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52 movies and shows
Speechless: The Polar Realm
Fri, 01 May 2015
Beautifully filmed by New Zealand nature photographer Richard Sidey over the past decade around the polar regions, Speechless: The Polar Realm is a visual meditation of light, life, loss and wonder at the ends of the globe. This is the second film in Sidey’s non-verbal trilogy which is comprised of: - Landscapes at the World’s Ends (2010) - Speechless: The Polar Realm (2015) - Elementa (2020)
FEAR
Fri, 25 Oct 2024
A man struggles to live a normal life after an intruder begins stalking his every move.
Al Basha
Mon, 01 Nov 1993
A police officer finds himself worthless as he soon realizes there's no way he could put an end to a businessman associated with running a prostitution ring.
A Fugue
Thu, 04 Jul 2019
A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.
Apocalypse
Sun, 22 Jan 2023
Elementa
Sat, 04 Jul 2020
A black-and-white visual meditation of wilderness and the elements. Wildlife filmmaker Richard Sidey returns to the triptych format for a cinematic experience like no other.
Sonzai Zone
Sun, 16 Jun 2019
Sonzai Zone is a speculative fiction film on intimacy and loneliness after the normalization of ambient communication media. An unlikely encounter between Yún and Souvd takes place in a near-future where social interactions are largely based on the mediation of human presence, known as ‘Sonzai-kan’. Shifting between XR games, Immersion Arcades and spatial home displays, their insidiously orchestrated relationship escalates into extreme idealization. Meanwhile, Souvd’s ex-girlfriend Ntzumi launches into undercover investigation.
Subsurface
Fri, 04 Aug 2023
Trapped and alone, a young man must confront the pain he's ignored when he finds himself face-to-face with consequence.
Candle
Thu, 30 Sep 2021
Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining fragments she tries to make amends with her spirit before her remaining fragments either decay or create.
The Chairs
Wed, 06 Dec 2023
A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs.
A Bold Voyage
Fri, 10 May 2024
A tragic story of a musician taking a bold voyage in the pursuit of creation, ambition, and need. Letting life choose for him, as part of the art itself and coming to terms with his decisions.
Lake
Mon, 30 Dec 2019
Lake gazes down at a still body of water from a birds-eye view, while a group of artists peacefully float in and out of the frame or work to stay at the surface. As they glide farther away and draw closer together, they reach out in collective queer and desirous exchanges — holding hands, drifting over and under their neighbors, making space, taking care of each other with a casual, gentle intimacy while they come together as individual parts of a whole. The video reflects on notions of togetherness and feminist theorist Silvia Federici’s call to “reconnect what capitalism has divided: our relation with nature, with others, and our bodies.”
Windham Hill: Western Light
Sun, 01 Jan 1984
Filmed during the months of June and August 1984 in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Mesa Verde National Park and the Navajo Nation. This program reveals scenes of the lushness of California's summer accompanied by the music of Windham Hill artists, William Ackerman, Alex de Grassi, Mark Isham, Shadowfax, and Liz Story.
Midwinter Hue
Tue, 12 Dec 2017
A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and show a beautiful array of hidden colors. A poetic, meditative short film about letting go of the past and embracing the unknown future.
Telestesia
Fri, 29 Oct 2021
In the middle of the night, you never know who can be a witness of your decisions...
Bed & Breakfast
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After a feverish dream, a paralysed dreamer finds themselves trapped within a purgatory of their sleep, as they begin to fuse with their bed. The purgatory begins to refract the dreamers mind, as they are confronted with multiple incarnations of themselves struggling to awake. Bed & Breakfast is inspired by the neurodivergent experience of procrastination, and inertia. Questioning the nature of memory, identity, and the fabric of reality, by plunging you into the psyche of a paralysed dreamer where reality is far repressed.
Recollection
Fri, 12 Jul 2019
A recollection of East-African Asian displacement in the 1970s to an ambient score.