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Todos os Olhos

Dive into the inventive universe of Tom Zé. Through intimate interviews with artists, family members and longtime collaborators, the film retraces the singular trajectory of one of Brazil's most original musical minds. The documentary brings together voices that reflect on his boundless creative unpredictability, highlight the technical mastery behind his sonic experiments and portray his music as the result of an expansive creative process, where ideas unfold like "pills of sound".

CIRCUL

Three women on the heath find safety in circles until three strangers appear, whose tyrannical ambition threatens their peace with violence and oppression...

La cuenta de los días

Practice Towards Light

In collaboration with painter Yun-hee Huh, this work documents a year-long practice of filming the sunrise through multiple exposures on four 100ft rolls of 16mm film. Each of the four rolls represents a season (fall, winter, spring, summer) with seven separate sunrise shoots layered onto a single roll of film, creating a compressed record of time and light.

Sounds of a Factory: WAV to PNG

Sounds of a Factory: WAV to PNG translates factory recordings sampled from Youtube into visual noise patterns using scripting and databending techniques. Sound is segmented into micro-temporal units and algorithmically reinterpreted as grayscale pixel values. Rather than representing industrial labor, the work reenacts its operational logic: repetition, synchronization and normalization. The pulsating grain and the looping structure situate the viewer inside a rhythmic system in which perception itself becomes a site of power.

Love and Money

Love and money, money, money make the world go round, but there’s more of the former on display in this winning exercise in DIY filmmaking from writer-director David Ray (Grand Unified Theory) and his puckish band of merry pranksters. This is a totally improvised jape, made in Vancouver “for less than the cost of a used Honda.” Andrew McNee plays Andrew, a musician whose lost his way — not to mention his friend Scott, who’s missing. Seeking him out involves strange encounters with friends and strangers, none of whom seems to know what’s going on (probably because there wasn’t a script). But go with it! There’s gold in them thar hills, and despite or because of its eccentric genesis, this completely unexpected movie actually goes somewhere…

Arrangements for Robotic Arm

Arrangements for Robotic Arm is a series of looping animations composed through repeated acts of computational output, robot-actuated drawing and sequencing. Each segment resolves seamlessly into itself and creates a perfect loop without a fixed beginning or end. Here, repetition functions as both process and subject: every animation begins as a software program whose code is written to run a motion sequence before being brought back to a “zero frame” which enables both the software program and its visual output to repeat in perpetuity. The series approaches repetition as a condition which unfolds in time. Meaning emerges through this consistent and sustained return to an initial form before starting once more.

Dominion

Repeated bombing runs produce a unique type of destruction upon a landscape. Gold leafed munitions—promises of wealth and prosperity—burst upon the hills and coat them in developments: suburban housing tracts, parking lots and strip malls erupt in the wake of golden plumes of smoke. After they have run out of land to lay waste to, the bombers begin to attack each other, the violence of convenience and expansion turning upon itself.

one hundred doors closing

one hundred doors closing is a durational aural/video artwork contemplating the limits of potentiality, and the acknowledgement of both physical and mental decline associated with aging. Through repetition of form, doors builds out a network of isolated and immersive audiophonic recordings that are at the same time both strange and familiar, offering a collection of sonic snap-shots reflecting on the everyday sublime. Intentional listening with quality headphones is encouraged.

K (in the manner of a camellia)

In Uruapan’s central plaza, a centuries-old, withered tree refuses to die beneath the canopy of a camellia that mysteriously reached its summit.

Stomach, Thighs, and Ass

Stomach, thighs and ass refers to the various sites of the body where I can inject myself with insulin. Every night and every morning, and before every meal, I check my blood sugar level, record it in a notebook and take my insulin. For two years, I have kept a video diary of every single insulin injection. This four-channel video is made up of a selection of those needles, sometimes in the intimacy of my domestic space, sometimes in public, up close and far away, moments of anxiety and moments of calm, these documented injections capture brief glimpses of the fleeting life that surrounds them. In the process, the viewer pays witness to both the exhaustion of living with chronic illness and the quiet stillness that can sometimes accompany it.

is it experimental? number 3

is it experimental? number 3 uses repetition and photographs of the artist’s chaotic and cramped production environment to expose the working conditions that plague experimental filmmakers without access to a professional studio or equipment. The repeated phrase “I can’t work like this” is true, in that the lack of time and resources can indeed limit creativity, but also tongue in cheek, as Pelling and many other artists in a similar position continue to produce important and relevant film and video works under these constraints.

The Unknown

Desperate to cure his writer’s block, Elliott retreats to a remote cabin—only to discover he may not be alone. As the boundaries between his work and his life collapse, Elliott begins to question everything he knows. Is he writing a thriller? Living one? Both?

Self Beholding Self

A narcissist loses himself in an endless labyrinth, where an exit seems never to have existed. His story is told through the voice of a ventriloquist’s puppet that slowly takes on his face and soul, as his heart and mind are quietly torn apart by the rot within.

PARATOPIC

Payaso

On the day of a small birthday party, a clown in Ilocos Norte looks back on his childhood—when laughter was scarce, but dreams were loud.

Rizal Street

"Spending most of his days on the streets of Batac, Tata Rizal has lived a life shaped by a single, enduring ritual. From early mornings to fading afternoons, he moves through familiar paths, carrying with him the echoes of countless summers and the quiet weight of time. As seasons pass and years accumulate, his gestures and memories reveal a life devoted to offering brief moments of comfort and happiness to the people and children he encounters, leaving behind a gentle presence woven into the rhythm of the town."

After It Runs Dry

A poetic documentary that follows the quiet grief of two brothers during gulgol, an Ilocano post-burial cleansing ritual in flowing water, as their mourning mirrors a community confronting drought and the slow disappearance of the river that sustains them.

Rangtay Ti Tiempo

This documentary compares the traditional way of life of the Tingguian people with their modern-day experiences. It explores old customs, daily life, beliefs, and livelihoods, and contrasts them with how things are now, shaped by tech, education, and social changes. The film shows how tradition and modernity coexist, highlighting the challenges and adaptations the Tingguian community faces in preserving their identity.