Waves 2

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

A portal, a sorceress, a fictional device to portray existence as a moment encapsulated inside an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented biographical elements —family disintegration, rootlessness, scars, two loyal companions, the promises of a new land—subverting the notion of a home-movie and transform it into a pilgrimage tool of self-discovery, mirroring the fragile nature of memories.

Maccaia

Fulano de Tal

June 1971 - in a fluid landscape completely below sea level, a young biology student dies during the last year of his studies, leaving behind an unfinished scientific collection. More than fifty years later, a group of ecologists and volunteers are trying to understand and document the same environment as it is today.

365 jours

Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with what was shot.

A visual poem shot on Super 8 through the streets and shops of Amsterdam.

It is the year 2020 and women have lost the right to their bodies completely. In this tale of sweet revenge, a cult of courageous women go to extremes to take back what is rightfully theirs.

According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.

It’s the year 1990. America is on the verge of another Great Depression. A Hitler-like President puts into action his mad scheme to wipe out the federal deficit by dispatching extermination squads. Can the terribly violent genocide be stopped before all non-conformists are destroyed?

A man is confronted by parallel versions of himself as he contemplates his life choices.

Maya excitedly leans into the joy of her first queer relationship, but must confront the seemingly never-ending sexualisation of her identity

An awkward boy and a shy girl meet on a bench, what awaits is a night they will remember forever.

Two star-crossed friends escape to the woods for one night in an attempt to find their way back to one another.

As a teenager, I used to take a bus, whose ticket had the inscription "To the Flores Cemetery" as the end of its route. At that time, whenever I saw the ticket, I thought of Charles Baudelaire's "The Flowers of Evil" and of imaginary walks the bus would take me on until I reached the Flores Cemetery. Thirty years later, I found one of those tickets in a box, and it makes me think of finitude and the transient. Film made with Floripondio flowers, Hollyhock and Santa Rita petals, blood, cobwebs, insects found after a storm, mushrooms, onions, and hair on 16mm film.

The project originated during a workshop in La Rochelle, where a group of women "took possession" of the film to create a work where the camera could be used by each participant at her own discretion, guided by her own "desiring" gaze. According to Fréderique Gros, this "lived wandering" was later reshaped during editing to try and articulate the transition between the internal and external worlds.

Shot on Super 8mm, lost Hollywood tapes found in an unmarked box uncover a man trapped in an apartment where memory fractures and reality begins to unravel.

Ahmet, a Turkish guy in his early twenties visit his grandfather's abandoned mansion located somewhere in the northern Anatolia. Thinking that he would return to where he spent his early childhood, only to find out that the place is now in ruins. When he goes to sleep. An unexpected angel will visit him to give her a blessing of the truth. He wakes up being not the guy he was before.

A man and a woman talk on the phone and express their feelings and desires for each other for the first time. We watch as they listen to the other's admissions.