A journey through the profound silence of a mother.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A journey through the profound silence of a mother.
Film is based on Miroslav Krleža’s The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh, one of the capital works of Croatian literature. We are drawing parallels between ancient and modern time to emphasize that the masses were always oppressed by tyrants.
A stranded whale lies neglected and decayed on the shore of Han River. Such a strange thing, yet no one in the city cares, only birds and a dog gather around the whale. The scene reminds of the depression which has been hanging over South Korea for a while.
Director interview with Shoko Hara. Film referenced in this interview: Shoko Hara – Just A Guy (2020).
Two samurais face one another on a battlefield ravaged by war. Absorbed by their pride, they clash in a duel fuelled by deep emotions.
„Shift Simmers Slips“ is massively inspired by and freely adapted from Luigi Serafini’s „Codex Seraphinianus“, an illustrated encyclopedia created between 1976 and 1978.
Malaika lives in Europe, Pombalo in Africa. She collects stranded goods, he is a fisherman. As the nets remain empty, he sets off to Europe. At the shore, they face each other as the ships passing in the night.
Based on the art of Shannon Jamieson, Shannon Amen unearths the frantic, passionate, and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety as she struggles to reconcile her sexual identity with her religious faith.
A couple attempts to tear themselves limb from limb on a late afternoon stroll before entering a fluttery dimension.
Trapped in a synthetic meditation space, an empty shell seeks power.
Poor and unhappy, Rafael leaves Pauline and tries his luck at the roulette, but loses his last coin. Fate gifts him with the miraculous “Shagreen leather” that fulfills all wishes. In his new, luxurious life he wins the heart of wonderful Foedora. But with the power of the leather comes a rule: for every fulfilled wish it becomes shorter, and so does the life of its owner. Using the leather abundantly, Rafael soon spends his time.
An improvised stop-motion film about a woman exploring her own psyche through its manifestation as a sequence of identical yet progressively smaller rooms, inhabited by multiple selves.
An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.
The expression of emotional desire called love. Every person is an individual whose spirit and soul cannot be bound.
“remember your power”
A story about a very dangerous infatuation. An animated music video made for the band SAME SUKI. The song’s lyrics is an adaptation of the old Polish folk song On a Sunday at Dawn.
First year workshop film about the external and internal journeys of a commuter who is forced to find a happy place when another man invades his space.
The film explores themes of masculinity, and also speculates how the cultural practice of sending children to boarding school has politically shaped the UK.
In a veritable firework display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of quaint, embarrassing and dreadfully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.