Deep Dreaming Flowers is a recording of a live signal analog video/audio synthesizer performance with a voiced narration made in collaboration with an AI program. A speculative machine-guided psychedelic broadcast of an astral floral projection. A fictional telepathic transmission that saturates the boundaries of perception with interlacing signals of interconnected consciousness.
Semi-precious is a portrait of my mother, a retired holistic practitioner framed through her crystals, supplements, jewelry, healing instruments and household adornments. Handwritten labels populate the exteriors of these objects to recall their emotional or spiritual use and are a vital remedy to her memory loss. Geologic and mortal time become enmeshed through weathered landscapes, wrinkled hands, vibrating exercise machines, sound representations of planets, resonant quartz crystals in clock faces and the profile of the oldest earth rock identified, the moon.
Fifty years after 25 April 1974, Luciana Fina revisits the images of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, drawing on the archives of the Cinemateca Portuguesa and RTP. Starting from the films of the era, SEMPRE rethinks the transition from fascism to liberation and the process of building a new country, crafting its emancipation and future. It is a tribute to cinema that has interfered in history and breathes new life into an extraordinary moment in time.
A film reflecting on the passage of time through photographs and home videos spanning sixty years. It explores navigating loss and the emotional weight of returning to a special place once your loved ones are gone.
Footbinding: the act of tightly binding a girl's feet, breaking her bones in the process, to achieve the beauty standards of the tiny lotus feet in Ancient China. Inflicted by the older female generation onto young girls.
At the improvised stops of a migrant camp, I film the paltry shelters of nationals from Mexico, Central America, Pakistan and China. Making campfires with a few scattered desert shrubs, caught between worry and despair, they are waiting to be picked up. Through the glimmering haze I can make out their blank gazes staring into the void, their faces burdened with fatigue, sweat and dust. The calming effect produced by the volunteers who distributed water, food and blankets a short time ago is fading fast. By dawn tomorrow, the camp will be gone, the desert deserted, the crossing already in the past. In the light of dusk it is still possible to glimpse places strewn with disparate objects and abandoned clothing, leftovers from barely touched meals and a campfire still burning. A chiaroscuro of shadows and embers. I think of such little consideration and the ruined American dream. On the icy sand I find a cushion bearing an inscription: “DREAM.”
With over seven decades of history, Chi Kee Sawmill has lived through multiple transformations by Hong Kong’s timber industry, including the economic boom in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as its radical shift to processing and recycling used timber. However, when the sawmill faces compulsory eviction by the government for its Northern Metropolis development project, the survival of this successful family-owned business becomes a modern David- versus-Goliath story. The latest documentary by photojournalist- turned-filmmaker Elyse Hon is a wistful look at the unstoppable machine of urban development and an old-school business unable to withstand the flow of time
One day, a 10-year-old child finds another child isolated from the world. The two children meet at 2:15 PM, allowed only 15 minutes together, during which they start to see that warmth can break down the barriers between people.
In the valleys of Taos, New Mexico, David receives a strange call from his wife, Margaret, who is exploring an archaeological site in search of inspiration. Worried by her enigmatic message and the mysterious humming on the phone, he rushes to find her.
The protagonist does not want to inherit the solitary and selfish character of her father. One day, the young protagonist realizes that her father has gradually infiltrated her with this annoying character, so she decides to break away and move in the opposite direction and try to get along with her friends. At some point when she grows up, she suddenly finds that she has become what she once hated. In the end, the protagonist finds a new way of self-exploration deep within himself.
A married couple’s relationship runs into trouble when a new home computer arrives in their house to which they begin to express their desires and troubles through song..
Maria Pimentel is one of us! A fierce activist, she was part of the founding of the Federation of Women of São Paulo in the early 1980s as a union leader and contributed to the formation of several women's associations in the state. The film, in partnership with Instituto Angelim and Caliban Cinema, tells the memories and stories of Lúcia Maria Pimentel, an activist who fought against the military dictatorship in Brazil from a young age. Committed to her country and her people, she was arrested, went underground and exiled, but returned to fight for redemocratization and social justice.
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