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História do Amor

May 2024 •Portuguese

After the sudden break up of a relationship, a young man tries to make a film using the images of his ex-girlfriend that he had on his camera.

Paranoid Park

July 2007 •English

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

Toxoplasma

Invalid date •English

In the aftermath of his father's death, a young man navigates a developing relationship with a brain-eating parasite.

It's Not Me

June 2024 •French

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.

Growing Dimmer

Invalid date •English

The light's in a student's room begin to shut off around him. He must escape the room before he is swallowed by darkness.

Goose Chase

August 2023 •English

Students turn the world upside down in their quest to find Krit, a missing young boy. They embark on a challenging journey filled with unexpected twists of fate and high-stakes bets.

All about clandestine girl.

June 2023 •Dutch

Mágoa das Flores

May 2023 •Portuguese

Experimental college short film. Two servants plan and execute the coronation of a delicate and machiavellian entity until sunset.

The Scary Movie

January 1993 •English

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.

lente / ruido

June 2023 •Portuguese

Berro

February 2025 •Portuguese

This film is about entering the flow of the scream and seeing its color.

Guava Express

Invalid date •English

A "hero" steps out for work on a rainy Monday with a red umbrella, unaware he's the star of a cosmic show. Rain falls, thoughts swirl, and reality bends. Is this just another day, or the beginning of something out of normalcy?

The dream of the absurd man

Invalid date •Hindi

An absurd man, feeling hopeless, decides to end his life. The night before, he dreams of a perfect world with no pain. In this dream, he sees how good people can be and how he can change. When he wakes up, he understands he must choose between giving up and finding hope. He realizes that even a silly dream can bring big changes.

Presence

January 2025 •English

A couple, Rebekah and Chris, and their children, Tyler and Chloe, move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.

Time Traveling Through Time

November 2022 •English

A wannabe film director becomes embroiled in a battle against the laws of time and space when his attempts to recreate the iconic black and white, photograph-only, time travel film, La Jetée, spiral out of control.

Linton Falls - A Study of the Force of Water

September 2024 •English

An experimental film documenting a river leading up to a waterfall, depicting both its natural beauty and its inherent danger.

Emotional Landscapes

June 2024 •Spanish

Emotional Landscapes explores memory though narrative elements of fiction and essay components. Without protagonist, a narrator guides us through recollections, desires and family bonds, highlighting the chaotic nature of memory and life itself.

The History of Religion

February 2016 •Japanese

The video is made up of, on the sound side, a composition consisting of 58 words, in Japanese, accompanied by piano, and, on the image side, a series of images captioned, in Japanese and English, in correspondence with the recitation on the sound side. A title has been added. (Voice: Maya Taneda.)

Blue Egg

June 2024 •English

A queer stop-motion animation live-action hybrid film following four women in a surrealist parallel narrative unconstricted to heteronormative space and time.

Hummingbird

July 2024 •Spanish

Could film gelatin, a 16mm film camera, 3 lenses and film developing chemistry experimentation act as messengers between the spirit and the physical world? a one day trip to the remote town of Panguipulli (Chile) seeks to explore possibilities and to also expand on the power of audio frequencies as a healing instrument. A manifestation of the hummingbird movement? A connection between mind, landscape, sound, latent image? A replication of Rukapillan volcano’s intermittent flows of magma through fissures on the earth’s surface? -Colibri- erupts 16mm single frame experiments & bursts smoke and sonic healing vibrations