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A statue comes alive at night.
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A statue comes alive at night.
In 1988, a mysterious man enters the US on a fake passport. Ronald Reagan tours a collapsing Soviet Union. A road trip through rural America ends in a terrorism arrest outside of New York City. What becomes of those lost
Four rooms, four memories. The son steps into a tunnel of recollection during a visit to his long-absent father in prison. Pushing open door after door, he attempts to rediscover the visage of his father within these roo
A man in the desert falls in love with a giantess and embarks on a journey to grow to her size. After succeeding in becoming as large as the woman, he finds her small again. But he was deceived and there was no woman
A roving search across endless colour-fields gradually reveals a solitary singer, struggling to be heard over distortion and doppelgangers.
Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.
In day-for-night blue and hunting camera night vision, darkness is replicated and punctured. Looking finds bodies in the dark, at the threshold of intimacy and trespass. Objects, surfaces, spaces become evidentiary and d
A religious woman shelters a young girl in her house based on the request of one of her friends. But in reality, the young girl is a boy who has undergone hormone therapy and wants to perform the sex change operation, an
At the annual Jinmen Reminiscence Fair, the Joker uses magic to steal the golden silk coat. The three major families of jugglers in Jinmen: the Tang Clan, who are known for their speed and expertise in blindfolds, the Li
Figure-Ground is an unorthodox exploration of the bizarre reality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: an associative compilation of found footage, composed entirely of excerpts from YouTube videos of the beach of Tel Av
This film is an accumulation of semi-stroboscopic figures with features invisible to the eye, that remain in the human cerebral cortex located at the top of the brain. Nature and people are compressed and disturbed by ge
The most crude and atrocious institutional violence of the Spanish State hides behind a true dark figure, an abyss into which this documentary peers through 30 firsthand accounts.
"Kristine Leschper wrote to me with a very intriguing proposition: create a short film in response to her song “Figure and I”. I knew that this deeply rhythmic two-minute song needed some kind of somatic imagery. I neede
2 best friends try to predict the fight against Hulk Vs. Superman but the question is who will win
Even heroes are sometimes hungry. But what can you do. The moon is full tonight and there is somebody, who really needs your help!
The figure of wax to which the title alludes is that of philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), one of the founders of the University of London. The film was shot over a period of two days in three locations:
A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.
Elliot is pregnant with his first child. When he hears of his mother’s passing, he is left to figure out how his relationship with his mother will affect the way he will raise his child.
This film shows a series of still images of a number of archaeological objects, filmed with slight camera movement and dissolves. Paul Sietsema’s use of the film medium derives from his profound interest in the experienc
Figure-ground features hand-painted cells filmed in receding distance with a multi-plan camera. Each scene is derived from photographs published online and depicting the aftermath of a death related to the 2008 global fi