Girl on the Escalator

Shades of Fern

January 1986 •Czech

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.

What's Up with Cinta?

February 2002 •Indonesian

A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.

For Colored Girls

November 2010 •English

About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.

The Last Dragon

January 2019 •English

Video poem based on The Last Dragon by Radu Stanca.

The bread which once was dough

February 2024 •English

The main morality is the chronic desire for rest Within the historians, filmmakers, astronomers and the bread Which once was dough front to back Relationship stops along the way You are not a wax-work in a glass Become the concept of freedom Freedom exists and must bring fruit The universe glancing for purchase reasoned

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop

July 2021 •Japanese

After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.

Stealing Beauty

March 1996 •English

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

Teach Me How to Love The Creatures Outside of My Room

March 2023 •Indonesian

Alma, a beautiful girl who didn’t get the chance to hear how chaos the world is since she was born. Her mother then bought a hearing device for Alma hoping she would love the idea of sound. She got it wrong. It wasn’t just that she couldn’t hear, she wasn’t being heard. By a poetry in her room, she asks her shadows about love she has to the universe.

A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety

April 2024 •English

Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8".

Mio on the Shore

November 2019 •Japanese

Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.

Songs from the Second Floor

October 2000 •Swedish

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

The Shape

May 2019 •French

A storm is on the horizon. When a jet-black cloud engulfs a small village, the residents discover that it could put an end to more than just blue skies.

On Top of the Earth

January 2007 •French

Sophie is both attracted to boys and girls. She is torn between Nicolas and Mathilde.

Time

September 2024 •English

In a dimly lit room adorned with perculiar decor, a solitary man sits reciting a poem, a poem about Time. Based on the Poem "Time" by Anxhelo Llangozi and inspired by Cbeebies Bedtime Stories.

Milch Mädchen

December 2021 •German

Based on a Poem by Fabi De Luca She always thought something like this wouldn‘t happen to her. No man would disgrace himself because of her. Of course she is used to sexist comments, after all she gets spoiled with them every day.

The Notebook

June 2004 •English

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

Onde Foi Que Se Perdeu O Calor?

February 2022 •Portuguese

Northern Lights

October 2016 •English

Emma approaches adulthood, she tries to live an ordinary life and keep up to her late mothers expectations. However her anxiety weighs over her, stopping her from enjoying the last few youthful years.

Rural Boys Watch The Apocalypse

May 2023 •English

Based on the poem by Keaton St. James, the film follows two young teenage boys and the people they interact with on the day of the end of the world.

La belle dame sans merci

April 2005 •French

1819. A shipwreck-survivor, the Navigator, encounters an Old Knight who recounts his tale: Long ago, the Knight fell in love with a mysterious Lady. But in a dream he saw her true form and begged his release. Awoken and alone, he realized his failure. Thus he has waited, kept alive for centuries by his regret. Based on the John Keats poem of the same name.