Mirrors of the Heart
A discussion about issues of race & ethnicity in three Latin American countries: Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
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A discussion about issues of race & ethnicity in three Latin American countries: Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Olya lives with her grandmother, who loves to tell her magical stories. Her parents are always busy and are rarely at home. The girl quarrels with her family and accidentally ends up in the mirror kingdom from her grandm
Following a conflict with her mother, Gabriela runs away to Bucharest, carrying with her a profound sense of loneliness and disconnection. As she wanders through unfamiliar spaces and fleeting encounters, she is pursued
A mirror in the filmmaker's backyard reflects his childhood home. The black frame of the watermarked mirror becomes a mysterious portal, distorting brick, branch, and flesh into an amorphous hodgepodge. A self-portrait.
When the rich man’s son Egil falls in love with the poor showgirl Rigi, his family is sceptical. They think that she’s not a good match for him, and perhaps they’re right. Just as the young couple’s fortunes are on the u
In keeping with her usual exploratory, material approach to images and sound, Charlotte Clermont has created a mosaic film, shot on Super 8 and 16mm stock, which she develops by hand and then augments with coloured ink.
When Mirrors Had Meaning is a visually searing experience of 70-year-old, Krishnan setting him off a journey in search of his distant memory, leaving behind a letter to his family. Upon her return, his daughter, Priya fi
Focusing on the aspect of ‘no records found’ about the hidden underground bunker discovered in 2005, A Room Without Mirrors tells a story about the bunker personified as a fictitious political prisoner who doesn’t rememb
This short film from the Corrick Collection by the Corrick Family Entertainers features a series of shots of trees and bridges and their reflections in bodies of water.
Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in a two-story house with a garage, the once unstoppable routine is about to close down forever. However, Tsutomu's last da
A documentary spanning Maurice Ravel's music & life. Written & performed by Paul Crossley.
In a world where an illegal drug grants users the ability to jump between dreams, Mark pushes the boundaries, taking far more than recommended. As he ventures deeper into uncharted realms of the subconscious, he strays t
Supposedly, all it takes is 36 questions and you’ll fall in love with anyone. Marie (Alena Doláková), a dancer who has just turned thirty, and her boyfriend František decide to check out this scientific theory for themse
Tom Savini is one of the greatest special effects legends in the history of cinema, but little is known about his personal life until now. For the first time ever a feature length film has covered not only Tom's amazing
How do the vicissitudes of contemporary notions of nationhood alter our relationship with cultural patrimony? It’s a question obliquely suggested by Amit Dutta’s latest film. As a camera explores the architecture of a mu
Through the centuries, a dark crime unites two women, challenging the limits of reality.
A woman wakes up at 3:33 in the morning. What appears to be insomnia reveals a crack in time: fragmented memories, interrupted therapies, and visions of an erased past. As the present fades away, images of her youth as a
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