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Fire as a metaphor, and a worn out linguistic failure, the dead metaphor. Aristotle said, in the Poetics, “Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else; the transference being either from genus to species, or from species to genus, or from species to species, on the grounds of analogy” Metaphor here can only give way to the real. Felt experience, phenomenological reality seem to be all that is left when grappling a flame. And what is written, in letter and image, seem to go beyond what can ever be spoken and heard.

In East Rome, at the Forte Prenestino, the amorous "we" expands and becomes politically infinided. Occupied and self-managed for more than thirty years, "polis" is here poetry of signs.

Detective Conad is investigating suspicious events regarding an Art Gallery and the paintings of the mysterious artist "The Rapture".

"Solo No" is a film with which the author, Lucilla Mininno, through the two protagonists, and everything that surrounds them, addresses the theme of making Art today, of the extreme resistance that artists of all ages and past and of every field, from theater, to cinema, to contemporary art. The theater that contains the work and acts as its setting is a place of the soul, the essence of the art the author wants to talk about.

Fund managers such as BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and Fidelity are the new players of the financial world: they are not locusts, instead each one is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. They emerged after the last financial crisis of 2007 and are neither banks nor hedge funds and flourish in a practically regulation free zone. They can also best be described as shadow banks. The new players in the financial markets have taken over monetary policy. No one regulates them, neither national governments nor the Public.

"We Entered Through the Chimeline" explores folklore, using its strangeness to construct fictions and speculative futures that offer points of resistance to our present. The film focuses upon Ruth L. Tongue who was a folklorist and a self-proclaimed ‘chime child’. In her position as a chime child Ruth believed that she had the magical ability to collect songs that no one else could, leading many folklorists to read her work as fictional. The film draws from these unreliable narratives and amplifies their affective qualities to create new and wonky fictions that unfold throughout the film. The work is filmed on 16mm film and utilises film’s alchemical qualities. Light flares become moments of transformation that support the magical acts within the narrative.

Childfree, not childless. That is how Linda, a young filmmaker, sees herself and her future. For her it has been clear since her early teens that she won’t become a mother, but it is first now that she “comes out from the closet”, travels back to Finland and explains this to her friends and family. But why is it still such a tabu, especially for a woman, to not dream of a family with kids?

Baptiste is twenty-eight years old, twenty-five of whom have passed in apnea, in an unknown suffering. Suddenly memories of rape resurfaced. He was 4 years old when his lifeguard stole his childhood in a municipal swimming pool. Rather than ignore and survive, Baptiste decides to face and live. Then begins an intimate quest, in the depths of her vulnerability, to piece together her hidden past and extricate herself from this nightmare. She will lead him, three years later, on the track of the aggressor.

In 2009, while sculptor Alberto Giacometti’s ratings beat records in the art market, an affair erupted in Germany revealing the existence of more than a thousand Giacometti counterfeits, hidden in a warehouse in Mainz. For 10 years, two German merchants and a Dutch forger managed to sell hundreds of fake sculptures, some of which were even exhibited in museums. A German investigator, a private detective in Dutch art, a French sculpture expert and the forger himself, take turns telling us this incredible story as we discover the fascinating and tortured life of Alberto Giacometti.

Critically and with a great deal of openness, six Parisians ponder how they perceive their place in the public space of the metropolis. The mosaic of stories, from an older trans activist’s experience to the encounters of a young queer artist with a handicap, brings a very direct and sincere insight into the lives of LGBTQ+ people in France today.

Following animator JoAnne Salmon's story, from being 1 in 50,000 babies born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, to currently living her dreams as an animator.

Villa Dorada junior soccer school, in the Nueva Esperanza community, in the Petare neighborhood, the largest in Latin America. Impact on the community narrated by its promoters. An example of local development

Self shot in public using an iPhone, "Personal Shopping" follows Jewish Princess Becky's search for the perfect dress for her Bat Mitzvah. Parents Mervyn and Gaye try to manage the situation with the personal shopping assistant who has to deal with this grotesque drag family. This outlandish, improvised film shamelessly presents a queer version of a Jewish family from North West London.

Four boys from Leeds, England dreamt of this day for over a decade. Now, in the peak of their mid (not late) 20's, they embark on the most famous commute planet earth has to offer. They laugh. They Cry. They fall out. They make up.

Parts 4 to 6.

Animated by his reflections on identity, 2Fik fights prejudices and stereotypes by imaging his transformed appearance in multiple ways.

Surrealist experimental & silent short film made by film students.

Ancient History Documentary

Show One from RIPTIDE Wrestling's 'Bank Holiday Wrestling' on the 26th August 2019 at the Brighton Open Air Theatre.

Between 2013 and 2015, three princes became the leaders of the Persian Gulf's main oil monarchies: Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This new generation of sovereigns, some of the richest and most powerful on the planet, has imposed a new way to govern, between violence, repression and ego wars.

Mother Hanabi can be whatever he wants to be on the ballroom floor. A queen. A monster. A champion. We follow Hanabi as he gets ready to walk the floor at a kiki in the heart of the Parisian voguing scene and learn about his own journey on the way.

One summer afternoon, two sisters squabble while eating half a watermelon.

This is the story of a guy who's gonna die - Maybe.

From an mediterranean paradise to an exotic. From a mother to a daughter. Easter traditions. The idyll overturns.

A man returns to his childhood home to confront his past.

About one of the Tarkovsky's keyshots, the inner crisis and the doubts and thoughts about faith and form.

About the new novel « Sérotonine » by Michel Houellebecq with a first edition of 500 000 copies for the French, German, Italian and Spanish market.

Idling follows the lives of the artist's game avatars when the player is away from the keyboard. In a vast array of third-person open world games, the characters are idling in their unique ways. As the clips transition through a day and night cycle, the avatars' stillness extends the focus onto the virtual environment and the behavior of NPCs (non-playable characters), resulting in a meditative setting for the observation of the seemingly self-governing virtual worlds that seem to never cease activity whether or not anybody is watching.

It’s been 10 years since Catfish and the Bottlemen uploaded to BBC Music Introducing and what a ten years it’s been. From throwing demos on stages, rocking up and performing wherever they saw a crowd to platinum sales and headlining festivals. Watch the band in conversation with Radio 1’s Jack Saunders as they share their top 10 moments so far.

In the curious city of Crato, near the Chapada do Araripe, a young geologist goes up the river to unravel the mysteries behind the stories told by his grandmother. Then begins a journey in search of answers from which the adventurer will not return the same.

In 1950 in Paris, two shop mannequins in a newly reopened fashion boutique come magically to life. Due to their limited range of movement there is always a distance between them. Nevertheless their affection for each other blossoms into love.

Susanna Reid explores the murder of 8-year-old schoolgirl, Sarah Payne.

‘The Memor’ is exploring the future of memory. Enter a memory archive containing replicas from Earth’s deep past through to its post-anthropocene future.

Holding a baby, holding someone, holding something, holding faith are spaces of comfort felt within embodied gestures of communion.

Opossum Resilience is inspired on a series of encounters and interviews with a Zapotec female land defender. This place-based fabulation grounded in the valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, bastardizes Mesoamerican myths around four figures: a Hill, an Agave, an Opossum and Lady Reed. Lady Reed is a mythical Mixtec character who helps the opossum to cut the agave leaves in order to get its sugary alcoholic sap. Opossum Resilience overlaps the time of creation with a contemporary socio-environmental conflict around the imposition of a mining project in an Indigenous Territory. It summons the powers of festivity and inhebriation; and imagines an opossum providing an activist with the mythical powers to play dead and then revive.

An unexpected accident leaves Henrique unconscious, his mother takes him from the emergency room to the hospital. However, he will soon discover that the Fusilao game could become a metaphor for what is lived day to day in the corridors of a hospital in Venezuela.