Max and the Freaks

some forgettable title

July 2018 •

Frame of two overlapping images. Traffic in the city and the sunset on the mountain

see the sound

July 2018 •

See the sound of the noise.

Dead Man Walking

December 1995 •English

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

Top Gun

May 1986 •English

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.

Anatomy of a Murder

July 1959 •English

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

March 2024 •English

Shot on 16mm film in New York and composed in Berlin, the work explores polarizing themes of the metropolis. Audibly and visually, the viewer is put in a flicker between serenity and intensity; harrowing ambience cut with sharp beeps, vulnerable steps mashed in high velocity.

Último Desejo

December 2019 •Portuguese

Clay or The Origin of Species

January 1964 •English

Traces the rise of life on earth from primordial ooze to the present.

Nocturnal

June 2022 •English

A one minute short film showcasing the sights, sounds, and people that characterizes Singapore's nightlife.

A Girl at the Window

January 2002 •French

Imprisoned by an illness, a young country girl decides to leave for Quebec City in order to study piano and discover an animated and enthralling lifestyle.

the flowers and sorrow he gave me

February 2023 •Portuguese

Inspired by moments of the Brazilian writer Gabriel Yared’s life and mixing storytelling and poetic declamations by the author himself, the film presents us the love overgrowing between two young man, Alex and Luís, their comfortable couple routine, and explores which limits that love can support when, like dry flowers, it faces the hard and cold earth of deceptions and expectation breaches, with the city of Macapá, in ther Northern Brazilian State of Amapá, as background.

The Story of '72

December 2018 •English

An aloof and a distant man learns the true meaning of' home' and also learns to see the women in his life in a new light before leaving his earthquake shattered country.

3 points

September 2018 •

View from three different points of the same bus stop (point).

In The Pines

April 2022 •Indonesian

This work re-examines the relationship between the elements that make up the quality of space, namely: "subject" and "object", "organic" and "mechanical", "reality" and "representation", "wholeness" and "partiality", " determinacy” and “indeterminacy”, “visibility” and “invisibility”, “natural” and “non-natural”.

Arizona Dream

January 1993 •English

An Inuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles.

Resonances

November 2022 •English

Weird Nightmare

January 1993 •English

A tribute to Charles Mingus.

Highway

February 2014 •Hindi

Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.

Sophiiiie!

February 2003 •German

The film starts in the early evening of a normal day: Sophie, a 20 year old girl, is pregnant and wanders through the night to get sure about her future life. Does she want to be a mother or do an abortion? Does she love her friend or not? Who is the father of her unborn baby? Trying to figure out what to do Sophie encounters many people, and in the morning she has come to a decision. But this is not the movie's end...

Love Osuuskauppa

March 2023 •English

Young boy confesses his love toward a grocery store chain in a abstract manner.