The Art

RUN!-3films-

November 2019 •Japanese

Conejo

September 1999 •Spanish

A boy named Rabbit finds some magics marbles in abandoned house. He then discovers a world where anything is possible.

The Last New Year

September 1992 •English

Set on background of personal ceremonies and tradition, this is the story of a twelve year old boy. To him, the passing from one year to another coincides with his passing from childhood into adolescence.

Dog Leash

May 2012 •English

Cracks are starting to burst in Marina's frozen life, leading towards finding refuge in dangerous places.

Fragile in Love

December 2007 •Chinese

Fragile in Love is an experimental short that rebels against the suppression of electronic music culture and gay house parties.

Trauma

January 2014 •English

On the London Underground, a young man relives past traumas as he endures the sensory overload of rush hour, only to look up and see a young woman at the end of the carriage going through the same PTSD symptoms. Their recognition of each other's condition allows them a moment of peace before the train jolts them back into reality and she disappears at the next platform.

A Tale of Yearning

November 2022 •Chinese

This is a sad tale of a noble lady who is entranced by an opera singer. Hoping to get closer to the singer, the lady takes up lessons with her. Despite their affection, they must face obstacles.

A Search Through Nine Lifetimes

August 2021 •Chinese

For love to travel for thousands of years, they will eventually meet.

The Fox Spirit Repays a Debt

August 2022 •Chinese

A wife and a concubine seek freedom. In a game of seduction, together they join forces to defeat their oppressors.

Semi Colin

January 2012 •English

Challenging all notions of genre, Semi Colin is a living, breathing art installation. Part performance, part art, part social comment, Colin philosophizes on his life's obsessive work as an erotic artist.

Caramel

November 2020 •English

A teenager comes to terms with his place in the world when he learns of his mother’s immoral past the day before his grandfather’s funeral.

The Tram

March 2019 •Russian

A psychiatry student gets on a tram that delivers him twenty-five years into the future, where an unexpected encounter awaits him.

Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

May 2000 •English

A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight. As an adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instinct-guides behind, and enters a garden where two statues dance in a pond. As he watches their sensual acrobatics of love, he becomes a man. He is offered wealth (represented by a golden hat) by a devil figure. In a richly decorated room, a scruffy troupe of a dozen acrobats and a little girl reawaken the old man's youthful nature and love.

Woman in the Dunes

February 1964 •Japanese

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Reckless

November 2013 •Norwegian

An uncompromising and controversial short set in the Scandinavian suburbia on the hottest day of the summer. A sister reluctantly babysits her little brother. Two young boys catch her attention, and she makes a crucial decision.

Barely There

July 2017 •English

A baby polar bear searches for his missing mother, while a force much colder than the frozen tundra searches for him.

Fearfully Made

March 2020 •English

When Arthur receives a robotic carer who stops him from seeing his ill wife. Arthur must find a way to escape his imprisonment to be reunited with his wife one last time.

The Diver

August 2019 •English

Callan is twenty and is overcome with impulses that he finds it increasingly difficult to control. In order to protect others from his strange behavior, Malcolm, his father, tries to channel his son's attention by every means possible.

Delphine

August 2019 •French

Delphine is an ode to childhood, but also an examination of the wounds it can cause.

Darling

May 2019 •Urdu

Naive Shani helps his transgender friend and crush audition for the lead in an erotic dance show.