The Sketch

The Sketch 2023

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Upon his arrival in Paris, filmmaker Tomas Cali immerses himself in learning French, as well as the language of sketching. In an art studio, he meets transgender life model Linda Demorrir, who helps him to connect with himself and his new city in a profoundly different way.

2023

Dam$els of Luxury

Dam$els of Luxury 2024

1

Amanda's stoner slumber party is put to a halt when one of her guests is nowhere to be found.

2024

Phantasia

Phantasia 2024

8.00

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to be the first cinema screening. Thus, both cinema and radiography fall within the scopic regime inaugurated by modernity. The use of X-rays on two sculptures from the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum generates images that reveal certain elements of them that would otherwise be invisible to our eyes. These images, despite being generally created for technical or scientific purposes, seem to produce a certain form of 'photogénie': they lend the radiographed objects a new appearance that lies somewhere between the material and the ethereal, endowing them with a vaporous and spectral quality. It is not by chance that physics and phantasmagoria share the term 'spectrum' in their vocabulary.

2024

The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox

The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox 2022

8.00

The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), whose creation was intended to revolutionize the animation industry.

2022

reMemBer2.human

reMemBer2.human 2023

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In an indeterminate future, forbidden memories challenge a database containing all human memories. An experimental cinematic search between past and future, fiction and fact, Prishtina and Tirana. The future, a glitch.

2023

In Ictu Oculi

In Ictu Oculi 2020

8.50

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-made decay. In the blink of an eye 66 years pass by and a savings bank replaces a church.

2020

LAND

LAND 2013

8.00

LAND is a fluid series of formal land animation experiments based upon the imprint of landscapes in various locations and intuitive interpretations of those movements. Shot in New York, Thimble Islands Bear Island, Connecticut, Armstrong Redwoods, Sonoma County, California, Hastings, England. note* (part of the EYE Filmmuseum Permanent Collection)

2013

A Short Vision

A Short Vision 1956

6.40

The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.

1956

Functional Block Diagrams

Functional Block Diagrams 1970

10.00

A synthesis of sound and movement; colourful characters dance and move in repetitive patterns to percussive and melodic elements. A combination of motion and music that is hypnotic and beautiful. At first it feels structured and orderly but as more elements are added becomes quixotically expressive.

1970

Enough of Myself

Enough of Myself 2023

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Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? One day I decided to ask myself this question and I have been struggling to put the answer together ever since. “Enough of Myself” is my visualization of this process. When I finally had the headspace to consider my own emotions, it turned out to be a lot harder than I had thought. When you start to examine your own thoughts and patterns, the digging doesn’t stop. You keep digging deeper and finding new connections that you might have preferred stay hidden. But to ignore these things is to give in to them. Growth requires a certain level of vulnerability, not just towards others but towards yourself as well. To grow beyond those negative patterns, you need to look them in the eye first. In my film I tried to capture this emotional process in an array of animations. I hope that I haven’t just captured my own emotional process, but some deeper universal emotions as well.

2023

Secret

Secret 2020

8.00

A family pod of three dolphins navigates decay as an inevitable register while also having a secret ascension to a higher ground.

2020

Ambient Chaconne

Ambient Chaconne 2019

6.00

A time-lapse animated meditation on geothermal energy, erosion, seismic activity and magma. Shot above the Yellowstone Caldera and amongst the Bryce Canyon hoodoos, the film explores how they connect these past cataclysms to the present endangered environment within the sixth mass extinction and future threats to an ecosystem already in collapse. The musical accompaniment, composed and performed by Pauline Kim Harris, is based on a reimagining of the Chaconne from the Partita No.2 in D minor (BWV 1004) by Johann Sebastian Bach.

2019

Taco Monde

Taco Monde 2005

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"An animated absurdist exploration of North American popular culture and fast food. Made for the 5th anniversary of the Bookmobile project." - Cartune Xprez

2005

White Tendons

White Tendons 2023

2.00

A lost traveler encounters a talking clown puppet that won’t stop looking at a mysterious orange light.

2023

gylden load

gylden load 2007

1

A load of Halloween monsters freak each other out in a strobing cacophany.

2007

Anthropic Principle

Anthropic Principle 2016

6.00

arc of the natural world’s evolution from the primeval environment to the Anthropocene and back again premiered in program Death is Green at the Whitney Museum of American Art part of Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016 organized by Chrissie Iles

2016

Dwell With Me

Dwell With Me 2018

7.50

Jack O’ Lantern folktale about the origin of the Will-o’-the-Wisp retold through a haunted doll’s mind’s eye.

2018

Cymatic Cocoon

Cymatic Cocoon 2007

6.00

This film explores cymatics and telepathy among twins

2007

The Doldrums

The Doldrums 2024

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A group of partygoers consider what awaits them after death.

2024