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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

September 1927 •German

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Lake

December 2019 •English

Lake gazes down at a still body of water from a birds-eye view, while a group of artists peacefully float in and out of the frame or work to stay at the surface. As they glide farther away and draw closer together, they reach out in collective queer and desirous exchanges — holding hands, drifting over and under their neighbors, making space, taking care of each other with a casual, gentle intimacy while they come together as individual parts of a whole. The video reflects on notions of togetherness and feminist theorist Silvia Federici’s call to “reconnect what capitalism has divided: our relation with nature, with others, and our bodies.”

Próxima Parada

February 2024 •Portuguese

Experimental documentary that poetically exposes the reality of public transport in the city of Curitiba.

beer cans under my bed

March 2024 •English

This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and into recovery.

Building No. 7

July 2006 •English

A short by Steven Soderbergh described as “intense sci-fi homage to Godard.”

Pirouette

May 2024 •

Pirouette, a dreamlike journey, a dissolving into a flowing human-animal-plant-machine consciousness, follows a sound artist who records horse sounds with her own body while a cellist on the street invades her imagination. This is the psychedelic conclusion of a trilogy about horse sounds: Passage - Piaffe - Pirouette.

the flowers and sorrow he gave me

February 2023 •Portuguese

Inspired by moments of the Brazilian writer Gabriel Yared’s life and mixing storytelling and poetic declamations by the author himself, the film presents us the love overgrowing between two young man, Alex and Luís, their comfortable couple routine, and explores which limits that love can support when, like dry flowers, it faces the hard and cold earth of deceptions and expectation breaches, with the city of Macapá, in ther Northern Brazilian State of Amapá, as background.

Último Desejo

December 2019 •Portuguese

No. 11: Mirror Animations

December 1956 •English

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

[W I N G S O F L O V E]

May 2024 •English

An experimental short film about becoming lost in the hypnotic pull of the city, set to music.

EGGspression

August 2023 •

Egglantine loves salt on her eggs. Eggbert prefers pepper. Who blinks first in this playful Easter ritual?

If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat

January 2014 •English

"If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat" is an intimate meditation on the subversive nature of goats and their effect on the people who spend time with them. Centered on the story of the legendary Goat Man - a nomadic figure who spent most of his life walking the roads of Georgia with a wagon pulled by a herd of goats - this experimental documentary weaves together an interview with a goat farmer, footage of the daily rituals Johnson enacted with her own herd, and a poem about the Goat Man’s experimental and spectacular life.

the importance

July 2018 •

Two screens of a graveyard, one during the day and one at night. The duality of everything that exists in the universe.

learn portuguese

July 2018 •Portuguese

Poem in a frame.

Persian Series #5

April 1999 •English

Dark blood red slow shifting tones (often embedded in dark) / (often shot-thru with parallel wave-like lines) composed of all previous shapes and flowers as if trying, linearly, to evolve a glyph-script. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Serenity

June 1961 •Greek

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.

A Lonely Day in Winter

February 2022 •Spanish

Written and Directed by Santiago Cantu, following a high school student and the loss of his brother.

In Repetito Religare

September 2023 •French

Nocturnes

June 1987 •English

Chopin "Nocturnes" accompany this study in black and white inspired by Huysman's decadent novel "À rebours".

Espace Projeté

February 2023 •English

A man grapples with his anxiety, attempting to calm him self in the shadow of his idols. As the ideal and the real collide.