Devil’s Chapel

After finishing building his Chapel, Lorenzo suffers a depression and is locked in it for three years. When he opens the doors he calls his children to show what he did: good and evil. Mario Manríquez (AR) Nicolás de Bórtoli…
After finishing building his Chapel, Lorenzo suffers a depression and is locked in it for three years. When he opens the doors he calls his children to show what he did: good and evil. Mario Manríquez (AR) Nicolás de Bórtoli…
“Dehumanized” is an experimental short film, in which the peace of the dead in a military cemetery is disturbed with loud war noises. The camera itself becomes a weapon. “The truth of war in a nutshell. Without words, but everything…
Springs and Apneas between Worlds to resist and re-exist the pandemic. The power of the womb of the world. Faced with thousands of bodies that cannot breathe and die from Covid-19, this work reflects on the force of apnea as…
“Dear daughter “ is a message of an African immigrant to his daughter about ethnicity and origins Issouf Baguignan (US) Issouf Baguignan was born and raised in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. He is a hip hop artist ,who started off making…
The encounter, the beauty, the unknown, the knowledge. Reflection of an illusion that transports us to the crossroads of possible worlds. Olivier Lalonde (CA) Olivier Lalonde (alias eraylik) is a digital artist, composer and film director from Montreal. His works…
A video essay on the extinction of the Kauai O’o bird, a songbird native to the Hawaiian island. The short film takes us through its very last recorded song, and its continued digital life in online media. Salvador Miranda (CA)…
A hidden gestural language lies beneath the representations of masculinity. A 3D avatar attempts, through reenactments of found imagery, to re-encode and communicate this language as gestural semaphores. The title and structure of the film originates from a book of…
Five dancers are holding hands in a circle, an utopian society. They slowly circle around each other, the dance begins. Captivated by the rhythm of society they spiral out of control. Will they delight in the structure of the future?…
Choose Your Own Father is an essay film that derives from extensive archival research into John Latham’s early history in Zambia, describing personal histories of Latham’s father and interweaving these with those of the filmmaker’s own father. John Latham (1921…
The story of an Iraqi child whose family abandoned Mosul after the Islamic State took control of it in 2014, and war broke out on their area. The family lived in the displaced persons camp. After liberating their area, the…
A Pacific Northwest emergency physician struggles to grieve his wife without leaving the pandemic front-lines. Christopher Rogan (CA) Rogan Christopher was born in London, grew up in Canada, and heavily influenced by the American Rust Belt. As a boy he…
Before We Collide is a short film shot on a Nishika N8000 analog lenticular camera consisting of over 800 photographs pieced together. In a haunting encounter, the film captures our fragmented perception of time during the pandemic while exploring the…