A Dying Tree

Puffer Rhapsody

March 2022 •Chinese

By fabricating her biography, Luo Su, a young Chinese white-collar worker from a low-income family, hopes to wed Mr. Win, an alluring bachelor. But when her mother's shocking TV interview exposes her deceit, she loses everything and ends her own life. Left in limbo, she is mystically given one last opportunity to alter her fate within 72 hours - albeit within the body of a man.

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.

A Dark Place

January 2024 •English

Myles navigates the tumultuous aftermath of a breakup, battling inner demons in a dark mental state.

Tomorrow is a Long Time

April 2021 •English

Inside a block of flats, a young woman decides to act about something concerning her for a long time.

Zombies und Dromomanen - Die blinden Vögel unterwegs

February 1985 •

Two men who have been friends for quite some time and who live in different cities maintain a correspondence with Super 8 film reels that they occasionally send to each other. One of these film reels shows a woman who reminds the addressee of a former girlfriend. Immediately and without paying attention to his obligations to the company, he drives the company car to the city of his childhood friend, 780 km away. There he finds out that she has been the secret lover of his Super 8 friend for years. After about three or four weeks, which they spend on the coast of another country without any significant difficulties, the lover of the childhood friend rows his boat alone across the Atlantic after an obviously frame-up rescue operation.

á-B-C-D-é-F-G-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN

January 2023 •Czech

A children's film about the largest mass suicide of the 20th century reconstructs the 1978 event. The Reverend Jim Jones forced nearly a thousand followers of his People's Temple sect to drink poison in the settlement of Jonestown, Guyana, South America. A third of them were children. Jan Bušta gives sadists, voyeurs, and necrophiliacs one minute to leave the cinema. His self-reflective documentary, which is the result of ten years of time-lapse filming, does not depict dramatic scenes. To the sound of an audio recording from that fateful day, we see a collage of child ghosts preaching about escaping the corruption of the world.

Rift

January 2024 •Swedish

A girl disappears without a trace while playing hide and seek with her friend. The friend is asked to explain how it happened, but the adults around him find it hard to believe his story. With visual originality, the limits of existence are allowed to be stretched in a film that depicts the incomprehensible from a child’s perspective.

Des vertes et des pas mûres

August 2024 •French

En tos'laos

October 2022 •Spanish

We Go Past Future

December 2024 •English

"We Go Past Future" is an experimental paper collage film by Anna Malina. The film reimagines a series of Soviet films from 1919 to 1953, blending them into a unique visual narrative.

I went away and forgot you. A while ago I remembered. I remembered I'd forgotten you. I was dreaming.

January 2016 •English

What appears at first glance to be a patterned floor of traditional Islamic tiles is in fact an intricate installation of hand dyed sand. In a light-filled room in an abandoned house, the artist steps into frame to sweep it away, breaking the illusion and destroying the image of traditional heritage.

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.

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.

A lo Mejor Algún Día

Invalid date •Spanish

Larva

January 1993 •Italian

A man killing himself because he’s unpopular. Analisys of the suicide of a man who had never been born or seen.

De Civitate Rei

January 1993 •Italian

Costante dies and leaves his wife Torella his computer discovery. Torella entrusts the disk to her husband’s friend Gervasio, a lazy man scorned by his family. Twenty years later, Torella tries to get back the disk but Gervasio, who has become rich thanks to the discovery, agrees to go to court over it and comes away the winner. He therefore summons divine misfortune: he loses his third son, suffocated by wealth; kills his wife in a blind rage; and is executed by his first-born son who, after a violent panic attack and reckoning with his conscience, chooses life.

Il Mosè di Michelangelo

January 1999 •Italian

Moses searches for history into palletes.

Butterfly

December 2023 •English

A short experimental film, exploring the concept that one small change can have a profound impact on a person's life.

FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts

March 2025 •English

Six sequences about Fascism and its segments throughout history.