Experiments

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

LOOK WITH COMPASSION are words found in the calligraphy of Vietnamese Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh. It is a reminder that to develop love and understanding you must look on all beings with the eyes of compassion. With imagery collected through microscopic, liquid and digital experimentation, artist S

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

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

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

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,

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

IMAGO, the third chapter of Camera Insectorum, captures a body in the darkness of its pinhole camera. But nothing is possessed. The image retains a presence that never ceases to elude it.

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

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

'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

*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

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

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

A 40-year-old graffiti wall becomes an archaeological site and a sgraffito sculpture as skrffologists reveal hundreds of layers of colorful paint representing decades of artistic, political and cultural expression.

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

In a remote region of Colorado, during WWII, a solar observatory atop an underground mine, photographs the corona—the gaseous halo emanating from the sun. The extraction and abstraction of the experimental archive of the Climax High Altitude Observatory open new ways of thinking about sound, i

In a world permeated by plastics, a bioengineer becomes consumed by a plastic‑eating enzyme she helped to create. Aided by machine learning, the enzyme rapidly breaks down polymers so that plastic can be recomposed anew. Insects, humans, models, and machines are caught in cycles of extraction, inges

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

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

NATURAL STATE is a film and multi-channel video installation mapping four Minnesota research stations where the climate's future is a physical simulation. Across peatland, conifer forest, oak savanna, and tallgrass prairie, a shifting environment is rehearsed through the mechanical acceleration of w

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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.

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

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

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.

Plant life, without hierarchies. Yet macauba palms [Acrocomia aculeata] stand out in this region of Minas Gerais — human presence, mining, genetically modified crops along the harvest roads: reminders of progress and the Anthropocene. But amid all this, the distinctive thorns of this tropical

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

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.

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

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

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

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 short Film about science and nostalgia.

A short mathematical romance about two flat beings who bond over their shared fascination of the hypothetical third-dimension.

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

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

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

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

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) &

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

Some found-footage, some shots taken on the fly in Saint-Henri (Montreal) along the Lachine canal, the raw sound of the camera, and a particular desire to destroy images in order to express transformations in perception. Destroying moving images? *your own sensitive rendering* celebrates a unique ex

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

What if you could see the molecular machinery that controls your genes? Created by Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre biomedical animator Dr Maja Divjak, Epigenetic Mechanisms of Cancer Development, Part 1: DNA Methylation, takes viewers inside the cell nucleus to explore one of the most important biolog

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

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

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

Materia explores stones and minerals in my surroundings with a close-up and tactile approach.

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

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

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

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

"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

Chroma Culture is a video work that is literally grown. The process for growth combines optical video feedback, digital video processing and projection mapping to create an evolving organic phenomena that recalls the behavior of micro-organisms in a petri dish. Three discrete chromatic feedback syst

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

"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

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

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.