Pareidolia

My Strange Grandfather

July 2011 •Russian

A creative person often seems weird, funny and a little bit crazy. Even his friends and family do not always understand him and often feel ashamed of him. But sometimes he can create a real miracle - merely from garbage.

Evolution of the Red Star

January 1973 •English

Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master image is formed, this continuously throbbing, pulsating sight is used to ring changes based on years of optical work. Music and picture work together to create a mood of ecstatic tranquility. The bright colors, beautiful music, surprise at the end, etc. make this a good film for young children. Awards: Sinking Creek Film & Video Festival, 1973; Washington National Student Film Festival, 1974; Brooklyn Independent Filmmakers Exposition, 1974; Vanguard Int'l Competition of Electronic Music for Film, 1974; Humboldt Film Festival, 1974. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

Trying Not To Explode

April 2015 •English

A short film about the aftermath of a spontaneous human combustion. Based on the short story 'Blowing Up On The Spot' by Kevin Wilson.

Quinoscopio 1

January 1986 •Spanish

A collection of unrelated sequences featuring people in various situations.

High Tide

September 2010 •Spanish

A young woman in love finds herself immersed in a state of confusion that leads her to feel suddenly alone.

Jael's Tale

Invalid date •English

A seemingly brutalised woman struggles to escape her emotional paralysis. The state of her marriage to her presumed-to-be violent husband feeds her urge to pursue a violent redemption.

Lipsett Diaries

October 2010 •French

A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into a clash of images and sounds charting a prodigious frenzy of creation, a tableau depicting an artist’s dizzying descent into depression and madness: with LIPSETT DIARIES, Theodore Ushev renews his filmmaking aesthetic and explores what happens when genius is on a first-name basis with madness.

种子传说

March 2020 •Chinese

The story is a journey - a little boy wants to find a special place to burry his golden seed. During this trip, he learns about this world and the growth of his heart.

True Self

Invalid date •English

A young actor faces success, unexpected love, and moral dilemmas that will alter his life forever during a therapy session.

All The World

January 2024 •English

A young dancer from a small town in rural Oregon becomes infatuated with an older western writer — she confuses this reflection of her own greatness, as love.

Don't Look Back

November 2021 •English

The plot of the film takes place in a foreign company located in southern Serbia. The warehouse manager enjoys his free weekend, which is interrupted by a warehouse worker who invites him to come to the warehouse in order to have a serious conversation with a new client from London. The manager had no idea what had happened there and what is yet to happen in the warehouse.

If

July 2024 •Bengali

Jaya and Fatima, two women deeply in love with one another, want to have a family. They have dreamt of a future together that would seem straight out of a fairytale. But then destiny has planned for them otherwise.

Wheels

August 2022 •English

Jac, a disillusioned 17-year-old from the wrong side of the tracks, finds himself in a familiar-looking interrogation room, but with an unfamiliar detective.

Prick

August 2022 •English

A murky night out leaves Anya questioning whether she was spiked and assaulted, struggling to piece together what happened to her and come to terms with her trauma.

Squat

August 2022 •English

A group of teenagers try to survive in a run-down squat. A home birth, zero-hour contracts, bigoted parents, a mouse infestation - what's left to be thrown at them?

Always The Artist, Never The Muse

April 2024 •English

The Artist feels like they could never be the muse and The Muse feels like they could never be the artist.

The Bathtub

July 2021 •Catalan

Ramon Riera is taking a well-deserved bath when his cell phone suddenly rings. On the other side of the line is Clara, a girl who insistently tries to sell him a life insurance.

The Intimate Touch

July 2020 •English

At a romantic restaurant, a feminist reporter and a Muslim refugee meet for dinner.

La señora de la casa

July 2020 •Spanish

Lost Parents

July 2017 •Dutch

Luuk is the only survivor of a plane crash. He tries to process his loss through art.