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a despondent teen is allured by his familial past
A gesture of erasure. A spell. If you lift the emulsion from a photograph, destroy its surface, transplant it onto a new body, does the memory it carried survive? Need and Desire originates from this question, and from the poetic belief that making a film can alter reality. The cinematic act becomes incantation: a process that destroys and reconstructs simultaneously. Still memories become an “emulsional” landscape. Need and Desire is a cameraless handmade film exploring the materiality of emulsion through instant photographs lifted and transplanted onto a Super 8 polyester base of recycled film scraps.
Converted into a non-human character the protagonist enters a digital space. A territory that is being constantly reshaped and avatars imposed upon the players. Using video game imagery, the film examines the similarities between events in the Balkan corridor and the logic of video game worlds. It explores how certain groups are perceived through virtual environments and dangerous analogies.
A call returns Manuel to the town. His grandmother Mima, who for years wrote him letters and reflections, is no longer completely present: her memories have begun to fragment. Manuel decides to read them with her to check what remains, and in that gesture she recognizes her own need to write. For three years he records a file that documents at the same time a relationship and its transformation. While Mima's voice goes out, Manuel finds in the music a way to sustain what is leaving: not to retain it, because he understands that that is not possible, but to accompany it while it is still there.
At the end of a lost village, a lost father, and lost memory, there is a sound that shall not disappear.
A 19th century séance opens a door to something far worse than the dead.
Two tribal leaders foster a long-fought renaissance of Tlingit culture. The island's last logger carries on his family business. A longtime teacher watches as her students graduate, leave home, and inevitably return. And an oyster farmer, new to town with a young family in tow, juggles the precarious nature of living off the land.
After leaving Cairo, a man finds that the lover he could not take with him has never quite left his body. Years later, an ocean lies between them, while the memory of their touch moves through him like a river towards the sea.
Two young people sharing an apartment have to solve their differences.
A tribal girl and her mother struggle to hold onto their land as conflict between the state and an armed resistance movement tightens around their community.
**The Train** follows Tharun, a young man whose ordinary train journey takes an unexpected turn when a seemingly simple encounter forces him to confront something he has been avoiding. Set against the rhythm of a local train, the film explores loneliness, human connection, and the fleeting moments that can change the way we see ourselves and the people around us. Sometimes, the most important journeys are the ones we never planned.
A hand-drawn abstract audiovisual work that explores repetition as a visual and sonic trance. Composed of simple geometric shapes and inspired by pareidolia, it invites viewers to discover hidden forms and evolving patterns.
A visually innovative blend of documentary and music video, this emotionally triumphant work centers on B. Alexis, the first woman to release an album from prison. More than just a depiction of her life, the film channels the struggles and resilience of hundreds of thousands of trauma-impacted people, especially young Black women.