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In 1933, a film reel shot by an unknown volcanologist is discovered in a village near Mount Vesuvius, in Italy. Years later, during new excavation work close to that same site, another film is unearthed.

After discovering some undeveloped negatives that belonged to his grandfather, the filmmaker begins an investigation to dig up the stories of his ancestors, driven by the question of how the past influences the present and the fragility of memory, which disintegrates over time. An exploration about

The writer María Luisa Elío returned to Spain in 1970 after three decades of exile in Mexico. She wanted to reconnect with a past that perhaps no longer existed. Through 10 short stories, the director explores fragments of the life of this woman who was part of the most important avant

We are backing up the planet, creating 3D models of animals, rainforests, cities and people. We are archiving as if ecological collapse could be staved off through some digital Noah's Ark of beasts and objects. OUR ARK is an essay film on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world.

In July 1989, the 13th World Festival of Students and Youth commenced with unprecedented fanfare. In a display of anti-imperialist unity, 22,000 people from 177 countries arrived in Pyongyang for the event. That summer, which followed the Tiananmen Square protests and preceded the Romanian Revolutio

"The filmmaker's grandfather, suffering from Alzheimer's, remembers, obsessively, an episode from his youth: an elegant young woman climbs over the railing of the pier and jumps into the water; he saves her. The old man's speech becomes more confused; the women of his family repeat the story, now be

Duration: 00:03:25 They left so we could become is a short film, also conceptualised as installation. This project serves as a heartfelt homage to my family, who made the sacrifice of leaving their home country in order to provide for a better future. The short film weaves together archival footage,

What lurks beneath this mix of transferred videotapes from family home movies and body horror films from my childhood that now clutter my computer desktop? Part medical treatise, part self-anamnesis, and a mashup tinged with nostalgia, this video essay reclaims the images emanating from my computer

A technician sits hunched over a botanical specimen from the 19th Century, dusting broken bits into a small envelope. A scientist collects lichen samples from the same tree every year. A professor teaches taxonomy to her students. Moving through the spaces of herbariums and expedition sites in Portu

In 1946, eight months after the atomic bombings, an American army film team made a feature documentary in Japan. Several reels are shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki including the "11004".

(before) Before winter, seasons, months, fragments of days, pieces put together. An image fixed in a still frame. Moving images rephotographed and edited into sequences. Back to back, two monitors in a dark room face each other. (the noise) (the speaking) (the sound) Speaking, overexposure, superimp

B. F. Skinner Plays Himself revisits the life and works of B. F. Skinner through never-before-seen footage recovered from a failed educational film project. Skinner–a world famous public intellectual in his lifetime who continues to be ranked among the most important psychologists of any era&n

A series of questions and statements unfolds around the experience and revelation of living with epilepsy. Through a collage of archival footage and fragmented images, Reem searches for the memory she lost during her first seizure. The film weaves together fragments that evoke the poetic and fragile

Crisis then, crisis now. Unrest, uprising, protests, strikes. In between, a janitor regularly and rigorously cleaned and rewound videotapes as if his life depended on it, unknowingly aiding in the preservation of history.

Slideshow reveals moments in time in the lives of strangers. Strangers to me, but maybe not to each other. Found in a Berlin flea market in the 1990's, these slides originated in the DDR (East Germany):an embossed DDR decorates the top of many of the vivid plastic slide frames. The slides' photograp

The early machine gun design known as the Gatling gun had a somewhat brief life for its intended usage, both on the battlefield and in other venues (around 40-50 years while it jostled for attention with other gun designs), but it has had a much longer and more wide-ranging life in the imagination a

This montage experiment dissects the settler-colonial view of the land through a collection of tourism films from the 1920s to 1970s, advertising holidays in the Canadian outdoors. In a split screen that multiplies connections among fragments of those films, the footage of natural beauty and happy v

What exactly is the moment of our birth ? No one really remember it. Helped with super 8 archives and my own images (digital and 16mm), I'm exploring. I'm wondering about what is maternity, what is mine special bound to it, how to express the multiplicity of voices inside us and in the society. This

A sense memory of the archive presents itself. The sun magically settles between the crevice of two trees; the warp and weft of the forest turns into a macro lens that obsessively documents the ridges that appear on a butterfly wing; a magnifying glass searches in the negative space of loss and abse

A poetic essay film on the colonial gaze and the magic lantern. This early type of image projector was used in Belgian colonial propaganda, showcasing the good works of the Church, State and industry. Lantern projections were an effective way of selling the colonial project to a somewhat reluctant B

Notes from Silences gathers fractured memories from Vieques and Bali, two islands on opposite ends of the world that seem like "paradise fantasy" on the surface, but conceal a common buried history. Unplanned footage, photographs, and snippets of voice recordings, taken during the filmmaker's journe

Early films of Patagonia show a land that no longer exists, pine trees have replaced the ancient Araucaria trees. Near my new home in Brussels, Araucarias adorn front yards. How have they become a petty bourgeois fad here? What do these representations tell us about our times?

An inquiry on the traces of Roberto Rossellini in Maiori, where the final miracle of "Journey to Italy" happens. Extras and witnesses of the film describe the scene the way they lived it, the way they see it. From within. Their words are resurrecting a bygone world.

This film knows nothing about the world. It looks at structures in the photographic material and treats the tactile surface instead of its representations of reality. The high frequency of images – eight per second – challenges our capacity to recognize patterns, our brains begin to blen

One of Canada's most distinctive film talents, Matthew Rankin returns to Short Cuts with a droll and inspired comedy about the big dreams and humble ambitions of a man who has a very exciting idea for a bench. Ken has a great idea for a bench.

The film shows a performance. But the seats in the theatre are still empty when the performer – the artist – enters the frame. She speaks about a colonial flashback, a seemingly important encounter, addressing someone or a group as "you." We learn that she is haunted by a series of histo

What matter is fever made of? The past seems so far away until we visit the ghosts, dreams and recurring fantasies that inhabited our childhood homes.

Silent Rooms is the first chapter of an ongoing multimedia project that explores the aftermath of discovering a family archive. Upon encountering photographs of her grandfather for the first time, the artist researches his military career to uncover a dark history that was never discussed in her fam

An essay exploring the idea of immortality and ephemerality.

The portrait of a post-industrial town in Burgundy, France through the lens of a former employee who used to work in one of the factories.

Could someone sell their memories? How much do memories cost? What is the reason someone decides to sell their most precious family memories? And who buys these memories? A photograph begins its life-cycle in the moment of its creation. It is a snapshot of a moment in time that it preserves. By the

This work revolves around my grandfather's ("ata") 16mm film roll. It was made in Soviet Kazakhstan around the 1960s. The film was never processed, never seen,its images suspended in a state of potentiality for over 50 years. In this project, I enact the rediscovery and reactivation of that material

When filmmaker Elettra Fiumi inherited her father Fabrizio Fiumi's archives, she discovered a man she knew nothing about. Fabrizio, along with the group of radical architects called 9999, imagined architectural innovations and anticipated a future that is still forthcoming. He was also founder of th

'Altrimenti inventa' is a short archival documentary film, that addresses the lack of visual representations of NorthAfrican migrated in Italy before the 1990s, and attempts an experimental "reinvention" of the missing archive, starting with my family history and then moving towards a more collectiv

The experimental short film is about an art installation of the same name, IMG_0220: Physical Preservations of a Once-Lost Internet Video . The narrator tells the journey of recovering an old archived Twitter video—circa 2016. Filmed with a handheld camcorder, the one-take POV perspective guid

Once the letter is handed over to conditioned reflexes—to the violence of its automatisms—it inscribes that shock on its own body. The Bonebreaker is the a posteriori document of that event. It obviates any mythologizing: it reduces all its effects to the most rigorous literality.

Between Belgian colonial archives and footage shot in the present, the violence of a dehumanising economic system unfolds through the story of a couple forced to work in a mine.

A conversation between the artist and her mother and sister unfolds into a layered reflection on exile, identity, and familial distance. What begins as an explanation of an art project (a fictional passport) becomes a personal film about migration, transmission, and the unspoken.

One afternoon, women spin sheep's wool at the Ouessant care home. Guided by their gestures, as in an evening gathering, their words trace memories of island life—daily paths and moments that marked them while the men were at sea. An alternative map of the island gradually emerges.

The Aldo Mieli queer archive in Carrara, Italy, collects and preserves books, ephemera, and traces of memories usually left out of mainstream history. Among these materials, a lifetime collection of postcards—addressed to the same recipient and sent by their queer chosen families—carries

Several mysterious objects appear in different locations. Inside them are white contact lenses that offer views of a distant world. After trying them, three individuals describe, through testimonies, what they saw and felt.

My brook became a river and my river became a sea is an essay film in progress that moves through memory, landscape, and displacement. Using water as a guiding metaphor, the film reflects on how personal and collective histories accumulate, dissolve, and return. Images function as traces rather than

In 1995, following a three year pause in nuclear activity, France announced that testing would resume in French Polynesia. While tourists continued to arrive and international marketing portrayed the islands as a place of perfect calm, Tahiti entered a period of profound unrest. Demonstrations sprea

An 8mm reel of a Hollywood western flickers to life once more. As the first call of the bugle rings out, the cavalry charges while the film strains to keep pace. It ripples, trembles and tangles, caught in the chaos of gunfire and the thunder of galloping hooves. Dizzy Calvary is an experimental sho

Filipino workers in Seoul gather at the site where people had to leave before, reflecting on where they lived. Factory machines are running, and where they live is fading. In the house where they live, by playing like ghosts, they themselves gradually become part of the house.

Drawing inspiration from traditional weaving techniques, oral storytelling, and contemporary modes of production, Tiɣrist - The Threads of Exile invites reflection on textile as a language of resistance and a vessel of memory - a sensitive archive. This narrative is rooted in the migration of the ar

A site which once served as a slaughterhouse has become an environment to preserve the life of Brazilian cinema. Until the first fire arrived. And then another, and another. Hundreds of negatives lost due to a policy that negates preservation actions. The relationship between the Cinematheque of S&a

Janus 2155 is 8 minutes video. This video is a scientific fiction that uses images from a real scientific experiment based on a very small optomechanical object. It invites the viewer to follow the production of such an object until its laboratory experience. The narrator's point of view (voice over

At the behest of his elderly mother, a painter embarks on a quest to find his family's old apartment in the labyrinthine hills of Chongqing in southwestern China. He navigates the city's transformed landscape, threading his way through tight alleyways, by consulting his cellphone's GPS and seeking gu

Morning Blues is a visual poem that explores the binary of absence/presence and infinity/finiteness in time and space. ​ ​The inspiration comes from the challenges I encountered upon awakening each morning, as I found myself trapped in a small room, unable to venture out. ​The music, which is contro

Waving hello to the filming cameraperson, the subjects through this very gesture, are also providing a future viewer with the acknowledgment of a constant good-bye to a fleeting moment. Yet when the film is projected and the captured gesture is seen, it's as if the subjects are saying hello again fr

WEB PAGE: https://elarchivobastardo.com/en/ After suffering a temporary vision loss, a filmmaker dives into her family's home videos from the early 90's to challenge her father's gaze. As she transforms the images, she liberates the characters trapped in those magnetic tapes and explores the mytholo

A journey across the former coalfields of Las Animas County in Southeastern Colorado. In the early 1900s the region witnessed one of the bloodiest labor uprisings in U.S. history known as the Coalfield War. The conflict culminated in the Ludlow Massacre where 21 strikers and their families were murd

Projector slides, the actual ephemera of a personal loss, are used to explore the ephemerality of images in memory in the attempt of recollection. These slides become a vehicle for making contact with the past; a bridge, however precarious and blocked, for surveying a meandering and dissolving memor

Peripatetic portrait; unearthing and burying an archive of collected images; ghostly remnants.

Through the vanishing of 32 porcelain chess pieces, the film follows the fate of a Jewish collection looted by the Nazis, revealing the profound tragedy of expropriation, the complexities of provenance, and institutional complicity. Using archival images, the resonant sounds of porcelain, and a real

Alessia initiates a discussion with her father, in an attempt to discover the moment when the separation between them occurred, but along the way everything becomes uncertain, memories mix and intersect, and no one seems to have an exact answer.

The work aims to be a living archive: a terrain for new narratives and new perspectives on the profoundly anthropic landscape of Northern Italy. Cyanotype was the tool for reinterpreting and narrating local stories, traditions, and industrial heritage, constructing new visual traces of the local leg

Bubur Basha (Grandmother's House) is a short documentary archiving my family history through memories associated with my grandmother's home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I've collected, documented and recorded, using photogrammetry and 3D scanning, videos of spaces, photographs, stories and drawings of the

Drifting through videoclips online can easily leave you distracted, lost and back at square one. Imagine finding a series of clips organised by a sense of inchoate feeling of eclipse of time and end of the world, evoking a shared sense of fate.

Am I him or am I not? Did I know her or did she know me? I'm not certain who they are yet I feel I have always known them and I can't help but wonder what became of them. A figure appears then dissolves as the film becomes a memory map. Another figure then appears and merges into the topography of t

The History Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo was built during the period of Yugoslavian socialism. Since the end of the Yugoslav war, nobody feels responsible for it anymore – with the exception of a handful of people who are trying to keep the place alive. (Diagonale catalog 2024) "So

BOOKANIMA, a compound word of 'Book' and 'Anima', is Experimental Animation to give new cinematic life to book. It aims to create 'Book Cinema' in the third scope between Book and Cinema by Chronophotography Animation, paying homage for Edward Muybridge and Entienne-Jules Marey. BOOKANIMA experiment

Inspired by a quote from Paul Valéry, the time of the finite world begins explores the end of a world once believed to be inexhaustible. Through archival footage from the 1950s, taken from the 16mm film, Pleasure for All by the National Film Board of Canada, an era of triumphant modernity whe

'Films to Break Projectors' glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film to create unprojectable celluloid collages. Reanimating the material reveals traces of ambiguous narratives that emerge from the complex loops.

"Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories" is a goodbye film to my parents' house. One night in December 2021, after an unusually extreme weather event, my parents' house flooded, and they had to be rescued by a boat. They lost almost everything that night, including their dog and their cat. Two day

Whenever I visit my mother in Barbados, she tries to throw away belongings from the family home. Shoeboxes of heavily damaged family photos from the 1980s - printed with poor quality one-hour printing - made it to her list. The print quality combined with the intense tropical humidity meant that the

The dancer's body intervenes a curated archive of slide projections to an original score, the looping and decay of which echo the permutations of recall. Movement mirrors both the tethering and slippage of memory in response to material cues- the family photograph, the repetition of a place name, it

Puntos de vista proposes a mash-up built around certain notions, tropes and perils of historical discourse related to occupied lands in tropical regions. Comprised of American newsreels, propaganda shorts and amateur films highlighting Puerto Rico's industrialization process from the 1940's to the 1

I go for a walk through Buenos Aires with a catalog and a hammer. Scattered throughout the city I find irons forged by the workers of the Vasena Metallurgical Company. The Buenos Aires of today and that of 1919 still run parallel. These walls that surround us are permeated by the ghosts of all our m

Mortal Copy examines Lenin's body as a "living statue," preserved to appear unchanged while continuously reconstructed into an image that outlives the person. In tracing how preservation becomes representation, the film asks what happens when an individual becomes the foundation for a politics that

The longer you stare at something, the stranger it becomes. The longer you stare at something, the sooner it starts talking to you. On October 4th, three university friends meet again, after a long time of being apart. The same day, they all receive the same postcard in their mailboxes. Against all

The monolith is inhabited by a minuscule entity, a conscious universe, a god or one of its forms. In its attempt to resonate with humanity, it only succeeds in fanning the flames. Everything burns to prepare for the new sowing. A rough film, low-resolution materials, intensities, flows, affected bod

The game has had great relevance in the competitive sense of our capitalist society. This premise shapes the way we act and create meaning, not only in each individual but in the entire society worldwide. This view confuses our perception of reality and the consequences of our actions; They connote

A Tower Being Built is a story of finding home amidst the war. The film mixes the elements recorded in different physical locations, intertwined to represent the fluidity of understanding the idea of home. By breaking up the shots of New York and Dnipro with excerpts from childhood and relating the

Movies is part of a project that collects material footage, outtakes and unused material, which are saved for future productions, taken from Internet files under the CC license. In this first video, models that simulate reality are displayed, reminding us in many respects of a painting. In the secon

My Lost Cousin is a docu-fiction film about my elder female cousin who left the family for more than ten years and never returned. Through multiple interviews with her aunt and re-enactments of past events, the film brings audiences back to my cousin's traumatic memories, in which she transforms fro

Colonial ghosts do not stop h(a)unting and devouring vegetalities. For centuries they have made the world work for the sake of a single world/ing, while others are ab/used and annihilated. The quinine pharmacy is an example of the strength of their machinery. Fever of conquest contrasted to a feveri

Suon Laulu (Song of the Swamp) visualizes and sonifies 160 years of soil data from post-extraction peatland landscapes. The research aims to translate data about landscapes we have permanently altered into multisensory experiences, to build affinity with our non-human neighbors and question unintend

In the middle of Atacama Desert, vestiges of the last nitrate industry are​ ​found, while the residents witness the crash of an industry located in the driest​ ​place on Earth.

A visit to the National Archives brings up a family history of internment and dispossession, traced through photographs and records.

While working on a film that seeks to make sense of home movies from her country, Portugal, a filmmaker at the beginning of her career talks with other filmmakers in hopes of better understanding what it takes to make cinema from archival images. What results is a poetic journey into the practice of

SILENT WITNESSES is an imaginary journey through the history of Colombia (and its cinema) during the convulsive first half of the 20th century, using solely the surviving footage of Colombian silent cinema.

The mother of the filmmaker tells about how her life has gone when she first came to live in a poorly maintained canal house in Amsterdam fifty years ago. The rapid career of the father; the dramatic separation; her four children she raised alone; she tries to remember the whole story. But she doesn

Women's bodies are always at risk. An autopsy report describes the physical impact on the body that results in death but hides the structural and recurrent violence on women's bodies that leads to femicide. Through archival film footage, animation and spoken word poetry an experience of structural v

Para no olvidar explores the videographic relationship between two exiles. Following the death of her father, the director Laura Gabay attempts to solve the mystery of this paternal figure who fled the Uruguayan dictatorship, through a work of collage based on family archives. A hypnotically beautif

A misty afternoon returns a Mapuche couple to their wedding video. In their civil ceremony, they are noted as one of only two couples married in the indigenous language of Mapudungun.

On March 6, 1906, four men were sentenced to death for the attempted assassination of former Colombian President Rafael Reyes. The event was photographed, and the images were later used to create a fictional film about the failed coup d'état. Since then, Colombian cinema has revolved around t

In 19th-century Paris at the Salpêtrière Hospital, patients were hypnotized onstage to reproduce the symptoms of hysteria for public audiences. Over a century later, high school cheerleaders are fainting en masse.

A ship navigates to Argentina. Inside, a woman in vigil. Scattered memories. Why is that everything tastes like melted wax?

In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut and took advantage of the opportunity to seize the archives of the Palestinian Research Center. These archives contained many historical documents on Palestine, including a rich collection of photographs and films. These images have since been r

To commemorate the 200 year anniversary of Britain claiming Australia, Burnum Burnum, an aboriginal man claimed the White Cliffs of Dover, for his people.

This Is a Turing Test is a speculative video-performance structured as a dialogue between a human speaker and an algorithmically reconstructed voice assembled from voicemails, search history, and digital residue. Set inside a remembered apartment rendered from memory, the work stages an intimate con

Jean-Claude Van Damme is back, and this time it's personal. Seventy-two photograms constructed from a 35mm trailer of JCVD's opus The Quest (1996). Re-examining conceptions of masculinity by deconstructing some of the images I watched repeatedly as a child.

Unraveling Mars is a choreography of moving pictures. As two hands open and unroll reels of silver gelatin images, the first photographs taken on Mars slide across the picture plane in front of the camera's stationary view. At times, the image lingers long enough for the viewer to take in the landsc

"Sincerely Yours" is a portrait of representation in science centered on the developmental biologist Ethel Browne Harvey and her work with sea urchins. Positioning the camera lucida–a drawing device foundational to the history of biology–as both an instrument of scientific visualization

Dinosauria, We is an experimental short film that explores the consequences of humankind's corruption, ultra capitalism and the exploitation of natural ressources in a dystopian post-apocalyptic vision of the end of the world imagined by poet Charles Bukowski.

A super 8 experimental documentary of the different spiritual practices of Makuta'ay, from Daoist ritual possession to memories of past Amis sorcerers. Shot on location in the traditional Amis territory on the east coast of Taiwan.

A salute, a slap, a clenched fist and a tender caress, le mirage des mains ultra réalistes explores the masculine through the gestures and expressions of men's hands. Like the intricately layered images created with analogue film and video material, the overt and covert symbolism of masculine

Rearing Anartia is an 8mm film documenting the work of lepidopterists Bob Silberglied and Annette Aiello at the Barro Colorado Island field station in Panama in 1976. Silberglied's untimely death in a plane crash at age 35 left behind an undiscovered body of work, including two research movies. Fort

A cinematic eulogy that uses the material of 16mm film to capture the moment my grandfather's ashes are released into the Pacific Ocean.

Yaffa is a short experimental film in which space and time become meshed together to form the fragments we create our stories from. In those pieces of images, memories arise and stories retell themselves. It is through our mutual time, words, explorations and spaces that I realized my grandfather gi

Through a collection of archived videos found in the depths of YouTube, ordinary people apply to join a space mission team heading to Mars in the year 2022. This announcement from Mars Venture, nearly a decade ago, reveals our society's interest in the conquest of the red planet and prompts us to qu

"Manuale di cinematografia per dilettanti – Vol. I" is a film essay set during the Fascist era in Italy, where a wealthy but historically insignificant man observes the world through his amateur camera. Guided by a technical manual, he begins to understand how vision is never neutral: even the

In a world that promises a perfect life, Marie Anne tries to escape. At that point, all trace of her is lost forever.

Beirut 1980: Amid the rubble of a torn building, a reel of film. An unlikely unraveling of queer bodies taking shape and form, while the war-torn city around and its spectacle of toxic masculinity glitches and disintegrates.

Old Post Road is an experimental film collaboration between Marie Lynn Haas and Tori Lawrence. The two-channel film blends present-day Super 8mm film with 8mm archival film footage from the 1950s and 60s. Like many early home movies, Marie's family's footage unfolds like a dream. It's linear in that

What happens if an archive is for the future and not just the past? What happens if it speaks forwards as well as backwards — and for the more-than-human? Uncertainty about truth and orientation is at the core of unsettling the present. Made from a found box of black and white oblique aerial p

"A bee stung me on my finger. It happened yesterday in the yard of a kindergarten, even though I am not in kindergarten anymore." Fragmented memories of childhood and adulthood blend together in a song that an unknown narrator is humming. Children are learning a new game in a sixties TV show. Someon

"The Sulfur Butterflies" by Robert Silberglied and Chip Taylor, 1971. 16mm film. Music by Kristina Dutton & Lisa Schonberg. Original footage held at the Smithsonian Institution Archives Digitization sponsored by Dr. Arnaud Martin (The George Washington University, Washington DC) Rearing Anartia and

In a dystopian future, a travelling trio of musicians discover an abandoned house – a relic from the old world. As the bandmates explore the ruin, they stumble upon a hidden room full of precious artifacts of a bygone era. It's a cultural windfall – journals, books, pictures and of cours

The Silver Curtain is an experimental 16mm film that examines photography through the perspective of a film lab technician, reflectin g on the material and psychological act of memory preservation. Set against the legacy of Kodak in Naarm/Melbourne, the film explores the tension between remembering

A poetic exploration of the sea, memory, and the fleeting moments before death. Largely atmospheric, the mixed-media animated film follows a sailor who, while lost at sea, falls prey to a grieving siren's call. While trapped between worlds, visions of dreams, memories, and traces of reality shift li

A meditation on masculinity, performance, representation and national identity. A collage of found footage, film excerpts and stock video, its starting point is the World Disco Dancing Championship in London in 1980 and 1984 in Malibu which included participants representing the United Arab Emirates

"The Place of Dum Palm" interrogates the symbolic use of landscape within Italian colonial discourse: what words were used to evoke the light, the weight of air, nature framing colonization as a natural, even inevitable, extension of the landscape itself? In the late nineteenth century, during the e

Three spy stories in the Middle East, filmed on a trip to Tehran, another to Cairo, and based on previously unseen archive footage from Sana'a, Yemen. A love story, a thriller, and a bit of paranoia.

"Rage Against the Archive" is an experimental browser-based film that critically probes how the New York Public Library's website catalogs, displays and even sells dehumanizing ethnographic photos from the 19th-century colonial-era publication "The People of India," questioning capitalism's infusion

A snake goes out, like every day, to look for food on the banks of the Manso River in the Argentine Patagonia. Suddenly, it is caught by a foreign explorer. That is why she decides, before dying, to put a curse on him for the rest of his life.

The story of quantum Alice and quantum Bob. Words, and music. A film within the film. What is in the mind of an autistic baby? An animal baby. What is in the mind of Bob and Alice? The pathos of Bob and Alice. Looking for my ghost.

In The Land Where Ghosts Could Speak, Tianhui Wu explores the tension between memory and forgetting, unearthing forgotten histories through sleeptalking. Using family archives and her body as tools, she navigates personal and collective trauma, revealing a broader conflict between individual identit

By reviewing personal archives and film work, Iván, a trans non-binary filmmaker, explores their journey of identity, self-discovery, and belonging in a reflexive, visually intimate short.

All Alone is an experimental folk piece rooted in the artist's lived experience of rural Ireland, where she has made her home since 2019. Barry reimagined comedian Lenny Bruce's monologue of the same name - through layered sound and archival footage of where she lives, by former North West Clare res

June 1971 - in a fluid landscape completely below sea level, a young biology student dies during the last year of his studies, leaving behind an unfinished scientific collection. More than fifty years later, a group of ecologists and volunteers are trying to understand and document the same environm

A conversation across time, space and the veil between a daughter and her late comedian father. Through personal and public archives, the filmmaker traces her own autobiography and reconstructs an image of her father as a man who both read her bedtime stories, and told jokes about her to strangers.

An enigmatic glimpse of life through precarious vignettes, propelling a narrative through a nebulous and opaque structure that sutures the filmmaker's home movie footage to archival material—from Hollywood narrative films to political selfie videos. A handmade impression of time suspended betw

Using personnal archives, Tirages uses destruction as a process of revelation. The photographic prints, taken during family's holidays in the 1950's, have been engraved, altered and animated as mirages. The cliches of an idealized past give way to a troubled reverie about the melancolic figure of th

A journey through the poetic universe of Chilean writer Alicia Morel (1921-2017). After her death and the demolition of her house, a parallel and unknown writing that accompanied the author throughout her life emerges. Interwoven with her well-known work in children's literature, this archive reveal

In a fusion of past and future, an experimental documentary consists of 35mm archival film slides narrates the extraordinary journey of an enigmatic being. As it ventures out to explore our world, it uses a unique method of communication—a living, visual recorder that transmits vivid images an

Queerama - A century of gay rights and desires on film. Queerama is a film created from the treasure trove of BFI archive. The story traverses a century of gay experiences, encompassing persecution and prosecution, injustice, love and desire, identity, secrets, forbidden encounters, sexual liberatio

Archives - January 2026 repurposing footage, material traces, the act of preservation and the fiction of memory. A machine-voice makes a "sad film of his homeland" for a dying patient to ease its passing: footage from Kennedy's visit to Venezuela in 61' creeps through montage errors, and a seemingly

First, a fragmented portrait of a musician who left his country house at the age of 20. The documentary is built from childhood stories told by his mother and the images that make up his two lives — the personal one and the one on stage. Second, she no longer speaks, no longer walks; we don't

An imperfect archive of a videogame on 16mm film. The multitelic digital experience woven into the analogue format, to prevent digital degradation.

Cellular Reconstruction explores technology and its effects on the future by re-animating the past. It begins from an old education film which has lost its cyan layer to time, attempting to revive it with modern technology. But of course like most technological cures, it is shortsighted and goes ter

"The Arc of Oblivion" explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield - to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the A

In the 1860s and 70s the so-called Molly Maguire assassinations rocked Pennsylvania's anthracite region and made national headlines. A Vague Dread Seems to Silence the Tongue attempts to conjure the specter of violence that emerged out of the racial animus and labor struggles of the Civil War in the

Empedocles imagines the birth of the world from the elements: water, earth, fire and air. His voice merge with the metamorphoses of an invisible Wanderer whose journey reminds us that the stories we believe to be outside of time never pass away.

Chanasorn Chaikitiporn focuses on the origins of the idea of film archiving in Thailand by examining the work of Dome Sukvong, founder of the Thai Film Archive. This includes his essays, books, letters, memoirs and reports, which read by the archive staff. We uncover the oldest moving images in Thai

Using pose detection machine learning models to search and matchover 2 million images fromdance television shows of the 70s, 80s and 90s, "Looking 4 U" is a kinetic music video exploring filmic collage techniques, generative textures, audiovisual rhythms, and the universal art of shaking your butt

SURFACING presents the ongoing collaboration between Gaia Crocella, Mireia Ludevid Llop, and Julia Schauerman. This work explores the poetic potential of recontextualising uncertain memories through sensorial methods and transnational perspectives. Responding to Ludevid Llop's research on her family

Often working with images from British state archives to reflect on imperial legacies, filmmaker Miranda Pennell, in her third appearance at the festival, takes us to Gaza in December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media raises questions about what it means to be a spec

In his essay film, Wir sind alle Kanaken , Kervin Saint Pere demonstrates the complex layers of meaning associated with the term "Kanake" that have been violently imposed through European colonialism. The appropriation of the term is closely tied to racist practices of European colonialism in the Gl

The film tells a story about the life of the Mars rover Curiosity turned autonomous. It is shown as a single day, using generative models with data from the archives of real cameras on-board of the rover. Curiosity awakens, discovers the limits of its body, explores the area around it and finds an i

No flickering. No noise. No artefacts. No hard lights that cast shadows. No fog, clouds, trees or buildings. No conditions of slow-moving or stopped people for long periods. No moving objects whose appearance is similar to the target in the areas of interest. No waving objects that cause the continu

In this film, I experiment with ethnographic research methods and modes of representation to depict analogue film communities, filmmaking practices in Berlin and Vienna, and the mechanical repair and photography milieus in Istanbul. In an age marked by digital technologies, this film chronicles the

In Espectro the viewer embarks on a journey that enters the dreams and thoughts of the filmmaker, whose exploration of the nuances of image, archive, and history reveals familial ties to Antarctica.

People play, enjoy and make love in the dynamic and positive universe created by South African filmmaker, artist and film theorist Jyoti Mistry (Cause of Death), using found footage from European film archives, particularly Amsterdam's Eye Filmmuseum. This is an unfettered celebration of the body an

Throughout the 19th century scientists transformed living birds into dried, stuffed, and otherwise preserved scientific specimens. Today scientists seek to transform these lifeless specimens into living birds through the emerging science of de-extinction. Exploring these transformations, Archives of

A celluloid ghost materialises inside the ruins of a mysterious phantom cinema, beginning a phantasmagoric drift through death, rebirth, and the bardo like spaces in between. Ghost Amber is a poetic reflection on the slow vanishing of analogue film, blending animation, documentary, found footage, ar

This film is dedicated to the memory of my grandfather who spent his youth in captivity during the Second World War. Fragments of his personal history resonate with the anonymous faces of war prisoners captured by archive footage and photographs.

Shot in the Andes, the work Aggregate States of Matters deals with the increasing impact of climate change on remote areas. At its core, the film pivots on the ambivalent negotiation between the binary idea of nature and culture, oscillating within the contemporary discourse on the environment, and

Flesh, identity—the face is the surface that connects us with society and shapes us in the eyes of others. This episode of SOY CÁMARA is an expressionist mashup that explores the primary emotions which connect us with our face, using images that transcend epochs and genres. The alienati

Music for Millions (2021) is an experimental short exploring the ideas of luck, music, and solitude. Confined to a home bursting with musical antiques and oddities, as well as a destructive lotto habit, Bill Salvatore finds himself trapped in a fantasy between the past and present. Believing his sub

Through the recounting of a dream—an image from the past that insists on reappearing—the film dissects and displays the very materials it's made of: still photography, moving image, narration, as if these cinematic elements were minerals and gems in a museum showcase. In doing so, it tra

Beginning in ghostly abstraction and accumulating texture by texture into a droning meditative trance, Monument deepens to a visual and sonic intensity, mixing Super 8 film with video footage to create a complicated, multilayered encounter with the tension of protest and reclamation. A vivid and ene

Soo is a short documentary that follows a son and grandson seeking to uncover the memories of 100-year-old grandfather Colin Soo, as he revisits the places in Sydney that shaped his identity. It is an exploration of what we hold onto at the end of our lives, generational bonds and the Cantonese Aust

Building upon Bialowieza Forest's histories of repression, persecution and destruction, [paˈlʲit͡sʲ] considers common scars shared by its human and non-human inhabitants. It approximates borders as zones of transition and interaction and sees every living being as both indigenous and migrant. [paˈlʲ

Ece Ayhan was one of Türkiye's most radical artists. He created an entirely new language with his difficult to translate poetry, and declared war on Türkiye's official ideology and constructed conception of history. He was obsessed with issues of civilness and freedom. In a country like T&

At the Natural History Museum in Vienna, everything that is found on earth and in outer space and that humans can get their hands on, is collected, archived, and studied in the name of evolutionary research. Archiv der Zukunft captures the aesthetic appeal of the natural-history collection and its w

'敬祖 ·PAYING RESPECTS' is a short film using the Chinese ritual of burning joss paper to reflect on questions of death & diaspora. Yiqing explores her grief by offering her ancestors everything they couldn't afford. Everything she burns gets sent to the afterlife. The film plays with themes of

The video I made for the song Up Your Sleeve by Companion Songs uses archival fragments from the early years of cinema. These early moving-image experiments—once showcasing tricks, illusions, and visual marvels through special effects and editing as magic—are re-edited into a contemporar

This thought-provoking short film examines the meaning of the term "public domain," and what happens to images whose copyright has expired and theoretically become freely available to all. Why is it that this type of image so often falls into the hands of commercial organizations such as Getty Image

Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his father's life.