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PICTOR

Invalid date •English

Forced to paint, the artist will either create or be consumed. A modern gothic art film told through a series of striking still images.

Ideas in Search of Light

August 1938 •English

Black-and-white abstract animated short of light, shadows, and reflections by The Dodals (Karel Dodal (1900-1986) in collaboration with his wife, Irena Dodalová).

The Other Line

May 2016 •Serbian

Druga linija aka The Other Line is a product of many years of research of neo-avant-garde cultural and art scene in Novi Sad, Serbia (late 60s and 70s), which has been marginalized until today. This artistic movement was directly connected not only with important art centers of the former Yugoslavia, but also with existing flows of world art during its brief and productive activities (7e Biennale de Paris, 19th Berlinale). The cultural and artistic emancipation of that time had implied individual freedom of expression and strong reaction to established boundaries. This avant-garde movement had become threat to communist establishment, the authors' work were sabotaged, the films were sealed off, five artists were taken to trial, two were sent in prison. How is it that the retrograde mechanism of shutting down and removing the most creative and representative progressive impulses of our surrounding is still so current to this day?

Somewhere Real

September 2023 •English

Roads fall into the sea and a travelogue breaks against the landscape.

Whilst Waiting

December 2024 •English

A person spends some time in a room

Circle

December 2021 •English

This short film follows a man lost in the woods driven by his fear of the unknown.

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.

Último Desejo

December 2019 •Portuguese

rush and pressure

June 2018 •Portuguese

Visual poem.

there is poetry in bad writing

June 2018 •Portuguese

Am I? I don't know. I know? I do not know.

hands

August 2023 •English

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

The Baby of Mâcon

September 1993 •English

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

After James Benning's YouTube

March 2024 •English

Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

Espace Projeté

February 2023 •English

A man grapples with his anxiety, attempting to calm him self in the shadow of his idols. As the ideal and the real collide.

Clandestine

March 2003 •English

A short film released alongside AFI's 2003 album Sing The Sorrow. The four members of AFI search to obtain a mysterious box that bears a resemblance to the album's artwork. There are two separate soundtracks for the film, one composed by AFI guitarist Jade Puget, and one composed by AFI bassist Hunter Burgan.

Henry John and the Little Bug

January 2009 •English

Dinner time in a remote home of a prairie family turns nightmarish when a band of blood spattered outlaws break through the front door in search of food, horses, and women. Nothing is as it seems in this constantly twisting genre bender.

11 Letters Inside

April 1996 •Russian

This is a story about a man who believes that he has two “selves” - external and internal. That is, an organism is a certain conglomerate of cells, each of which is a separate individual. This hybrid creature has a certain common personal “I” that uses the entire organism, and is the organism itself, which has its own will. According to the character, one can communicate with him, which is what he is trying to do. He wants to reach him and comes up with different ways of communication: injecting substances under the skin or intravenously, tattooing texts on the body, swallowing objects. The answer would come in the form of a rash or other physical manifestation that had to be interpreted. As a result, communication is carried out and the second “I” agrees to die.

Purgatorium

November 2023 •English

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

The Goal Is To Live

April 2019 •English

The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which chronicles the factories that create everyday objects. The film takes Dina Kelberman’s practice of accumulation and recontextualization into a large-scale time-based work for the first time. Reorganizing short clips into a long Rube-Goldberg-like narrative, and featuring a hypnotic minimalist soundtrack by Rod Hamilton and Tiffany Seal, the film portrays a mesmerizing and surreal process in which materials are transformed in myriad ways.

Spheres

January 1969 •English

This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction. The dance is set to the musical cadences of Bach, played by pianist Glenn Gould.