Maccaia
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.
Fulano de Tal
Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with what was shot.
A portal, a sorceress, a fictional device to portray existence as a moment encapsulated inside an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented biographical elements —family disintegration, rootlessness, scars, two loyal companions, the promises of a new land—subverting the notion of a home-movie and transform it into a pilgrimage tool of self-discovery, mirroring the fragile nature of memories.
June 1971 - in a fluid landscape completely below sea level, a young biology student dies during the last year of his studies, leaving behind an unfinished scientific collection. More than fifty years later, a group of ecologists and volunteers are trying to understand and document the same environment as it is today.
A visual poem shot on Super 8 through the streets and shops of Amsterdam.
According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.
"What I tried to "tell" is Rosa's close and distorted relationship, common to many women who are used to living alone with themselves, with objects that have become animated and unreal and the relationship which is completely silent, but no less clear and explosive of Rosa with her feminine unconscious” (D. Maraini).
Fede is a theater actress who, while putting on clown make-up for a show, thinks back to her relationship with her father: a relationship of tenderness, desire and hatred.
Three women leave for a beach holiday. The joy, the carefreeness of days on the beach, lunches on the terrace, lazy afternoons punctuate this "holiday film" which slowly reveals and builds the sensual and playful intimacy of the relationship that binds the protagonists/directors.
A woman, director of advertising films, catches the eye of a mysterious young woman dressed in white during an evening of dancing on the terrace of a bar and is fascinated by her.
A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.
La signora Aetna, (Etna), is bored and boredom can be a dangerous thing for those around you when you are a volcanic goddess.
An awkward boy and a shy girl meet on a bench, what awaits is a night they will remember forever.
It is the year 2020 and women have lost the right to their bodies completely. In this tale of sweet revenge, a cult of courageous women go to extremes to take back what is rightfully theirs.
Filmed on Super 8 in Paris, Portrait de Rosa, à la française portrays an intimate love story through quiet images and gentle emotion.
Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.
fragments from song lyrics of different artists have given life to this story about love, loss and desperation.
A single misstep — crushing a cicada beneath his foot — plunges a young man into unsettling paranoia.