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A rework of the new iPhone 15 commercial featuring a singing wall socket. In place of the machine loneliness of the original, a different song from the early Vito Acconci playbook. A direct address to the viewer/listener from a virtual assistant. The new ambient intelligence promises security, rapid response, predictive analysis, microgeneration, efficiency. Here it delivers funwashing messages from the cloud for users in a performative essay on domotics. Talk back from the data harvest and Orwell’s “never sleeping ear.” To challenge them is to “fight the future.”
The film tells about the fate of a species that was on the verge of total extinction due to whaling in the past, and today is listed in the Red Book of Russia.
Three female artists share their stories to paint a perfect picture on how art can be a tool for self-expression and healing.
Norman has been living his life through labels. (literally). Julius is trying to help Norman navigate through his strange "illness."
In a quiet village, the body of an elderly man, Bhimsen Chhetri, is prepared for his final rites. His legs are carefully tied, his body bound with ritual precision, and the mourners stand in silence as tradition is followed without question. As the funeral procession begins, the film shifts decades into the past. A younger Bhimsen helps carry the body of his friend named Balmiki along with one old man and another young man through mustard fields toward the riverside for cremation. During a brief rest, a young man and an old man went to collect the wood into the jungle leaving Bhimsen alone with the corpse. What follows is an unexplainable event.
Three writers, three ways of understanding the act of writing. As their stories intertwine, the film explores the aspirations, contradictions, and disappointments that permeate the craft of writing within a system that breeds both longings and frustrations. Blending documentary with narrative artifice, the film reveals its own construction, making the act of writing the very subject of the story.
A Cape Town recording session becomes the final chapter in the extraordinary story of British folk-rock legends Strawbs, as frontman David Cousins confronts illness and prepares for the band's farewell performance.
An early morning shopping trip at a lonely gas station ends up triggering an experience that blurs the line between memory and reality. Short film made with 3D animation.
Tomás is ready to leave his village behind. But when he reunites with Carmen, the love he once left behind, he begins to question whether walking away means letting the place he calls home die with him.
A soldier returns home from a long combat deployment, his house seems different than he remembers
Paul, a Filipino nurse, hooks up with David, an Israeli soldier. They meet and have sex, sharing intimacies that reveal opposing histories of violence. The encounter, recorded in a Berlin apartment, documents the precarity of seeking safety in a world where brutality is ordinary.
In winter, the frozen lake in Ladakh, a high-altitude region in the Himalayas, becomes an ice rink where children train for ice hockey. Young Tashi loves the sport more than anything, but her family cannot afford even a pair of skates. As she waits endlessly for her nomadic parents’ return, her grandfather grows older, and her best friend is preparing to move away.
A kid tries the Brown Noise Challenge and now he will regret it.
An employee's livelihood is threatened.
A young criminal's dreams of a big deal go south as he goes on a surreal voyage through life and death.
Three generations confront conflict under one roof until one incident bridges their divide, proving patience and understanding can transform relationships.
A detective is appointed to a murder case, and must look within himself to uncover the truth behind who the killer really is.
A short examination of lust and porn addiction through cinematic history and inspired montage.