Icaro I (2018)

Journey to Somewhere

A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing objects, feels overwhelmed by the weight of memories and her new responsibilities. Fortunately, the former inhabitants of the house soon come to her aid. (An account of the life and work of Fernando Fernán Gómez [1921-2007] and his wife Emma Cohen [1946-2016], two singular artists and fundamental figures of contemporary Spanish culture.)

Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art. (Abridged version of the original collection of eight short films).

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.

Projections

The innovative and influential British filmmaker Derek Jarman was invited to direct the Pet Shop Boys' 1989 tour. This film is a series of iconoclastic images he created for the background projections. Stunning, specially shot sequences (featuring actors, the Pet Shop Boys, and friends of Jarman) contrast with documentary montages of nature, all skillfully edited to music tracks.

Rite Here Rite Now

Whether you’re a devoted disciple looking to relive treasured memories of the GHOST live spectacle or among the curious uninitiated, RITE HERE RITE NOW will put you right there: putting your phones down and living in the moment—as a shadow of uncertainty looms—completely spellbound and in the thrall of this bombastic yet intimate cinematic portrait of GHOST.

Las Preguntas que Perdimos

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Reila

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Beautifully Derelict

A melancholic look at Mainz's Jubiläumsbrunnen, whose decayed charm is in a state of conflict with other buildings in Mainz.

Casual Workers

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

The Last Piece: Essay I

Disrupt, reject, destroy, avoid: At the interrupted rhythm of the broken photographs that a granddaughter has rescued from her grandfather’s hands, the last piece reconstructs the memory of an older man who has decided to leave behind his life impulses to surrender to sleep and calm. An essay on the act of joining our memories, the illusion of remembering and the freedom to forget.

Sound Spring

Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring explores the history ofYellow Springs, Ohio over hundreds of years, as narrated by its residents incomical scenes: one interviewee rollerblades and reads the village's water meters, another stands on his head in a breakdancing freeze. The villagers describe American history-their ancestors' settlements after slavery, a friendship with Coretta Scott King, and Ohio's Trail of Tears- among other more personal details of village life. The wording of their recollections is imperfect, unsure-in fact they are all re-stagings of their previous audio interviews. Through performing their own previously recorded media, villagers uncover layers of time and storytelling.

Reflection

Jonathan, the doc's director, standing in front of a mirror recalls an event from his childhood, reflecting on the image he has of himself. To do this, he immerses himself in his past. All of this happens extremely fast, like the duration of a thought and the format of a micro short.

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.

Madeleine

A stop motion/collaged based independent short film plays with the recontextualisation of memories and how time distorts them.

Three Venus

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

Rebenty

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F*ck It, We Fall

Through the eyes of director Emma Becker, “F*ck It, We Fall” delves into the beauty, oddities, and awkwardness that comes with the fall season..

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and historical events, ultimately transcending the limitations of the senses and into a new cosmic rebirth.

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.)

Picnic

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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.

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.

Analog Exposure

A visual piece about the world of mass media.

Anamnesis

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

Caucho

Caucho is an experimental drama which tells the story of three artists: а theater director (Arsen Grigoryan),an actress (Lucie Abdalyan) and an actor (Manvel Khachatryan) who are engaged in staging the play "The Ping-Pong Players" by William Saroyan. They decide to speak only using the dialogues from the performance before the first night of the play. The game will be over if any of them breaks the rules.

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.

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?

Exquisite Corpse

With her girlfriend lying comatose in the hospital, after having found her lifeless body in the bathtub, Clara starts the path of physical and psychological transformation with the goal of possessing her girlfriend again in some way.

Difference & Repetition, 2020

In March 2020, an Argentine woman flees New York with her Peruvian husband for his family’s empty beach house outside of Lima, whereupon an unplanned pregnancy precipitates the destruction of her marriage. In the present, she rips the moments of this narrative from their context, and reconstructs her story to reckon with her profound feeling of loneliness and the experience of time in which it has trapped her.

Spectres

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

Fine

After a period of time where her hearing begins to overtake her sight, Casandra searches for the cause of her problem, isolating herself from society. She starts having visions that remind her of the past and promise an apocalyptic future.

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.

bonny

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Puparia

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

ART e FACT

In an apparently perfect society, a novice art curator becomes obsessed with a comic book hero, only to discover she might be real—and everyone wants a piece of her.