In 1846 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the poem 'Hamatreya,' about man's claim to earth, and Earth's retort to such a claim. One-hundred and fifty years ago, Emerson explored man's sense of entitlement towards nature, while proposing that he is but a visitor. It is earth that rightly claims permanency over man. The Video includes quotes from 'Earth Song' (lyrics of Earth's response to man) a subsection of Hamatreya
In the space between sleep and wake, hallucinations and moments of paralysis take hold. Hypnagogia is an exercise in eco-processing, with the film footage processed with multiple different organic material, including apples, avocado peel, coffee, grapes, peaches, pomegranate and wine.
How does it feel to live next to 170 year old creatures? This short impressionistic film documents an old forest area called Mortin männikkö in Northern Finland. As an array of glimpses and moments the film tries to summarize a decade of life next to this vivid & forested tableau vivant.
Inspired by the pre-sexual fascination of girls with horses, a romantic incantation and interspecies love story of eternal structures of queer eros, transformation and technological control. As told by a narrator, Johnson is a horse who is the object of the ceaseless praise and unknowable desire of a dreamy silent performer. The movie is a collaged poetic narrative constructed of vintage video technology, miniature tableaux, eerie dreamscapes and pantomimic gestures.
Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer, is mourning her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, the city of shrines and temples. As they travel together through the Japanese spring blossoms, she slowly opens up to him. But the ghost of her husband follows Sidonie: she will have to finally let go of the past to let herself love again.
Djibril is a young Comorian living in a troubled district of Marseille. A member of the Grasshoppers, he is in love with Camillla, a Roma girl member of rival gang, the Crickets. When she tells him she’s pregnant, Djibril asks her to have an abortion, in order to avoid all-out gang war. But the murder of one of his friends before his eyes ignites the two housing projects. Traumatized, Djibril slips little by little into madness. Convinced that his neighborhood has been cursed, he resolves to keep his child, whatever the price: only she can save them all from chaos.
Paulette realizes she has unfairly punished her daughter Linda. To make up for it, she promises to cook her a chicken with peppers, even though she cannot cook at all. But where to find a chicken on a strike day, when all the shops are closed?
Cleo is six years old, has a myopic look and has been madly in love with Gloria, her nanny, since she was born. When Gloria receives a call and must urgently return to her home in Cape Verde to care for her two children, whom she has not raised, Cleo makes her promise to meet one last time. Gloria accepts and invites Cleo to spend the summer vacations on her island. A last summer that they will spend together, in Gloria’s family, before inevitably saying goodbye.
Mona has fled Syria with her Kurdish family and ends up in a primary school in Berlin-Wedding. Things are tough there. Everyone on the girls’ football team, for which Mona is selected, plays against each other. But only “team work makes the dream work”.
Rome today: the Eternal City is surrounded by wildfires. In the centre, ravaged by corruption and violence, three old gangsters unite their last energies to save a boy that has failed the wrong person.
