memento mori
memento mori is a layered exploration of the total photographs captured over the course of a lifetime – over 100,000 in total. This personal archive, the dizzying documentation of a life, represents a plurality of subjec
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memento mori is a layered exploration of the total photographs captured over the course of a lifetime – over 100,000 in total. This personal archive, the dizzying documentation of a life, represents a plurality of subjec
A cop, a blind psychologist, and a mysterious murderer are embroiled in a mental game copying thriller movies. As the suspects are being killed one after another, the case seems to be heading to a dead end. When the answ
A woman in search of memory and identity dives into a surrealist journey where cinematic language itself is the vórtex of all reality.
Viewed from the world of Roger Ballen. Ballen is renowned for his confronting and bleak black and white portraits of marginalised South Africans. Melle van Essen follows in Ballen’s footsteps by creating 'Living' photogr
An intimate view on suicide, its taboo and its effects on two different families and a friend.
Laurent, a painter, observes the performance of the dancer Marguerite and immediately feels drawn to her beauty and being. He invites her to his studio and the two fall in love. Unfortunately, Marguerite is already marri
A visual exploration of Nicholas' fear of death.
Winner of the Best Short Film at the Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in 1995, Hubbard’s highly personal experimental work, Memento Mori, is a moving, queer meditation that individualizes the immeasurable collective t
Memento Mori is about a girl who's stuck in a dream circle, reliving key moments of a traumatic event. What happened to her? And will she survive this nightmare before time runs out?
An elderly woman lies on her deathbed, ignored by her various family members as they wait around the house for her to die. After her death, the family is forced to reckon with the aftermath of her seemingly inconvenient
Louella, a young woman coming to terms with her cancer diagnosis, his face not only with cancer itself, but also an onslaught of opinions from those sitting opposite her.
Bunkers—whether they are piles of rubble from a war that is gradually fading into oblivion, or spruced-up local history museums—the monuments to Germany’s wartime past still stand. A cautious and evocative exploration on
As rhythmic machines press zinc sheets into coffins, factory workers reflect on their own mortality. Does daily contact with death heighten their awareness of life’s impermanence?
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
A young man happens upon a matriarch in an abandoned building. She recites poems of a sea unknown. The matriarch teaches the young man her stories, igniting his imagination.. According to her, only stories can overcome o
By marking the grave of an NN with the word Chosen, the Animero has sealed a pact with “the devil.” Now he must do whatever it takes to keep his promise to find the head of an unnamed body. A dramatic allegory about the
Paul comes out of the hospital where, after a series of tests, his doctor tells him that he only has a few more days to live. Devastated by this news, he decides to hit the roads of France.