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Ainsley Bruce attempts to get his life back on track in the form of a job interview. All seems well on the surface, However his demons from his past continue to haunt him.
1111 arrives on Earth with a mission: to analyze the productivity of the human species. In doing so, it discovers something that wasn't in its database. An inexplicable pattern that rewrites its code.
Maede receives a phone call, and the world has ended.
Following two aspiring artists over the course of an evening as their decaying relationship hits a breaking point at a friends dinner party.
A short film reflecting on the life and final act of Wynn Alan Bruce, who died on April 22, 2022 in Washington, D.C.
Across Europe, two women went looking for what it means to become a mother today. But the solitude of motherhood is a shared sentiment everywhere.
A young man who does nothing all day wakes up to go empty the trash.
A selfish and destructive android adapts to the life of a cowboy in the desert wasteland.
Adam is informed that he is dead and experiences his life in fractured pieces.
The Culture Industries go grocery shopping in this found footage bleach and color over black and white super 8.
In an age dominated by identity politics and increasingly intrusive bureaucracies, this work is a celebration of privacy, personal freedom, and diversity of being. As we are defined and divided by institutional language and algorithmic data systems, urgent global issues affecting all of humanity are spiraling out of control and being ignored. Choosing to Prefer Not to Say is an act of protest in a refusal to be reduced by bureaucratic categories that divide and flatten the complexity of our lived experience.
Death in the Archive is an inquiry into forgotten films and artists’ lives, tracing a path from personal to institutional archives. The film unfolds as a historical montage and diaristic mapping of visionary Beat filmmakers of San Francisco’s North Beach, conjuring the celluloid bodies and creative metabolisms that persist amid the human and material mortality of artists, images, and fragile film stocks. Fragments of Dion Vigné, Jordan Belson, and Christopher MacLaine intertwine with personal histories and cinematic visions, constructing an archaeology of memory. Preservation of both media and life becomes an ephemeral transmission — the fragile survival of memory. Gestures, voices, and images endure, transcending time and material limits, as the film bears witness to absence, endurance, and the persistent life of creative imagination.
Two dancers move fluidly and visually through space and time, their movements uniting historical black and white film footage with contemporary colour video.
Recorded on location in Oaxaca, Mexico, the film follows a woman on a spiritual journey through portals of the natural world: water, earth, air, and fire.
