Ravage (2024)

Puparia

Something is about to change drastically, and the only thing to do is to witness it.

Once More Unto the Breach

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)

ART e FACT

In a society where creativity is suppressed, a grieving ex-singer uncovers a comic hero’s hidden truth, sparking a musical journey of defiance and self-discovery against a repressive regime.

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends-- Namely, the intercontinental exchange of culture, combining both highbrow and entertainment elements. A live broadcast shared between WNET TV in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, linked up with broadcasters in Germany and South Korea, reached a worldwide audience of over 10 or even 25 million (including the later repeat transmissions).

Thlípsi

A man who is paranoid and deluded by his own conspiracies that someone out there is after him must come to terms with the root of his suffering.

Swim Little Fish Swim

Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.

Pieces Within

A poet's muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.

The Breakfast

Short film based on a poem and made for the 1st year actor directing course

Amor de Plástico

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Exquisite Corpse

While her girlfriend is in the hospital in a coma state after find her floating in the bathtub without vital signs, Clara stars on a path of physical and psychological transformation, with the goal of possessing her in some way.

Atali'i O Le Crezent (Sons of the Crezent)

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Go on, laugh

A mentally unstable teen transforms himself into a clown to deal with and mask his own disturbing, nihilistic worldview and deteriorating mental health. the further the film continues, the more prominent his descent into madness becomes.

Piecemeal

An approaching loss threatens the of a middle-class family, whose dark secrets gradually come to light and begin to gnaw away at the family members - literally.

The death of the minotavr

The death of the minotavr talks about the concept of the heroine's journey. Suffering, horror and exhaustion lead the protagonist to a process of transformation, abyss and expiation, because only murdering to minotaur and everything he represents is possible to return to life. From the female gaze, it shows the depth of the emotional wounds caused by domestic violence; the same one that the surrealist Dora Maar lived and that ask why, as a society, instead of killing the minotaur, we blindly continue to send him women only to be devoured and ask them why they simply did not fight, why they did not try get out of the labyrinth.

Longing of the idle plants

A film about using nature as a way to deal, cope and escape depression, a sense of melancholy and loss clouds over the film.

Nourishment of the oblivion

Andrea and the simbionte travel to Toledo; when they arrive, they find a lonely bus station, which slowly turns off the lights for them. In the silence that surrounds them, Andrea watches the moment pass and with it her certainty about her future dream with the simbionte, feeling that everything she experiences is actually a memory.

Topeng Bramacorah & Media Sosial

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The Quiet Silence

Bustoni, a performing arts worker who lives with his mother who are dying, has a question that distract his life. What will happen to a woman after death?

Water Ballet

Trapped by his parent’s relentless argument, a teenager isolates himself in the bathroom and finds solace in the confined space of the bathtub.

Temptation

The story of a sex worker struggling to connect with the people around him. As his world turns increasingly hostile, a descent into isolation brings him face to face with his past.

A Way Out

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Verrückt

Procedurally-generated frames slowly expand in density to visually explore the mind of a psychopathic, narcissistic teenager, up until the demise of the subject.

Pas de Deux

Mireia has just come out of a toxic relationship that prevents her from enduring physical contact when she is offered the lead role of "Sleeping Beauty" at the ballet school where she attends, and has to dance with the Blue Prince.

PROLIX

A young woman watches TV with her cat in the room. A dying man explores what's left of his psyche.

Isaac

Isaac travels to Mount Moriah with his father to make a sacrifice to God.

Spectres

Three ancient heroes encounter the spectres of their dead loved ones and struggle to let them go.

Three Venus

Love and admiration in 16mm. The fusion a beauty that exists throughout three generations; my three Venus.

Five Frames and one fine evening we went to tell a story

Two filmmakers are going to brief a story to an actor for an upcoming film.

Piece of Paradise

Alex returns to a lifeless home that she ran away from at a young age. Once home, she begins filming a video about her past life but begins to question why she is putting her misery on display instead of doing what makes her happy.

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.

I'm At Home

The host of a children's television show aimed for creativity starts experiencing burnout after needing to force that creativity every day.

Anamnesis

A reclusive former star of British cinema reflects on the loss of her child and her past life in the spotlight.

Picnic

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H(o)me(o)pa®t(h)y

H(o)me(o)pa®t(h)y is a home entertainment healing system based on Homoeopathic medicine which one can at least to a certain extent autonomously manage as first aid tool, if you are skilled enough. As an allusion to David Cronenberg's Videodrome where the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers by establishing a new TV show dedicated to torture and punishment, H(o)me(o)pa®t(h)y instead is based on joy and healing. But will there be an overdose of globules? Insert 1 globules and start your solo home party! Cure yourself on so many occasions and relive a full relief. Your own H(o)me(o)pa®t(h)y kit is now available. Don't worry, be homoeopathic!

bonny

Memories cascade and fade as Bonny remembers the one she loved and the life they lived on the run...

Hotaru

Nova, immersed in metaphors that cross her unconscious, is guided by fate, door to door.

Caught

In this innovative blend of documentary and fiction, Rosa and Paloma, two trans Latina sex workers in Queens, New York, fight transphobic violence, persecution from the police, and defend their cases of trafficking in an increasingly anti-migration political environment in the U.S.

Is It A Plaisir

'Is it a plaisir' is an experimental short film that explores femininity and the body as a sharp territory, crossed by the tension between desire and imposition. Through symbolic, sound and visual saturation, the film acts from pleasure (plaisir), revealing a liberation that emerges in the midst of excess, where intensity and lightness, dark and light, intertwine, collide and converge.

Solitary Eyes

An isolated filmmaker struggles to connect with others in the absence of cameras. When he becomes creatively stuck, the world around him begins to dissolve.

Harbinger

A Los Angeles detective discovers the unbelievable while searching for a missing child and in the aftermath his life begins to unravel.

Macabre Metrics

A young, wannabe streetwear influencer dying to make an impact on the world gets a lot more than he bargained for when a shy but obsessive fan decides to help him become a star for his own gain at the expense of everyone else involved. Macabre Metrics is an almost feature-length, visually experimental exploration into the world of image culture set in Seoul. Shot entirely on iPhone with animated sequences.

Yellow Scream

The piece, the artist states, “is like the typical painting lessons of Bob Ross. What I was feeling in the theme of this video is the existential nature of contemporary art (and culture) as well as of artists. A videoart work by South Korean multimedia artist Kim Beom

MENTIS EXCESSUS

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Normality

Normality is a human state of good intentions, empathy, caring and wanting to do the best for those we love and the world at large.

you don't know JACK like I did.

An experimental re-edit of Jack Frost, starring Michael Keaton.