The Presence of the Absence

Vicente, an 11-year-old boy and Guillermo, an 80-year-old man, meet every day at the same bus stop. Although they recognize each other, they never relate. An unexpected event confronts Vicente with himself, revealing one

Nothing Happens After Your Absence

Ibrahim goes back to the village he once left, hoping to screen films. But as he wrestles with custom and bureaucracy, war ignites across Sudan, turning his search for a screen into a battle to stay alive.

In the Absence of Choice

When a loyal enforcer of a vampire order begins to remember the night his childhood ended, the truth waiting in the dark threatens to consume what’s left of him.

by the absence of light

by the absence of light is a 16mm film directed and edited by Soph Cardinal. This work is a reimaging of a live duet choreographed by Keily Tafiti and Grace Hurley that demonstrates the tender and playful nature of two b

Absence: No Fats, No Femmes, No Asians

Subject Esther Kim shares her desires for a stronger queer, fat, Asian American and femme utopia where all four traits are embraced and celebrated.

Les vestiges de l'absence

The Absence Of Filmmaker

Experimental short by Masaki Matsushita.

Peace in the Absence of War

A portrait of a confused city in pain. A tone-poem for a Baltimore at the juncture of unrest and healing, as the city responds to the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray, a Black American Baltimore native, who died in

BENEATH THE LEAF OF ABSENCE

A sister struggling with loneliness after the sudden absence of her brother

Missing (A Sea of Absence)

A short film that illustrates a harrowing truth: the overwhelming numbers of missing women in Mexico. The film is composed of fifty images of disappeared women, all of them re-photographed from their “missing person” not

The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost

A single mother struggles with the grief of her missing child on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance, while her neighborhood milkman begins to feel a strong connection to her grief.

Invisible Man: The Weight of Absence

The Invisible Man is a series of works made between 2014 and 2016 in Ogoniland, Zina Saro-Wiwa’s ancestral homeland and the site of one of the most catastrophic international clashes between Big Oil and indigenous farmer

Topologie d’une absence

A new devised work combining music and film based on extraordinary archive footage from the 1920s captured in Lebanon by Pathé and Gaumont. The piece takes us back in time, or rather brings the past back to life, a hundr

Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence

Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck. A friend observing the burning buildings from Brooklyn phoned to say, “Get out. It can fall on yo

In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails

In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails suggests a future already arrived, merging the destruction with the creation of life as seen in the tiny turtles crawling their way to the sea, or heard in the crackling of a Ge

L’inquiétante absence

"L'inquiétante absence" is a documentary that examines the current state of genre films in Québec. In an attempt to answer their questions, the filmmakers conducted several interviews with leading figures of Québec's gen

Essay on color and its absence

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

Jean-Paul Sartre - A 20 Year Absence?

This historic documentary highlights the basis of Jean-Paul Sartre's thoughts in all its forms: novel, theater, philosophy, political commitments. Surrounded by Claude Lanzmann, Michel Contat, JB Pontalis, Jean Toussaint

On the Absence of the Painter

Experimental video installation by Kazuhiro Goshima.

In the Absence of Fruit and Flowers

Old wounds are laid bare on Eli’s 23rd birthday when he pays a visit to his estranged father and is met with an awkward surprise celebration.