Shadows

Third Page from the Sun

Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization. A commentary on the fragility of culture.

Be Water

A short skiing film featuring Bobby Brown, Banks Gilberti, Peter Brown and Aaron Blunck. The film documents their travels while chase storms to find the best skiing during the 2015-16 ski season. Everything was shot on a GoPro HERO7 and Red 4k. Shot on location at Cooke City, Montana // Whistler, British Columbia // Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Morena

MORENA tells the uplifting story of the Philippine National Surf Athlete Ikit Agudo, who overcame the pressure to blend into a society obsessed with skin whitening. Within the ocean, she found happiness, strength, and pride in her roots. Inspiring young girls around the world to embrace who they truly are. In the Philippines, skin-whitening remains a billion-peso industry, a legacy of colonial beauty ideals that for generations have led many to neglect their true identity and natural beauty.

The Melomaniac

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

The One-Man Band

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal player sits down, a drummer appears in the second chair, and then likewise moves on to the third chair. In this way, an entire band is soon formed, and is then ready to perform.

8th Continent

In Lesvos island an old abandoned dump lies on a mountain with two big craters. The craters are overflown by thousands of life jackets from the refugee waves. A worker is the only inhabitant in this place that resembles an alien planet or a new continent.

Norte

Joanna

Joanna is famous because of her blog on confronting a terminal disease. The movie shows her everyday life.

Bird

This portrait of a guinea fowl is the first clear vision I've had of the hot-blooded dinosaurs still living among us. (SB)

Marilyn's Window

This stream-of-consciousness could be nothing less than pathway of the soul, as images of Marilyn's window are remembered from inside-out, its "view" interwoven with all of other windowing and the Elements of the known world.

Babylon Series #2

Out of the vagueries of sometime beseeming repetitive light patterns, and the delicately variable rhythms of thought process, the imagination of The Monumental and of the Ephemeral are born to mind hard as nails.

The Mind-Benders: LSD and the Hallucinogens

This FDA film explores the history of hallucinogenic drugs, and specifically the effects and therapeutic uses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Combining graphics that suggest a hallucinogenic experience, snippets of interviews with users (who explain their reasons for taking the drug) and doctors, and taped sessions of research with volunteers, the film delves into the destructive as well as possible positive uses of the drug.

Liv

An 85-year old woman suffers from dementia. She dreams.

On the Road

Son and father are driving on the highway. The son keeps asking questions until he finally notices the changes in his father's body. The dialogue in the animation is taken from a recording of a real conversation between the filmmaker and his father.

A Room Nearby

Paul Fierlinger's unique animation captures five individuals from diverse backgrounds as they describe their bouts with loneliness, its challenges and benefits.

The Dollhouse

Kyra Gardner's loving tribute to growing up in the world of the psycho killer doll, Chucky.

Bonefire

Somewhere between a music-video, a documentary and a fantasy - created with and around a Toronto-based acting-collective called LUSTR.

The Third Clef

In a family marked by grief, Clarice is the "Third Clef": the granddaughter trying to follow in the musical footsteps of her late grandmother, Lola. But her dream collides with the resistance of her mother, Verônica, who, consumed by deep depression, sees music as the root of the family's ruin. On the eve of a decisive contest, the tension between the daughter's desire for a future and the mother's pain from the past reaches a breaking point, forcing them to decide whether to live in silence or find a new harmony.

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 3

During a chicken picnic, Yellow Guy gets upset after Green Bird kills a butterfly. Yellow Guy then meets a butterfly that takes him on a journey to discover his concept of love.