Experiments

For a Moment is a black-and-white Super 8 film that explores embodied memory, fragility, and the instinct to persist. Rather than approaching memory as an archive or stable recollection, the film treats it as a physical force: something that returns through the body as tension, tenderness, absence,

What does a basement have in common with a retina? The answer: an accumulation of an excessive amount of clutter as aging occurs. In the retina, the back layer of the eye, the dumping of harmful molecular refuse leads to a condition known as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Affecting nearly 2

How can one represent a quantum material? How can an electron, a fundamental particle with its own energy, freedom, and uncertainty, shape solid matter and its emergent properties? This film is a visual abstract journey from a single electron to a collective quantum state. Alone in a sea of vacuum f

A poetic soaring within a laboratory of genetics . With Marie Coutelier & Nicolas Maille A movie from Marie Coutelier (Scientist) & Alexandre Labarussiat (Filmaker) With the collaboration of Michel Dequet & Nicolas Maille The team thanks l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM) &

Nebulous We are always remembering something. The world—a projection of the self from within the unconscious—drifts around us, clings to us, and leaves us bewildered. The confusion inherent in the act of seeing. A vague, uncertain fiction. What is reality, and what lies at the periphery of conscious

In the Budongo Forest of western Uganda, life unfolds in quiet complexity. Animals, plants, and humans are entangled in constellations of mutual dependency. At the center of one such intricate web grows a powerful tree—Alstonia—a medicinal species vital to both Budongo's wild chimpanzees

Our molecular scale 3D animation utilising scientifically accurate structures allows a general audience, including cancer patients, to understand complex 'epigenetic' processes controlling our DNA. We illustrate how disturbance of epigenetic processes can lead to cancer, without altering the underly

Spring 2020 - during confinement, I had the habit of taking the car and going for a ride adjacent to the Beirut port. After August 4, this route was no longer possible. I did, however, sometimes go there and dare to take a shot, but not of the port. Just of a building opposite. To take these photogr

This piece is about porosity. Plants imprint themselves onto film, as other cells might inhabit a body.

Filmed in the Art Deco former telephone exchange in Amsterdam, via negativa is a nocturnal tale of dead bats and missed connections, where human and non-human voices map out a space on the verge of destruction. Channeling different frequencies from the imperceptible sounds emitted by bat echolocatio

Conceived as part of an international Art & Science residency, launched by ClimatEurope2 and the Belgrade Science Promotion Center, Breathing is a performative installation where video, sound, and light intertwine to make climate data visible and tangible, in collaboration with the Belgrade Meteorol

The Architecture of Leaving explores what remains of a place after we leave it. Built from original photographs of spaces I once inhabited and passed through, the film moves between documentation, memory and reconstruction. The photographs are expanded beyond their original frames using generative A

Along the edges of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field, a group of researchers from Estación Patagonia UC undertakes an interdisciplinary expedition through Exploradores Valley, from General Carrera Lake to the fjords of the Pacific. Through water samples, sound recordings, images, botanical ob

A camera roll and investigation into the landscape of West Chicago, IL's former Rare Earth's Facility, Kress Creek and Reed-Keppler Park. The former Lindsay Light and Chemical Company owned production plant polluted and distributed radioactive mill tailings (thorium byproduct) throughout the communi

Enter the gynecologic archive: when the body is rendered as a series of "unremarkable" findings, what histories and systems remain unseen? Through personal microscopy, ultrasound, archival footage, and personal narration, Dogstar constructs a visual and sonic landscape that resists the clinical gaze

A nature study shot on Super 8mm film, in which the filmmaker encounters something unexpected and even a bit sinister.

Set in Ecuador's misty highlands, the film follows Gael, Dylan, Christopher, and Jasmín in the days leading up to La Llamingada, a race rooted in a local syncretic tradition. Amid the steady rhythm of daily rituals, gestures of care, companionship, and domestication unfold beneath the breath

OAO is a cinematic opera in which mezzo-soprano Anna Wallace explores intergenerational trauma, casting a spell to be reborn through the filmic medium.

In her augmented reality app, a reclusive nerd seeking escape encounters Iliona, an enigmatic 3D character who will, without a sound, disrupt her reality.

Divided Island is a film letter to Cyprus in a re-imagination of place, time and memory.

Two campers follow their clothes as they float away on a stream in the Belgian Ardennes. Along their journey through nature, they observe the various ways that people disturb the peace. Illustrator-animator Nicolas Piret has an incredible eye for detail and uses only a single sheet of paper to tell

Spring 2020 - during confinement, I had the habit of taking the car and going for a ride adjacent to the Beirut port. The route was always the same and at the same hour; at sunset right before curfew. I found these empty streets quite poetic, and going in circles in this climate of a world at stands

Sasha Pirker's Real Time is concerned in a two-fold sense with recording artistic creative processes. Shooting with a Bolex camera, the filmmaker documents the form-finding creation of a drawing in real time.

Patiently follows the choreography of humans who care manually, day in and day out, for seagrass—an underwater plant that supports rich webs of marine life wherever its roots pierce the seabed, and which happens to be one of the most powerful natural carbon sinks in the world (in fact, it is second

Alternate facts, half-truths, or false appearances, lies spread throughout the world, mysteriously carried by the ignorance of some or the credulity of others. Do we even know if the truth will ever come to light one day?

Shot on a Bolex set on a tripod. Each shot with the duration that the fully rewound motor of the Bolex runs. Then comes in a gust of wind.

A history of sister portraiture is reanimated by nascent datasets, as portraits dodge derogatory categories by paradoxically inhabiting both one and multiple bodies.

In an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council

Following a disturbing incident somewhere in Portugal, a group of friends responds in conflicting ways. Some resist the conditions that surround them, while others seek refuge in a virtual realm. Set against the backdrop of a peripheral summer, where protests against police violence intersect with t

"Zero Player" is a visual poem about repetition, computerization, and overwhelm inspired by Conway's Game of Life. Conway's Game of Life is a cellular automaton and early computer programming trial, whereby "living" and "dead" cells regenerate under conditional rules. These limitations create differ

On the small stage of a theater, a woman begins a strange dance...

Using real images captured by a scanning electron microscope, BUG examines the matter and textures of the microscopic world of arthropods. Brought to life by digital technologies, these fragments of reality are transformed into a strange theater, on the edge of life and artifice, between scientific

Everything Flows and Nothing Remains, named after a saying of the Ancient Greek Philosopher Heraclitus, is a project that explores the constant changes of nature and identity in flux.

"Light is motion, motion is time, time is a bird. Repetitive, seasonally cyclical process of recording Icelandic webcam screenshots, this time focusing on the light monsters that through camera lenses and glass fibers travel great underwater intercontinental distances. Visually encoded in this film

Komboloi (worry beads) is a collaborative video poem that merges climate data with experimental film and animation techniques to explore anxiety in the era of climate change. Central to the film is the symbolic use of worry beads—a cross-cultural object used to calm anxiety—crafted from

The Meteorite is a speculative video essay that unfolds around the Söderfjärden meteorite crater in Ostrobothnia, Finland. Rather than approaching the meteorite as a scientific object, the film imagines impact as a perceptual condition: a force capable of transforming both a territory and a body. Th

Once planted across suburban America as a symbol of ornamental beauty, the Bradford pear tree now stands as a controversial relic. According to Plan is a Southern Gothic take on the tangled legacy of this once-beloved tree species. Through a mix of interviews, animation, time lapse cinematography an

The title already provides information on the experimental arrangement on which the video is based: Rotation is compiled from several manual 360-degree-pans, which at high speed, let merge the ever same stretch of landscape and the four seasons. The work, by the fine artist Herbert Distel - with dan

Through 16mm double exposures, sonic layers, and hand-wrought animation, "It's Just Good Manners" turns the non-human world into a central protagonist to satirically examine humanity's absurd, ironic, and commodified relationship with nature. Alongside layers of voices, this student film urges us to

Human skin is a leather cover for the interior. We will leave our covers just like abandoned coats in wardrobe. Nature and silence. LEATHER is an experimental stop-motion animation which combines sculpture, human body and nature.

Kren´s second film and the first he cut according to a strictly serial, sequence technique: in various framesizes, the 48 portraits from the Szondi Test for "experimental diagnosis of human impulses" are shown in pre-specified lengths (between one and eight frames). (Peter Tscherkassky)

The alien cosmos of microscopy becomes the setting for a posthumous dialogue as a father of young children attempts to reach his late mother, a pragmatic former hospital lab technician. Through this strangely intimate engagement with a hidden world, HEMATOLOGY unearths the unspoken fallout of the pa

This is an experimental documentation film of The Trashland Project. "Trashland" is a digital space and collaborative social practice that transforms almost-discarded objects and personal memories into collective world-building. Through dialogues, 3D scanning, hand-crafting and co-creation, particip

A collective portrait of La Quebrada Cliff Divers in Acapulco, Guerrero, who earn their living diving 100 feet into the sea from a dangerous cliff as part of a thrilling show, featuring an original poem recited by them and testimonies on faith, life, and death.

Children go on an outing in Marseille accompanied by a landscape architect, along a green corridor overlooking a highway, and continue on their way to a garden, where they meet environmental educators. Guided by a filmmaker, they then create drawings that they animate to tell the story.

Postal Fever launches a gaze through time and memory, crystallizing in collective and personal heritages. Putting into contact contemporary Super 8 images and family archives recorded on video, it tries to reflect – both critically and cryptically – on the nature of the images and their

Magia comestibilis is a film that explores our relationship with food through a reflection on longevity, biohacking, symbiosis and gastronomy. It explores the possibility of creating food out of the collaboration between humans, bacteria and artificial intelligence, a food that may help develop immo

The inversion of the body is a familiar and natural state in gymnastics, where handstands (逆立ち / sakadachi in Japanese) are an essential part of the physical lexicon. Camera obscuras share a similar state: the image is upside down. In both handstands and camera obscuras, the inverted body is the cor

To fill in the gaps and inconsistencies in her father's biography, filmmaker Evi Stamou begins a correspondence with an artificial intelligence. From this conspiratorial and often impertinent exchange, possible and probable stories emerge, painting the portrait of a young dreamer, at a time when the

A fall wind arrives with cold, dense air and covers the landscape below.

'Enactments of a Fading Sunlight Zone' is a lecture-performance film that investigates the phenomenon of ocean darkening. As sunlight and moonlight penetrate less deeply beneath the ocean's surface, the sunlit zone that sustains marine life contracts, disrupting ecosystems and making the ocean's dep

In the late 1960s, Istanbul was the eastern gateway of the hippie trail to Kathmandu. The cheap hotels of Sultanahmet and the tables of the Pudding Shop were crowded with travelers from all over the world. Among them lived a local legend: Hippie Perihan. Having run away from Izmir at seventeen, Peri

Filmed from a rooftop garden at Broadway and Columbus Avenue, the work follows a randomly chosen passerby through Broadway and Columbus Avenue of Manhattan. From an elevated viewpoint, the camera traces his movements as he crosses streets, waits, hails a taxi, meets others, and eventually disappears

A short Film about science and nostalgia.

In a combination of dance film, art video and documentary, Decorum explores, repurposes and distorts certain codes of beauty found in medias and popular culture. Video projections, lights and dancers compose images partly inspired by the works of Francis Bacon and Janet Werner on which we can hear t

Feedback is an audiovisual work shaped by recursive image processing and layered sound. Emerging from streams of abstraction, each frame folds into itself to generate striations, distortions, and drifting textures, evoking a sense of continuous movement and transformation. The sound design, built fr

Fantastical Revelations of Art, Math, and Romance is an in-progress 10-minute educational and erotic narrative film about two-dimensional beings, Solis and Vincent, discussing the hyopthetical third dimension. The second dimensional world is represented by paper stopmotion animation. By physically m

A cucumber becomes a pickle: An act of preservation using old cameras, expired film, cross-processing, and literal pickling to capture the playful energy of Pickles the Pup.

talking to humans about the end of the world is a meditative observation of life unfolding over one (hot) summer on Epekwitk/Prince Edward Island, through the gaze of the director, Millefiore Clarkes. As global crises intersect, dovetail, and cascade on the horizon, creating a throbbing hum of anxie

The Fifth Floor is an ascent. It takes us on a journey through layered imagery that includes 8mm home movies decayed by time, luminous kaleidoscopic patterns, and sacred geometry. The two visual worlds compete and collide. Moments of clarity dissolve. Ultimately it becomes a meditation on the beauty

An ageing photographer's methodical routine is disrupted by a glint of prismatic light. The battle to eliminate the flaw transforms her studio into a chaotic and bloody crucible as her photonic experiments lead her toward chromatic transcendence.

A quiet reflection on the pain of loving what warms you only long enough to leave a burn.

A lot happens in the sixty seconds of KatharinaViktoria 2(021): a re-enactment and sequel, a cinematic experiment with single images, a study of perception, a double portrait (or an extended self-portrait), a reflection on familial similarities and closeness. In her (now doubled) double portrait, th

Sédiments, 48°N 69°O is a frame-by-frame exploration of the Saint Lawrence landscape (Québec) through its stones and sediments. Shot on 8mm, the film observes geological matter as both a trace of the territory and a changing image. Through the accumulation of individual frames,

Destroying moving images? *your own sensitive rendering* celebrates a unique experience and a certain passivity of the spectator—allowing each sound and image to continue its own story, and enabling the viewer/listener to construct their own perception. Thus, the piece seeks to highlight how p

In January 2025, Los Angeles was struck by a devastating wildfire. The "City of Angels" suddenly became a "hell on earth". As we watch scenes of the fire, a force capable of instantly destroying everything people have built and accumulated over a lifetime, we hear a voice reciting biblical verses ab

Thoughts of not Edward Krasiński's blue tape. 3rd in an ongoing series.

For decades chemical company DuPont and its subsidiary Chemours poisoned North Carolina's drinking water through illegally dumping forever chemicals into the Cape Fear River. On altered 16mm film, corporate promises of community care and pure water dissolve as rivers and bodies merge in a meditation

*Submitted as part of the September 'Immortality' Open Call*. In 'N.E.A.R', A man tries to consolidate his partner before leaving on a long voyage. The film was made out of old super 8 home movies that I sourced, indexed, cut and respliced together to create a new narrative out of old memories. In t

At the ancient sanctuary of Dodona in northern Greece, Dione revisits the oldest oracle of the Greek world through listening. Water, wind, animals, vegetation and stone become signs in a contemporary sensory exploration of the site. Sounds recorded on location and transformed with composer Florent C

In 1827, the French engineer Joseph Nicéphore Niépce developed the first photoresist to fix an image of the world using sunlight and the principles of a camera obscura. He named his process heliography, or "sun drawing." In the mid-twentieth century, the computer industry transformed Niépce's heliog

Granite tors scattered over 20 square kilometers around Tooborac in central Victoria dance in energetic celebration of their own endurance.

Coconut Flow captures the "industrial tourism" landscape of the Coconut Palm Group, a beverage manufacturer based in Hainan, China. The film employs a reverse chronological structure, tracing the production process backward from boxed beverages to the raw fruit. Visuals unfold through juxtaposed and

In the late 1970s, entomologist Luis Peña Guzmán commissioned his close friend, architect Miguel Eyquem, to design and build his house in Portezuelo de Colina. During the process, the building was transformed into the Juan Ignacio Molina Institute. With Eyquem, one knew when he arrived

This film evolved from an account of an antisemitic conflict occurred in the heart of Red Kreuzberg, "capital of all that was antifascist in Germany" in the spring of 1989. Utilizing a method I call "animating the still", this piece interweaves the surviving paintings and drawings of Arnold Peter We

Portrait of an encounter with India next to the Tajogaite volcano. She was born on September 19, 2021, the same day the volcano erupted.

NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT looks at what happens when a landscape enters a decision-making process but cannot speak in the terms required of it. The film stages a fictional hearing where the landscape is treated as a witness, while its responses appear through sound, weather, vegetation and interruption

Is it a coincidence that cycles echo across bodies and worlds - that the moon pulls the tides, that oceans move as we do, that rhythms occur in flesh and sky? This work begins with that question, tracing connections between the celestial and the oceanic, between distant stars and living earthly bodi

Non/living is an exploration that delves into the collaboration between living organisms; Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeasts) and non-living; a ghost archaeologist. The film tries to find an approach between human and nonhuman beings while investigating ecological filmmaking and materialist fi