En La Profundidad de la Superficie
A film accompaniment featuring songs from Perfume Genius' newest record, Ugly Season.
Frankie and Lucky, two young artists navigating love and identity in New York City, cross paths again after years of separation. Their reunion in a bookstore triggers a flood of memories, reopening wounds from their past relationship. As Frankie revisits the apartment they once shared, she reflects on their tumultuous past—Lucky's struggle with trust, Frankie's desire for autonomy, and the emotional weight of unspoken truths.
The Water Station is a film adaptation by playwright, director, and NYU Abu Dhabi professor Abhishek Majumdar of a play by Japanese playwright Ōta Shōgo, written in 1981. It is about our experience of the world and how it is shaped by what we have to leave behind, who we can leave with, and what happens when we meet others in our journeys.
Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated by Lydia Lunch. The film was initially dismissed and dismayed by critics such as J. Hoberman, but the criticism of The Right Side of My Brain received only pushed the two to go one step further with Fingered (1986).
Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.
floating images, abstractions, memories. silhouettes of a life lived in Jawaharlal Nehru University
The why is an experiential meditation on death, on loves lost, the duality of mind, and ultimately the nature of attachment and memory turned obsession.
Fogo Corredor
A young man narrated the details of his dream from last night to his father about the celebration of demonstration, anger, and graduation.
An attempt to explore a deconstructed subconscious through altered visions.
A young woman with little choice takes part of a social experiment
The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The main circle (character) is slightly pinker than the other grey circles (people) and she thought she was very special. But she is very grey in a colourful world. She will find out that grey is not just a boring colour.
Social media corrupts the mind of a young University student--but can he escape the psychological torment of alienation?
60 minutes of experiments in multi-dimensional cinema using a variety of stereoscopic rigs.
Invisible City was filmed in Detroit over the course of three years. Inspired by Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities," in which the Italian author suggests that what constitutes a city is not so much its physical structure but the impression it makes upon its visitors. The film is loosely organized into four segments representing spring, summer, fall, and winter.
A short film that explores our dependency on smartphones and the emotional disconnection they create. Endless scrolling isolates us, shatters our well-being, and traps us in a stream of empty content. When we trade real experiences for digital noise, we give up on living.
Starting with a piece of vintage porn, filmmaker Naomi Uman painstakingly removed each female figure from the footage using nail polish remover, leaving a striking absence where there's usually a fleshy presence. Uman's celebrated film is a smart retort to pornography's obsessive gaze at the female body.
An experimental short film on the tension between untouched landscapes and sprawling metropolitan cities
In an attempt to represent reality, the boundary between life and art blurs between fragmentary images of someone and the praxis of an essay film.