An immersion into the surreal and dreamlike world of painter, photographer and filmmaker Man Ray (1890-1976), one of the most prolific American visual artists, through four of his short films, brought to life by the atmospheric music of SQÜRL.
A woman comes to terms with her life on her last day in town.
Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8".
To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and reality begin to melt into one another, but the past finds a way to rear its head again. Films used:
Notorious (1946)
Gaslight (1944)
A triple exposure on EXR 50D 16mm film: two layers shot in summer, and the third captured on the cusp of winter. A collection of statues fading in and out of consciousness, around the Weissensee lake in northeast Berlin, where the filmmaker lives.
An introduction to life from the perspective of an outsider.
Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.
A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no defined subject, no predetermined objective. Inside and outside. Just angles, textures and flashes of color. A whole different empire of vision, impossible to be put into words. “Nothing” as anything outside common visual knowledge, anything that defies the logic of naming the world; a possibility for a new way of thinking; of dealing with our visual world.
A man loses a close person in his life, and is forced to experience the consequences.
3-D is a hand-painted experimental short film by Riley Hogan. Acrylic paint, ink and scratching were used to animate on clear Super 8mm film leader.
A collection of memories.
A young woman watches TV with her cat in the room. A dying man explores what's left of his psyche.
Experimental short film about the fragility of time
A punk scarecrow, endowed by life, annihilates its roots and revitalizes its territory.
A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs.
Meet 5000 space aliens in 5000 seconds in this bonkers animated film.
In this short experimental film, three friends are waiting for their train to arrive.
A found footage examination of what happened at the lake today. Where were you? An exquisite corpse by Non Films. 8mm images randomly selected from found footage; poem written without images; music written without images or words. WINNER: BEST BROOKLYN PROJECT (Brooklyn Film Festival).
In this cyclical fever dream, a woman struggles to win over the crowd.