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From the Room to the Cinema to Outside

From the Room to the Cinema to Outside

An experimental short where a character sends a series of progressively desperate emails asking for a job.

AS AN EARTHQUAKE

AS AN EARTHQUAKE

On February 6, 2023, an earthquake on the border of Turkey and Syria claims more than 55,000 lives. On this day, I am in an oncology center, 6 days since having my tumor removed, and in the afternoon my partner ends our relationships. Blending memory and theory, this autofiction documentary unfolds the relationships between love(s) and catastrophes.

this is Mount Rinjani

this is Mount Rinjani

At once a journey and a reckoning, this film follows 19 year old Koen's ascent of Mount Rinjani—often regarded as Indonesia’s toughest summit. What begins as a test of endurance gradually transforms into something more intimate: a dialogue between self and nature. Shot as a reflective video diary, the film holds not just the view from the summit, but the moments of insight and introspection discovered along the way.

Lugar de Nadie

Lugar de Nadie

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Topolino

A documentary short film in which three men recount their respective father's history with the Fiat Topolino.

Ser Parte

Ser Parte

A short experimental documentary about love

The Ruins

The Ruins

A drawing of an ancient bathhouse in a French travel book to the Middle East sparks a visual poem, inspired by the Arab poetry tradition of "standing by the ruins". The ambivalence of the five-hundred-year-old image gestures towards enduring capitalist and colonial power dynamics. Pleasure and pain, seduction and domination, archives and ruins, histories of sex, and histories of empire, all commingle in this essay film. What transpires is a web of visible and invisible threads where homosexuality in the Middle East today seems to be enmeshe

USSR (1917-1991)

USSR (1917-1991)

Experimental short film that explores the rise and decline of the Soviet Union, from the revolutionary spark of 1917 to the challenges and sacrifices endured during World War II, until its dissolution in 1991.

When New Year Comes on Shabbat

When New Year Comes on Shabbat

A cinematic collage about people caught between two worlds. An empathetic look at a physical journey and the melodramas of a journey that is spiritual. Nikita Pavlov emigrated from Russia to Israel because he always wanted to experience life in another country. Street protests, political activism, and his daughters first steps are captured without any chronological context, separated only by Pavlovs thoughts and ideas. A cinematic diary that attempts to piece together a hypothetical picture of the filmmakers future.

Le crash

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Here We Are

Here We Are

A housekeeper received a film made by her daughter. It's a film that combines found footages of Thailand during the Cold War with the present days images of Bangkok. Through these images she tells a story of the house owner and her own story of coming to the capital.

99 days

99 days

Two instants separated by 99 days conflict with each other.

Dali

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ZION USA

ZION USA

An intimate portrait of Salt Lake City and its surroundings. Shot on 16mm film.

Grid

Grid

A ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a complete state of entropy; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the Earth; a trap that captures us inside the voids of the screen of light: «That blank arena wherein converge at once the hundred spaces» (Hollis Frampton).

Café au Lait

Café au Lait

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Dominion

Dominion

Landscapes, things, men, women and children taken by an "evil eye" more than a century ago haunt the present in this jagged reverie. A persona voicelessly narrates, via captions, going through colonial photographs, digresses to eating fruit and entering a cave on a tropical vacation island.

Farmingish

Farmingish

Experimental Documentary on Sound & Cannabis

Why Me?

Why Me?

"Why Me?" is a short documentary film that boldly recounts the extraordinary story of Robert Diamubeni, the sole survivor of flight 9T-TCG in 1990 from Kinshasa to Gbadolite. After coming face-to-face with death, Robert confronts a critical question: “Why me?”. His inspiring journey from despair to becoming a dedicated Christian pastor is a powerful testimony of faith, purpose, and resilience in the face of tragedy.

Pride & Snide

Pride & Snide

A contrast between two kinds of attitudes to gay liberation in Adelaide.