experimental piece exploring existentialism, time, age and space
The film intersperses carefully framed shots of unfamiliar Hamburg cityscapes with silent, close-ups of ballerinas from the Hamburg Ballet, images reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests”.
A young artist is caught in a physical and mental battle against a supernatural entity that forces him to free it from its dark prison, ¿or is it just his imagination?
The last remnant of memories, before it forever perished.
Time passes. Life flows. Nature completes an entire cycle of life and death. Eve and Adam reinterpret and correct the myth of the tree of knowledge: the forbidden fruit makes us wise. As the earth revolves around the sun, the camera captures a baroque symphony of lights and colors. There is no digital manipulation: all the effects are produced analogically by the camera mechanism.
Waves crashing against the rocks, a journey to the beaches of El Tabo (Chile).
Using variations of color and light, this is a method that I attempted to translate how I feel for a special someone on her special day.
A Photographer enamored with a lone tree tries to take a picture. He falls down to a rabbit hole of perspectives as he take the Sisyphean task of taking a photograph of the tree
The original format is 8mm film (single8), and once the developed film is incompletely layered on the undeveloped film, it is projected onto a curtain swaying in the wind by shining light at an angle with a penlight. Created an effect.
An inexperienced astral projector seeks his grandmother’s wisdom after meeting an uncanny woman in a place transcending reality.
History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.
A life, seen through paper.
A Zapotec man from the future tells the story of how in the 21st century a new invasion of “foreigners” was afflicting his village. While people in Europe were suffering a crisis that made them lose memory and a sense of their culture, a group of youth in his village in Oaxaca was trying to document their own culture by making a film during Carnival rituals. While the youth are pushed to invite a director from the city to come help them, ultimately changing their project to be a remake of Ingmar Bergman’s THE SILENCE, a Swedish woman comes exploring in search of magical lizards that could be the next remedy for memory crisis back home. Characters mix and stories blend into each other in this absurdist and melancholic lo-fi/sci-fi story narrated as oral history with multiple voices.
The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped through a liquid lens. The illusion of a starry night turns into a sea “roofed over by rainbows.”
When the individual lifestyles of the embodiments of urban and nature meet... They clash, and create a new parasitic relationship.
An experimental dance film that explores how we change ourselves, altering our appearance and behaviour in order to please other people and the emotional and mental impact that has on us.
As the day ends for a worn-out office worker, he encounters the mysterious gaze of a chimpanzee, sparking a silent exchange that prompts him to make an irreversible decision.
A camera tries to create a love story using lost videos on his memory card, but fate transforms these files into those of his ancestors who gave him life through a ritual. Magic, Surrealism and Queer Sexuality in the eyes of cinema now alive.
Fragments of pottery. Gold, silver, jewellery. Contemporary art. Luciana Decker Orozco visits various museums and collections in London, tracing a homegrown past present on another continent. Each piece are windows that open and close, briefly revealing what they hide, a mystery that she encapsulates in her celluloid and magical editing.
A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.