What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and distancing? We think we touch things, that we can take other people by the hand, but physics tells us quite another story.
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. The film was intended to be screened via dual projector set-up.
Our place is on fire and we are on fire with it. If that, what we are, is not any longer and an eternal search begins - for who we are, where we stand and where we should go.
A film by Adam B Daniels. A reflection on the sounds of “Let There Be Light” by Sunn O))) & Ulver from their album Terrestrials. The Queen – Anna Zehentbauer The Priestess – Rebecca Horrox Costume – Cesca Dvorak Hair & Make Up – Karolina Kluzniak Produced with Ali Selim Agalar
Inspired by the dominant motif of the novel by the great Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, "L’Arrière-saison" is a diptych about roses.
Strains of Wagner's Das Rheingold and African tribal ululations collide with bi-/tri-sected television footage while negative-positive visuals smash heedlessly into their mirror images, an unbounded series of “meaningful” artistic fender-benders that amount to little of resonant substance.
A languid, beautifully shot collection of landscapes, edited into a whimsical and touching film.
A silent collage of un-edited images taken from Google Earth, with pictures ranging from straightforward landscapes to more abstract, organic and cosmic imagery.
In search of the archival, Carmen-Sibha Keiso re-imagines theatre and film through personal narrative in her conceptual debut: Love & Fascism In The 21st Century. "... if Rappaport was in an art school." - Ferran Pla
From the south of France, a science fiction film about the end of the Leisure Class and that which came to replace it.
Trapped in her own malaise, a depressed girl tries to go for a walk in Brunswick thinking she's in a French new-wave film. Yet after a series of unrequited bump-ins, muse is confronted by a harsh reality that is simply slacker…
A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies".
Arab-American filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi embraces the rhythmic rituals that have run alongside Islamic tradition throughout the centuries in this surreal and poetic short film. Piecing together old and new, Al-Rashi's dream-like imagery breathes fresh air to a subject hardly seen in positive light.
Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that awaken the senses.
Melting shows the natural monostructural disintegration of a strawberry sundae, its passage from rigidity to softness, from edibility to waste. The spoon resting on the plate refers to the human presence, which lurks behind the screen, declining to interfere with what transpires. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
A film about the dominance of time and space over a human being. A poetic reflection on the transience of material life characterized by a Mediterranean ambience, contemplation, mosaic structure, and repetitive editing patterns.
It is well known that the disposition of the images drawn by Escher are neither for animation nor for pre-animation; actually, quite the opposite. His images appear to be the carrying out of metamorphic dissolves. A bird gives way to the recognition of a house, which turns into fish, which turns into birds, and so on. Not a single flapping of wings takes place; everything is reiterated and fixed, becoming immersed in and re-emerging from a static continuum. All of Escher is an homage to one of the major animating forces of the cinema: the cross-dissolve. Precisely there, I found cinematic attitudes: in the house which turns into fish and in everything that transforms into something else. I gradually managed to figure out various types of non-existent sequences and then finally found myself dissolved, crossing over metamorphically. —P.G.
A short documentary about Dave McKean's process of creating an image.
Mona relates her dream. Crawling through an apparently endless wooden crate, she encounters diverse characters while the crate itself is moving towards a fiery destruction.
A daily gif created over 100 days.