Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong

Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong is a 35mm film that utilised and appropriates footage from a documentary Henry Moore exhibition in Hong Kong, through over-dubbing, painting directly onto the film and other gestures, Mok turns the material into an incendiary address to Hong Kong's youth. Intercut with newly filmed material creates, the film also functions as a personal diary of Mok's political activity throughout the 1970s.

Desplazamientos

Shadow Hunt

The Power of Perception

In this visual essay, author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas reflects on the recurring theme or perception in Dario Argento's filmography.

Andalucía entre el incienso y el sudor

A documentary essay that, through exclusively images, music and editing, aims to show a different image of the manipulated Andalusia that had been present on movie screens for many decades.

Touch Tissue Texture

It could be said that space is never just the absence of matter, but is somehow a step ahead of it. As such, it is the initial principle of what is emerging. The dancers and their movement are embedded in multiple layers of materiality such as texture, skin, air, floor, movement, sound in this poetic short dance film. Just as a membrane envelopes and defines the most basic structure of a cell, it also teaches us about the multi-directionality of our attention. The intelligence of boundaries/“membranes” as spaces of response, bring us a sense of containment, limits and at the same time, provide a doorway through which we turn towards the other.

Fashion Film

Created by Rafaela Andrade, this fashion film explores contemporary fashion compositions and urban aesthetics through striking architectural locations. Directed and filmed by Matheus Gallo, the visual narrative highlights the elegance and textures of the garments, blending detailed close-ups of accessories with monumental urban backdrops. Art directed by Fernanda Neves and styled by Bianca Farias, the project serves as a sophisticated visual portfolio celebrating a collaborative creative vision.

On the Sea

A film essay that approaches cinema as a water current, revisiting a body of previous essay films through the recurring image of water—rivers, seas, tides, and flows—to explore cinema as a fluid space of memory, movement, and transformation.

The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

A random apparition leads to the aquatic ape theory, an unproven evolutionary hypothesis that imagines an amphibious origin of humans. The idea of a certain origin is called into question, and if we cannot verify the past, on what do we base the future?

nostomanie

The Eternal Silence

An philosophical film assembled from archival NASA footage exploring humanity’s search for meaning in the silence of space.

Loving the Devil: Aging and Sexuality in La Strega in Amore

Video essay on the "The Witch" (1966) by author and academic Miranda Corcoran. Corcoran places the film within wider histories of witchcraft and witch imagery, including: Folklore and real-world witchcraft traditions, Witches as figures in popular culture, The film’s treatment of sexuality, femininity, desire, aging, and the supernatural, How those ideas illuminate Damiani’s unusual Italian Gothic film, centered on Sergio’s encounter with the mysterious Aura [Included on the Arrow Video "Gothic Fantastico - Four Italian Tales Of Terror" blu-ray box set.]

Nostalgia Becomes Necrophilia

A video essay on the film, THE THIRD EYE (1966), where author and filmmaker Lindsay Hallam examines the film’s psychological and Gothic dimensions—especially its patterns of jealousy, obsession, eroticism, death, and preservation. The essay considers how the movie’s visual style extends melodramatic and Italian Gothic conventions, rather than simply recounting the plot. [Included on the Arrow Video "Gothic Fantastico: Four Italian Tales of Terror" Blu-ray box set.]

The Book of All the Dead

Monumental experimental film cycle by R Bruce Elder. It consists of three „Regions”: „The System of Dante's Hell”, „Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)” and „Exultations (In Light Of The Great Giving)”.

The Grudge

A video essay by Kat Ellinger covering the transposition of the Hollywood revenge Gothic to Italy, the trope of the "wronged woman" including incarnations by Barbara Steele and other horror icons, and ties to similar narrative strands in Japanese folklore and cinema from Kwaidan to Ring.

Dalíland

In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.

Naqoyqatsi

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

I Am Heath Ledger

The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora

The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.

42 Up

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

Life in a Day

A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.

Black Is King

This visual album from Beyoncé reimagines the lessons of "The Lion King" (2019) for today's young kings and queens in search of their own crowns.

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.

Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me

After years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness. This uniquely raw and intimate documentary spans her six-year journey into a new light.

Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20

An inside look at one of the most anticipated movie sequels ever with James Cameron and cast.

Sturgill Simpson Presents Sound & Fury

In this anime visual album, a mysterious driver heads deep into a postapocalyptic hellscape toward a ferocious showdown with two monstrous opponents.

The Curse of the Dragon

A 1993 documentary film about Bruce Lee. The film includes interviews from some of his fellow students and opponents who worked alongside him in his movies.

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital revolution.

Vampir Cuadecuc

An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction and reality.

To Kill a Tiger

Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. His decision to support his daughter is virtually unheard of, and his journey unprecedented.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present... and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

All Day and a Night

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Fuck

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

A documentary on legendary movie-poster artist Drew Struzan.