By the edge of a lake, two friends play a round of "Guess Where I'm Looking." J marks the point of her gaze with a push-pin, and S's sensitive skin reacts to the drawn line.
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Yoon So-lin
A short experimental animation by Jules Engel
A ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a complete state of entropy; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the Earth; a trap that captures us inside the voids of the screen of light: «That blank arena wherein converge at once the hundred spaces» (Hollis Frampton).
The history and myth of a ghost island off the SW African coast are told through a dystopian parable, in which a character undergoes brainwashing to escape the burden of memory in a world he no longer relates to.
A hearse cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells his story in this city marked by conflicts, violence and paradoxes. He remembers his childhood and the discovery of his sexuality.
The encounter of a wound, a body and a city results in the alteration of the whole.
Short experimental animation by Jules Engel
Two people attempt to connect over a great distance.
An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.
Exploring the conscious, the unconscious and the self, By Winds and Tides takes a deep experimental dive into the birth of an idea—how it takes shape, how it is released. An allegorical quest, the film combines images and words into a singular sigh.
"When Mollie's routine between a real and surreal gets interrupted by an uncalled visitor, the line between reality and dream blurs."
A story of Sim, a two-time Olympic gold medalist wrestler who has spent his life grappling with the ground. Haunted by monstrous floor, he reminisces, preaches, and worries.
An empty street. Smokers gather in their usual spot. Behind them stands a pale blue figure - human or ghost, no one can tell.
Here lies an old promise that cannot be fulfilled. A prophecy that has outlived its promised time endures, layered with ever more intricate and intense images. It whispers in changing voices - of time and space that cannot be reached.
Study of posters and graffiti on the walls of Paris, using ellipses, brief shots and quick camera movements. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.
"The film's title takes into account meanings and implication of the word 'chamber', as well as of the heart, intimate music, darkness, room, camera, prison, gun part...both empty and loaded. CHAMBER provided my conversion from painter to filmmaker." -JB
Experimental short animated film by Péter Molnár
Two kids' friendship is tested in a game of cards as a mysterious figure watches them from outside.
As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a fatal attraction to Zoe's brother.
Film producer Na-eun and director Yeong-tae are on the verge of shelving out cash for an adult film production. They're too busy blaming each other for the messed-up filming. Before another filming begins, Na-eun suggests Yeong-tae to become an actor himself and practice filming. Na-eun leads the shy Yeong-tae very skillfully. How far will the practice go...?
The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.
The story of a humiliating high school mishap from 1992 that sends the Impractical Jokers on the road competing in hidden-camera challenges for the chance to turn back the clock and redeem three of the four Jokers.
A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.
The maniacal baby of the Griffin family, Stewie, meets his future self. In doing this he discovers that his future image is not what he has anticipated because of a near death experience.
New York sportswriter Mack has spent years devising successful hook-up "plays" with her friends, but when she unexpectedly falls for one of her targets, she must learn what it takes to go from simply scoring to playing for keeps.
Three married women had always been dissatisfied sexually with their husbands, and Hyoji, who recently divorced due to her husband's erectile dysfunction. They gathered after a long time and had a drink complaining to each other, and they received a business card from an unidentified handsome man, saying, "Don't you want to play tteok pounding game?" The four of them head to the meeting place and meet suspicious agents who were waiting for them.
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies.
Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
Woody Woodpecker enters a turf war with a big city lawyer wanting to tear down his home in an effort to build a house to flip.
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Pacer Burton, a young man of mixed Kiowa and white heritage, is caught between two worlds as conflict erupts between Native Americans and white settlers in Texas.
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.