New Movies
Johnson
Inspired by the pre-sexual fascination of girls with horses, a romantic incantation and interspecies love story of eternal structures of queer eros, transformation and technological control. As told by a narrator, Johnson is a horse who is the object of the ceaseless praise and unknowable desire of a dreamy silent performer. The movie is a collaged poetic narrative constructed of vintage video technology, miniature tableaux, eerie dreamscapes and pantomimic gestures.
Translation Please
The wonder of humans trying to communicate with other animals, these same humans who are unreceptive to languages they already know.
Reading Aloud: What Is Power? by Fred Dewey (short version)
The late Fred Dewey’s essay "What Is Power?" rendered on film becomes something like a Greek chorus of very different voices, rising to affirm what we find hardest to believe at this moment: that power does not in fact reside among the powerful but is always there for we, the people, to reclaim. This film adds a new dimension to a text which asks many questions: What is the real nature of power? Where does it actually reside? How do we respond to, and understand, powerlessness? Why is protest utterly inadequate? What happens when people read philosophy out loud to each other? Inspired by Godard, people read the essay "What Is Power?" out loud to the film viewer as if across the table at one of Fred Dewey's table readings of Hannah Arendt's works.
Raging Ball of Fury - Brakhage
Live media performance built off of Stan Brakhage's Art History lectures using roll-in a/v, improvisation, effects, generative and found sources.
The Gift of the Magi
Della, a neglected housewife, enters a mysterious antique shop seeking a simple gift for her husband, Jim. Encountering a cryptic shopkeeper, she embarks on a journey of desperation and self-discovery, trading pieces of herself for temporary relief. As Della's transformation unfolds, Jim is confronted with the consequences of his neglect in a shocking climax that reveals the true cost of their relationship.
F3
A battle of fight, flight or freeze, becoming ever more unhinged and falling into the depths of despair.
Dead Man
A small village lost in the mountains, paralyzed after the closing of a mine, receives the arrival of an outsider who offers a significant payment in exchange for a very special job: to kill the owner of the mine.
The Girl in the Trunk
A woman finds herself kidnapped and entrapped in the enclosed space of a speeding car's trunk, wearing her brand-new wedding dress, and with her phone the only available tool.
Wedding Cake
A younger brother reminisces on his changing relationship with his older sister. Growing up idolizing her, he now finds himself alone and conflicted at his sister's cheap, backyard wedding.
Sea of Shadows
Sea of Shadows is dedicated not only to my mother but to all souls who found their final harbor in the embrace of the sea. The film translates personal grief into a contemplation of the human condition, establishing a dialogue between the personal and the universal. It acknowledges individual grief while resonating with the shared human experience. Beneath its overarching imagery is a quiet recognition of countless refugees and migrants whose journeys for safer lives ceased amidst the sea's relentless expanse. Their tales are subtly etched in the ceaseless motion of the waves, forming an undercurrent to the film's acknowledgment of lives lost in the pursuit of hope
Swimming Lesson
A mockumentary film in which Bedouin girls are taught to swim in a waterless “pool”, Swimming Lesson aims to stimulate thought about the lack of swimming pools accessible to Bedouins in Israel, actually denying them swimming lessons and causing frequent cases of drowning in the sea. There are over 200,000 Arab-Bedouins living in the Negev region of Israel today, with access to one single swimming pool that was inaugurated in the Bedouin town of Rahat in 2017. Bedouins are not allowed to enter swimming pools in Jewish localities. The work deals with the lack of swimming pools due to discrimination, but in a future world, in a few years or a little more, there may be a shortage of water due to global warming, drought and evaporation as well.
Meters Away
Some members of the Al-Mawad family (of Palestinian origin) visit their relatives in the town of Kfarshuba in southern Lebanon, which is a few meters away from Palestine. This documentary portrays this journey with its narratives and family adventures.
COMBO15
Some time ago, I decided not to make any more synopsis of my films. I want people to arrive without knowing what they are going to see. There won't be a trailer either; they lie and never really reflect the spirit of the film. Thank you for understanding. RP
Eloísa and the Girls Have an Ice Cream
Eloísa is an employee at a sweater store, but her passion is visiting the stable run by her friend Julio. Her life is transformed after the departure of her sister, who leaves her daughter Mora in her care. This way, Eloísa will enter her niece’s unknown children’s world.
A pedra sonha dar flor
A writer immerses himself in his work La muerte del payaso and becomes a hostage of impossible dreams. Between crimes and hallucinations, between the gothic nature of night and the decadence of the sand, a hopeless story is told, based on the work of Raul Brandão.
TMZ presents: Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons
TMZ exclusively sits down with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone as they discuss for the first time how their once-fierce rivalry led to two Hollywood icons forever being friends and brothers in arms
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
Set in the 1980s, "Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In" follows troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun as he accidentally enters the Walled City, discovers the order amidst its chaos, and learns important life lessons along the way. In the Walled City, he becomes close friends with Shin, Twelfth Master and AV. Under the leadership of Tornado, they resist against the invasion of villain Mr. Big in a series of fierce battles. Together, they vow to protect the safe haven that is Kowloon Walled City.
Mine - ?
In 1846 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the poem 'Hamatreya,' about man's claim to earth, and Earth's retort to such a claim. One-hundred and fifty years ago, Emerson explored man's sense of entitlement towards nature, while proposing that he is but a visitor. It is earth that rightly claims permanency over man. The Video includes quotes from 'Earth Song' (lyrics of Earth's response to man) a subsection of Hamatreya
Unconditional
The incredible story of renowned canine behaviourist Will Atherton, whose life takes a dramatic turn when his dog becomes his saviour after a period of dark depression and a suicide attempt, revealing the extraordinary power of love and resilience in the face of despair.
1.13
A beggar, a dreamy musician Ales and an ambitious dancer Astrid, wearing rose-colored glasses, fall in love with each other and the couple gives birth to a girl - Agape. Astrid has to give up her career, she becomes a psychologist, Ales does not deny himself anything and lives according to his heart. For both of them, the glasses expire and only little Agapa manages to preserve their properties.
The Leagues
A musician decides to return to his hometown in the Pampas plains of Argentina to recover a guitar that belonged to his deceased mother, but in order to get it he will have to reconnect with his father, with whom he has been estranged for years.
Five Thousand Stars
Once renowned food critic, now homeless and battling alcoholism, campaigns to save her local soup kitchen, despite her complaint shutting it down.
Miracles at the Movies: Locke + Signorelli
Firebrand pastors Greg Locke and Mike Signorelli merge condensed versions of their groundbreaking films, Come Out in Jesus Name and Domino Revival, infused with an unprecedented prophetic activation, for this special 2-hour Fathom event.
Just Beneath The Surface
On a fishing trip, a man struggles with a strange and menacing ocean. Will he fight against nature's forces, or submit to its power? Jimmy John Thaiday discusses how his culture, living on Erub directly informs the themes of the film: The ocean is always changing, shifting, and moving. I am exploring the way the ocean creates cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Important moments in our lives push and pull us like the water. If we resist these forces, life can be tough, and we can suffer. When we let go, and accept that life is like nature; it is constantly changing both for good and bad. If we understand this, then we can let nature take its course, and things will be in balance.
Don’t Be Shy
In this experimental micro-short, the filmmaker uses a digital collage technique to walk around and explore different parts of her body.
Scents of Place
A lyrical and contemplative gallery tour is unexpectedly interrupted by personal memories. Shared metaphors are conjured up by remembered, real and imagined smells. Wandering among this gallery’s replicated portraits the lingering smells of surrounding exhibits and faint smells of air, questions are raised about truth, perception and the conditions that interfere with our perception of place.
YUL20A
A readymade of sorts, animating the tarmac as landing protocols fuse with painted arrows and guidelines on bruised asphalt. Distinct concrete squared segments are reinterpreted as film frames flickering past, with this hypnotic and immersive taxiing finally giving way to a rush of unbuckling.
And I measure
And I measure deals with human-centered scientific experiments, exploring the concept of measurement when applied to ourselves. Our body parts, cleaned, fixed, connected, become an inexhaustible source of data. But why do we measure? What do we feel when we measure?
Hypnagogia
In the space between sleep and wake, hallucinations and moments of paralysis take hold. Hypnagogia is an exercise in eco-processing, with the film footage processed with multiple different organic material, including apples, avocado peel, coffee, grapes, peaches, pomegranate and wine.
synch : swim
A deconstructed how-to haiku for staying afloat through the endurance sport of life. Featuring "Polycalia Myrtifolia" from album "Seeds" by Pablo Schvarzman.
Psychiatry License
Clara invites some colleagues from work to her house for a snack. One of them discovers something that starts an argument that will jeopardize their friendship.
Real Feelings
One night, Ana gets excited watching a movie, but Benjamín, her partner, thinks it is absurd: a movie is a fake, armed product. Ana will show him, through a somewhat twisted lesson, that his approach is completely irrelevant.
A Space Flight System
This film portrays the life of Osvaldo, the screenwriter behind the most delirious presidential speech in Argentine history. Fiction is combined with real historical events that occurred in the Argentine Republic during 1996.
What Is Left of Us
Leónidas, an eccentric artist, enters an existential crisis, and seeing that his new art exhibit's success does not motivate him, he decides to fabricate a relationship between his wife and a younger couple, hoping this will generate some inspiration for his work and life. His plan fails, as his wife leaves him for the young man and becomes close friends with the young woman.
Polmen's Farm
A beaver is asked for his final job to inquire about Leonidas W. Smiley on Polmen's Farm. What ensues can only be described as a truly possessed 3 days.
