Coup de Pion

A cautionary tale about sticking your nose where it doesn't belong.

Coup de coeur

The untold state of mind dealing with an incurable disease. One is wondering if there's still a dream to achieve in life. One is running as if this free spirit of mine has never been taken away.

Gail's in trouble. Can Gary reach her in time?

This film is an exercise made for the Academia Internacional de Cinema "creativity process" class using archive footage and editing to create relation between images to convey a message. In May 2019 brazillian pro-government protesters ripped the banner "In Defense of the Education" from Federal University of Paraná , placed by activists in favor of public education and against the curtailment of expenditures of the Ministry of Education, which blocked 30% of the discretionary funds of universities and federal institutes.

Toys on Fire

A series of numbers that form infamous years that are uttered in a repetitive pedagogical litany. Ominous dates as a correlate of forgotten apolitical portraits. Portraits of a remembered royalty whose wealth was made possible by infamous times. Political faces accompanied by their corresponding dates. Peaceful figures whose placid portrait rests on the automated civilizational barbarism. This is part of the educational film cycle.

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany the Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond exhibition at the California Museum of Science and Industry and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

Thers's something in the morror!

A father and daughter visit a desolate stretch of road rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a dead motorcyclist.

Short "bullet film" from the Syrian Abounaddara film collective.

Soleil Cou Coupé

Numbers was created during a trip to Manhattan, where I caught my self-reflection in a glass door that read ‘41’ after having photographed the number 42 earlier the same day, and subsequently continued hunting until I found everything else between 1 and 100. Dedicated to Hollis Frampton. – D.B.

Taking one of the world’s most popular children’s songs as a sample, this video slowly reveals the latent violence embedded in the culture addressed to kids. This is a single video take, similar to a photograph, in which a tiny instrument is left to self-unwind with so much tenderness while the song’s story of almost carnivorous nature is told.

Jimmy is a teenage boy who has become increasingly reliant on social media for social interaction. He finds himself feeling lonely and shy, unable to approach girls in person or online. As the film progresses, Jimmy slowly discovers the power of real relationships and the importance of taking risks to turn his life around.

Exploring the struggles, however large or small, everyone has with their own mind: discovering your darkness and your light.

This found 8mm film of underwater ballet has a red rust effect flowing through it like living fire.

Short found-footage film by Danilo Torre.

A feedback driven experimental digital animation by Andrew Benson.