From the Void of Time

Shadow Hunt

Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong is a 35mm film that utilised and appropriates footage from a documentary Henry Moore exhibition in Hong Kong, through over-dubbing, painting directly onto the film and other gestures, Mok turns the material into an incendiary address to Hong Kong's youth. Intercut with newly filmed material creates, the film also functions as a personal diary of Mok's political activity throughout the 1970s.

A random apparition leads to the aquatic ape theory, an unproven evolutionary hypothesis that imagines an amphibious origin of humans. The idea of a certain origin is called into question, and if we cannot verify the past, on what do we base the future?

Desplazamientos

A documentary essay that, through exclusively images, music and editing, aims to show a different image of the manipulated Andalusia that had been present on movie screens for many decades.

In this visual essay, author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas reflects on the recurring theme or perception in Dario Argento's filmography.

An philosophical film assembled from archival NASA footage exploring humanity’s search for meaning in the silence of space.

It could be said that space is never just the absence of matter, but is somehow a step ahead of it. As such, it is the initial principle of what is emerging. The dancers and their movement are embedded in multiple layers of materiality such as texture, skin, air, floor, movement, sound in this poetic short dance film. Just as a membrane envelopes and defines the most basic structure of a cell, it also teaches us about the multi-directionality of our attention. The intelligence of boundaries/“membranes” as spaces of response, bring us a sense of containment, limits and at the same time, provide a doorway through which we turn towards the other.

Created by Rafaela Andrade, this fashion film explores contemporary fashion compositions and urban aesthetics through striking architectural locations. Directed and filmed by Matheus Gallo, the visual narrative highlights the elegance and textures of the garments, blending detailed close-ups of accessories with monumental urban backdrops. Art directed by Fernanda Neves and styled by Bianca Farias, the project serves as a sophisticated visual portfolio celebrating a collaborative creative vision.

nostomanie

A film essay that approaches cinema as a water current, revisiting a body of previous essay films through the recurring image of water—rivers, seas, tides, and flows—to explore cinema as a fluid space of memory, movement, and transformation.

Monumental experimental film cycle by R Bruce Elder. It consists of three „Regions”: „The System of Dante's Hell”, „Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)” and „Exultations (In Light Of The Great Giving)”.

Video essay on the "The Witch" (1966) by author and academic Miranda Corcoran. Corcoran places the film within wider histories of witchcraft and witch imagery, including: Folklore and real-world witchcraft traditions, Witches as figures in popular culture, The film’s treatment of sexuality, femininity, desire, aging, and the supernatural, How those ideas illuminate Damiani’s unusual Italian Gothic film, centered on Sergio’s encounter with the mysterious Aura [Included on the Arrow Video "Gothic Fantastico - Four Italian Tales Of Terror" blu-ray box set.]

A video essay on the film, THE THIRD EYE (1966), where author and filmmaker Lindsay Hallam examines the film’s psychological and Gothic dimensions—especially its patterns of jealousy, obsession, eroticism, death, and preservation. The essay considers how the movie’s visual style extends melodramatic and Italian Gothic conventions, rather than simply recounting the plot. [Included on the Arrow Video "Gothic Fantastico: Four Italian Tales of Terror" Blu-ray box set.]

A video essay by Kat Ellinger covering the transposition of the Hollywood revenge Gothic to Italy, the trope of the "wronged woman" including incarnations by Barbara Steele and other horror icons, and ties to similar narrative strands in Japanese folklore and cinema from Kwaidan to Ring.

A cinematic essay by Sean Kelly about his experiences with Asperger's Syndrome.