Manila Madness

A Dark Place

January 2024 •English

Myles navigates the tumultuous aftermath of a breakup, battling inner demons in a dark mental state.

De Civitate Rei

January 1993 •Italian

Costante dies and leaves his wife Torella his computer discovery. Torella entrusts the disk to her husband’s friend Gervasio, a lazy man scorned by his family. Twenty years later, Torella tries to get back the disk but Gervasio, who has become rich thanks to the discovery, agrees to go to court over it and comes away the winner. He therefore summons divine misfortune: he loses his third son, suffocated by wealth; kills his wife in a blind rage; and is executed by his first-born son who, after a violent panic attack and reckoning with his conscience, chooses life.

Fiorenzo

January 1995 •Italian

A man is sick and he doesn’t show himself. Three people don’t go to visit him and they show themselves.

LIMINAL

April 2021 •English

A troubled man returns home for the last time.

2bhk

January 2024 •Hindi

2 flatmates unfold the layers of their relationship on a random Sunday afternoon after they encounter a power cut.

i am saved

January 2024 •English

Feedback and religious radio noise

Flux

December 2022 •English

Samantha is an 18-year-old girl who, in the middle of a move, experiences a flashback of memories and is reunited with her imaginary childhood friend, Flux. Between waves and cardboard boxes, she passes the farewell with herself, with what surrounds her and with the tide.

De Quanta Terra Precisa Um Homem?

Invalid date •Portuguese

AA-PROXIMA-SUN

July 2022 •Portuguese

A girl approaches a divine entity that comes to the world in the form of a yellow umbrella, and ends up discovering her true self.

White Tendons

January 2023 •Spanish

A lost traveler encounters a talking clown puppet that won’t stop looking at a mysterious orange light.

The Freedom of Herds

February 2023 •English

The history and trauma of two men, brought together by war, is exposed when a mysterious visitor treads familiar ground.

Whilst Waiting

December 2024 •English

A person spends some time in a room

The Internal Void of a Damaged Mind

February 2022 •English

The Trouble With Forgetting

March 2024 •English

To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and reality begin to melt into one another, but the past finds a way to rear its head again. Films used: Notorious (1946) Gaslight (1944)

A Certain Dream

April 2023 •Korean

A female hotel employee wanders around different guestrooms and searches for an unreachable dream. Wandering in other people’s dreams, she encounters a mysterious guest and hears a story about a woman who dances deep inside her dream and a dancing procession...

Vestige

January 2023 •English

A room-scale VR creative documentary that uses multi-narrative and volumetric live capture to take the viewer on a journey into the mind of Lisa as she remembers her lost love, Erik. Within an empty void, fragments of past memories appear of their life together.

Blue Bedroom

March 2023 •English

June has had the same dream every night for the past three months. Lorelai is worried something bad is going to happen. Things get weird.

Reflection

August 2022 •English

In the wake of tragedy, a toy rabbit is left behind at a duck pond.

l'eau tonne à minuit

March 2024 •French

Lacuna

March 2024 •English

A prisoner belonging to a void known as “Lacuna,” longs to escape their entrapment. As they search for a way out, they confront the unchecked mental illness that plagued their former life.