ami. exe・2nd atom

Avant garde/experimental film. A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

After the plague, the famines have come, and a man expelled from the last habitable zone wanders the desert wondering if he'll ever see his son again.

A small space crew has failed their mission of colonization. Trapped between the virtual and the physical, Adam longs for the mysterious Venus forest.

ISLANDS explores a cinematic journey of two astronauts. As they enter Earth’s atmosphere the structure transforms. The spacecraft becomes the meteor from a myth of a tribesman; it triggers an old lady’s memory of a lover from her past. As these diverse characters converge in a plane of reality, we confront a particular form of gravity we covertly feel—falling in love.

Experimental short film by Michio Mihara.

A young man experiences his last few minutes of singular consciousness while examining a wild falcon he has studied for months.

Three men are stranded on a planet, work in a bunker-like area, fiddling with equipment, and are dominated by a tyrannical overlord whose logo is Boston Terrier with a pipe. Into our hero's drab gas masked existence a woman appears, luring him away from his duties and the social order.

A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find enough courage to go on fighting.

Visit He visits a city. The city already forgot him. The city is still sinking in his dream. The flicking segments of real life and illusion. Only the lighthouse has his memory. But the memory will may be vanished.

Light // Curta-metragem experimental

An experimental journey through a year in the life of the director, using his always playing playlist to cross the boundaries of fiction and documentary. Through scenes of both comedy and tragedy, realistic documentary footage and experimental sequences of the director's environment and daily life we get a sometimes estranging image of a young man and also an intriguing insight in his mindset and how this translates to the imagery on screen.

Wanderings of the young Ami in the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo.

A young office worker is afflicted with a strange mutation that causes her blood to come to life when she bleeds.

A surreal post-apocalyptic drama by Patrick Kennelly inspired by the clipping. album “Splendor & Misery”

Alien

In this surrealist vignette-based film, a goldfish makes conversation with various objects. A TV becomes a writer, a triangle learns it is not a hexagon, and a goldfish sees themself without an audience. // \ / \ \\ \ / \ / /\/ /// \ / \ \\ \ / \ / /\/ /// \ / \ \\ \ / \ / /\/ /

Poetic sci-fi film as an homage to Cinema, Cocteau, Goodis and to American B-series of the 1940s. Constructed exclusively on photograms in black and white and freely inspired on Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville.

On stormy night in an ugly urban landscape, Ciro Norte, a scientist with wild hair and thick glasses, straps himself to a chair he's has fashioned with wires: lightening strikes, convulsing him. It seems his experiment has not worked. The next day, he drives his jalopy to a bar, sits alone, and weeps. But suddenly, a vortex sucks him into a dream state where he wanders, escapes man-eating fish, confronts his doppelganger, walks through a field of giant flowers, and comes upon Venus herself, buried up to her shoulders in sand. She is a giant, and she takes him to her breast. He wakes from the vortex, back in the bar, his mood transformed.

A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.

A short film recounting the travels of a lonely astronaut confronted by the unknown. Unfolding as a mystery, it becomes a carefully subtle, autobiographical examination of the feeling of loneliness and the existential issue of not understanding life on earth and ones place among it.