Algo-Rhythm

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

As technology accelerates, our species' collective imagination of the future grows ever more kaleidoscopic. We are all haunted by temporal distortion, perhaps no more than when we attempt to remember what the future looked like to our younger selves. As the mist of time devours our memories, the future recedes; each of us burdened by the gaping mouth of entropy. Yet, emerging technology provides a glimmer of hope; transhumanism promises a future free from mortality, disease and pain. Does our salvation lie in digital simulacra? We're here to sell you the answer to that question, for the low, low price of four hundred and seventy seconds.

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

Big Time, the visual counterpart to Angel Olsen's album of the same name, is the story of light versus shadow told through a non-linear surrealist dreamspace that poses one central dilemma. ‘What lengths must one go through to let go of the past in order to step out of the darkness and accept one’s true self?’ It’s a story that targets deep rooted complexities such as how our unconscious deals with repressed sexual identity, the hardships of letting go of our past selves in order to step into self actualization, and the guilt we hold when dealing with loss.

Sourced entirely from YouTube, converted and edited using Windows Media Maker. A comprehensive list of video credits is available at pointnever.com Root Strata, 2009 Pro-duplicated DVD-R in a slimline DVD case with translucent colour cover and transparent insert. Limited to 250 copies.

Set to the music of NIKI's album 'Nicole', a young woman experiences the aches and elations of her first love.

Five kidnapped people are forced to rhyme with the funky rhythms of their captor, if they do not meet the high expectations they will die.

A story about a boy who signs up for drum lessons, not knowing that his teacher turns out to be an amateur and becomes jealous of her own student's drumming skills.

In this musical short, a man tries to woo the manager of a dance troupe.

An abstract short film about an alien invasion.

Mom and dad fighting in the house and kids living so frighten, How the kids react inside these kind of situation by showing their strange behaviour. Stop violence and save childhood.

The magician crow turns the little boy into a jug. After that a little boy's adventures begin.

Jane Campion's "The Piano", Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1993, retold in a single minute of animation by Inés Sedan.

A short film based on Alex Sawyer and Tasie Lawrence's song "Relapse."

Disjointed moments from the filmmakers’ daily lives during the past year. Captured on a 1985 VHS camcorder with color and luminosity distorted by its failing color Newvicon tube. Cut with distorted tape-recorded fragments of nostalgic broadcast television ephemera. Scored by whatever was handy— from an ambient electronic song with a surprising amount of pipe organ (Oneohtrix Point Never - Boring Angel) to midi versions of your favorite SNES soundtrack (Donkey Kong Country – Aquatic Ambience, Opening, and Treetop Rock) to a not-quite-right rendition of a song that will make you want to say “Oh, Angelo, that’s tearing my heart out!” (Xiu Xiu – Falling). A voyeuristic peak at home movies that exist somewhere between soon to be forgotten and forgotten long ago. The occasional dot matrix time stamps in the corner of the footage somehow make it harder to place in time.

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

A pizza delivery man is constantly late for work. His boss gives him one last chance to keep his job. When he arrives at the delivery address, he meets his ultimate idol, the rock star Charly Dopamine and his girlfriend Lucy.

The story begins in the basement of a worn-out blues bar in Louisiana in the 1980s. A few regular customers are having a drink. A guitarist gets on stage and everybody comments on the newcomer. The guitarist draws the attention of the audience by tapping the microphone. He introduces himself. He will tell them the true story of Blind Boogie Jones.

A musical about a woman getting work done on her house.

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.