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Deriva amorfológica: bacia de Cubatão

August 2019 •Portuguese

Deus ex machina

January 1971 •

A description of two nude bodies.

Cora

January 2021 •Portuguese

2064. Cora, a Danish woman, finds an unfinished documentary in which Benjamim, her Brazilian father, attempted - fifty years earlier - to investigate the story of his own parents: Teo, who, afflicted by insanity, died when he was still a child, and Elenir, a mysterious woman he’d barely heard of. In the course of his investigation, Benjamim discovers that both characters are part of a complex family puzzle, filled with traumas and taboos, and starts seeing himself as an important piece in the puzzle. The footage found in Benjamim’s documentary is reorganized by his daughter, Cora, in an attempt to understand her family’s lost past.

Lost Footage

March 2022 •English

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while serving as an ironic tribute to the found footage horror pop culture. The found footage format provides the narrative justification for such a film to exist: the non-existence exists because the footage existed yet it was lost and never found.

Screen Test [ST33]: Ann Buchanan

January 1964 •English

Ann follows Warhol's instructions throughout the entire screen test, as she stares directly at the camera without blinking, until tears begin to fall first from her left eye, and then from her right eye.

A Sign of Things

September 2021 •English

A seemingly mundane evening in suburbia is disrupted by an unforeseen event.

Cremaster 3

May 2002 •English

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...

Nothing

February 2017 •English

Vague moving shapes framing the black screen could be anything, but what they depict is nothing.

Friend of the World

August 2020 •English

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.

Masking Threshold

September 2022 •English

Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his research lead him? "Masking Threshold" combines a chamber play, a scientific procedural, an unpacking video, and a DIY YouTube channel while suggesting endless vistas of existential pain and decay. Glimpse the world of the nameless protagonist in this eldritch tale, which is by no means for the faint of heart.

Douro - Symphony of a river

January 2019 •English

From high up in the glacier-carved mountains of Northern Spain, towards the Atlantic Ocean in the cities of Porto and V.N.Gaia in Northern Portugal. A journey through a river and through sound.

David Holzman's Diary

October 1967 •English

A young filmmaker decides to make a movie about his day-to-day activities in an attempt to understand himself and get his life back in order. A precursor to reality television and vlogs.

Vertigo

September 2021 •Korean

A whistle blower counts the steps. The steppers share glances. The whistle blower stops blowing the whistle and attempts to steal their glances. Steps are broken and transform. A new glance replaces the old.

Empire

March 1965 •English

A single static wide shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.

Selamat Ulang Tahun, Neptunus

January 2022 •English

A young girl has been falling in love with Neptune for 10 years. In His birthday, she wants to meet Him.

2021

May 2018 •French

A lonely character in a deserted world watches as it goes up silently in flames.

An Atom on Creation's Throne

April 2022 •English

Images of concrete and stone. A cemetery. Light making its way through the tree leaves.

rocio das vagas

September 2020 •Portuguese

Event and murmur: modulating attention through channels, like shifting through radio, can reveal signals in noise – the basis for "frequency hopping" cryptography, which gives the logic for mobile networks. At the beach, networks fail, we hop waves, acumulate dead time, roam. ( Super8 films shot in the 1970s and processed only in 2020.)

Service with a Smile

Invalid date •English

an eight-hour long experimental film/performance art piece in which filmmaker chandler pippin creates their own arbitrary form of service work and films a shift in its entirety.

Seventy-Two Hours

Invalid date •English