Money is as innocent as the gun
Chris Colling | United Kingdom | 00:42:45 | 2020 English following the spoken word in action. Producer Chris Colling
Alder
Vanda Ladeira | United Kingdom | 00:09:17 | 2020 English Alder is a guardian spirit that protects the forest and nature. It takes the shape of a female-tree form embodying the Alder tree’s inner qualities of protection against malevolent beings and humans. When a handsome young forager strays into Alder’s glade, it opens the possibility… Read more »
Rusalka Variations
Hubertus Hinse | Germany | 00:08:32 | 2020 German Inspired by Antonín Dvořák’s opera “Rusalka”. Variations of intimacy. During his trip to a hotel, radio presenter Prinz is haunted by fragmentary memories. Did he drown Rusalka, the woman he loves? Uncertain, he enters the suite. Suddenly Rusalka appears before his eyes – in the form… Read more »
Mother’s Apricot Compote
Nia Fekri | United Kingdom | 00:23:23 | 2020 Arabic, English, Persian A fragmentary narrative of two women whose lives are distant from each other yet hold traces of one another. This film conjures the ghosts that hover over the day to day lives of these two women; it is a rumination on the experience… Read more »
A New Vision
Michael Strauss | United States | 00:06:00 | 2020 English A Film by Michael Strauss Words & Music by Darpan + Temple Step Project In these unprecedented times we are faced with an opportunity to help bring us back to a point of balance. This invocation has been created to help facilitate what is being… Read more »
FROM STAR TO STAR
Antonio AMARAL | France | 01:26:32 | 2020 French PEDRO is a homeless man. He wants to make a movie in order to understand cinema. AYA is a first-time filmmaker. She agrees to help him. But AYA is in the grip of doubt… What’s behind PEDRO’s film project? Cast Ariane LOUIS Filipe DIONISIO Writer Antonio… Read more »
The Human Conservation Experiment
Kornblum Bierstadt Katz | United States | 01:09:40 | 2020 English After humanity’s self-destruction, a trans man repulsed by pregnancy and children becomes the best hope for the continuation of the species. Cast Kornblum Bierstadt Katz Writer Kornblum Bierstadt Katz Producer Kornblum Bierstadt Katz
Mantis
Daniel Schwachter | United States | 00:08:21 | 2020 English Experimental, nature film about the praying mantis in my backyard – and what it meant.
Wave Form
Tiz (Daniel Tysdal) | Canada | 00:08:17 | 2020 WAVE FORM explores movie viewing, sharing, and making as a means of confronting the experience of mental illness. It illuminates the sustaining, transformative powers of film by transforming a variety of “waves” from cinematic history—ocean waves, waving hands, waves of soldiers—through the luma waveform scope, a… Read more »
Haiku
Martin Gerigk | Japan | 00:17:17 | 2020 Japanese “Haiku | 俳句” is a symphonic audiovisual project for two Japanese performers, alternating percussion groups, soundscapes and rhythmicized video sequences. The film is an experimental approach to pay tribute to the extraordinary art of Japanese haiku poetry. Cast Eri Uchino Cauro Hige Writer Martin Gerigk Producer… Read more »