Film Catalogue

A short found footage montage about the obsession with and fetishization of female murder victims, about the staging of female passivity and about a culture of romanticized femicide.

A new invention causes mysterious occurrences as people stroll around between infinite possibilities.

A woman dreams of a future economic crisis affecting the cryptocurrency market. Thousands are cryogenized waiting for better times. Are they suspended or are they falling into the void?

Through the voice of Little Jela, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated region of Croatia.

Like the scenery from a running train, memories are beautiful, blurry and keep changing. A daughter expresses the feelings of losing her father by mixing video footage and analog film with animation techniques.

In 2013, an auteur film causes a scandal because of its sex scenes. I was sixteen and one of the angry viewers. Ten years later, I'm ready to settle the score with this film in the form of a video essay.

The Perfect Square, opens onto a soft, grainy blue sky, punctuated by the appearance and disappearance of birds who are lost into the film grain each time the camera operator fails to focus the lens on the subject. In the film, Wieland states that he collaborated for over twelve years with a bird trainer who attempts to teach birds to fly in a circle, in order to be captured by the film camera. The results are a series of commands and resistances that reveal an apparatus of otherness. The volatile quality of trying to capture flying birds in frame intensifies the desire to confirm whether the birds indeed fly in a circle. The otherness of the birds here enters into an ontology of seeming by setting the birds into an indeterminate space between the domestic and wild. It is another instance of a gap Wieland uses to bring not the qualities of the birds themselves to the fore, but instead the desire to command them, to instrumentalize them toward human goals or ends, to categorize them either as ‘useful’ because they can be trained, or ‘beautiful’ if they can trace the pure geometry of a circle. Whereas the indexical image captured by the camera is a testament to the difficulty of training the birds to do something on command (and to thereby change the status of ‘the real’), the title of the work itself invokes the intellectual purity of geometric forms that have been deemed superior by analytic philosophy to describe the laws of nature since the so-called Enlightenment. All this is to say, the being or creature that won’t obey a command, program, or desire could be a working definition of an “other”, or otherness, an “other” who approaches a you – an Other I. The film further examines an experimental survey that was conducted by Wassily Kandinsky and his students at the Bauhaus Weimar in 1923. In his theoretical writings on art, Kandinsky had assumed there to be direct correspondences between basic colors (yellow, red, blue) and forms (triangle, square, circle).

A spell breaking, Quebrante traverses the caves, ruins and phantasmagorias of the Transamazon BR230 Highway, portraying its stones and its ghosts. Set in tiny Rurópolis, the very first town ever built on the road, Quebrante follows Ms. Erismar, a retired elementary school teacher known in the region as The Cave Woman.

Shrooms starting point is a scientific study in which the psilocybin of magic mushrooms is used for the therapeutic treatment of depression. Using the premise of this study, Shrooms follows Dan, a young Venezuelan man currently living in Lisbon, who collects magic mushrooms in the forest and distributes them in the city to those in need of help - like a New Age Robin Hood - using pigeons as carriers.

Hormones pulsate to the rhythm of fourth-period marching band practice. Cheer for the boys! Stay upbeat! Feel the rush of desire! Breathe the rage in deep. Make sure you aren’t late for the bell or he might make you stay after school, alone together. These are the lurking aggressions. But whose fantasy was it anyway?

A transvestite ritual performed by the artists Analú Laferal and Tiagx Vélez, opens a portal and generates an encounter with a European missionary from the fifteenth century who has delved deep into the jungle in order to fight the belief of animals as divine.