First Women on Earth

Lost in inertia and apathy, a young man wanders through his own emotions — or what’s left of them.

On a bet with one of his practical-joking partners, a Los Angeles lawyer responds to an ad from a pretty Chicago magazine writer offering herself as a bridal candidate as an investigative reporting assignment, and then makes another bet that he can keep the relationship platonic for two weeks.

"This video was generated from within an European erotic film. The act of rewinding and fast-forwarding the footage mirrors a sexual gesture, while simultaneously degrading its visual quality. For me, this situation resembles a Hellmouth."

"After the experience of making the film for my thesis defense, and, of course, translating and working on the essay Amateur vs. Professional [Amateur Cinema], particularly Maya Deren’s definition of amateur cinema, it became a concern of mine. After a difficult year, I decided, based on a personal manifesto shaped by my surroundings [Paramedia], to make a film that I myself would like to see more of. A film created through image, montage, and the possibilities specific to the cinematic apparatus, with an emphasis on organicity. At the same time, it was a response to the question of mainstream cinema versus art cinema, and ultimately an attempt to arrive at a third option, one that is completely separate from those two modes of cinema: experimental cinema, structural, abstract, expansive, and so on. The final product was Me, I'm Not."

An experimental, activist short-film following Quinn, who falls pregnant, but did not have the freedom to choose. So she takes matters into her own hands.

A loop of a guy in Maine hanging out in his room.

An abstract exploration of memory and loss.

Two men in the moors alone, fighting their free will and masculinity (or lack thereof).

Since the cult success of Merci Patron!, activist/journalist/filmmaker François Ruffin has become an MP. Here, he attempts to table a law aimed at upholding the rights of what in Quebec are known as caregivers, and shows us in passing how a law whose need seems patently obvious is put together, debated, voted on and . . . dies on the battleground of French politics. A stirring documentary about social injustice that somehow manages to make us bust a gut laughing as we rage with indignation. And also cry at the beauty of it all, thanks to the director’s humanist sensibility and a deft play between reality and fiction.

Alliances Terrestres

An inexperienced astral projector seeks his grandmother’s wisdom after meeting an uncanny woman in a place transcending reality.

Fireworks

Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.

Super 8 films by Paul Clipson. Sound by Jefre-Cantu Ledesma.

Super 8mm, 21 min., b&w, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.

Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre-Cantu Ledesma.

Music by Jefre-Cantu Ledesma. Film by Paul Clipson with Trevor Montgomery.

Memory is a collaboration with musician Noah Lennox (Panda Bear), exploring the relationship between a musician and filmmaker and their personal reflection on memories. From Super 8 home movies and entirely handmade, this film explores familiar memories, the present moment combined with past experiences and how it all seems to evade from our present memory.

Super 8mm by Paul Clipson. Sound by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.

The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.