Flytipping Digital Waste is a short film composed of nocturnal fly-tipping sites, sliced with computational intelligence and predictive technology. Driven by automation, advances in technology and the resulting ethical consequences, the film captures waste, simulates speculative waste, and simultaneously creates digital waste, as remnants of footage have been dumped across social media platforms.
A defiant, weird, DIY lament on not keeping calm in toxic times. A 60-year-old woman (the filmmaker) confronts over consumption and AI-fuelled misogynistic ageism with deadpan slapstick, a sculptural costume and an intricate, animated collage of bar-codes. A frenetic performance of striped, coded beings enmeshed in a system that’s of their own making, yet out of their control. Ambiguities and interference patterns are embraced, as is the contradiction of the toxic and the sublime, the comic and apocalyptic. Originally conceived as a live performance, this is a collaboration with composer Matt Rogers and The Something Puffs.
Goro, who runs a detective agency, has no clients and is supported by his boyfriend, Kunihiko. Kunihiko, who works at a market research company, is relentlessly pursued by the company's president, Takuji. Eventually, Goro is offered a job as an undercover investigator, and he uses his detective skills to earn high praise. However, as his income increases, he becomes addicted to entertainment and his laziness becomes more apparent. Meanwhile, he has a relationship with a mysterious man named Mamoru whom he meets at a gay bar, and their actions at a hotel are secretly filmed. When Takuji questions Kunihiko about his declining performance at work, he is instead seduced, and a small camera is installed in the president's office. Betrayal and desire become intricately intertwined, and Kunihiko's desire to protect his lover finds himself caught up in an organized conspiracy.
A visual celebration of queer and trans joy, embodied, defiance and subversion that highlights well-known figures from the San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ+ community.
Film version of Boris Eifman’s ballet, set to music by Beethoven and Mahler, which has been successfully performed on stage for more than twenty years. The choreographer turns to Paul I, one of the most enigmatic figures in Russian history. Confining the production’s timeline to his time as heir to the throne, Eifman depicts Paul’s fate as the tragic confrontation between an extraordinary yet emotionally fragile personality and a hostile world.
Former punk rock musician and party-goer Dima “Spike” reunites with friends to visit the graves of key figures from Pskov’s informal music scene of the 1980s and 1990s. However, locating these burial sites proves challenging. As they wander in search of a deceased lover, they drink and reminisce about their youth at the site of Dima’s own symbolic grave.
A teenage girl has a strong affection for her friend's dentist, and gradually she is forced to choose between her dental health and the heart that beats for him.
A desperate father, overwhelmed by the stress of his daughter’s critical illness in the hospital, struggles to find a way to afford her treatment. One night, driven by need, he agrees to give a stranger a ride in exchange for money.
In the process of tectonic formation, the plates fold and rise, creating mountain ranges. Cerro Blanco in Putaendo is a geographical accident. Cinema is another geographical accident.
Bruce, a young theatre director, is desperately trying to rehearse the perfect birthday only to realize that the unexpected cannot be avoided in his play nor in his life.
Film version of the provocative stage play of the same name about a sexy actor who enters into a shady deal for a one-night stand, hoping to outwit the other party.
“Death does not have enough time to kill everyone, so he chose the doctors as his messengers” (R. Nachman). The Breslov branch of Hasidic Judaism, to which the young couple Nati and Dana belong, identifies with this saying. However, when their daughter Tehila suffers from kidney failure, Dana is forced to embark on a journey to find a cure for her daughter, choosing between relying solely on her faith or betraying everything she believes in to listen to the voices of science, technology, and medicine, which are completely foreign to her world.
Queer, Chechen, Kurdish, four of them with Down Syndrome: a dance collective of disabled and non-disabled performers is about to premiere at a theater festival. Then, of all things, a soloist sprains her foot, putting both the premiere and the collective’s future in jeopardy. Everyone in the ensemble knows what is at stake: the cultural sector is merciless, the clock is ticking, and in no time at all, you’re out of the picture. The dancers must come up with a creative solution rather than sinking into the abyss of personal sensitivities.
Robin visits Ned in Vienna, only to discover that the larger-than-life friend he used to idolize has become more obnoxious and downright offensive over the years. A night on the town puts the two men's friendship to the test as Ned breaks more than a couple of rose-tinted spectacles.