María and Raquel wanted to be actresses. Raquel succeeded, but María stayed in the neighbourhood. In 1976, during the darkest days of the dictatorship, the military abducted María’s eldest son, whilst Raquel was forced to emigrate to Germany. María’s grief and fear were transformed into strength and resistance against the oppressive regime, and she became one of the first Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the filmmaker finally admits that possessing the most common name in the English-speaking world has had a profound impact on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, Being John Smith takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.
Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerges of a small, metaphorical city where all the streets are named after poets. The town’s psychogeography defines the mental and emotional state of its inhabitants, who live in a utopian illusion founded on poetry.
Aliou, a rising student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, sells a painting of his deceased mother for 3,000 euros to a renowned collector. The delivery of the painting then becomes a long journey during which he will realise the weight of the money he earned.
Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.
After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the filmmaker finally admits that possessing the most common name in the English-speaking world has had a profound impact on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, Being John Smith takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.
Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerges of a small, metaphorical city where all the streets are named after poets. The town’s psychogeography defines the mental and emotional state of its inhabitants, who live in a utopian illusion founded on poetry.
Aliou, a rising student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, sells a painting of his deceased mother for 3,000 euros to a renowned collector. The delivery of the painting then becomes a long journey during which he will realise the weight of the money he earned.
Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.
The documentary immerses us in the world of teleclubs, gathering spaces in rural Spain under Franco’s dictatorship, where television coexisted with cultural activities such as film screenings and theatre performances. Promoted by the Ministry of Information and Tourism, these centres provide a lens through which the film explores the influence of new communication media on the customs and working lives of rural communities, portraying a reality rarely seen on the screens of the time.
Clothes and sheets hanging out are one of those everyday scenes we are used to. But what is the function of those white shirts and sheets exposed to the air? What does Sophia Loren think as she lays out the mended rags in Una Giornata particolare? Are these scenes strong enough to become icons of the secret grammar of celluloid?
Image codes and their variations: An experiment in databending. Images morph through sound and text files and back into images.
Two retrogaming special agents go on a quite impossible mission to retrieve a CD-ROM on a space station in earths orbit.
Flat earthers and skaters abduct a Mexican version of the yellow family in a trash grind rhythm.
A man working in a grand house serves two twins. He faces an unknown world behind his routine and steps into a magic orchard on a journey of self-discovery.
Deep underground, embedded in old muddy rock, the oracle is waiting. A big bright square tells the story of our present on repeat. Slowly it descends over small motionless people stuck in the middle of a world consuming itself. How do you want to be forgotten?
A nude model poses with statuesque stillness for a drawing class until an unfortunate mosquito bite puts his self-control to the test. Driven mad by the itch, he is caught between the ruthless demand for perfection and his most unhinged, animalistic impulses.
A dog loses grasp of its shape and time while balling like Shaq.
The world that appears calm on the surface is, in fact, quietly changing. One day, a man as unshakable as a mountain fell because of a toothache.
