Tala Madani's paintings, deadpan and brushy scenes of fictive ritual create a grotesquery populated by dichotomies. Figures simultaneously innocent and nefarious, furtive and self-aware, or comical and violent float through a hazy pastel palette that seems to shine light through the vulgar comforts of bonding
Beneath the Light is about a silk scarf flowing and dancing through her magical world while she attempts to flee from evil spirits represented as dark clouds. The film is animated under camera with acrylic paint on canvas and the figures are choreographed to a dramatic Mozart piece.
One late summer evening at the nightclub “Båten Båten” in Umeå, Anna meets Nils. Nils is a 30-year-old DJ, while Anna, 23, works at a nursing home. They fall head over heels for each other, and soon Anna discovers she is pregnant. Suddenly, they are faced with the huge challenge of becoming parents.
A short film about creating a life that is joyful to live through the experience of transness. It’s about building community, breaking free of public perception, and cultivating the things in life that bring happiness. It's about how life is painful, but still so beautiful and precious nonetheless. These things can never be separated, but neither one can erase the other.
“I’m Fine” is a very personal story about dealing with depression, anxiety and the never ending healing journey. It is about every day fights to keep oneself above water, to reach stability.
Two cells befriend each other and explore the organism they inhabit. They grow together, until an accidental separation forces them to follow a different path. They continue to evolve and specialize, influenced by their respective experiences. When they finally meet again, it's to find that they have inexorably become incompatible.
With his video History of the Main Complaint (1996) serving as a backdrop, William Kentridge discusses how artists draw upon tragedy as subject matter for their work and how drawing itself can be a compassionate act.
One night, Pyjama awakens alone in his room, immersed in nostalgic thoughts. Suddenly, mysterious shadows appear and captivate him. His bed comes to life and carries him away in a strange and magical dance.
A family of four must live an everyday life while the world around them shatters during the armed conflict 2001. While the bombing is ongoing these two parents are in a constant dilemma, protecting and sheltering their children inside thefour walls of their home, as they beg to play in the sun, or allowing them to play and have a childhood, while they’re still young enough to be shielded by their innocence and ignorance. Whatever may happen, summer cannot stop its flow. As the watermelons grow ripe, the tobacco leaves dry and turn to gold, colonies of ants gather their food, the clock never stops ticking, and the bombs continue to fall around the mountain of Ljuboten.
Lucy Rose, a transgender woman, shares her journey of self-love and empowerment since starting hormone replacement therapy three years ago. The film is part animation, part documentary and part VHS archive footage.