This is the first non-fiction film to document, through real footage, the stories of children seeking help — and finding self-rescue — amid psychological and emotional struggles. Through intimate, unfiltered moments at schools, in families, and inside hospitals, the film captures the children’s interactions with teachers, parents, and doctors. Over the course of five years, the director — a veteran journalist — immersed herself in classrooms, medical institutions, and social organizations, conducting hundreds of interviews with children, parents, educators, and mental health professionals. Drawing from tens of thousands of real cases and records, she uses documentary cinema to explore the urgent question: how can we better understand and support children in their journeys of growth, care, and education?
The call is coming from inside the house (and also inside Mel's head). A spine-tingling mix of camp, chaos, and catharsis — "Will I Survive the Night?" asks what’s scarier: monsters or your own mind?
An experimental film exploring the dissonance between the romanticization of natural landscapes and the reality of a technological and modern world. Filmed in the forests and fjords surrounding Oslo, Norway, this film juxtaposes idyllic, untouched, “natural” landscapes with moments from my day to day life in the cityscape of Oslo and cyberspaces online in order to challenge notions of Norwegian romanticism and nationalism in relation to nature. Made by screenprinting iPhone footage and found videos onto strips of 16mm film with acrylic and bleach, then combining the screenprinted frames with 16mm filmed footage of Norwegian forests.
Inspired by Bill Brown and Thomas Comerford’s Chicago Detroit Split (2005), Ochlockonee Split deploys unslit double 8mm film to traverse the span of Ochlockonee Bay on Florida’s gulf coast. A sonic collage of local field recordings and a handheld, malfunctioning camera capture a fragmented portrait of the estuary at low tide—where the boundaries between land and sea, life and death, growth and decay and our own sense of spatial orientation briefly collapse across the brackish water held between duelling images.
Split Horizon is an optically printed 16mm impressionistic handmade film. Using found home movies and travel films from the 1960s, I respond to the material through collage, painting and abstraction directly onto film, aiming to create a psychological traversal across a vast unknown. Landscape acts as a basis for exploration, and characters emerge and descend, representing the self or the other. The onscreen horizon is often literally split; the characters and places become a mirror for one another, meditating on our own ability to contain multiple versions of self, identity and internal narratives about our own stories, paths and histories.
Anomalies in a landscape is a film in four tableaux—four audiovisual landscapes that unfold in all their strangeness. Spices, leaves and local seaweed reveal and imbue with their hues this film shot and developed on the banks of the Magtogoek/St. Lawrence river.
Sandia is an exploration of the multiple facets of the Sandia mountain range located in New Mexico. It reveals the mountain’s cold and hostile peaks and slopes in contrast to the warm and arid desert at its base. Aesthetically, the digital image is altered and mystified by techniques reappropriated from the tradition of experimental films, such as frame by frame printing, painting, collage and scratching.
An author finishes one book and plans another, aiming to convey her disillusionment with common understandings of time. An interleaved puzzle-box collage of literary and cinematic echoes, amid fluid landscapes of a western coast.
This thought-provoking documentary reveals the consequences of selling and exposing your identity online and explores how virtual relationships impact real-life ones.
What do you see when you listen to the radio? What do you hear when you look at the image of water? Like a crossword, this film is made up of a series of questions and answers that, viewed from a distance, seem chaotic and meaningless, but put into relation to each other become simple truths.
In a heartfelt journey of self-discovery, 18-year-old Shehab, a dreamy teen torn between his ambition to become a psychology teacher and his struggles with communication, must confront his insecurities and re-evaluate his confidence as he navigates the challenges of adolescence and the fictional worlds he cherishes.
After hundreds of kilometers of walking, Greta, used to being on her own, is hosted by a family in Transylvania, where, through folk dance, she confronts her greatest fear: giving up control.
A young nationalist and AUR (Alliance for the Union of Romanians) supporter goes to visit his friends in Bucharest, to convince them to go to the December 1st Parade. During the evening, the group of friends have discussions about the political situation in the country and get drunk. The next morning, none of them make it to the parade.
After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a queer family leaves Moscow in a hurry and finds themselves in revolutionary Sri Lanka. Amid the search for a new home and the struggle to stay together, questions of identity and belonging emerge — could this be their lucky break?