A filmmaker accidentally comes across a ruined village where silent souls refuse to revive the past. The remnants of a film shot years earlier constitute the only clue to understanding what once happened there.
Anke is about to leave her small German town in the Black Forest region, while Lisa finds it hard to feel at home there. They meet by chance on a cold, grey autumn day, and wander the streets together. Cracks in the thin membrane between reality and dream transform their stroll into a journey to new places.
Told entirely from the passenger's point of view, Flicker is a single unbroken ascent inside an elevator car climbing from the ground floor to the third. Nothing more happens than a flickering overhead light and the steady tick of the floor indicator — and that's precisely what makes it impossible to look away from. Something is wrong with the light. That's all you need to know.
Sandra, a middle-aged mother, has long devoted herself to her family, quietly setting aside parts of herself that once felt alive. When she inherits her late brother's bicycle, an impulsive ride leads to an unexpected victory. This sudden recognition begins to unsettle the stillness of her carefully ordered life. As attention grows, the delicate balance within her marriage begins to shift. Long-suppressed dreams, disappointments, and silences between Sandra and her husband rise to the surface, unsettling the roles they have long taken for granted. Caught between the family and the pull of desire, Sandra is drawn into a disorienting second act, where change arrives uninvited, bringing both possibility and consequence for both husband, wife and family.
Bleda y Rosa are one of the most significant Spanish visual artist couples of their generation. They are working on the installation of an out-of-context structure in the middle of the Valencian landscape. Of this entire process, only a single photograph must remain.
A quiet whistling returned from childhood; the calm of a sky and a river dissolving into one another, from which emerges the image of a loved one. For the duration of a reflection, the water reveals memories and offers the delicacy of a glimpse into the course of a life.
Eraserhead Xiu Xiu is a new live concert with accompanying film & full-length album that uses field recordings, concert specific homemade instruments, organ, modular synths, vocals, flashlights, electrical interference, and elements of musique concrete to express the bizarre emotionality, conflicted sexuality, relentless darkness, and singularly unsettled moonscape of this most incredible of midnight masterpieces.
A washed-up video game developer reunites with his estranged brother in Thailand in order to chase their late father's dream of uncovering a long-lost treasure.
A documentary record of the live event hosted by Video Store(age) on February 27 at Life World in New York City. The roasters included the following luminaries, trouble makers, and last-minute substitutions: Yung Chomsky, Lily Lady, Christian Lorentzen, Sharon Mashihi, Peter Rinaldi, Joe Swanberg, Onur Tukel, Pacho Velez, and Joshua Z. Weinstein.
After many years away, Jonás returns to the countryside to start work as a stonemason. In a place marked by the harshness of life, he opens himself up to something intangible – a force that permeates the landscape, bodies and time itself. An evocatively told story of a silent man whose enigmatic nature stems from the dark side of humanity and from his contact with the sacred, the film moves along the boundary between the physical and the spiritual.
In early ‘70s rural England, George and Tommy, two teenaged friends-of-a-friend, meet up on an Essex basketball court. One invites the other to accompany him to a dealer’s home to score some weed.
Ten-year-old Kozue, who definitely is not one of the popular kids at school, secretly spends her time tossing various objects into the school’s incinerator. When university student Jinta comes to her classroom and invites the children to a shadow play performance, something awakens inside Kozue, and her path toward adulthood begins.
Wang Yunchan, a 28-year-old woman who has drifted in Beijing for a decade, has long struggled to survive on the fringes of the city. She decides to go back to her hometown to find her childhood friend Liu Xiaolu. However, the transformed hometown, altered old classmates and a completely changed Liu Xiaolu make her realize for the first time that she is destined to live a migratory life.
GLOWING by Beth B is not just a film, but an immersive, genre-defying experience that blurs the boundaries between documentary, narrative, experimental cinema, and music video.Eight fearless artists step into the frame — their voices raw, their stories electric. As poets, musicians, and performers reveal deeply personal truths, their stories collide and intertwine, forming a powerful, living dialogue with the audience. What unfolds is not simply storytelling, but an invitation: to feel, to witness, to connect.