Impossible Objects
Professor Shapiro shows us a range of objects that seem simple and unremarkable at first glance, but which on closer examination simply cannot be constructed in reality – or are not at all what they seem.
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Professor Shapiro shows us a range of objects that seem simple and unremarkable at first glance, but which on closer examination simply cannot be constructed in reality – or are not at all what they seem.
Kala Rongo, a convent in the craggy mountains of Nangchen, Tibet, is home to over 300 nuns who receive spiritual and educational training. In Ritual Objects, we come across a group of nuns who demystify the iconic prayer
Dreaming of an independent future, Nell starts up her own business, dealing in the perverse and bizarre desires of her anonymous clients. As mysterious orders start to come in, Nell becomes embroiled in a tantalizing gam
A group of college friends staring down their 30s examine how close, or how far, they are to achieving their goals, driving one of them to make an unconscionable decision.
A portrait based on objects. The filmmaker goes in search of traces of her deceased sister. In the process, fragmented memories meet material things. A journey into a world in which absent people are also allowed to be p
There are spaces in this world wherein so many memories have soaked into the walls that it is hard to place these sites within a definite point in time. Memory of Objects illustrates these haphazard intersections of spac
A hilarious countdown of the black sheep of aviation, aircraft that have embarrassed their builders, enraged the owners and terrified their pilots. These are stories of aircraft that should have never been built, includi
Part 12 of 12. 3m
Filmmaker Moïa Jobin-Paré immerses viewers in a sensory exploration of the nature of the gesture in an experimental work that brings together photography, scratching, and a soundtrack composed from original recordings.
Part 11 of 12. 3m
Begun as a consideration of the upgrading from manual to digital film editing techniques, Transitional Objects explores the anxiety and loss inevitable in such a transition while also suggesting the consequences of other
Part of the Optofonica #1 series
White fog is slowly moving from left to right. A man cleans his workwear from a vanishing distance with an air hose. Three trembling steel cables emerge from a grey metal building. A large dump truck with a full load pas
CalArts MFA in Experimental Animation first year short film.
Leila, a young provincial girl, has recently married and now lives in Tehran. She and her husband are tenants to a pair of sweet, old ladies named Eti and Aziz. In matters of daily life and her relationship with her husb
A split-screen animated film that explores the complex nature of memory in contemporary post-communist Romania. Using a collection of everyday, household objects as windows into the past, it features 16mm stop-motion ani
Dreaming of an independent future, Nell starts up her own business, dealing in the perverse and bizarre desires of her anonymous clients. As mysterious orders start to come in, Nell becomes embroiled in a tantalizing gam
Luz emigrated to Italy in search of a better future. In Colombia she has left his two years son by his family. But her European dream begins to truncate and turn into a series of misfortunes. She assumes her new social s
The German-built Porsche sports car James Dean died while driving and other objects linked to tragedy are put under Evan O'Hare’s haunted microscope.