8 Portraits, Scenarios: Death of Reality, Fiction, Truth & Lies

PRÓXIMO!

June 2023 •Portuguese

Lembrar de Mim

July 2024 •Portuguese

Where's the girl? Can you hold her for me? I need her now.

Triumph and Ruins

May 1997 •Italian

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.

Mussolini's Sister

May 2019 •English

In this documentary, we are invited to the mind of the elderly Hiam, a Palestinian woman from Nazareth. The mundanity of everyday life gives us a few sentimental glimpses of Hiam's past and present through the eyes of the filmmaker Juna Suleiman, her granddaughter.

Litraso

August 2024 •Tagalog

An artist holds a pen on paper and slowly starts drawing the line. The line gradually increases its pace, leading to curves, reversions, curveballs, and inconsistencies. As the artist nearly finishes, the artist lifts the pen to show the entire drawing. The artist slowly returns to drawing and continues the following chapters of life.

Heaven Above Rowen

Invalid date •English

The mental unraveling of Rowen, a religious leader faced with questions of identity and meaning as a prophesied revelation approaches.

We Didn't Start The C-Trash

July 2023 •English

An experimental and short compilation of rhythmic documents about the devolving state of entertainment and reactionaries in it's entirety. From the parodic controls between the obscure artifacts of media-consumed culture, to the real world consequences of how film discussion shapes the political and mental state in a society.

Duras Raízes

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Haikai Eternidade

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Belongings and Surroundings

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A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings.

Abeba

March 2023 •Igbo

Abeba (2023) is a hybrid genre film for Migration and Mobility (Global Cinema) course. Inspired by the aesthetic approaches found in Nollywood , Documentaries and other genres, and through a fictional narrative. The film centres around Abeba, a young migrant who moved recently to the UK. She works as a cleaner; the film follows her daily routine. We see Abeba doing mundane everyday chores. One day after work, Abeba receives a text message from a guy that she fancies inviting her to a house party. While getting ready for the party, she receives a sudden phone call from her overbearing mother. During the call, Abeba engages in a web of lies to escape her mother's interrogation.

Cala Mata

June 2024 •Catalan

A woman goes to a cold and inhospitable abandoned cove to try to summon the spirit of her only son, who passed away during the war.

Between You and You All

March 1970 •French

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

NIGHTS UNTIL YOU

Invalid date •English

A short film on the obsessive nature of love. How far can we take our attachment and devotion to our loved ones?

Adios My Love

Invalid date •Bengali

This film is about a conversation between a woman and an old house.

Cain Rose Up

August 2021 •English

Pigpen has a snore. Bailey has a lot of nerve. And Curt Garrish has a gun.

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.

Lost In Harmony

Invalid date •English

Jessica, a young carer, and her mum, who is deeply paranoid and who sees and hears unexplained things have a strong and loving relationship. But the misfit relationship they have brings many challenges they struggle to overcome. The mum's deterioration in her mental health causes her to be sectioned, leaving Jessica lost in her life.

It's Teh Doctor

March 2010 •English

Emily has a doctor's appointment. Sorta. Kinda. Not really.

Cinquenta e oito semanas

July 2024 •Portuguese