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Gemini

October 2024 •English

Sarah and her two cats go about their separate lives. The cats have strange dreams about their desires, and Sarah develops an unshakable paranoia that something is wrong with them. Sarah's paranoia bleeds into her social life, and her two cats have their dreams come true.

Revelation To The Disembodied

November 2022 •English

Fragments of a collective post-human dream construct a world that straddles hyper-technological, ecological, and mythological dimensions.

A Day In LC

October 2024 •English

A person living in Liberty City goes to work, have some food & gets back home.

A Love Letter to Cinema

October 2023 •English

An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.

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September 2019 •

OCCHIO

September 2024 •Italian

An important sensory organ, the eye, is damaged. The exhausting healing process takes us on an inner journey full of pain, fragility and mental unrest, in which even superstition and witchcraft seem to have an influence on recovery.

Luminare

May 1986 •English

Abstract video art by John Sanborn and Dean Winkler. Dedicated to Ed Emshwiller.

Orbit

January 2019 •

The sun’s energy circulates throughout the earth, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop, which repeats, like the circular discs of magical optical toys. This perfectly balanced rhythm is disrupted by human excess, throwing the cycle out of orbit and temporarily stopping the circulation of energy in nature.

By Winds and Tides

August 2022 •French

Exploring the conscious, the unconscious and the self, By Winds and Tides takes a deep experimental dive into the birth of an idea—how it takes shape, how it is released. An allegorical quest, the film combines images and words into a singular sigh.

The Outsider

October 2023 •English

Machinima-adaptation of Albert Camus book "L'étranger", done in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

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.

Drums West

December 1961 •English

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstrates his working method.

High Sugar

January 2025 •English

A police officer has a fever dream after having too much sugar.

Shearing Animation

January 1961 •

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.

Becoming Air

April 2025 •German

Anger

January 1990 •English

A fleshy nightmare barrages the viewer with an onslaught of abstract gore and nonsensical terror.

Oblivion

October 2024 •Russian

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not changed: all the streets are frozen, long-gone voices can be heard in the empty rooms and around the corner you can find yourself in a video game from your childhood.

Dull Hope

Invalid date •English

Suppressed memories reach a boiling point. An animated tale of longing. “The Experimental section saw Non Films’ Dull Hope scoop the premier place as category winner. Half animation and half movie footage, this hybrid resonated very much with the judging panel who deemed it to be a sad dirge on personal memories and heartbreak.” – The Guardian Directed & Animated by Brian Ratigan Music & Sound Design by Nick Punch (R.I.P.) Produced by Non Films

Flying Daddy

January 1997 •Japanese

One morning, Papa transforms into a giant insect in the futon, emerges instantly in front of the astonished family, breaks through the window and flies into the sky. Short animation by Keita Kurosaka for MTV Japan.

removed

December 1999 •English

Starting with a piece of vintage porn, filmmaker Naomi Uman painstakingly removed each female figure from the footage using nail polish remover, leaving a striking absence where there's usually a fleshy presence. Uman's celebrated film is a smart retort to pornography's obsessive gaze at the female body.