A Draughtsman Illusion

Woman Is My Last Name

May 2022 •English

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

Money, a Mythology of Darkness

November 1998 •Greek

In a nightmarish world, dominated by the decline and degradation of Man , Christ resurrected wandering, across three different eras of human history.

The Return of the Lifeblood

November 2025 •Spanish

An Assassin is cursed by the souls of the people he killed in the past. Now, he is a Grim Reaper, a demon who receives constant punishment for his sins. Consequently, on a journey to hell, an Entity confronts the Assasin in a philosophical-moral debate about the meaning of forgiveness, the imprisonment of guilt, and the existence of redemption.

Angel

January 1966 •English

In this short film, a young man, a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical.

Artificial Intelligence, 2023

January 2024 •English

Composed entirely of AI-generated visuals and providing an abstract representation of the evolution of AI video, processed entirely through a VCR.

The End

April 2013 •Estonian

It is said that if a man is fading away, he sees his life running quickly in front of his eyes. What does a hundred-year old film strip see before it gives way to digital vehicles? Does it see broken frames, scratched film stock or something else? This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature.

The Psychedelic Experience

January 1965 •English

Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.

Diana Wilted Forever

February 2024 •English

Succeeding in entering the past, a young man meets his favorite actress whom he adulates with passion. His identifying urges emerge, and the desire of replacement prevails : he makes his idol live forever.

Hegemony of Reality with Silent Fantasy

July 2023 •Indonesian

In a quiet class, there are 12 students who do not do the assignment from Rama (teacher). Seeing that, Rama feels that he has lost his honor, so he gets angry and vents his anger by just keeping quiet. This situation makes them enter a world of isolation. Faced with a terrifying mute entity, which tries to control their minds and bodies. That's when the students' wild thoughts start to get out of control, with strange fantasies that they create in the midst of tension and silence. While Rama tries to control them. One by one they do everything they can to get out. But in the end, they are nothing in front of Rama.

Sleepless far from home

October 2022 •French

Incapable of falling asleep, Mamadou starts to walk endlessly to tire himself and be able to have a final dream of where he was born.

Ein Traum der Liebenden

May 1964 •English

In EIN TRAUM DER LIEBENDEN [A DREAM OF LOVERS], Monk meanders through a maze of Minoan bull-leaping, satyrs and revelatory rainbows.

A Sad, Sad Ghost Picking at the Hairs of Their Knuckles

January 2023 •English

A wandering young woman explores the crevices of her apartment, of her corporeal creases, as well as the shadows made up of those things. Through her journey, she comes into contact with fellow vagrancies: a nondescript man of around similar age; a young girl with similar, even familiar, eyes; streets that can only exist during those brief moments of glazing stares. The rain comes and goes, but the A/C never turns off.

Values

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A film inspired by a visual representation of trauma and the journey towards healing. It delves into the symbolic language of the cosmos and the natural world to express the complex emotions associated with trauma.

3-D

February 2024 •English

3-D is a hand-painted experimental short film by Riley Hogan. Acrylic paint, ink and scratching were used to animate on clear Super 8mm film leader.

Pandemonium

February 2024 •French

Green Pink Caviar

July 2009 •English

Models are seen licking brightly colored candy on a sheet of glass. The video illustrates the moment where clarity becomes abstraction and beauty commingles with the grotesque.

Flesh Flows

September 1974 •English

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns to itself and rushes to catch up with its successor.” (Gadassik) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

Tempo Rubato

November 2025 •English

The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducted by three ghouls.

Dilution

February 2025 •English

Dilution is an experimental short film that explores the transit between resistance and (di)ssolution, between holding and releasing and a path towards obsessive repetition. They are layers, exposed pores, matter that oscillates between remaining or disappearing. The sound is not a background, but a puncture: friction, tearing, water that drags what still persists. A sensorial testimony of what refuses to vanish completely.

Trapallada (Saudade)

February 2025 •Spanish