Seance of the Past

Purgatorium

November 2023 •English

After his death, a young man stuck in purgatory attempts to cope with the afterlife.

Último Desejo

December 2019 •Portuguese

AA-PROXIMA-SUN

July 2022 •Portuguese

A girl approaches a divine entity that comes to the world in the form of a yellow umbrella, and ends up discovering her true self.

Chelicera

February 2023 •English

A neurodivergent man is stuck in the web of an abusive relationship, unable to free himself from his lovers grasp.

Lullaby for the Lost

July 2023 •English

A sleeping man’s fading memory of his late Mother unravels through a recurring, hypermnesic dream that reverberates and transforms throughout his life, tracing from his final dream back to his first.

the flowers and sorrow he gave me

February 2023 •Portuguese

Inspired by moments of the Brazilian writer Gabriel Yared’s life and mixing storytelling and poetic declamations by the author himself, the film presents us the love overgrowing between two young man, Alex and Luís, their comfortable couple routine, and explores which limits that love can support when, like dry flowers, it faces the hard and cold earth of deceptions and expectation breaches, with the city of Macapá, in ther Northern Brazilian State of Amapá, as background.

Platform

February 2023 •English

Jess confronts a piece of her past on the platform…

hands

August 2023 •English

A personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions.

Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes

January 1971 •Portuguese

First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London.

Speaking in Tongues: Take One

February 2024 •English

A 16mm experimental film that analogizes the discourse of racialized criminality and the carceral apparatus, which surveils and delimits the movements of Black people’s bodies, with the conventions and mechanics of the cinematic apparatus which regulates and standardizes the movement of the filmstrip through the motion picture camera and projector. Equal parts essay and visual art, Speaking in Tongues embodies the cinematic Black ecstatic that simultaneously re-envisions resistance defiance in the face of anti-Black state violence and subverts the conventions of cinematic realism through a manually and optically altered collage of original documentary and archival film sourced from Hollywood movies, television commercials, educational films, cartoons, European art cinema and miscellaneous ephemera.

Phantasia

March 2024 •

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to be the first cinema screening. Thus, both cinema and radiography fall within the scopic regime inaugurated by modernity. The use of X-rays on two sculptures from the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum generates images that reveal certain elements of them that would otherwise be invisible to our eyes. These images, despite being generally created for technical or scientific purposes, seem to produce a certain form of 'photogénie': they lend the radiographed objects a new appearance that lies somewhere between the material and the ethereal, endowing them with a vaporous and spectral quality. It is not by chance that physics and phantasmagoria share the term 'spectrum' in their vocabulary.

Born In Summer

January 1998 •Japanese

A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he hook up with someone? Borrowing the form of a diary-movie, the director unfurls an unpredictable and imaginative look into his own persona. 8mm experimental film by Murakami Kenji, the film that made his name.

How Pjer Zalica Ripped

March 1998 •Bosnian

A man blows balloons until they burst and thus expresses his accumulated aggression.

Encore

July 2018 •English

The audience is consensually prompted to gaze into the small, condensed universe of someone experiencing a fascinatingly destructive egomania. Here, they recognize behavior once thought to be beyond eccentric, yet today somehow normalized - perhaps sprouting from a modern culture of self-centered ideology? We witness in this character the downfall of self-idolatry; the frequent cause and occasional side effect of pathological narcissism; self-hatred. The struggle between loving oneself more than anything, while simultaneously desiring perfection, threatens to upend the film's eerie dreamworld. However, a brief brush with self-awareness only serves to solidify the character's self-obsession. An existential crisis half-realized - drowned in the shallow waters of Narcissus' well.

Ready for Pickup

March 2023 •English

Four aspiring YouTubers vlog about delivery driving as their relationships fall apart.

A Lonely Day in Winter

February 2022 •Spanish

Written and Directed by Santiago Cantu, following a high school student and the loss of his brother.

Relax With Ease

May 2023 •English

A three part meditation.

Small World

March 2022 •English

A teacher spends a day in their classroom where nothing is what it seems.

Beijo de Borboleta

April 2024 •Portuguese

Polsish

April 2022 •English

As a woman attempts to outrun her intrusive thoughts, her evening begins to unravel alongside her mind.