Strawman

A Dying Tree

February 2025 •

As the day ends for a worn-out office worker, he encounters the mysterious gaze of a chimpanzee, sparking a silent exchange that prompts him to make an irreversible decision.

The Trial

August 1962 •English

The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare.

4.48 Psychosis

September 2023 •Portuguese

An adaptation of the play "4.48 Psychosis" written by Sarah Kane. The movie consists of scenes that work as a fragmenteded voyage through the mind of a person on a deeply depressive state. Everything is shown in a raw and experimental manner to bring the feelings and emotions in the most pure form to screen.

Tommy

March 1975 •English

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

Schizzopatia

May 1995 •Italian

A spiritual operator, don Tek, gives out advice and judgments to his followers, who dream of a dark, cruel man who attacks them with the socio-moral meanings of life. The dream interpreter materializes and is killed by don Tek who, after the murder, falls asleep to forget. But the victim appears in his dreams, leaping from the sky only to die instantly: don Tek has killed dreams.

Hai Mangiato?

May 1997 •Italian

A mother feeds her son to the point of possessing him.

TAKBO

May 2019 •English

‘TAKBO’ is a short experimental film that studies the realities by which young Filipino women live.

Wander

January 2025 •English

Percieve the images how you will; Wander is designed at having a different influence over each audience member and provoking self-reflection and deep thought. There was no singular intended storyline, instead prompting a unique perception from each viewer.

154

April 2024 •Italian

The prototype [TEST TYPE • 154] is a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence, which is capable of autonomously acquiring notions from its surroundings and - eventually - developing autonomy of thought. Given the nearly human nature of its learning capabilities, the laboratory that programmed it hires a kindergarten teacher, asking him to instruct the machine as if it were a newborn child. The learning process - which spans 7 days - becomes increasingly insidious in the long run, posing a peculiar yet crucial problem: can there be a form of autonomous thinking that excludes emotions?

Self Portraits or: How to talk endearingly to possible victims

June 2023 •English

Quinn is a grade school teacher who is exploited by a group of memoryless individuals who reeducate his long-term partner Amy.

Tyngsboro

April 2024 •English

During his visit to a graveyard, a young man is suddenly projected into a dream-like realm. Empty and removed from time, the familiar landscape forces him to confront certain pains when blood suddenly effuses from his hands.

Five Minutes Ago

October 2008 •English

A young man pretends to sleep while he watches his lover go through her morning routine.

Meditations on Melancholia

Invalid date •English

an exploration of ennui split between two worlds

Preface to a History

October 2024 •English

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.

Between You and You All

March 1970 •French

A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.

Alma

Invalid date •Spanish

Alma is a young film lover who dreams of one day making a living creating stories. Determined, she decides to go to the city to study film, but finding herself alone and without the care of her mother, she collides with the dangers of the big city, which makes her question whether she is following a good path or has just let herself be carried away by the illusion of a dream.

Anhell69

May 2023 •Spanish

A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín is casted for the film, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, just like many friends of the director. Anhell69 explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on making cinema.

Broken

March 2025 •Spanish

Locked

August 2022 •English

A tormented man struggling with his inner demons, seeks desperately a way to be at peace with himself.

Ophelia

March 2018 •French

At night, a woman at different ages loves, suffers and frees herself. She’s called Ophelia.