Mágoa das Flores

House

August 1977 •Japanese

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

No Time

December 2023 •Spanish

Experimental short film about the fragility of time

4.48 Psychosis

September 2023 •Portuguese

An adaptation of the play "4.48 Psychosis" written by Sarah Kane. The movie consists of scenes that work as a fragmenteded voyage through the mind of a person on a deeply depressive state. Everything is shown in a raw and experimental manner to bring the feelings and emotions in the most pure form to screen.

The Scary Movie

January 1993 •English

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.

Quando Ele Deitou Pela Penúltima Vez

Invalid date •Portuguese

The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie

April 2024 •English

The long dead ghosts of celluloid are coming back to haunt the digital space.

Now They Experience It All the Time...

February 2023 •English

The newest film by SamHel

Empty Memories of Broken Hearts

March 2023 •English

An atmospheric look into loneliness and heartbreak, all through a highly experimental lens.

Leda + Swans

March 2023 •English

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short film “Photographing a Female Crook” (1904). Leda, who may or may not be a falsely accused young woman, is brought in for a mugshot by two officers. She first attempts to avoid the camera’s gaze, and, when overpowered and manhandled, contorts her face to ruin the photograph. However, her small rebellion proves futile; she was already being recorded, objectified, mapped, and co-opted by the Godhead of the director. As her body and image are repurposed and transmuted ad infinitum, the filmic universe also explodes into a supernova. What is born out of this suffering and manipulation is another example of our sublime medium and modern muse. She will not be last the Leda, and she may not even be the first. Who is the guilty party here? Is beauty a chimera in traditional cinema? Has the ephemeral cinema of the attractions and distractions era gone anywhere?

kid-like-you.mp3

March 2024 •English

Experimental video art set to the track "Place I Know/Kid Like You" by Arthur Russell.

Friend of the World

August 2020 •English

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.

Pyre

April 2023 •English

Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.

The Waltz of a Lonesome Pigeon

May 2023 •English

An experimental fairy tale about life, death, and spreading your wings. After Cecilia witnesses a bird smashing into her window, she begins to notice her body transforming. Her skin starts to peel and little feathers start to grow out of her back. Will she fly away or end up like that poor little bird?

Barbara

August 1970 •English

Previously lost exploitation film which chronicles the sexual journey of a teenager who introduces her own family to the liberated ways of the free love rebellion.

Bed & Breakfast

Invalid date •English

After a feverish dream, a paralysed dreamer finds themselves trapped within a purgatory of their sleep, as they begin to fuse with their bed. The purgatory begins to refract the dreamers mind, as they are confronted with multiple incarnations of themselves struggling to awake. Bed & Breakfast is inspired by the neurodivergent experience of procrastination, and inertia. Questioning the nature of memory, identity, and the fabric of reality, by plunging you into the psyche of a paralysed dreamer where reality is far repressed.

Lamiai

September 2024 •English

Shot on Super 8mm film and digital video, Lamiai is an experimental dream film. Lamiai is loosely derived from the Lamia in Greek mythology as well from John Keats’s poem Lamia and Peter Gabriel’s song The Lamia from Genesis’s The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album. Lamiai is the third part of an experimental dream film trilogy that includes Dream Screen and Pizzica.

Gadis Cantik di Bangku Taman

April 2023 •Indonesian

Garden

May 2024 •English

Unearthing the dark history behind a beloved park in Denver Colorado

Growing Dimmer

Invalid date •English

The light's in a student's room begin to shut off around him. He must escape the room before he is swallowed by darkness.

Shapeless Tracking

Invalid date •Spanish

Inside a computer a space-time is revealed in which image and sound become numbers and motion manifests as rhythm, flow and chaos. This tracking and integration experiment removes the superficial identity of video to detect kinetic disturbances in everyday environment.