Influence

Welcome to the funbubble! Over 2 hours of bizarre entertainment. Meet Shaye Saint John, former supermodel who now has no arms or legs and her special friend Kiki (a burnt doll). This series of shorts documents the daily collision of Shaye's glamorous fantasies with the realities of the physical limitations of her everyday life. These films with their juxtaposition of child-like imagery can be genuinely disturbing without a hint of blood, violence, nudity, cursing, or off-color subject matter of any sort. Watching Shaye do her schtick is akin to watching a segment of one of John Waters' early flicks. There is no question about the fine line between maddness and genius here -- it's madness, plain and simple, dizzying in its detachment to reality. Depending on your outlook, Shaye Saint John is either a true testimony to the power of art to rise above adversity or these films are hidden footage from a ward for the criminally insane!

The short film follows Endika, a director who, in the midst of a clash with his reality, transforms a documentary about paternal absence into a personal quest for reconciliation with his own father.

An experimental odyssey through altered realities and reconstructed archives, where wandering voices of the past, present, and future unravel the elusive nature of time and memory.

Madman's dictionary

Hlavátky

Fireworks

With a wealth of fantastic archive footage and a series of revealing interviews with those who had first-hand experience, filmmaker Vicki Lesley tells the turbulent story of the West’s love-hate relationship with a nuclear power over the past seventy years. Capturing both the tantalising promise and the repeated disappointments of this singular technology, the film reveals how the post-war, romantic fantasy of an Atom-powered future developed into the stormy, on-off relationship still playing out today. A tale of scientific passion and political intrigue all wrapped up in the packaging of a sentimental screen melodrama.

An experimental home documentary where you step inside the director's lens. A journey through his childhood via his own early recordings, exploring the origins of his craft and how that child’s gaze is still there, captured in time.

Memorial

Intermittent fasting, autophagy, "metabolic switch": ten years after their first successful documentary on fasting, Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade delve back into promising research on a booming practice.

An Editor recounts the diaries of a failed film production as they attempt to construct a new narrative from the remaining footage.

A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated and hosted by Peter Ustinov and written by Nigel Calder.

10/26

A visual documentary of Einstürzende Neubauten, the German underground band, by Japanese cult director Sogo Ishii, made during their 1985 tour of Japan. The band makes an elaborate and remarkably choreographed appearance in the ruins of an old ironworks which was scheduled for demolition; footage of same was incorporated into the movie and a brief appearance on stage.

This is an intimate and fragmented portrait of what it means to fall in love in the 21st century. Where desire, breadcrumbing, and vulnerability intertwine in a process of falling, self-creation, and pure frenzy.

Foreign Names focuses on the worker displacement in a compilation of video clips from Aroma, a coffee shop chain. Ben-Ner’s video shows counter staff at the coffee shops yelling nonsensical English “names,” fabricated and given to them by the artist. The texts edited together become a lament of the waiters’ disappearance and the state of workers today.

An experimental video collage piece that investigates the concept of self-destruction across genres, eras, and cultures. Features footage from Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry (1997), Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar (1959), Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1921), and Jeff Tremaine's Jackass 4.5 (2022), among others.

An in-depth investigation featuring world renowned philosophers and scientists into the most profound philosophical debate of all time: Do we have free will?

Repetition, delay, suppression, intertwined images. Through the child, father, and mother; the way memories are recalled, the camera's manipulative reduction of photographs, videos against their magnificence in memory.

A short documentary that brings light to the experiences of those who live with hidden disabilities. Through eight heartfelt interviews, participants share their struggles, strengths, and realities of their everyday lives.