Genres: docufiction

  • Before You Go

    A hybrid-documentary centred around a mother and daughter and their differing relationships with Iran.

  • Atmospheric Pressure

    As cows are milked on a British dairy farm a cataclysmic storm builds on the horizon. A mysterious meteorologist investigates the bizarre weather event and follows his equipment to the farm. But in the face of such contingency (the driving rain and restive animal life) can his research yield any results?

  • Dreams of Gold

    “Out at Zeballos, on the wet west coast of Vancouver Island, it rains and rains and practically never stops, but the people there don’t look for rainbows in the sky” Based on text from a gold miner’s journal, Dreams of Gold reveals his dreams and hallucinations while exploring the image of the mind as rooms in a house.

  • K-SARAM I: Tale of the pig head

    Centered around the Koryo-saram community in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, the film displays a shamanistic memorial ancestral ritual „Jesa”, encompassing the collective memory of Korean diaspora, the wish of the Koryo-saram for a unification of South and North Korea, and showing the real appearance of the ghosts of migrants whose transformation to spirits was not succeeded. “Saram” means human in Korean. The title refers to the today very popular K-export- products like K-Drama, K-Pop, K-Beauty, etc. and to the name that the Soviet-Korean diaspora uses instead of the South-Korean term “Koryo-In”. Approximately 500,000 ethnic Koreans reside in the former Soviet Union. Most…

  • Red Tunnel (紅色隧道)

    To celebrate Grandma Wu’s birthday, the villagers assembled plastic tarps around the village—a canopy that resembled a red tunnel. Weaving inside and outside of the canopy, a secret mechanism of domination may be glimpsed. Entrapped under a makeshift space, the villagers waver between laughter and labour as poetics intermittently exceed the banality of life.

  • Spark

    When the universe began it erupted into a vast array of fundamental particles such as neutrons, electrons and protons. These particles decayed or combined over time to create everything that our senses perceive today while framing all the we desire and feel. Spark definition: An abrupt electrical discharge that occurs when a sufficiently high electric field creates an ionized, electrically conductive channel. Image description: Silhouette of a person’s head against a field of green with sparks of white. Their hair is haloed by the light.

  • Transit – Destination

    Cities are where people tend to nest. This is where we can engage in the greatest range of pursuits while being provided a reasonable likelihood of day to day sustenance. While not apparent for the most part, cities require far flung resources making them islands or something akin to a space station. Cities are also de facto barriers for many other animal species, especially those that require migration routes to survive. Note: The voices are Kent Tate and a friendly passerby engaging in a conversation about birds while he was filming some office towers.

  • Focal point

    We live in a holographic world. It is a busy, busy place with much to do, with not enough time to do it. We also live in a world where a host of entities are vying for our attention. With so much competition to retain our gaze a clutter threshold is a very real hazard. I have always been sensitive to movement. There is either too much movement or too little movement, so I try to seek a balance, or at least make efforts to set aside moments where I can calm my overstimulated nervous system. I am partial to…

  • For Your Pleasure

    A young actress from Slovenia performs in front of the camera for several hours, without direction, script, or any other instruction. The only source of material that she can rely on is herself. By addressing the camera eye as a tool of desubjectivization, she questions the expectations that are applied on her by the visual regime, and refuses to identify with constructed fantasies projected on her. An intense display of affects and attitudes related to the system of categorization and precarious work, challenges the viewer as well as the filmmaker.

  • Evidence of Wind

    The filmmaker impulsively starts capturing the image and sound of wind. He realizes the only way to capture the wind is to show, instead, trees in motion. The limitation becomes the motif for philosophical contemplation of how we understand the nature of truth that can be learned from something else than the truth itself. The assemblage of the meditative narration, electronic music and the images of swaying trees, leads the journey through a paradoxical, yet thought-provoking experience. The enduring time reveals the moments of reflecting on our belief in the world in a time of uncertainty.