Life and Other Cataclysms

A grieving plumber seeks out a disgraced quantum physicist to rid himself of a tormenting "Hum".

Three stories which all take place in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

Sugar was the engine of the slave trade that brought millions of Africans to America. Glucose is sweet, marketable, and easy to consume, but its surface satisfaction is a thin coating on the pain of many disenfranchised people.

In Guatemala, half the population lives in impoverished rural areas. Their livelihoods depend on growing maize or potatoes, as well as cash crops like sugar, bananas, and coffee—all of which depend on rain. Climate models are predicting higher temperatures and decreased rainfall in Guatemala's

This is the story of Dr. Margaretha Hofmeyr, a Cape Town veterinarian, and her efforts to save the geometric tortoise in the country with the largest number of tortoise species in the world. But the geometric tortoise, known for its unique shell, has struggled with the challenges of man's progress,

A man must compile the history of the human race before the destruction of the planet.

We're making tea amidst the rubble. The house is feeling fragile. If you yell the walls tremble and let the light in. This skin we're in is a hand-drawn animated short about domesticity and life in the aftermath of family mental illness.

A bereaved epileptic ditches her pills and follows a mysterious woman to the outskirts of her town, where she slips back into the fearsome yet ecstatic throes of the seizure. The Sacred Disease attempts to recreate the feeling of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy--a lesser known type of seizure disorder charac

.TV is a found footage essay film: Voicemails left by an anonymous caller from the future guide us to the remote islands of Tuvalu, a place the global media has described as "the first country to disappear due to rising sea levels". Surrounded by thousands of miles of open water, much of Tuvalu's re

"They have moved a mountain in three years. " Mineral reminiscence. Two brothers relive their past as miners through a film that tries to fathom the essence of a chemical element yet concealing many mysteries. The town of Bondons, in the department of Lozere, has suffered, between 1986 and 1989, maj

Physicists work like miniaturists, sees what is invisible to bare eyes. The film is a meditation on blindness, the blinding light 'of thousand suns', the first visual descriptions of the atomic bomb test in Los Alamos, and thereafter in Hiroshima. Scientists, politicians, bureaucrats, soldiers and t

Enter into a cybernetic beehive and discover the cyborg bee life within.

Bugarach is a tiny village in southern France where everyone lives a quiet life, isolated from the world, until the day that the international media spreads the news that Bugarach is the only place that will allegedly survive doomsday.

Soon It Would Be Too Hot takes it's title from the first line of JG Ballard's 1962 climate-fiction novel "The Drowned World" which vividly describes a dystopic future Earth where the melted polar ice cap floods the living world. Soon It Would Be Too Hot is an urgent work about the human relationship

Matters of the Heart , a series of six, silent, black-and-white films of operations were shot with a 16mm Bolex film camera in the operating room: Heart, Blood Flow, Stomach, Eye/Hand, Vertebra, Brain . Two choreographies overlap: that of the surgeons and that of the intuitive-conceptual camera edit

Satoko Ishii, recounts the Hiroshima Bombing devastation as she prepares for her book launch and her granddaughter Reiko honors Satoko's story through her dance. Letters of poetry fuels Reiko's own battle with radiation sickness due to the genetic mutation passed down from her grandparents.

An instant in the universe: a few seconds up in space, a few minutes back down here below for a man, and how much for the plant staring at him… Little by little, these three journeys overlap, fuse with one another and plunge into the heart of matter.

Model Fifty-One Fifty-Six displays the physical changes of the maker's heart since being born with the congenital disorder, transposition of the great vessels. This chronicle envisions a convergence of the human and the cyborg, connecting personal vulnerability to 1980s science fiction.

Filmmaker Nicolas Steiner documents the exploits of three homeless people in Las Vegas, a man who lives in a military bunker in the California desert and a woman at a Utah research station that simulates life on Mars.

In 2025, five rare Palila finches survive in the wild and a woman journeys to Hawaii, the Extinction Capital of the World, to see the last few birds. Through animation and live-action footage, the film explores how a species is preserved by man as it nears extinction by looking at past and present e

How far would you go to get what you want? In the near future, Jill is a rare survivor in a world nature tore apart, a woman whose powerful maternal urges are thwarted by a scarcity of men.

Arecibo, the world's largest radio telescope, is located in Esperanza, Puerto Rico, which is also home to a critically endangered species of parrots. The telescope functions as an ear that is capable of capturing signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. The witty messages from the parrots remain unno

Three individuals live clockwork existences, dictated by a strict regime of medication and the challenging physical reality of living with Parkinson's. Meanwhile, a team of dedicated scientists in Galway are developing a new medical device, which could potentially halt or even cure the devastating d

The experimental film explores the concept of the future of ageing, increasing life expectancy and life extension. Visually juxtaposing architecture and physical space against interviews with a diverse range of people; from biomedical scientists and evolutionary anthropologists, to the director's fa

In a dystopian future, water is running short. A man has taken to smuggling water to keep it in supply.

Shakhbout shares with us the story of the first speaking Arabian Oryx "Mozaik" that changed the course of his life and for that matter the future of humankind.

Under the imminent threat of Lebanon's 2015 garbage crisis, Hala, a wild child inside of a woman, is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home. Mounia Akl is a director and writer from Lebanon based in New York with an MFA in Directing from Columbia. Apart from directin

The deterioration of one is the foundation of another one's life. The world with it's never-ending interplay of eating and being eaten, takes on new dimensions when the unexpected forces of nature clash with the existing structures of our society. What was believed to be forever, melts away in the c

A 20 minute documentary which details the experience of Lee, now in his 80s, when the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The film is told through Lee's eyes as he remembers where he was, and how it affected him afterwards. The film uses archive footage against modern day shots of Hiroshima to