In your place

Dull Hope

Invalid date •English

Suppressed memories reach a boiling point. An animated tale of longing. “The Experimental section saw Non Films’ Dull Hope scoop the premier place as category winner. Half animation and half movie footage, this hybrid resonated very much with the judging panel who deemed it to be a sad dirge on personal memories and heartbreak.” – The Guardian Directed & Animated by Brian Ratigan Music & Sound Design by Nick Punch (R.I.P.) Produced by Non Films

Spellbound

October 2022 •English

James' dull daily routine is disrupted by a strange apparition that begins to haunt him in his waking moments and dreams alike. Suspecting who might be behind these disturbances, James sets out to confront the culprit.

Oblivion

October 2024 •Russian

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not changed: all the streets are frozen, long-gone voices can be heard in the empty rooms and around the corner you can find yourself in a video game from your childhood.

Sunstone

December 1979 •

Experimental computer animation from pioneering artist Ed Emshwiller.

Googolplex

December 1972 •English

Extended editing techniques based on Land’s experiments affect the viewer’s sensory perceptions.

Rite of Spring

July 2013 •English

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.

Voorbijgangers

January 2011 •Dutch

SVEN Ch. I

July 2008 •English

A monster and his emperor scorpion are confined to a room.

The Elevator

August 2023 •English

A girl triggers a chilling descent through floors of darkness, While Trapped in a malevolent elevator, the vindictive voice demands an apology and forces her deeper into the abyss...

He Who Dances Passes

October 2023 •Spanish

A being from the beyond returns to Chile in 2019, embodied in a worker who dreams of social upheaval. Viral videos intertwine with fiction to narrate the experiences of a polarized country that wanders between drama and absurdity, illusion and failure.

Bayonets, This Old Coast

March 2018 •English

A hungry widow returns from the sea

Guts and Glitz

September 2024 •English

Audiovisual material gathered by filmmaker Fox Maxy over a decade, including documentary footage, television clips, and animation—sometimes layered on top of one another—are presented as one collage. Amid this sensory barrage, themes of sexual violence, community, confidence and joy are explored.

A Moment In Time

September 2024 •English

Filmed on Wednesday, March, 27th 2024. I tried capturing something more serene with A Moment In Time. Shooting the steps of my porch with life going on around it.

SVEN Ch II

August 2008 •English

Sven reminisces about an old friend.

Possibly in Michigan

January 1983 •English

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.

It Will Die Out in the Mind

April 2007 •English

A short inquisition of science by the paranormal. On-screen texts are lifted from Tarkovsky's film "Stalker" in which something more expansive and less explicable than logic or technology is offered as the conceptual pillar of the human spirit. The title is taken from a passage in Dostoyevsky's "The Possessed" about time after the Apocalpyse: "Kirillov: When the whole of man has achieved happiness, there won't be any time, because it won't be needed. It's perfectly true. Stavrogin: Where will they put it then? Kirillov: They won't put it anywhere. Time isn't a thing, it's an idea. It will die out in the mind."

Word Movie

January 1966 •English

Single frame exposures of words.

Circle

May 2015 •English

In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two minutes, one of them must die…executed by a strange device in the center of the room.

Ray's Place

September 2024 •English

An oblique remake of Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground (1951), Ray’s Place follows Ray from his haunts in New York City to Binghamton where, exiled from Hollywood, he taught alongside members of the American avant-garde. Participating in both Hollywood’s golden age and the experimental cinema of the 1970s yet at home in neither, what is Ray’s place?

Preludio de un destello

September 2024 •Spanish

In an audiovisual collage of nostalgia and magnetism, “Prelude to a Flash” fuses images from early cinema with elements of contemporary animation. It explores the tension between past and present through the edges, the traces that emerge from the representation of bodies in a sensory and emotional journey.