Through equidistant materials, from dance competitions in Brittany, France, to nuclear tests in Polynesia, experimental…
This beautiful hybrid film navigates between documentary and fiction to illustrate, from their imaginary, the changes f…
Gravitating on the border between reality and the dream, this short film delves into the feelings of a woman who suffer…
Through the resource of typing descriptions of emotions at the surface of the skin, this experimental documentary takes…
How often do you listen attentively to the sound of birds? This fleeting short film is a provocation for contemplation …
Visually powerful, this film essay discusses intimate and collective memory through the underwater images of the flagsh…
This film essay by Adam Kossoff mixes images from The Paris Exposition of 1937 with literary excerpts from works by Wal…
Multidisciplinary artist Tanja Deman takes us on a contemplative film essay on the Adriatic Sea to reflect on the clima…
When he suspects that his mother is involved in a mysterious online love affair, filmmaker Vincent Sparreboom acts like…
Through a collage of images taken by tourists in exotic territories, this documentary questions the "tourist eye" as a …
Navigating between reality and fiction, this documentary unveils the characters and the particular atmosphere that oper…
Alternating between still photographs and cinematic still shots, male figures appear in various Nordic landscapes. In t…
In this beautiful film essay, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films the landscape outside his studio window for s…
Through a letter written to the ghost of his grandfather, filmmaker Kelvin Kyung Kun Park makes this experimental film …
With an important use of the subtitle as a form of expression, this experimental short film is a dissertation on the so…
This experimental film mixes contemplative observations of the interior of Silicon Valley homes with actorly reflection…
Inspired by a film by Agnes Varda, this experimental short film features actors and actresses to stage and reflect on g…
Calais is not only a prominent port city in France, but also the crossroads for many migrants trying to reach England. …
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
In this experimental short film, a man traverses British landscapes that discourse on modern civilization, the control …
Two women in different times and spaces try to solve the trauma of the earthquake of Gibellina, occurred in '68. Are th…
Nostalgic, mysterious, enigmatic. This experimental short film navigates between the idyllic days the filmmaker spent i…
When filmmaker Al Díaz discovers old films from his parents' trip to Italy in his youth, he begins an essay on memory a…
Halfway between videoclip and documentary, in this short film Violeta and Guillermo dance, kiss each other and talk in …
In this experimental short, Ana and a group of young people in a park have a lot to tell us about voyeurism, human conn…
A lone man begins to play with the objects left in this apartment. As ephemeral characters and dances come to life, the…
Josefina, the filmmaker's grandmother, settles in a remote village next to a mysterious forest. When several fires star…
Angelica has a problem with her sexuality, a psychological and physical blockage. Through a video diary, shared with tw…
Premiered at Locarno, this short film by multi-award-winning filmmaker Laila Pakalniņa is a visual testament of the lan…
This experimental short film uses found footage of trips in Europe during the 70s to make a powerful and fleeting essay…
A young farmer and a gang of teenagers wander the prairie. A farm. A flooded cemetery. The sunset. Some ruins. Experime…
In one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, a man faces a long quarantine in the solitude of his apartment. …
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
Inspired by Aristophanes's "The Birds", this experimental piece provokes an encounter between two humans and these wing…
Immersed in a forest on the island of Corsica, a veteran shepperd wanders among animals and a woman confronts her visio…
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
An evangelical man returns to his Dominican provincial town, where he must face the difficult consequences of his fathe…
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
In this collage-experimental short film, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck pays homage to the postulates that Sergei Eisenstein a…
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
Cell phones, paintbrushes and chance encounters. In Shanzhai, Hong Kong, this unusual story is spun by a group of copyi…
Conceived as an essay film, we follow a man in a suit walking through Tokyo on an existential journey. We hear a voice,…
In a public park, an army of crows emerges from the mist. A camera films them. A gun is fired. Is this short film a kin…
Psychedelic, strident, etheric. This is how Lima emerges in this portrait of the Peruvian capital through a kaleidoscop…
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