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Eve is donating her childhood dollhouse away to an antique store ran by a lonely old woman Lynne. As Eve explores the stores treasures, filled with memories of their past owners, she warms to Lynnes helpfulness. Picking out a recipe book, she takes it home to discover Lynnes name written in it. As an act of kindness, she brings a birthday cake baked from the recipe book back to Lynne at the store, with a new mindset and hope to retrieve her dollhouse back. Lynne is delighted by Eves recreation of her childhood cake, taking her back down memory lane, but as Eve bargains to take her dollhouse back, a little girl in the store begs her mother to purchase it. Eve watches as her item finds its new owners, reassured she is passing down a treasure for the girl to cherish as she did.
A prelude introduces the algebraic calculation of a rainbow’s arc, reputed to be by Baruch Spinoza and dating back to 1687. A shadow observes itself, connecting two points. Through a series of single, double and triple exposures, the three colour records of 16mm film emulsion converge and diverge. Breath becomes a source of movement, and language transforms into frequencies, as if they could become light, through the recitation of three poems by Friedrich Nietzsche from 1887.
A biographical drama woven from documentary footage, reconstructions, and recollection. Galina Alexandrovna — heroine, mother, grandmother, actress of her own fate — lives through decades in which fact and invention intertwine. More than ten years of filming, from the hot summer of 2012 to her last summer in 2025, turn a private life into a myth. A story of memory stronger than death, of love, and of a refusal to vanish.
Feeling something towards you, they write letters. Defying the texts that define their actions, they begin to act differently.
He worked hard for his fame - yet, it's been stolen from him.
A documentary about the making of Ed' Morrow's hand-drawn debut feature film. Ed' reflects on three years of work on The Shepherd’s Lamb, looking back on how the project began, how its characters and visual identity developed, the challenges of learning animation while making the film, and the creative decisions that shaped the final cut.
When two desperate university students, Timothy and Bryce, answer a Craigslist ad in the country for a sum of cash, their seemingly odd host shifts into something far more sinister, threatening their lives.
Haunted by the aftermath of a camping trip gone wrong, Topher is drawn into a brutal and increasingly surreal world where unseen forces pull the strings—and his understanding of reality begins to fall apart.
Following a recent act of terrorism, growing homophobia among those around Jaro leaves him feeling increasingly cornered. The situation threatens the identity he has kept hidden.
Two pairs of legs, Lennon and Lindsey, embrace the challenging journey to explore if their continuous encounters really are just coincidences.
Told through athletes in moments of focus, Pepper examines the self, homeopathy and the pressure of time passing. The first film of Goes Electric, a new series of experimental documentaries about reality and pseudoscience, Pepper centres on the conflict between the demands of performance and the realities of the mind. Constructed from hand‑painted and electrocuted black‑and‑white 16mm film, the project is produced through Autocolour, a self-developed colour film process using only black-and-white chemistry and ink to produce colour images. Each frame is rotoscoped and combined across three passes of 16mm film, creating a controlled, saturated image that anchors the film’s material approach.
In this dreamlike animation, two women fall in love and are metamorphosed into strange creatures, symbiotic with the natural world around them.
This coming-of-age fantasy follows thirteen-year-old Evie as she escapes the pressures of modern life through extraordinary adventures with a mysterious companion.
“An Akoon” means “To be”. An Akoon is a poetic, experimental, and intuitive film that confronts the weight of existence, a yearning to return to a state before becoming, before the weight of consciousness. In the depths of inner turmoil, the film dives into war, grief, anger, fear, and remorse, rooted in the profound bond between mother and child.
silent short film, shot on 16mm Kodak T200 -- made possible by the Chicago Film Society's Intro to 16mm class. Featuring over 30 locations across the city of Chicago -- an unedited scan of the only, original print. created with a lot of love.
The Dog spent peaceful, ordinary days — taking walks in the park, playing games on the computer, and sometimes going to the polling station. If everyone wishes for peace, why do people continue to fight?
Four young piglets go on a workplace visit with their school, getting a sneak peak into their possible future at ‘The Happy Pig Brand’.
