Uncertain Presence
An essay film on beauty, decay, and the beauty of decay; on Journey to Italy (1954), Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (1992), and Decasia (2002) among other images; on a theory of looking away.
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An essay film on beauty, decay, and the beauty of decay; on Journey to Italy (1954), Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (1992), and Decasia (2002) among other images; on a theory of looking away.
Odesa in the early 2000s. A few local residents go to the cemetery to remove the monuments of famous Odesa citizens. All along the way, they encounter phenomena and people characteristic of the city.
To the shock of all involved, a young woman's claim to be one of the World's most famous missing children is verified.
This film moves across the emotional landscape of memory, as the filmmaker responds to the documentaries, notes, sketches, and photographs left behind by her father. As she reflects on her present as a student of film, s
Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.
A private investigator takes on an audacious local community where they seem to worship an ancient fabled crown and yet are not aware of the deadly horror and consequences that guard its true existence.
This poetic experimental documentary is a tribute to the multifaceted life of Brianna, Jorge Lozano's daughter, a collaborative reflection intertwining fiction film archives, acting, and photographs to evoke memories and
An author who falls in love with a girl becomes haunted by the ghost of the dead lover of the girl's mother.
A strange young woman lives for a while with a man and brings troubles in his appartment and his life.
Jelena is conducting a population census. She knocks on the door of Marko, her former friend. What begins as Jelena’s job slowly turns into a quiet companionship in which the two unravel the layers of their past friendsh
An exploration of a decaying synagogue.
[This film is] structured on the four-handed nature of film: original footage (outtakes from a television documentary I was directing in the spring of 1975 in the South Bronx and Brownsville) manipulated, then optically
Absent presence is a non-fiction short film about sites that have been abandoned in the city of Leon. Urban symphony of the passing of time, a travel across the visual and sonic space that is the past present and future.
What happens when you're attacked by something, but no one believes you? Ben, Melissa, Darnell, and Courtney are about to find out. One by one, it seems something is out to turn their fears into reality.
Presence of Mind deals less with physical space and more with psychological and mental space. The film is simply a series of shots of people and their surroundings. Some of the shots are synchronous sound, some are non-s
During the 2020 global pandemic, filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her daughter Noa collaborated with Anne Lesley Selcer to create Girl is Presence. The work is a form of reading and listening in response to disquieting words fr
As Varela moved on from film, working with video from the 1990s to the present, the spiritual and autobiographic concerns of his work remained, evidenced in the longer works that conclude this programme, works in contemp
Jean and Brendan have been dating for a couple months now. It's that sweet spot: Brendan's still enamored with Jean's career as a painter and Jean still finds Brendan's less-than-clever jokes funny. But as they begin to
Abducted by a cult deep in the woods, a girl fights to survive—until she learns there’s more to fear than her captors.