Belle is processing her toxic relationship and coming to terms with the need to end it. The closer she gets to closure, the more the world around Belle starts to break down - literally and abstractly. Can she come out the other side?
Meta Ekologi was made in 1979 and is based on a performance by Sardono W. Kusumo and his group. They are shown in a pool of mud in a Jakarta slum, with the local population watching as the artists cover themselves entirely in mud. It's a response to an attempt at dialogue with the ecology of land and water. Humanity expresses its feelings through the body, trying to become one with the universe. It refers to the peasants who work the land and are covered in mud. It's a process of poetisation. Gotot Prakosa, ‘Interview with Gotot Prakosa’, Cantrills Filmnotes, 1990
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A short rhythmic poetry film about a guy being given a sexually transmitted disease, with quite a twist ending! Think Jilted John at the sex clinic!
A short experimental documentary about love
Experimental short film that explores the rise and decline of the Soviet Union, from the revolutionary spark of 1917 to the challenges and sacrifices endured during World War II, until its dissolution in 1991.
Drawn again from footage shot in the Torrance Public Library parking lot, Introduction to Crack Sealing 3 remixes material from the first two films into a new visual texture. Where the earlier works traced and fractured the asphalt lines, this version overlays them through double exposures that randomly overlap and fade in and out. The result is a shifting, layered surface in which gestures collide, blur, and dissolve, creating a cracked field of inscription.
Co-directed by Max Devereaux and Igor Amokian, MD+IA=? is a sonic and visual collage that fuses circuit-bent electronics, broken tape loops, glitching drum machines, and free-improvised guitar. Amokian’s footage of modified CRT televisions generating unruly abstractions is layered with Devereaux’s processed iPhone videos, altered through datamoshing and glitch-editing apps. The result is a vivid collision of sound and image—a colorful flux of patterns and distortions where technology’s failures become raw material for improvisation.
After a nuclear attack on the country, a lone wanderer explores the surroundings of a contaminated town, haunted by an unknown watcher. As the wanderer confronts the stranger, reality begins to distort under the influence of her psychological descent.
Cinematic icons collide in the fake medieval alleyways of Barcelona.
In this poignant animated short, a film student navigates the shockwaves of hidden trauma and PTSD on a night out with friends.
Shot in downtown Minneapolis, Rush Light assembles a rapid montage of fleeting street compositions. Through quick cuts and sudden shifts, Devereaux creates a collage of ready-made visual moments—buildings, signs, shadows, and chance alignments glimpsed in passing. The film operates as both a study of three-dimensional space and a meditation on the eye’s ability to seize upon images in a split second. Color, light, and shadow flicker across the frame, transforming the city into a shifting field of accidental design.
Facing is a short experimental film that turns the grocery aisle into a frenetic canvas. Shot with rapid cuts and a constantly moving camera, the film zooms through product labels until they dissolve into chaotic blurs, streaks of color, and fractured lines. Familiar packaging blurs together in a fast, chaotic montage, where the images overlap and mix until they turn into shifting colors and patterns.
An audio-visual experience through the perspective of an iPhone depicting a harmonious city during the day quickly descend into technological madness as night falls.
Deforming reality, objects and light. We are dealing with a fragmented mind. Mesmerised. Madness.
Experimental animation made entirely with tinfoil. This film depicts a dream-state imagination of bodies moving and people passing.
A short piece written by Chris Villafuerte in January of 2024, "I want the audience to create a story for themselves but also focus on the butterflies. I had fun editing because fun fact, I also did the score for this short. Im considering making my own music going forward"
This ambient horror film documents a trans woman's descent into a mania as she struggles with the delusions of joining a cult and a lifetime of religious trauma.
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SHIFTING VISIONS is a video essay that revolves around the transition between the different stages of human consciousness. From the most intense state of full attention to the most abstract and dreamlike state, passing through all its nuances. We know that the mind remains a mystery to science, but, through combining neuroscientific theory and personal perceptions, we represent these mental dynamics transferred to images, sounds and metaphors. We thoroughly analyse each of these stages to translate concepts and create audiovisual imaginaries through symbolic mental limbos. A piece that drags the viewer on an inner journey to their own lucidity.