A man and a woman in Lagos want to escape their everyday lives, but extricating themselves is no easy task. Two stories narrated with tenderness and restraint that only fleetingly touch, the dream of migrating to Europe floating above them all the while.
DRIFT is a collaboration started in 1991 between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. DRIFT is an immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds and texts by Ranaldo in response to two 16mm analytical film projectors performed in real time by Singer. Much as a DJ scratches a vinyl record, Singer manipulates her films in a live improvisation with Ranaldo's guitar, poetry and soundscapes.
Trouble brews with a boy closely connected to his mother when a young woman moves in across the street...
In a building where silence and order usually prevail, Estela tries to sleep, unable to doze off due to the passionate nights of her young neighbors. Tired of their disrespect, she calls for a consortium meeting to decide the couple's new fate.
An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940's Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age.
An anxious woman seeks to recharge her batteries by going for a walk in the forest.
As Erin packs her old life into boxes, she overhears a violent attack in the apartment above that derails her night.
A spiral of seances enfold as two celestial characters awaken and fuse into a mythological being.
A slug climbs small mountains at the peak of Mount Greylock (3,489 ft).
Amoré (1min, 16mm film loop, experimental installation) In 2005, Amoré won the Best Canadian Film award at Toronto’s International One-minute Film Festival and in 2011, it won the Jury Prize for Experimental Film at the Toronto Underground Film Festival.
In the early 1900s commercial loggers cut down an old growth spruce tree growing on a small island surrounded by tide pools on the coast of Maine. Out of the trunk of this ancient tree grew two new trees, side by side.
As a winter storm approaches the shallow water crystallizes, ice builds up along the edges of a stream, and the first snowflakes of the storm layer over the newly formed ice. The following morning a soft light approaches through the snow covered forest.
A paralyzed girl finds difficulty living a normal life, so she participates in a ritual to metamorphize into a mermaid to replace her useless lower half.
Sunlight in a winter forest.
Amidst the realm of her parents' upscale nightclub, a young woman embarks on a surreal odyssey to confront her identity, only to find herself inescapably mirroring her father.
A close look at flowers and pollinators on a sunny summer morning.
Three days with Aèle.
Observations on one of the hottest days of the year
'Cariad Brawdol', which translates to "Brotherly Love," is a 'Docu-fiction' film that follows brothers, Ben (21) and Rory (19) Davies, as they share their final day in the sleepy Welsh town of Newport, Pembrokeshire. Through a compelling mix of internal reflections, external actions, and heartfelt conversations, the film explores the contrasting perspectives the brothers hold about their lives in the town. The narrative focuses on a pivotal crossroads of change that is often felt at that age.