Square(2020)

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story(en)

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

Daughter(cs)

A young girl buries in her soul a memory of a painful moment, when as a child she brought home an injured bird and her father burdened by his own weight of worries didn’t notice her feelings and longing for understanding. The girl took her father’s reaction as indifference and closed herself in her inner world longing for her father’s love and its manifestations. Since that moment she and her dad continued to grow apart, and as an adult she is no longer able to accept his endearments. The father suffers from guilt and searches for a way back to his daughter, trying to revive their lost relationship.

The Bomb(en)

Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert.

Impressions from the Upper Atmosphere(es)

Sistiaga painted directly on 70mm film a circular (planetary?) form, around which dance shifting colours in a psychedelic acceleration matched by the soundtrack’s deep-space roar and howl. - Cinema Scope

The Adventures of *(en)

Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.

69SEC(fr)

This is a story of love seen from a square, in which a couple gets united, separated and rearranged again. A special kind of puzzle.

2005 Space Odyssey(ja)

Experimental short film by Michio Mihara.

Head Rag Hop(en)

A proto-music video: three minutes of experimental animation set to the tune of Romeo Nelson's 'Head Rag Hop'.

After the rain(fr)

A child fishing in a puddle using bananas as bait catches a bigger fish than he can handle and flees with the giant fish in pursuit.

La Maison en Petits Cubes(ja)

La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.

God of Chaos(en)

A mysterious cult performs an ancient ceremony, inviting an otherworldly power into their earthly realm.

Banner of Youth(pl)

A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock. An attempt at showing the complexity of the world in a capsule, the film reflects the new policy of the openness to the West during the Thaw of the late 1950s in Poland.

The Zucchini's Smile(fr)

Myia and Aristote live from gluglu hunting. These cloud-animals allow them to grow courgettes in the desert. One day, Myia falls in love with one of them …

Fantaisie érotique(cs)

Photodiary '87(ja)

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative's wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.

The Short Films of David Lynch(en)

This collection of David Lynch's short films cover the first 29 years of his career. Each film is given a special introduction by the director himself. His earliest underground films Six Figures Getting Sick (1966), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970) and The Amputee (1974) are showcased as well as two requisitioned works well into his successful career The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) and his addition for Lumière and Company (1995).

Incognito(hu)

The main character is a young girl who sees the world around her as cold, depraved and ugly. She can’t and won’t fit in. One day, a strange cloud appears over her apartment, triggering a supernatural event.

Scanning of Modulations(ja)

Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.

Six Men Getting Sick(en)

Lynch's first film project consists of a loop of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces.

Alexander Mosolov. Three Pieces(ru)

Experimental film from the almanac of classical music for children "Children's Album". It is dedicated to the constructivist period of Alexander Mosolov, as well as architecture and cinema of this direction and consists of three parts, with conditional names: 1. "Shadows", 2. "Movement", 3. "Volume". The structure of the film is visually and rhythmically close to constructivism.