Blue Permanence / Swan Blood

After Midnight

February 1984 •French

A fancy dress ball takes place in a strange palace. The host is unknown. The theme: "your idea of human representation”. During the course of this mysterious and rather frightening evening, each guest is transformed into his own character and the intrigue thickens.

Vert Torpeur

March 2022 •English

An abstract short film that sheds light on the bad habits of the society in which we evolve, but in a dark satiric & cynical way.

Naara

January 2015 •French

David, a clueless and cocky Spanish video blogger traveling in Africa, arrives in Benin, where he accidentally finds the truth behind an ancient legend.

All Beauty Queens Have Broken Bones

May 2024 •English

Marlo believes God has told her to win the Miss Teen Indiana Pageant. Her older sister Rose is skeptical, but she's been drinking a lot lately, and the word of God is a mystery to her.

Hair

January 2010 •French

Philippe, about thirty, discovers that he is becoming bald. For this backward adolescent musician, the loss of his hair is a real disaster. When he asks his dermatologist how much time he has left, this one tells him that only his father detains the answer to this question.

Sun in My Mouth

June 2010 •English

A young man confesses his sexual past to an unseen phone sex operator. He reflects on his sexual identity as we follow him on a solitary excursion to a beach.

Fairytale of London Town

December 2010 •English

Blister

June 2022 •English

Stranded in a vast arid desert, two resentful lovers are forced to endure one another as they await their rescue.

Astronaut

April 2024 •Chinese

The girl, born into a wealthy family, seemingly has everything but is constantly surrounded by an overwhelming sense of boredom, prompting her to chase after excitement incessantly. Upon receiving an invitation from a mysterious man, she gambles everything in a billiards match, only to discover beneath the bandages wrapped around the man's wounds a sorrow she had never imagined. The gentle oxygen of her comfort zone feels suffocating, and perhaps only by journeying together can one catch a glimpse of the dazzling deep space beyond the atmosphere.

Symbiotix

March 2020 •English

An experimental piece displaying the acts of common addictions.

Fake Me A Happy New Year

November 2012 •Latvian

Anita and her children, Santa and Kristaps, live in an apartment in Riga. Every year, they celebrate New Year’s Eve with grandma, uncle Peter and a feast fit for kings…

Rain in the Sunshine

October 2013 •Japanese

Schoolboy Hinata has a big crush on his classmate Shigure, but is too shy to tell her. On the day Shigure is leaving, Hinata flies off on the wings of a bird chasing after her to tell how he feels!

The Portrait Studio

October 2013 •Japanese

Late 19th century Japan: a studio photographer who always captures his clients’ best smile. One day he tries to coax a smile out of a little girl, but… A nostalgic tale of a relationship that transcends wars and disasters.

Jemima + Johnny

September 1966 •English

A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.

Vocación de Martirio

January 1999 •Spanish

Tales of the Night

January 1992 •French

Not to be confused with Ocelot's 2011 feature film, Tales of the Night is a made for TV silhouette animation. It is a compilation of 3 fairy tale like stories, bridged by sequences of a boy and girl in an abandoned theater.

My Life for Ireland

February 2016 •English

Ireland, Easter, 1916. In Dublin, Irish rebel Patrick Pearse leads a revolt to free Ireland from the grips of the British Empire. Owen, a young Irish patriot, wants to join them in their fight for freedom.

Dreams of Ice

November 1994 •Spanish

In 1992 the Universal Exhibition in Seville was held in Spain. Chile participated in this exhibition by displaying in its pavilion an ice floe captured and brought especially by sea from Antarctica. In these true facts is based the fantasy narrated in Dreams of Ice. Filmed between November 1991 and May 1992 on board the ships Galvarino, Aconcagua and Maullín, in a voyage that goes from Antarctica to Spain, in this documentary film in which dreams, myths and facts converge towards a poetic tale turned into a seafaring saga, in the manner of the legends of the seafarers that populate the mythology of the American continent and universal literature.

37/78: Tree Again

January 1978 •German

At the center are takes which do not change - a tree in a field in Vermont, U.S.A. Since the film was shot over a period of fifty days, the single frame shots create a storm of pictures.

Chinese Viola

May 1975 •Portuguese

The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Otelo, where, in a mixture of decorated and improvised text, we discover a little manifesto to the Brazilian experimental cinema. Also called "Belair's last film," Chinese Viola reveals the first partnership between photographer Walter Carvalho and Bressane.