In the serene Dutch hinterlands, an inscrutable entity with a camera silently observes, leading to a curious dance betw…
When a female AI artist, sets out to explore masculinity in art, she inadvertently reveals a profound societal critique…
Bridging two generations of filmmakers, this intimate journey revisits a remote Greek island, encapsulating its transfo…
Through a meticulous observational approach, this short film takes us to a village in the Bulgarian Balkans to show us …
This documentary experiences the humble yet profound world of cheesemaking in Cantal, where rural life and filmmaking i…
In this short film, Gay men engage in candid conversations about their shared experiences and identities.
Through years of exploration and introspection, the filmmaker seeks to understand the elusive concept of freedom, not j…
This Documentary explores the inspiring story of Sergio Cezar, whose inventive artwork breathes new life into discarded…
Captivating, experimental, concise. This story of emigration and family is told through the lens of this short film sho…
In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
In this video art, multidisciplinary artist Samuel Bester makes a free, experimental and sensually charged interpretati…
What was the world like before human kind set foot in it? This short film contemplates the apparently unspoiled landsca…
In less than fifteen minutes, Victor conducts a cinematic experiment to investigate the nature of his body. To others, …
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
Experimental filmmaker Khaled Abdulwaheds cinematically deconstructs a photograph of a cactus field in 1998 Syria. Now …
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…
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
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