A Moment In Time

My Friend Richard

July 2022 •English

The life and times of artist Richard Ellis

Made of Air

October 2014 •English

A dream lament for a drowned world. Filmed in London, Zurich, San Francisco, Berkeley and Napa. Music by Grouper.

Dogville

May 2003 •English

When a beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople.

Empire of My Melodious Mind

May 2023 •English

Be. Belonging. Words on vintage flash cards shuffle past in a stream-of-consciousness that shows the mind working, assigning labels and names to things through love and language. In the space of a moment, perception embarks on an epic journey of tongues, through Cantonese and English sounds and Ektachrome memories that form the characters and identity of this American-born Asian filmmaker.

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December 2023 •Portuguese

Revés

July 1999 •Spanish

The portrait of a world in reverse, a society of different tonalities and shades. Aspiration as a refuge from systematization.

Bunnyhood

February 2024 •English

What could possibly be more important than feeding your daughter?

Dernière St-Valentin

February 2024 •French

Mustang Jeans

November 2014 •German

The work draws an abstract image of a human that has internalized the images and stories of the world of advertising. A woman is sitting in front of a camera telling a story about an experience she had. Even though she is able to describe the events in great detail, the story also seems to be unlikely or implausible.

My Throat, My Air

May 2014 •German

Set in Munich's petty-bourgeois Westend, film documents life at home with former Fassbinder actor, Warhol collaborator, and horror movie director Ulli Lommel. Rather than a straight documentary portrait of this bohemian household, the camera prefers to follow the narrative impulses of the family members. Lost in serious play, the kids improvise hypnotic death scenes while their mother claims to come from a planet where everything is "ethereal and incorporeal." As parent-child relations are unscripted and re-scripted on the fly, the dilated time of a collective daydream is punctuated by the ordinary sounds of an electric toothbrush, vacuum cleaner, and piano.

A Sense of Nothing

February 2024 •

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no defined subject, no predetermined objective. Inside and outside. Just angles, textures and flashes of color. A whole different empire of vision, impossible to be put into words. “Nothing” as anything outside common visual knowledge, anything that defies the logic of naming the world; a possibility for a new way of thinking; of dealing with our visual world.

Behold the Man

July 1977 •English

Dialogue between a man from Earth and an alien about the advantages and darker sides of earthly civilization

Ray's World

February 2024 •English

A guy named Ray tries to go to sleep and a sasquatch gets into funky business.

Heretical Structure

November 2020 •English

A film without a lens.

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Invalid date •English

She attempts to escape her patterns.

Her Violet Kiss

December 2021 •English

A woman attends a party where she is observed by and finally meets a mysterious guest.

Midríase

March 2023 •Portuguese

Is the eye the window of the soul? - Mydriasis is a movie that reflects about the early discoveries of queerness and its impact on the self perception of a person.

PICTOR

Invalid date •English

Forced to paint, the artist will either create or be consumed. A modern gothic art film told through a series of striking still images.

Mandala

January 1953 •English

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes

January 1971 •Portuguese

First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London.