An Object at Rest
From the director: An Object at Rest follows the life of a stone as it travels over the course of millennia, facing nature's greatest obstacle: human civilization. My final thesis film at CalArts!
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From the director: An Object at Rest follows the life of a stone as it travels over the course of millennia, facing nature's greatest obstacle: human civilization. My final thesis film at CalArts!
Courtney is a lonely girl who talks to her dolls and has a crush on Lauren, the local delivery girl who barely knows Courtney's name, but that's all about to change.
Inspired by the author’s own life story, Qilliqtu (Shiny Object) aims at reminding viewers that Indigenous stories span lifetimes and embraces the importance of connecting to the land.
Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.
The emergence of a "real" three dimensional object from its two-dimensional appearances is the subject of Painting in Object. The film is in negative and begins with a totally white screen. Haxton enters the frame and pa
This video tape is a triptych about love and desire.
A one-minute video about my house key, about the moments we've shared together.
A stripper is arrested for killing her gigolo who exploited her as a prostitute under the name of Karina. Her despair turns to ardent passion when she meets a lady lawyer who promises her that she will be able to get her
In a crescendo of visual hints and sonic traces, Objet d’énigme plays with thriller tropes to depict homes as a dense space in which the memory of murder can be surmised in every frame. Using lo-fi scans of domestic spac
Director Amanda Ann-Min Wong's short documentary profiles a young ceramic artist exploring the Canadian and Korean influences on his functional wares, examining cross-cultural identity, beauty in utility, and finding pur
Timur Novikov: Zero Object positions the late artist Timur Novikov as protagonist in this exploration of underground art from St Petersburg. As well as providing a historical overview of the 1980s-1990s, the film feature
A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story.
A short personal documentary about a man’s obsession with his 1928 Model A Ford.
Describes continuing opposition by local people to government plans to build a motorway alongside Archway Road in North London, including an analysis of the profit-based motives for the scheme, an expose of the tactics o
Three hungry aliens stumble across an independent cow.
Picture three places. 1. A workshop in Germany where we follow the making of a prosthetic hand. 2. A traditional glove-making workshop in Millau, in the south of France. 3. A jeans factory in Istanbul, illustrating large
During a walk through the deep Black Forest, a man passes through an old American military zone. Strange lights begin to follow him. His escape is accompanied by thunder, lightning, rain — and a horrible truth.
Light engulfs everything, until all there's left is a ghost made out of distortion.
The turning of the material into abstraction. Destruction of the other through destruction of its image.