there is poetry in bad writing

Swain

December 1950 •English

Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a ruined landscape.

Brief Case

July 2021 •English

A short film about a US business man who came to Africa, Namibia, to finalize a very important business deal. Unfortunately, his brief case—which had important documents—was snatched or robbed from him and he is determined to get it back. Go into a journey with Mr. Tom as he fights to get his important documents back.

Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets

March 2019 •French

Best Before

Invalid date •English

The film explores girlhood, the positives, the negatives and how that binds us together as women. A feminist film which will give an insight of how precious it is to be a woman and how we build safe environments within our female friendships which allow us to explore our femininity.

La dissolution du paysage

March 2024 •

Social Butterfly

April 2023 •English

A socially awkward, neurodivergent youth struggles to adapt at a social gathering that quickly takes a turn into the uncanny and surreal.

out of touch (franklinia still life)

March 2023 •English

the franklinia flower, now extinct in the wild, appears here as a printed image (a drawing from 1782) pinned against a kitchen wall. hand and figure move disjointedly. the light of day gives way to electricity, to darkness, and to morning. recorded on a video camera built in 2002: an obsolete image tracing some accidental gestures and capturing a form of life existent only in cultivation. some fragments of vermeer, general electric, and chiquita brands international.

hands

August 2023 •English

A personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions.

11 Letters Inside

April 1996 •Russian

This is a story about a man who believes that he has two “selves” - external and internal. That is, an organism is a certain conglomerate of cells, each of which is a separate individual. This hybrid creature has a certain common personal “I” that uses the entire organism, and is the organism itself, which has its own will. According to the character, one can communicate with him, which is what he is trying to do. He wants to reach him and comes up with different ways of communication: injecting substances under the skin or intravenously, tattooing texts on the body, swallowing objects. The answer would come in the form of a rash or other physical manifestation that had to be interpreted. As a result, communication is carried out and the second “I” agrees to die.

Purgatorium

November 2023 •English

After his death, a young man stuck in purgatory attempts to cope with the afterlife.

The Illiac Passion

December 1967 •English

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound , finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.

Study No. 8

September 1931 •German

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

great red spot

December 2017 •

Jupiter's clouds in ink and light.

cubrique 2001

May 2018 •

Color mix.

rush and pressure

June 2018 •Portuguese

Visual poem.

eeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee

February 2024 •French

To free their poetic minds, Guillaume Marin and Ariane Caron-Lacoste have created, through an audio testimony, a video poem where verses on the screen act as counterpoints, initiations, and endings. The rich visuals answer the speech to constitute its body.

Lumière synthèse

February 2024 •French

Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music

April 2007 •English

Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April 22,2007. Most of what’s on here is seen before, particularly in Roelof Kier’s 1971 documentary and/or Scheffer’s own documentary “A present day composer refuses to die”. But there is some new stuff too, particularly interviews with Denny Walley, Haskell Wekler, Elliot Ingber and Bruce Fowler.

sfumato

June 2021 •English

Derived from an installation, an asymmetrical orchestration of "motion paintings" pushing the limits of abstraction in the digital age.

Cremaster 2

October 1999 •English

CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1.