"If today is yesterday’s tomorrow and tomorrow brings today’s ideas to pass, who knows what tomorrow might bring!"
A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.
Features four distinct, bizarre, existential tales about people whose lives are in transition, who are each asking questions about themselves, their environments, and about God(s).
Corazón en el cenicero
A documentary about the sea and memory. Its movement is its form. Its strength.
an anime-inspired short film that tells the story of a women named Bel, who makes a deal with an angel to stop the demon forces from invading earth.
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a ruined landscape.
A fictionalised essay read by Ben Wishaw exploring the complicated relationship between British espionage and male homosexuality. An anonymous narrator talks through the various chapters of his life as a spy and a gay man in late 20th-century Britain. His vivid stories of intimacy and surveillance play out over shots of the luscious countryside, busy Central London streets, and nighttime cruising zones.
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.
Sara, A positive girl who can't speak(dumb) and A lonely boy without hope in life accidentally meets and talks through a diary.
A journey to an unknown star, a children's theatre play, an untalented writer and the fear of becoming the worst version of oneself. A mixture of live-action footage and animated scenes. A stream of (un)conscious stereotypes.
"In medical terminology, absence of genitalia in females is referred to as "gynatresia". In other words, an extreme defect that goes beyond a mere illness" Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for the political stalemate of the Leftist student movement after their impressive wave of massive fiery protests failed to defeat the neo-imperialist Japan-US Security Treaty. The ritualistic solemnity of the charged sexual scenes contribute to the oneiric qualities of Closed Vagina which Adachi would later insist was an open work, not meant to deliver any kind of deliberate political message. - Harvard Film Archive
Omnibus film with 13 short films by students of the HfG Ulm
A game of Monopoly between 3 friends where moves on the board play out in a parallel world
Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.
A transgender girl runs away from home and is invited to live with a strange photographer who pushes her to help him pay his debts.
A young man deals with loneliness and depression.
The world's greatest art thief collects almost two-billion dollars in masters only to have his mother burn them all in the family backyard.
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.