Winter of the Climate-Haunted Globe

In this short animation, a polar bear must try his luck finding a job in the big city when the last of his Arctic ice environment disappears. It's hard fitting into the human world, however, so this bear finds a more creative solution to his predicament. This film was made as part of the 8th edition

in development Acoustic Ocean (working title) is an artistic exploration of the sonic ecology of marine life in the North Atlantic. Located on the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway, the video centers on the performance of a marine-biologist diver who is using a life-size model of a submersible equi

Collaging appropriated footage with original imagery, Water once ruled collapses the past, present and future into a single repeating loop. Linking the introduction of satellite imagery with the colonization of our own as well as other planets, the video considers water – and the lack there of

Faced with rising sea levels, three New York City neighborhoods are purchased by the government, to be demolished and permanently returned to nature. They are the first communities in the city to undergo a 'managed retreat' from the waterfront, as a response to climate change. Over the course of a y

An experimental scifi documentary focusing on the question of what will remain visible and what will be left to tell if humans vanish from the world, from the image. Landscapes and architecture become mummified relics of a former human presence.

Thermopower explores the biological concept of thermoregulation across mammals and machines. It introduces the American pika (Ochotona princeps), a small mountainous relative of rabbits and indicator species for the climate crisis, as a frame through which to articulate how thermoregulation affects

Ancient, beautiful, fragile, vulnerable yet somewhat resilient, corals have inhabited out planet for hundreds of millions of years. Scientists have been studying them for decades but there is still so much to learn about these remarkable creatures. Using groundbreaking cinematographic techniques tha

Wind Should Be Heard Not Seen takes us on a lyrical journey through countries and cultures, connected by an unlikely foe: dust. Originating in the deserts of Western China, gigantic dust clouds rise, engulfing everything in their path. Blowing across the globe, the film rides the winds of our changi

Sisters Carmelina and Flora Ramos Garcia, both in their late 50s, have been growing some of the world's best coffee in the Western Highlands of Guatemala for over 30 years. But over the last five years, climate change-related impacts including coffee leaf fungus and severe drought have decimated the

Liquid Solid Liquid Solid is a collaborative film between Nicky Assmann and Joris Strijbos in which they explore the cinematic qualities of a freezing soap film. Liquid Solid came forth after attending a residency at the Biological Research Center in the sub-Arctic region of Finland. During this res

A woman fishing in turbid waters, a suffering nature, the broken chant of the muezzin, all linked by a thin black line.

An impending storm is announced through the public speakers of a tropical city in "Echo Chamber"

A Tasmanian tiger wanders around in his zoo enclosure. A glacier is slowly melting. Facing its predicted disappearance, nature exerts its fury, bursts over the frame and resists its extinction by transformation.

Has Iceland always been a treeless land? Can any forests grow on this island of glaciers and volcanos? The film responds to these questions by telling a story of the forestry in Iceland. It explains why considering the genetic aspects of seeds, cuttings and seedlings is key for resilient forests in

'The Sweet Stench of Sulfur' blends documentary, historical, and fictional elements by merging mythical and apocalyptic components into what seems like fragments of a dream. It examines human interaction with nature and how nature reclaims itself through natural disasters. The film was shot at the D

In coastal Colombia, a mother teaches her daughter how to swim so that she may go to the mangroves and harvest the piangua shellfish with the other women in the village.

One day the sun turned black. White people must pigment themselves or die. A daughter does. Her father refuses.

In an ultra-connected society where electromagnetic waves have invaded almost every space, three people suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity talk about survival in a world that seems increasingly inaccessible to them.

An alternative reality scenario where a group of animals has become organised and are committed to making themselves heard by humans, guerrilla style.

The Aral Sea in Central Asia was once one of the four biggest lakes in the world. Today, it has largely disappeared. The lake was drained as a result of various irrigation projects initiated by the former Soviet Union. In the beautifully shot Zhalanash , we only see the remains of a once flourishing

An examination of the natural textures of the world and their changes over the course of one year.

The concept of sila —a term that encompasses weather, balance, consciousness—frames a story in the world's northernmost inhabited town of Greenland. Here, a tiny community of Inuit subsistence hunters and a team of polar scientists bear witness, in different ways, to the transforming env

The Imperial Valley represents one of California´s most important regions of industrial agriculture. Corporate agricultural production interests have been able to successfully cultivate and exploit this geological part of the Sonora desert through a gigantic irrigation system fed by the Colora

By and large humans tend to create narratives about themselves, then often make great effort to conform reality to that narrative. This was not a threat to planetary survival 10,000 years ago when we were scattered in small bands worshipping local deities and relying on nearby gathered foodstuffs wi

salarium [latin] - "salary, stipend, pension," originally "salt-money, soldier's allowance for the purchase of salt," noun use of neuter of adjective salarius "pertaining to salt" Departing from the etymological derivation of both "salary" and "soldier" from "salt", the film "Salarium" captures the

This devilish horror art-doc elucidates the mysterious link between evil and the infamous Santa Ana Winds through a collection of visual allegories and testimonials from denizens of the deserts. The "Red Wind" originates inland and blows through the coastal Southern California. Legend has it that th

A personal perspective on coming home after nearly a decade abroad and finding that something is off in the familiar paradise. A warning that profound change is coming. Change that will influence future generations. In 10 years everything changes...

I shot a film through one year in the virgin forest Aokigahara Jukai on the bottom of Mount Fuji. Walking in the ocean of trees all alone, I sometimes got the feeling of being watched. At those moments, I put my camera into the direction of the "watcher." It's like I wasn't shooting the ocean of tre

The forests of Wayqecha, Peru rely on moisture from clouds to sustain themselves but climate change is moving that cloud layer higher every year. Plant ecologist Dan Metcalfe is in the midst of a bold experiment: by eliminating the cloud layer from a portion of the forest, he is attempting to see wh

In a recycling plant in the North of France, the workers join to sing in the choir, and even trucks join them and make almost a ballet. From the functioning of the prodigious machines up to the manual labour of sorting, the film shows the process of recycling.

Salt: trace, absence of water, the passage of time, invading epidemic, living cemetery. Water: manoeuvre, absolute value, fertility, rhizomes, chance. Cotton: corruption, economic issues, hydrophily, desertification. The world has become a vast dried out planet, where the growing of cotton, overexpl

"Invisible Blanket" is based on real events and publications of 1950s when the first climate change scientists started to voice their concerns in major US magazines and newspapers. Their predictions turned out to be rather accurate, yet 'unheard' for more than half of a century...

Octopus is an experimental, poetic and psychedelic journey about the passage from life to death. Completely shot with a GoPro camera in Bocas del Toro, Panama, Octopus tells the story of a mourning experience portrayed through the drowning of a being who in abandoning reality, leaves the earth and t

Dust surrounds us endlessly. We fight a Sisyphean battle with it in our homes. It makes us sneeze. What could be more mundane? But those tiny specks actually have astonishing power. This 25-minute documentary film takes you on an eye-opening journey with dust from the microscopic to the global scale