A collection of mind-bending, form-expanding work.
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Big Touch
Directed by
Christopher Tenzis
Through the power of touch, a giant woman and a tiny man experience an unexpected transformation.
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Castle
Directed by
Ryotaro Miyajima
A castle architect discovers the possible role of a tearoom as a place for warriors to regain humanity.
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Crab
Directed by
Shiva Sadegh Asadi
A shy, withdrawn boy has his heart set on joining the school theater group, but the only role offered to him is that of a crab.
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Jack
Directed by
Faiyaz Jafri
Jack is naked. Jack is pretending to play guitar. Jack looks silly.
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Kua Fu Chasing the Sun
Directed by
Xia Mu
When Kua Fu is dumped by his girlfriend at the lantern festival, his instincts tell him to run toward the sun.
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Ô
Directed by
Chloe Dupeyrat
Dark and dreamlike underwater pictures engage citizens and cause them to consider their relationship with burning issues.
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Releasing Spell
Directed by
Markéta Magidová
A small group of aliens from the future arrives on Earth for a unique birth celebration.
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Savior
Directed by
Christopher Oroza-Nostas
Using a century of presidential and political speeches as its threads, the film weaves a tapestry that represents a divided nation.
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Serial Parallels
Directed by
Max Hattler
2019
9 minutes
No Dialogue
Hong Kong's signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips.
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Trackless Lines
Directed by
Keita Kurosaka
5,000 images are organized into seven chapters.
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Tub Time
Directed by
Jaffe Zinn
A dissociative journey through the stormy present.
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Urban Sphinx
Directed by
María Lorenzo
Faces look at us with wide-open eyes, as if to tell us that we exist. But do we?
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Wake
Directed by
Cartter Evans
Trapped in a world between life and death, Ophelia attempts to break free of grief over her father’s suicide.
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