Regeneration

Walking up to the Berkeley Pit viewing stand in Butte, Montana is like experiencing a strange, sterile birth. You enter a long, white tunnel lit with fluorescent tubes. A woman's voice laid over innocuous country music echoes against the smooth walls. The recorded voice describes the history of this

Amy Karle is an artist who has always been fascinated with mysteries of the body. ( http://www.amykarle.com ) Her most recent work uses the building blocks of life: cells. As an Artist in Residence at Pier 9, Amy collaborated with Autodesk to create "Regenerative Reliquary," a sculpture consisting o

Mirrors takes us on a courageous journey inward toward the traumatic memories of a contemporary ballet dancer named Crimson. These memories are keeping her small, stuck, and far from participating in the joy of her own life. Each encounter reveals another source of her discontent and therefore bring

In NavelFable Mara Mattuschka subject herself to a second birth through endless pairs of tights. Her body struggles so hard and in such a deformed manner from out of the layers of nylon that the sheer struggle for survival becomes visible.

After a distressing abortion, Rosalie returns to her home village. She discovers her grand mother's house and garden in a state of neglect; her old friends her first love and his new girlfriend. She endeavours to maintain her course not without causing a stir...

A few days before her wedding, a young woman learns that her fiancé is accused of sexual assault. She goes to Haiti to confront the alleged victim

I am a botanist. It took me two years to complete this video. Two years of watching and analysing mesmerizing movements and metamorphoses of plants. We can describe them using the language of biology, mathematics, or physics, but I now know there might be another way too...

The slow metamorphosis of a man into machine.

The ancient myth of the phoenix, the legendary bird with the amazing power of self-regeneration, is reborn with a modern twist. In this animated adaptation of a story by Sylvia Townsend Warner, we follow Lord Strawberry's search for the fabled bird. He finds it in the deserts of Arabia and brings it

Becoming is a short film about the miraculous genesis of animal life. In great microscopic detail, we see the 'making of' an Alpine Newt in its transparent egg from the first cell division to hatching. A single cell is transformed into a complete, complex living organism with a beating heart and run

As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.

The documentary FtWTF is a precise encounter with the theme of gender transgression, whereby the gender border is crossed in the same direction each time: from a specific starting point (female/woman) to a temporarily open end point ("what the fuck"). The filmmakers portray six people who for differ

"My eyes are gone" is inspired by a real fact. After a traffic accident and the death of the woman he loved, Felix details the memories of his own rugged and sick body. His speech circumscribes a complex mental space constantly concerned by the obsession of organizing and staging his own disappearan

A young woman investigates her neighbour and his wildly boring running route.

Breaking the large and symmetrical with the small and singular; and vice versa—a principle continually applied in Josef Dabernig's art. Here, too, in the film Zlaté Piesky Rocket Launch , which as a whole, can be interpreted as an allegory of the world's (impossible to end) bipolarity.

The transmutation of mind and matter was a subject of research in the field of alchemy [Magnus Opus] and it continues nowadays through the sciences, which explore the nature of consciousness, the creation of A-life, synthetic and systems biology. 'The Pursuit of Anomalous Mind Habitats' is an attemp

Everything that is alive is hungry. A seed is hungry for light, a bird is hungry for flight, man is hungry for the touch of another. The seed of longing grows into what feeds us.

Featuring beautiful hand-drawn animations and interviews with leading stem cell scientists, STEM CELL REVOLUTIONS charts the history and scientific evolution of stem cell research - from the earliest experiments that first revealed stem cells in the body, to leading current scientific and clinical d

A new documentary explores the strange new world of the contemporary cyborg movement, and the people that add electronics to their body to decorate themselves or give themselves extra "senses."

Alex a young designer and a dreamer falls for his new neighbor Lili, a beautiful Asian girl. Too shy to approach her, Alex secretly observes her and quickly discovers her secret: Lili does not come from China but from far far away…

Arabidopsis thaliana juxtaposes the implications of injury, development and regeneration for plants, humans and cities, with a nod to one of the most popular plant model organisms in biology and genetics. Narrated by Selima Smith-Dell Cinematography by Toma Peiu & Luiza Pârvu Microscope imager

Siegfried A. Fruhauf´s Exterior Extended is a prime example of an artistic strategy whereby a maximum effect is achieved through the combination of a minimum of individual elements. A 35mm film with thirty–six photos on it suffices as starting material for a stringent study on the theme

Mosaic explores evolution in its natural and artificial forms — the deliberate and random modifications of an organism. As a mixed genre, science-driven anthology film, Mosaic is the first of its kind featuring ten visionary, international filmmakers and stories from the most influential scien

Traveling through the seas among the playful fish and jelly fish, a man slowly realizes that his surroundings are changing into a darker and bleaker environment. Life is quickly seeping away and only one of his companions is left among the ruins. He desperately tries to save it, but all is in vain u

Story of Flowers was originally conceived by Japanese artist Azuma Makoto as an educational tool to teach his young daughter about the life cycles of plants. In the animation, flowers bloom and birds and insects pollinate a plethora of thriving exotic plants. Below ground, as roots spread to anchor

Directed and Animated by Eric Leiser Original Score Jeffrey Leiser Regeneration is a film about transformation. Starting in a dark place the character reaches toward the divine and breaks into the world of the spirit. Through this act representing an outstretched hand we see that the Holy Spirit rep

A lonely man who lives and works at a train station for years, starts question his life and environment after a little mouse encounters his life. The mouse that becomes enemy for stealing his food, is perhaps the only living being who might be his true friend.

A wolf is taken down and brought back to the village as a trophey. But the animal is not dead and the bullet lodged in its skull and has repercussions on its psyche.

In the beginning, ground, and sky. Snails move on the axis of the naked world, during a slow ascension where the commonplace meets the supernatural. In what flow are these both familiar and monstrous creatures drifting? There is no answer, but the images haunt.

This short animation is a visual fantasy, a gripping tale that is "larger-than-life" in its themes: life, death and rebirth; creation and destruction; permanence and impermanence, spontaneity and control. Bold swoops of liquid colour surge with variations on Mozart's Requiem to a startling denouemen

'Herbarium' is a cinematographic observation based on the changes in the classification of plants. Going from classical taxonomy to genetic data-storage, Visser wonders what is left when the plant its separated from its physical features. What is a plant to us, without the sensation of smell, textur

A mother finds herself sinking into a domestic violent relationship, until an influx of emotions is awakened within her. 'Influx' is a poetic short film that sinks into the themes of domestic violence, alcoholism, and love. Inspired by Leslie Morgan Steiner's TED talk: 'Why domestic violence victims