a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen
Social & External
History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.
After his wife Amelia suffers an aneurysm that leaves her bedridden and slowly dying, police officer Carter Summerland searches for a way to revive her. He's approached by Wesley Enterprises pioneering a new program to extend life through robotics, they get caught in a public debate over human’s relationship with technology and her right to exist.
A young couple with conflicting desires for intimacy attempt to celebrate their one-year anniversary.
Ezra (M19) and Awan (F19) are two melancholic teenagers who one day meet by chance in the Library. In their meeting, they both feel they have the same memories and speculations. In the memories and speculations created between the two of them, they are lost in feelings of love in their minds. Those thoughts make them feel the complexity of love that they have never felt before.
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
petal blower
Experimental documentary that poetically exposes the reality of public transport in the city of Curitiba.
The main morality is the chronic desire for rest Within the historians, filmmakers, astronomers and the bread Which once was dough front to back Relationship stops along the way You are not a wax-work in a glass Become the concept of freedom Freedom exists and must bring fruit The universe glancing for purchase reasoned
Two men on a boat traverse unknown waters.
"If I can't abandon you, then how can I save you?"
This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and into recovery.
Its production seems like a game: throwing a Super 8 camera, turned on and recording, from what was, at that time, the tallest building in Caracas. The film films the shots of its own accelerated fall, a succession of chromatic shots that cannot be identified either in terms of what is “recorded” in each one (windows, columns, walls, sky or floor) or in its own formal configuration as an image (color, composition, shapes or figures). What is perceived and apprehended is the impotence of vision – of perception – to distinguish this extreme and exhausting mobility, this vertigo of “free fall.”
Grappling with the complexities of mental health and trauma in a digital age that feels isolating and overwhelming, a young person embarks on a surreal journey of self-discovery, navigating the raw truths of adolescence in an attempt to find a place in the world.
A compilation of TV news about black culture.
A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.
A nuclear family sits in front of the television. The phone rings.
A man sits in his living room, doing absolutely nothing while morning arrives.
