Trance dances and out of body projection. In front of the camera, Parvaneh Navaï becomes a mediator who enters in contact with and immerses into the energies of Nature, while her own energy radiates and echos in the forest ("selva"). The camera amplifies and expands her presence, transforming the forest into an imaginary space. The camera becomes a painter's brush.
On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues.
Join Lucy as she embarks on a spiritual journey to Mars in this psychedelic short film full of music and mischief.
Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.
Mr. Lobster visits a long-lost friend.
This is the story of Roger, a former pork butcher, who worked for 40 years in the beautiful town of Beaune in Burgundy. Since he retired, he has started a new life as a filmmaker: Roger films only on Super 8. Insects, birds, everything he can find in the countryside are his favorite subjects. His short films have won prizes all over the world, some of them have been shown during the Cannes Film Festival. Josette, his wife and number one fan, happens to work for him from time to time.
A top lad recollects fights, friends and painting his toenails with his dad.
A teenager stumbles upon a mysterious book from which he reads the written words out loud. As it turns out, playing with black magic spells is not the most sensible idea, because soon a bloodthirsty zombie appears, and the carnage begins. However, the curious young man reads another spell from the book in which he then surrenders his soul to the devil. Now he becomes the target of the zombie hunt, and all its victims, who rise up as the next living dead!
A study of light on nature, a lyrical film in the first person that records in an abstract and impressionistic way where the vision is altered to the pulse of a time that accelerates and stops.
This is an experimental video with original music and text, made from a film shot by my grandfather Juan Antonio Álvarez Mujica in the 1970s.
Re-editing of commercial films that seeks to confront the images fixed in the emulsion with the physical projection medium.
The biggest, most populated, and frantic city in South America. While Cariocas are like tropical birds, Paulistas are like frenetic ants. Distances are longer and they're always in a hurry. A busy journey through this beautiful Brazilian beast which cannot help but beating irregularly.
A tribute to the great comic book superhero, in the style of a silent film. The Man of Steel, driven by the overwhelming need to do good, thwarts a criminal act without receiving any recognition. On the contrary, and quite unexpectedly, he is attacked by the victim of the robbery.
Crossing an old bridge in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas, the filmmakers come face to face. They walk towards each other, crossing paths until all that remains is the metal structure of the bridge.
A portrait of experimental filmmaker Marie Louise Alemann in two alternating characters
"I am the man who walks down the street. At first there is no one. The protagonist smokes, goes to a bar, takes a bus, walks down the street, wanders around and little by little more people appear. And then more and more people, until he ends up on Florida Street, merging into the crowd."
It's a staging of The Maids, which, set in the 1930s, tells the story of two sisters working in the house of an abusive woman. Genet's film begins with a ritual: the lighting of candles. It's a black and white film with complex lighting design.
An island is a refuge. Within the forest dwell ancient trees, stones, animals of all sizes, and a few branches found along the way. Childhood and discoveries. Knowledge lost in the mist, aboard a ship. A field of attraction where past, present, and future dance in the fire without temporal order; the children are all ages. We have arrived at the strange land of Gombaut.
Between 7,000 and 11,000 years ago, a group of extraterrestrial visitors landed on the Chubut River for a picnic. For unknown reasons, they abandoned (or perhaps forgot?) one of their own. This abandoned extraterrestrial is recording his last days on Earth.
The Legend of Tibrogargan is a film about Australian identity and about my own identity: growing up in France, I felt far removed from the country I belonged to. Ten years after my last visit, I decided to pay homage to my ancestors with one of my grandfather's orchestral compositions, "The Legend of Tibrogargan," and a radio recording of his voice telling it.