Figures Around a Fire

The journey of a boy accepting that his lover is gone

In all of his existences, KOBE KOTORO embarks on an everlasting odyssey through the home of his mind. A transformative journey in hopes to find understanding, identity & reflection. And if nothing else; the freedom to try again.

This is the story of the “smoke jumpers,” specially trained by the Forest Service to reach forest fires when they are in the inaccessible areas of US National Forests. A cabin in the woods is set on fire after an over stimulated kitten upsets an oil lantern.

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.

o céu diante dos meus olhos nunca é cinza

“All that which in Picture is not of the body or argument thereof is Landskip, Parergon, or By-work” (Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 1656).

An experimental short film capturing the delicate beauty of different flowers.

La Rodilla del Diablo

Phoenix answers the wrong call, and reality fractures. Voices distort, shadows follow, and every connection pulls him deeper into a nightmare he can’t escape.

An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.

A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.

Two figures —an angel bathed in light and a widow veiled in mourning— mirror each other’s gestures. Through the interplay of costume, color, and hand-drawn intervention, Emerge & Fade explores how innocence and disillusion coexist and transform one another.

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

Dynamite, tête de poisson!

A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.

A short film following a young woman as she's pursued by a mysterious stranger in the woods.

The body collapses in the ruins of the digital abyss, merging into pixel molecules in a cybernetic dissolution that disrupts the boundaries between human and machine through motion-tracking software applied to a body no longer legible within the colonial grammar of the algorithm.

Two children are directed by a cinemaker.

Short experimental film by Ernesto Baca

During a space voyage, four scientists are altered by cosmic rays: Reed Richards gains the ability to stretch his body; Sue Storm can become invisible; Johnny Storm controls fire; and Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong … thing. Together, these "Fantastic Four" must now thwart the evil plans of Dr. Doom and save the world from certain destruction.