Preludio de un destello

Zdravý nemocný Vlastimilený Brodský

April 1999 •Czech

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.

The Lord of the Rings

November 1978 •English

The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.

When Forever Dies

August 2020 •English

An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. Their names are Forever Man and Forever Woman. They are embodied by actors and actresses from long-gone eras, but also by cartoon characters and puppet animations. Together they narrate the story of the euphoric ups and tragic downs of human existence. When Forever Dies, a virtuoso collage of film fragments from the Eye Filmmuseum archive, is an epic ode to largely unseen cinema anchored in the polarizing world of today.

Piaf intime

October 2013 •French

Murder At Cinema North

September 2020 •English

A young Holocaust survivor who descends into crime; an Italian-Jewish engineer who wants to see a movie; a German Christian who forgives her husband’s murderer because of her Buddhist faith; and a Jewish woman who carries on an affair with a Nazi and exposes members of the resistance so that she and her children may survive: their fates intersect when two bullets are fired into a queue of people waiting to see “A Man Escaped” at Tel Aviv’s Cinema North in 1957.

Granny (Muidumbe)

December 2009 •Portuguese

A sequence of archive images filmed by Schefer's grandfather, a former colonial administrator, is the starting point for an experimental documentary on the history and memory of Portuguese decolonisation. Double or split memory: the lived and descriptive memory of the colonizers (their texts, their images) against the fabricated memory of their descendants.

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

Mordern Birds

December 2023 •Spanish

Five friends gather on a vacant lot to play soccer and explore the surroundings in hopes of finding useful items. One day, one of them finds one in particular that will change their story.

Revés

July 1999 •Spanish

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

The Peter Pan Story

December 1952 •English

Made in the early days of television, this promotional film takes audiences behind the scenes on the making of Walt Disney's then-upcoming animated feature, Peter Pan.

Bunnyhood

February 2024 •English

What could possibly be more important than feeding your daughter?

Dernière St-Valentin

February 2024 •French

Jean Gabin, le dernier des géants

January 2015 •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.