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Transmission

2025

An audio-visual experience through the perspective of an iPhone depicting a harmonious city during the day quickly descend into technological madness as night falls.

BARK.

As a young woman walks home alone one night, a chance encounter with a missing dog incites the reclamation of her body and self — as she learns to bite as tough as her bark.

Facing

2025

Facing is a short experimental film that turns the grocery aisle into a frenetic canvas. Shot with rapid cuts and a constantly moving camera, the film zooms through product labels until they dissolve into chaotic blurs, streaks of color, and fractured lines. Familiar packaging blurs together in a fast, chaotic montage, where the images overlap and mix until they turn into shifting colors and patterns.

Dantes Traum von der Hölle

1989

An attempt to bring texts from Dante's "Divine Comedy" to life. Nine episodes from the Inferno with a concluding episode from the Purgatorio.

Blow-Up

1966 · ★ 7.3

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

this is Mount Rinjani

2024 · ★ 9

At once a journey and a reckoning, this film follows 19 year old Koen's ascent of Mount Rinjani—often regarded as Indonesia’s toughest summit. What begins as a test of endurance gradually transforms into something more intimate: a dialogue between self and nature. Shot as a reflective video diary, the film holds not just the view from the summit, but the moments of insight and introspection discovered along the way.

Memoria

★ 10

Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of experimental films that overlap alongside a deconstructed soundscape. Entering a hallucinatory state in a haunted ambience, one's own subconscious is put on display.

The Illiac Passion

1967 · ★ 4.3

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.

Voice Windows

1986

With Voice Windows (1986), Steina renews her efforts to generate a complex sound-image interface

The Holy Mountain

1973 · ★ 7.5

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

Lonesome Cowboys

1968 · ★ 5

Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

Belle

2023

Belle is processing her toxic relationship and coming to terms with the need to end it. The closer she gets to closure, the more the world around Belle starts to break down - literally and abstractly. Can she come out the other side?