When a drama student murders his fellow classmate, he experiences emotional turmoil regarding the incident and questions the possibility that he deserved what he got.
Oleh "Simon" Krisenko is a guy from Mykolaiv who went to war in 2014. In civilian life, he was an actor and played in a children's theater. In 2014, when the war started, he immediately joined a volunteer battalion. We filmed Simon during his service in the regiment in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Together with other defenders of Mariupol, he ended up at Azovstal and then in captivity. In May 2023, Simon returned home after a year in Russian captivity. He is currently undergoing rehabilitation. He is actively involved in campaigns and support for the families of prisoners and wounded.
A process of dissolution is a process of creation. Through its visual portrayal of a ceaseless wave of dissolution and transition between personal and societal images, Dissolution serves as a metaphor for the interconnectedness between the individual’s psychological turmoil and the unpredictability of our unruly era, where each factor becomes the cause and consequence of the other in a continuous cycle.
An immersion in the desert with a Bolex and some questions… How do we perceive “nature”? Is it a “thing” to which we, humans, are external? Or are we all part of a mesh without center or periphery? Can film help us to perceive nature not as a thing, but as a living entity endowed with sensitivity and agency?
Written and directed by South African born Pierre Marais, ‘As Apple Pie’ is an immigrant’s observation of an American conversation. There seem to be fewer cultivated spaces to have an honest conversation with differing opinions and the result is that no one is really talking to each other. Not communicating seems to be as American as apple pie.
The film consists of four short stories, each of which tells about the love story of the main character throughout her life. A simple, fragile girl turns out to be stronger and more courageous than many men around her.
The world of Oz is filled with many spheres—from crystal balls and floating orbs to the great cranial dome of the Wizard and his hot air balloon. This appropriated sequence from The Wizard of Oz has been transformed from a two-dimensional projection onto a three-dimensional sphere. The topography of the planetoid is created by the fluctuating brightness levels of individual pixels—the brighter the image, the higher the surface, distorting and obstructing the image as it is rotated around its axis. The alternating pattern of recognizable, iconic imagery and abstract, sculptural form creates a new kind of stellar object, hanging in open space. The scene, in which Dorothy and the gang run across a poppy field only to be drugged by the Wicked Witch, becomes a Christmas ornament or a snow globe, slowly spinning in celebration of the film. The rippling surface of the floating orb is created as the camera and its subjects move across the frame.
This video for Soul Supreme was created as a graduate project by Tal Uliel from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. It aims to blend an analog aesthetic with 3D compositing, and draws inspiration from risograph printing and abstract geometry.
This short film was inspired by producer and composer Peter Rotter’s experience working remotely with his employees and colleagues during the worldwide quarantine period for the COVID–19 pandemic, as he tried to find and foster joy, despite the lack of in-person physical presence and connection.
A dark period in the winter of the mid 1900's. The scene is set by a gentle hum of jazz and the tapping of raindrops. The story follows the protagonist, a rogue private investigator, who feels like working this job has him stuck in a never-ending loop. His loneliness has led to delusion and violence. Every ring of his phone, he's in high hopes that he will pick it up to be his 'lover' - instead, it's just another case for him to solve. Scenes become faster and clips start to repeat, the man is under crushing stress.
