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Kitsch in Synch

January 1975 •English

An abstract animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the iotaCenter, in 2007.

On the Road to Kandahar

June 2003 •English

One of Rimmer's early 2000s video works which he made by hand-painting 35mm film, running it on a flatbed viewer, and shooting it off the screen with a video camera to then subject it to further manipulation.

And there was evening and there was morning. The first day

February 2025 •English

With the lack of personal video archive, Youhanna (the filmmaker) creates false memories using lost home videotapes shot between the 1990s and 2000s in Europe, Africa, and Asia, with the help of an Artificial intelligence programme, until a real, personal video archive surfaces, transporting him into the past to relive one more memory with his late mother.

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.

The Switching Division

February 2025 •English

A short film about a telephone engineer and his son as they both attempt to understand the past and the future.

I Am a Forest

October 2022 •English

A winged creature begins the precarious return from the city to the forest. There she will meet a group of mysterious beings who guide her to the heart of the forest. Step by step, they push her to transform, to leave herself behind. What happens when you decide to return to the forest?

HELP

February 2025 •English

A man in need of help eventually receives it, whether he asks for it or not.

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.

APARTMENT

June 2023 •German

Looking Back Before You Leap

January 2023 •English

A collection of memories from a tumultuous time at University.

En tos'laos

October 2022 •Spanish

The Wurst Has a Master Plan

January 2025 •English

A rain parade of sausages meets camels and kings in the 32 minute experimental syncing of Pharaoh Sanders' "The Creator has a master plan"

Vietnam Story

Invalid date •English

A cinematic impression of Vietnam, told through the eyes of Vietnamese immigrants.

The Song of the Years to Come

April 2024 •Spanish

On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An ethno-fictional journey in which past and present coalesce, creating resonances between the volcanic landscape and Silbo, the whistled language of the island.

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.

¿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

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.

El Nazareno

November 2022 •Spanish

The most important event in the history of the Christian religion occurs beyond the physical plane, when God himself touches humankind for the first time. This event will bring light and shadow together in one place.