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Made from footage captured at Brooklyn’s BAMcinemafest in June 2016 in which filmmakers were left alone in a hotel with a camera and a question: "Is cinema a dead language, an art which is already in the process of decline?" An homage to Wim Wenders’s documentary Room 666, in which the same question was posed to directors such as Steven Spielberg, Jean-Luc Godard, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016 serves as a revealing document about the current state of American independent film, as well as a provocative rumination about how we see and experience the world.

"Like a floating, drifting piece of ticker tape, the film makes its way across boroughs and time to explore New York City's many moods, from loud and relentless to grave and dreamy."

A man and a woman are compelled by a mysterious higher power to lose themselves in each other.

A feature-length documentary about the experience of a group of Brazilians who will remain for an uninterrupted year at the Comandante Ferra Antarctic Station (EACF), integrating the Brazilian Antarctic project linked to the Brazilian Navy. It is unique to the experience of these men and women who face, far from their families, the long and hard Antarctic winter, where temperatures on King George Island can reach below -25 ° C and winds over 100 km / h.

A short documentary set at George's Shoe Repair, a family-owned business in Portland, Oregon that has served the community for over 50 years. George is preparing to pass the store on to his son, Joshua, a former modern dancer. Mia, Joshua's young daughter, also learns the family trade.

Transitions are traditionally used for temporal or spatial transformations on the continuity of the film’s narrative. This work explores repetition and stretches micro-events of time and sound in transitions from found footage film, shots in-between. Being in-between, being right there, in the previous and the next shot at the same time, elsewhere and nowhere, nothing to consume, to experience nothingness only, its suggested to be aware of oneself and to experience the time passing, to confront consumption habits and expectations, anxiety and many pathological disorders of contemporary daily life.

Brutus, a young senator close to Julius Caesar, is persuaded by Cassius and other senior members to join the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar.

Released exclusively in Japan on Bluray and DVD, this move features a concert by the popular Japanese band Goose house.This was recorded on November 22nd, 2017 at Zepp Divercity in Tokyo.

A source of creation, omen of disaster.

Many Native American peoples share a belief that they emerged from the Earth. The Hopi, the westernmost group of Pueblo Indians, is one of these peoples. The Hopi origin story has it that Hopis used to live beneath the earth. When it came time to emerge into the world, that Hopi met Maasaw, Caretaker and Creator of the Earth, and promised him they would help take care of the world as a trade-off for staying. The sacred story of Hopi origins includes a covenant that Hopi peoples will be stewards of the earth. After making this promise, Pueblo Indians began a sacred quest, under Maasaw’s order, to find "center spaces" and settle, and populations marked their settlements with spiral insignia as they found them.

On March 6, 2017 Amazon banned more than 100 books about the Holocaust.

Winds of change turn the Wheel of Fortune in Tularosa, New Mexico. Downwind from the atomic bomb site, a man has built a Buddhist shrine to counterbalance the vortex of power and destruction, with a flower in his pocket.

Yukaric Fes'18 in Japan performed at Makuhare Messe on the 6th and 7th of October, 2018.

“A Florida Melancholy” is an experimental landscape film by filmmaker Eli Hayes, created from footage he shot during the summer of 2018 while struggling with severe depression in Tallahassee, Florida. Filming the natural surroundings during brief moments of relief, Hayes used his camera as a source of direction and emotional support throughout one of the darkest periods of his life.

Hotel President opens a multifaceted view to a centrally located four-star hotel in Berlin that is currently used to accommodate asylum seekers. The short film includes interviews with asylum seekers, whose thoughts are contrasted with portraits of presidents, prime ministers and other politicians who seem to be giving the asylum seekers a warm welcome to the “West”.

A short dance film to demonstrate the TrueMotion software we used to generate this video at 24FPS from a 120FPS master stereo capture with Arri Alexa XTs. Shown also in 3D at 24FPS and 60FPS for the most comfortable 3D viewing and to demonstrate use of a synthetic shutter for creative variations.

Six friends embark on a determined quest to climb, and then BASE jump 'The Lorax', a formidable climb on Frenchman's Cap in remote western Tasmania. Surrounded by some of the most pristine wilderness in all of Australia, they contend with extreme weather and rugged terrain, relying on each other's skills and humour to fulfill their mission.

After unfortunate circumstances, Manny, an aspiring musician, must decide between becoming the sole guardian of his uncle's daughter, Marisol, and pursuing his band’s tour of the U.S.

A mystical trip back in time to Native American legend and the mysterious Wendigo

Marillion prepares for their Royal Albert Hall performance.

The Prosecutors is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of three dedicated lawyers who fight to ensure that rape in war is not met with impunity. Filmed over five years on three continents, it takes viewers from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Bosnia and Herzegovina to Colombia on the long journey towards justice.

A journey of 8 meters becomes an epic odyssey, thanks to the inaccessibility of the New York City subway system.

In school, we learn to remember to live, but in life, we learn to forget to enrich living. Frozen from the film-propaganda, Let the student study (1962), by Jean Manzon, made against the student movement in the pre-coup-d'etat context, a frame is photocopied, stretched and submerged in the cave of time.

Amidst a bustling cityscape, a child pays a visit to a woman in a high-rise apartment. Inside, their interactions with each other, and with the outside world, becomes increasingly phantasmagorical.

A Pope, the Pill, and the Perils of Sexual Chaos

After Scarcity is a sci-fi-essay film that tracks Soviet cyberneticians (1950s-1980s) in their attempt to build a fully-automated planned economy, an attempt that finds traction today as a way of defying financialization. If the problem of socialism was time loss—too much bureaucracy, too much conversation, too many meetings—a socialism-on-speed, counting electricity plus statistics, could move past this limit. The film recounts the history of a moment in time when, against all odds, it seemed feasible to plan for the whole system at once—collective ownership of global resources with the programmed and networked efficiency of Wal-Mart.

A strip mall becomes a cosmic fractal.

In this experimental fashion film, a young woman enjoys a peaceful, secluded picnic before venturing into the bustling city.

The documentary captures Cassidy’s rising celebrity as a pop idol throughout the 1970s to his final months as he struggled with what was believed to be onset dementia. The film also follows Cassidy into the studio where he works to record one final album dedicated to his late entertainer father, Jack Cassidy.

A mother takes her minivan through an automatic car wash, drives home, scoops up the mail, pulls into the garage and kills herself. She leaves behind a husband (Dad), a daughter away at college (Riley), a set of teenage twins (Caitrin and Eli), and a dog (Leadbelly). Among the whitewashed fences, mailboxes, and manicured lawns, a despondent family deals with the drudgery of grief and their growing detachment to each other-- all through the eyes of their depressed dog, Leadbelly.

This documentary is by fans and for the fans, chronicling why John Carpenter's classic has stood the test of time. Bringing together some of the brightest voices from independent horror we will explore what makes the film so special. From the music, the mask to Michael Myers, everyone has their own take on Halloween, and why it is the blueprint for slasher horror and in our humble opinion, has never been bettered.

Sensuous portrayal of the traditional harvesting of bird’s nests, a particularly dangerous and breathtaking ritual performed twice a year by the Orang Sungai people, at a height of over 120 meters — going up the summit of Simud Putih or the “White Cave” of Gomantong, Borneo. Dangerous on the Way focuses more specifically on the ekstasis this ritual induces, that physical and mental state described in Greek philosophy as being “outside oneself.”

With no one else to turn to, Beth looks to her old boyfriend, Jason, to discuss an issue in her relationship.

A group of college students travel to a small and remote town situated on an exotic island; only to discover they are being hunted down by a powerful witch-vampire "hybrid" that seeks something in their possession.

The black female body, away from the exotifying gaze, in all its glory, power, and strength. With the use of spoken word, strong imagery, culture and history, SHE is an interdisciplinary manifesto which challenges the perceptions of the black female body and empowers those women who possess it to see the true beauty they hold.

A struggling actor in Los Angeles strives to make his dreams come true by booking an audition.

A summer path with an approaching storm. Recorded in France.

branches along the trail is from the Journal of Drifting Hours series. Drifting moments, lyrical passages, memory impulses, landscape studies and visual notations captured and edited in- camera on super 8 film.

Thousands of sheep and a lonely migrant worker contend with a relentless winter drought in the Great Basin desert.

Florida thriller short

Although Professor Alex P. Keating and his wife Olivia's marriage has hit a bit of a dry spell, his professional life could not be better. Based on the success of his self help book, How To Get Away With Cheating, he is in immediate negotiations for his own television show ala Dr. Phil, and the women around the college campus where he teaches are all over him. Every thing changes when a casual fling with a sultry yet unstable woman named Fabrae, who appears out of nowhere, finds out that Professor Keating is actually happily married. Now she wants revenge, against him and everyone protecting him, including his wife.

Several hours of unanswered texts and phone calls have everyone at a Christmas party wondering: where is Kim Bush? The answer is eventually revealed in this Southern Gothic holiday thriller with an all-female ensemble cast.

Unable to leave my apartment universe and attend the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Fest in Scotland, I sent along this digital stand-in instead, composed and commissioned as an introduction to Aftermath, a four-part, feature-length found footage bio-pic. Direct camera address is overlaid with in and outtakes from my movie archive. Inspirations from Audre Lorde and my brilliant friend theorist Laura Marks who explained her mirror-touch synaesthesia.

Jelena Maksimović and Dušan Grubin explore coming of age and masculinity in the township of Zemun in their joint directorial debut.

An exploration of the lifestyles of fundamentalist Christian American families across America.

Nothing is more relaxing than watching a campfire flicker at night. The crackling wood and orange glow will put you in a deep state of rest.

A rookie government agent attempts to hunt down his first UFO in order to earn the respect of his fellow agents.

A man faces a life-changing decision to make; one of the two choices that could make a huge impact to his life.

Film focuses on oboe player Linas. By spending together with him one day we get to know his daily routine, life story and worldview. The contrast between memories of growing up experience in Naujininkai district of Vilnius and working as orchestra musician shows a portrait of sensible, bright and unbroken person.

A letter transgresses the boundary of inside and outside, reflected in images of repurposed prisons in the Netherlands.

Artists like Robert Smithson, Donald Judd and Peter Hutchinson borrowed liberally from science fiction film and literature in their work. This collage treats the marvellous, seemingly indestructible, objects of mid-century science fiction cinema as artworks in their own right.

The story takes place during the Longvek era. Raj, a tycoon, and Tep Leak, his wife and pregnant with two kids, live in harmony until one fateful day.

A man who grew up without a father finds fulfillment in mentoring another.

Comedian Jaron Myers asks a girl he's never met (Reagan Drake) to be his date to his comedy show. And as a surprise to her, and the audience, there is a dinner table on stage where they had their first, unscripted, date in front of a live audience.

In the crime capital of the world, LAPD officer Morgan was having just another "regular" bad day in the line of duty. Or not.

Spooky friendship

Daniel, a brilliant chemistry teacher, is entangled between a vindictive friend and desperate drug dealer.

Witless bounty hunters Stokely and Carmichael try to win a horse so they might actually catch some criminals - but the old west is a wild and wistful place. Perfect for a couple of goofballs.

Join the Searching for Bigfoot field team – led by “The Godfather of Bigfoot” Tom Biscardi, as they get more than they bargained for when investigating the disappearance of a hiker and the mutilation of a couple deep in the remote Arkansas countryside. During their search, Tom and his team are led to a top secret nuclear testing facility and mutated creatures that reportedly inhabit the woods surrounding the compound. Along the way they gain the unwanted attention of unknown government agents who watch their every move as they search for the truth behind brutal deaths and strange disappearances that are rumored to involve a very large creature.