocks and precipices, are exceedingly difficult but they are chiefly performed to give the movement an aesthetic value. Matemorphosis is the story of a cycle without words, narrated with gestures and music. The climber Monique Dalmasso also partecipates in the film.

Trengellick Rising

Sentenced for a crime without trial, Private Gerren Pascoe is sent to a remote outpost to report on the movements of enemy ships. Isolated with only a surly and unhinged superior for company, the men descend into a maelstrom of chaos, debauchery and fear. The lines between right and wrong soon become blurred - as does the reality of why they're really there.

Cormorant

A 16mm experimental short film loosely following a cormorant as it attempts to dry its wings.

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.

TERMINAL!!!

Julia experiences a confused world seemingly against her after receiving a pessimistic tarot reading, as her feelings inevitably differ from her thoughts. Which way to go?

The Contact

In search of housing, a student stumbles upon an advertisement for renting an apartment at a very reasonable fee—and promptly agrees with a woman who recently laid her son to rest, complying with all her conditions. The young man settles into the apartment and gradually becomes a witness to inexplicable mystical phenomena.

Moongazer's Moonlight Reverie

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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.

Hale

Narrative revolves around an individual confined within the constraints of their existing reality, yearning to break free into a dream world—only to realize that the dream world had been their prison all along.

ZAPPER!

In a surreal universe where bananas fire laser beams and soup cans are used as grenades, a wacky cast of gangsters are thrown into a deadly game to battle it out over a mystical longboard in this trippy take on the Tarantino crime genre.

Afterimage

Experiencing extreme sleep deprivation for months, a young man tape-records his memories for preservation against sinister, clandestine watchers.

MERAHEFET

In the video art work "MERAHEFET" describes the world of a ghost, from her point of view floating over places that become a spring, a path that suggests a deep longing that is only revealed when the ghost stops for a moment to look out the window. This moment when she manages to take control of it, is flooded with flashes of mirrors that reveal to the viewer and the spirit what motivates her to continue her journey.

Barreira

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A Trip Elsewhere

During the Covid-19 pandemic, four anxious strangers take a record-breaking dose of LSD, catapulting them into a shared psychedelic dream where they must find solace and redemption before they can return to the real world.

Paranoid Park

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

winter, my words immure

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

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.

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.

Small Mountains

A slug climbs small mountains at the peak of Mount Greylock (3,489 ft).

The Consortium

In a building where silence and order usually prevail, Estela tries to sleep, unable to doze off due to the passionate nights of her young neighbors. Tired of their disrespect, she calls for a consortium meeting to decide the couple's new fate.

Second Sun

A document of energy forms in states of vibrating transmutation, this audio-visual composition uses LEDs, strobes and torches to create a mechanical "light-score."

The Forest and The Sea

A short film featuring a coastal forest and the rocky coastline of downeast Maine.

Jasper Beach and The Salt Marsh

A short film featuring a pebble beach and coastal salt marsh in Maine.

Starlight

A golden sunrise brings light to the foggy hills and meadows of late summer.

The Seashore

A study of the seashore in mid-coast Maine.

Summer Meadow

A close look at flowers and pollinators on a sunny summer morning.

A World of Dew

Morning dew in summer fields and meadows.

Mountain Wildflowers

Mountain wildflowers in a dense fog.

Snowfall

As a winter storm approaches the shallow water crystallizes, ice builds up along the edges of a stream, and the first snowflakes of the storm layer over the newly formed ice. The following morning a soft light approaches through the snow covered forest.

New Clouds

Clouds forming and moving through the summer sky.

Two Trees

In the early 1900s commercial loggers cut down an old growth spruce tree growing on a small island surrounded by tide pools on the coast of Maine. Out of the trunk of this ancient tree grew two new trees, side by side.

Now and in the time of our death

Observing all the world in a flower; an ecstatic study of colour, a hum of petals opening, a cacophony of bells and saintly icons. ‘Ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte’ is a hymn to the universal found in the minutiae of nature

What We Do When We're Alone (or a Little Story About Reconditioning)

A short experimental film about a younger man and what he does when he's alone and bored at home.

WAR TIMES

An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940's Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age.

Gadis Cantik di Bangku Taman

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Pyre

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

MER

A paralyzed girl finds difficulty living a normal life, so she participates in a ritual to metamorphize into a mermaid to replace her useless lower half.

Adagio

«I often have dreams. Careless dreams. When the sun was shining. It was calm and quiet. And a peaceful sky overhead.» An experimental musical film on the theme of love. Memories of the past excite the imagination and make you evaluate what is happening in the present in a new way.

Nature morte

The tenth film from Shahriar Hanife's series of experimental etudes, an Iranian researcher.

Opulence

Amidst the realm of her parents' upscale nightclub, a young woman embarks on a surreal odyssey to confront her identity, only to find herself inescapably mirroring her father.

Godard by Godard

Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic returns, of a filmmaker who never looks back on his past, never makes the same film twice, and tirelessly pursues his research, in a truly inexhaustible diversity of inspiration. Through Godard’s words, his gaze and his work, the film tells the story of a life of cinema; that of a man who will always demand a lot of himself and his art, to the point of merging with it.

Site Unseen

A collaboration between Kadet Kuhne & Alba G. Corral.

Now They Experience It All the Time...

The newest film by SamHel

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.