Cygnus OB2#12

Rummaging for Pasts

November 2001 •English

Rummaging for Pasts is an experimental juxtaposition of two cinematic documents: the video diary of an international archaeological excavation and a collection of assorted eight millimeter found footage of Indian weddings.

SIN PIEDAD

February 2025 •Spanish

Under the relentless sun, a killer stalks through the mountains, where the innocence of a young couple becomes prey. With no shadows to hide their fate, the hunt is a macabre game in broad daylight, where fear is not hidden in the darkness, but burns with the rawness of the unperturbed noon.

Photographic Valarie

December 2023 •English

Valarie sets up a photo shoot.

Looking Back Before You Leap

January 2023 •English

A collection of memories from a tumultuous time at University.

Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker

July 2007 •English

"Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker" project is a series of seven episodes of cinematic diaries. It is the unique point of view of an anonymous artist whose entire essence of existence is to make films, but he is rejected on every front time after time. During the process he ponders his life as an artist, the nature of material society and life in general, in which his owm life eventually become a tragedy.

Go Forget Me

December 2020 •English

Robert Estragon has worked his way to the top of the food chain as a doctor in the city, but it has driven him to self-imposed delusion. Here, we listen as he sits and projects himself onto the mad world he observes. It all comes to a head when Willie Krapp, a young colleague, invades this world, hoping to teach Robert that it was wrong to let his own daughter die in the operating room.

Norwegian nature, suburbia and the Creatures living there

April 2022 •Swedish

A human-like Creature, emerging from the ancient depths of the Norwegian forest, ventures towards suburbia. The local inhabitants react in different ways to its unannounced presence.

December Hide-and-Go-Seek

July 1993 •Japanese

"Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and know the feel of his warmth on my skin when I hold him, there are moments when my feelings for him become vague and blank." - Takashi Ito

Mettle

May 2007 •English

An experimental film shot with the purpose of trying to create a hostile alien environment using only shots of nature, color correction, and sound design.

The Worlds of a Second

February 2025 •English

Thirty worlds in less than a blink and oh-so many more...

Une brèche écarlate

February 2025 •French

Through thread and textile, an Asian seamstress tries to escape from the factory.

Things to Come

March 1953 •English

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Notes of Resistance and Erasure

June 2021 •English

This experimental short traces the lifespan of the graffiti and murals present at the occupation of NYC’s City Hall in June and July of 2020. The encampment formed to demand the abolishment of the NYPD and the reallocation of its resources to housing, education, and other social programs.

Tragen 1

January 2024 •

Last summer we found a photograph on the street. What is to be recovered when the image is given back its movement?

¿Por qué la gallina cruzó el camino?

January 2024 •Spanish

A hen questions the meaning of her life on a farm.

Nadveren

May 1971 •Danish

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.

Notes on Film 01 Else

July 2002 •German

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.