Alternate Earth

Atlas

October 2022 •Slovenian

An atmospheric journey, following the unstoppable forces that shape this world. A story beyond humanity.

Journey Around My Room

February 2008 •French

The camera slowly pans through a room as Smolders offers various observations and memories.

Materialista, idealista, cinematógrafo, magnetófono, buen chico y sádico

June 2012 •Spanish

En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel

June 2013 •French

Denis Lavant reads long passages from Luis Buñuel's semi-autobiographical "My Last Sigh". From this text, without film excerpts, Laurence Garret travels in the footsteps of Buñuel, from Calanda to Zaragoza, Madrid to Toledo, Spain to Mexico.

Searching for Skylab, America's Forgotten Triumph

February 2019 •English

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the Skylab program back to its very conception reveals the cornerstone of human space exploration.

New Life

March 2023 •English

"Bagong Buhay" is a short experimental film that dispels the common belief that packing up and moving to a new place will magically improve one's quality of life. The film challenges this presumption by portraying two contrasting ways of life through objects and locations, encouraging viewers to think critically about the complexities of what makes a better life. In the Philippines, it's believed that relocating to a new area will bring about positive changes in one's existence. True satisfaction is a complex and multifaceted notion, and "Bagong Buhay" encourages us to ponder that relocating to a new place is not a surefire way to attain it.

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.

The Ring Road

March 1985 •Icelandic

Experimental film of a trip around Iceland, filmed on the circular highway with a wide angle lens camera registering one frame every 12 seconds.

Le Ciel au Moyen-Âge, Histoire d’Astronomie

November 2019 •French

Vowellet - An Essay by Sarah Vowell

March 2005 •English

This Pixar documentary short follows Sarah Vowell, who plays herself as the title character, on why she is a superhero in her own way. (This short piece is included on the 2-Disc DVD for "The Incredibles", which was released in 2005.

White Noise

November 2019 •French

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a film, a whirlwind of sounds and images. The fourth feature-length work by Simon Beaulieu, this film essay plunges viewers into a subjective sensory adventure—a direct physical encounter with the information overload of daily life. White Noise transforms the imminent collapse of our civilization into a visceral aesthetic experience.

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni: filmbiografía de Antonio Maenza

June 2012 •Spanish

Risky Business

April 2017 •English

A documentary film about trading security and stability for passion. A surprising number of small businesses and niche restaurants originate and thrive in the small college town of Provo, Utah. A senior capstone project at Brigham Young University.

Time Lapse

May 2014 •English

Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

Someone Dies!

June 2024 •English

When his daughter is threatened by potential kidnappers, a deadbeat detective sets out to investigate a cryptic note that sends him spiraling down a rabbit hole of time and consequence.

(There Is No) Cure

November 2022 •English

In this new video essay, filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe delves into the dread-inducing mood and tone of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s modern horror classic Cure, deploying a dizzying range of cinematic references to unravel the film’s eerie magic.

Visions of Europe

May 2004 •English

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Flash Gordon: The Deadly Ray From Mars

March 1938 •English

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.

Polanski y los ojos del mal

April 2002 •Spanish

Documentary that describes and analyzes the characteristics, themes and central concerns of Roman Polanski's cinema.