Primary Colours

Music by Byron Westbrook, 16mm film by Paul Clipson.

Our host Dr. Dramaminex Dante seeks to answer the question: Who knows what the devil looks like? For no one really knows.

Two stories about different ways two people overcome loss; which may or may not be connected.

A stasis work invoking the memory of the lynching of Mary Turner, a young, pregnant African American woman in South Georgia. Publicly demanding justice after the murder of her husband, Turner was kidnapped by a mob, hung up in a tree, set on fire, her child cut out and killed, and shot hundreds of times before being buried on-site in 1918. Returning to the origins of cinema, filmed on the exact date and time of Turner’s lynching 105-years earlier, # 3 uses form, time, light, shadow, and landscape as metaphor to not only invoke the memory of Mary Turner, but to also ponder perspective relating to racial violence, violence against women, our failure to acknowledge our past, and the racial divide that continues to exist today in the schizophrenia of America life.

a young timid boy who is doubtful about faith and religion is beaten by curiosity and ends up wandering into a peculiar church and encountering a celestial yet godlike girl.

A train moves through winter as a superimposed image of the same route in spring gradually emerges. Both moments coexist within a single frame, revealing two seasons happening at once.

Central explores the limitations of sanity as different facets of her persona usher her through psychosis.

Two men who have been friends for quite some time and who live in different cities maintain a correspondence with Super 8 film reels that they occasionally send to each other. One of these film reels shows a woman who reminds the addressee of a former girlfriend. Immediately and without paying attention to his obligations to the company, he drives the company car to the city of his childhood friend, 780 km away. There he finds out that she has been the secret lover of his Super 8 friend for years. After about three or four weeks, which they spend on the coast of another country without any significant difficulties, the lover of the childhood friend rows his boat alone across the Atlantic after an obviously frame-up rescue operation.

An atmospheric journey, following the unstoppable forces that shape this world. A story beyond humanity.

When Computers Cry (o búsqueda de un recuerdo en un Pentium III)

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

Before the freeze, there was beautiful garden. "Before the Freeze" is a short psychological thriller with experimental elements, about an overstressed, newly-single mother, her daughter, their dog, and what happens one afternoon when a friend comes over. "Before the Freeze" is Tenley E. Raj's debut film. Written, directed, shot, and edited and by Tenley E. Raj.

Analía and Andrés are neighbors but barely know each other. On the night of December 31, 1999, both are forced, for different reasons, to spend New Year's Eve alone.

Someone waiting, a letter arriving, an unexpected kiss in the garden, a doorbell ringing, someone on the street waving with their suitcase in hand. One-by-one camera montage. No reshooting or interruptions.

A woman returns, after a long time, to an empty house to confront her memories.

Can love transcend boundaries, trapping us in a seemingly inescapable cycle? The fantasy of being one with each other becomes flesh and destruction. A couple stripped of everything and everyone, fused to the point of losing their sense of self, faced with the possibility of a third party interfering, she decides to have an abortion.

A Xerox movie with flowers

A skin flick

A 16mm archive from 1964 intervened as an emotional diary during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic is the basis of this film, reinterpreted in the montage of the sound design, in which the images are reinterpreted, emphasizing the soundscape of the protests from 2020 to 2023 in the streets of Cajamarca, Cusco and Lima, three regions of Peru, questioning the constant political and social crisis.

In Flesh Flows we see a balance of Beckett’s keen drawing ability, in the probing erotic forms, and his technical acuity, which transforms the carnal images into a compelling, transcendent experience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.