A groundbreaking documentary journey that transforms the conversation around mental health globally. "When Life Gives You Lemons...Everyone's Everest" follows Sally Orange MBE, a retired Army Major and mental health campaigner, as she prepares for the 2025 Everest Marathon.
A French school class from the provinces goes on a trip to the Centre Pompidou in Paris in a film that explores what art and culture mean – and to whom.
Adult Diary explores how new media can shape gender and identity through nine virtual alter-egos. Starting from a diary of how a non-human becomes human, I created cinemagraphs of self-portraits and let one AI infer prompts, then passed them to another AI for expansion—like a back-and-forth game with the machine. The video, blending V8 camcorder texture and 360° language, unfolds in nine roles: a thought abortionist, a gender designer, a blockchain pet-communicator, and more. It reflects on identity, gender politics, and AI ethics beyond life and death.
A solitary man lives a measured and almost ritualistic life on his quiet farm, until a young couple, stranded by a broken-down motorbike, knock at his door and shift the stillness of his world.
"Yeti, we've got Shakespeare there."— Wisława Szymborska. This sentence feels like a call of human civilization toward the wild, and it deeply moved me. Summoner of Birds stems from my childhood imaginings, exploring the boundaries between humans and other creatures, merging these images with elements of the absurd. Wearing a Ghillie suit, I perform cello in St James's Park, London, embodying a quasi-human being. Pigeons gather and disperse with my movements, creating a subtle rhythm and poetic interaction.
Wavering is a short film in which technological, somatic, and symbolic worlds intertwine. Three robots, three performers, and a set of elastic bands intermingle to explore their limits and co-evolve until they transform each other. The film is a loose adaptation of the dance show Popmolle created by Montreal-based artists.
Peter Steele was a 6'8" gothic icon who appeared to be a real-life vampire, but behind the towering physique and bass-heavy growl was a man battling crippling stage fright, addiction, and profound loss. From the streets of Brooklyn and the "Green Man" days at the Parks Department to the platinum success of Bloody Kisses and October Rust, this documentary explores the dual life of the Type O Negative frontman. We delve into his early days with Fallout and Carnivore, his controversial brush with the European media, and the personal demons that inspired anthems like "Black No. 1" and "I Don't Wanna Be Me." This is the definitive story of Type O Negative—a band that blended gloom, humor, and heavy metal into a legacy that remains unmatched.
In 1971 reporter Alec Shimkin discovers a secret US-led military campaign: Operation Speedy Express. This discovery may reveal war crimes on an immense scale. Yet nobody knows about Alec’s scoop, who went missing-in-action in Vietnam himself. In Alec’s footsteps, Soldier’s Bones searches for Speedy’s deadly echo in the Mekong Delta.
On Saturday night, Jonas wakes up to find some magical brownies his brother made. After eating them, he begins to blur the lines between dreams and reality.
John and Claudia are two police officers who spent the night together. One afternoon, they patrol Bogotá, grappling with their feelings for each other and their own personal dissatisfaction. Violeta calls an old boyfriend and invites him out. They spend the afternoon together, and she discovers he still sells marijuana to pay for his mother's medical treatment. Dissatisfaction is everywhere.
Helen, an American-born Chinese nanny working in a Chinese household, finds a collection of old Chinese workbooks tracking Helen’s failure to learn Mandarin in her late mother’s things. She becomes consumed by the idea that her mother was resentful of her and begins to lose sight of the person her mother truly was to a cruel nightmare version of her. At the same time, her position within the household grows more tenuous, putting the relationship she has with her young ward, Xiao Shao, at risk.
Fifteen year-old Honest Cardamom hasn’t seen her mother since she was four, but at a crowded family party she begins to feel her presence in ways she can’t explain. When Honest senses the presence of her mother she finds the courage to ask her uncle about the woman she barely remembers and, in doing so, begins to uncover pieces of herself. Set in the space between Honest and her Uncle O, Tell Me When You Get Home unfolds as a long conversation between two people who have both lost a loved one. This short animated film is a testament to love and a testament to family.
Five Black musicians from Austin, reflect on art, identity and the need to create in a world that is quick to silence black men. The film features members of: Fuck Money, Urban Heat, Black Mercy and Chief and TheDoomsDayDevice.
The film replicates one of the 7cm Mountain Gun which were used during Japan's 'Pacification' campaign against Indigenous peoples. During this trip, Kao invites Atayal youth to return to the original mountain location shelled by Japanese police in 1906. They fire towards a distant hotel, now located on the site of a village once occupied by the Japanese. With a tone of playfulness and irony, the film subverts colonial aggression while exploring the possibilities of artistic action.