Breath of Life

Entering the magical world of web builders....in which we work and breathe with them as they unreel a complex harmonious world...we follow.

What looks like a beefy sea cucumber sunk in a toaster without a casing is actually a computer-controlled organ of speech. From a YouTube clip of the singing latex mouth montaged after and next to itself, Norbert Pfaffenbichler generates an unconventional collage of images.

Breath Text is a powerfully simple performance in which VALIE EXPORT creates tension by breathing compulsively.

A breathing fantasy inspired by 'Seiza sha', a house which really exists in Kyoto.'Seiza' means the mind and body healing method initiated by Torajiro Okada in 1910.

The happenings of someone's nostrils.

PLASTIC CHILD is about a journey of a child who lives in a contaminated plastic world. Being the heir of a single living plant gives him the air to breathe and eventually delivers hope for human mankind. PLASTIC CHILD is part of the trilogy EMERALD GREEN, which is about a dystopian world, where natu

A conflicted narrator leads the viewer through three extreme situations that are actually the same...Will you survive?

A creature from outer space comes to earth, landing next to an island that looks something like a petrified tortoise. Her name is Ainhoa, a nine-year-old girl who suffers from chronic asthma and who has taken on the personal challenge of spending a night alone on the island pretending she is an extr

In this evocative short documentary, Inuk singer-songwriter and humanitarian Susan Aglukark weaves together stories of artistry, family, and belonging as she explores the complex cultural shifts of the last 50 years of Inuit life. Turning her lens on the turbulence of colonial transition, director N

In a not-too-distant future the air we breathe is owned and distributed by a mega-corporation. Anyone who poses a threat is hunted down with drones and exterminated. Oxygen dealer Winston Willis faces off with a mysterious buyer who seems to know Winston's darkest secret.

In Breathe, filmmaker Anna Sagatov seeks a solution to her anxiety and lack of focus. A qEEG (quantitative electroencephalogram) brain scan measures what is happening inside her brain based on brain wave activity. Anna examines the science of the qEEG scan and tries a meditation practice to see if i

The Labrador Sea in the North Atlantic is one of the few places on the planet where water sinks deep into the ocean, carrying gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide to depths where they can be used by critters or sequestered for decades to centuries. Ventilations Interactions and Transports Across the

A hypnotic journey through the landscape at an underground construction site. Shot down the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland. Facts dissolve within the realm of phobias and science fiction.

A boy worried about his future faces an important job interview and gets the job. Meanwhile, his fiancée leaves him via videochat, but he is so happy he got the job that he almost does not care about it, until an unexpected and unexplainable environmental catastrophe changes his destiny forev

Life is between the first and last breath. If respiration is a vital condition, Aleix Segura seem to contradict logic. He is world champion of static apnea in 2016 with 9´23´´in a swimming pool.That not breathing is what keeps the beat of his heart beating and his blood pulsating.

In this world, air is no longer breathable. Eva survives off of her last oxygen reserves, but her time has run out. She only has a day left, and all hope for a better world has now disappeared.

Within one year, Neil Platt becomes paralysed from the neck down. As his body fails,he tries to make sense of his life in order to communicate who he is in a letter to hisone year old son.

Meditation and yoga are often associated with hippies and Buddhist monks. In BAD BOY BREATHING we follow Nicolai, a 23-year-old drug addict and former gang member, whose life so far has been plagued with violence. Through a friend Nicolai is introduced to meditation and breathing techniques by guru

Breath is a film about the poetic journey of air that surrounds us and flows through us continuously. We breathe the ethereal force of life through our bodies. Every creature inspire and transform the air and add some of their own entity in the mixture before it is passed on. We all share each other

The Smog blanketed the planet forcing people to live confined. But when you are 15 like Juliette, real life truly begins outside.

Drones and GoPros survey the land while users roam digital forests, oceans, and lakes. Those clouds look compressed. That tree looks pixelated. A landscape film for the 21st century.

The concept of the film is based on the physical and emotional behaviour of breathing. This vital living function is manifested in an artificial and yet organic material, plastic, as well as in a human body. The film questions physical existence and movements as dance on screen, through the metamorp

A story about farmers, the soils they work and a piece of powerful knowledge that nearly slipped through their fingers. Grassroots follows Guy Webb and his friends, unlikely heroes on a quest to bring a genuine climate change solution to the world.

In the near future, Factories filled the planet and intoxicated the Air, Humans started living in the deserted waste where Smog covers the skies and hides the Sun. Lithops, a 12 year old girl, lives an empty dull life in this deserted world with her older sister Miasma. Imprisoned behind her gas mas

In this small formation history of atmospheric chemistry, flying and thinking beings emerge as the result of high levels of oxygen in the air which is owed to earth's forest and plant cover. In the midst of the oxygenic forest, a science-fictional performer manipulates a multitude of ingredients&nda

Chemical and cognitive dissonance. A love story between oxygen and nitrogen.

The film is a personal statement of the director and his wife, who have to deal with a very rare and incurable disease of their newborn child – the Ondine's Curse (also known as CCHS, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome). People affected with this disease stop breathing during sleep an

Deep underground the action force is preparing for the imminent case of emergency. Surveillance cameras are tracking the descent. The head is burning. Constriction puts pressure on the chest. In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.

The Mayas predicted the unavoidable-global warming. The future of the world depends on the people returning to the basics and uniting for survival. A divine cycle of death and rebirth.

How do we breathe? How do we smell? Using supercomputer simulations, scientists can recreate a rapid and short inhalation, a 'sniff'. Using pure data visualizations, this short documentary allows us to see the stunning beauty of this process. Credits: Directors: Guillermo Marin & Fernando Cucchietti

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Deforest is an art/science project that combines environmental critique with material enquiry. In this project, sulphuric acid – a highly corrosive acid that burns to the touch – is used to dissolve photographs of old growth rainforest from subtropical Queensland. Deforestation is one of

Coronation Park is constructed from shots of bare maple and oak trees in winter. The images are paired with the single word breathe. Inspired by the many languages spoken in the city of Toronto where the film was shot, the words rhythmically appear then disappear, each time in a different language.