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Fumi lives alone in a big city, longing for connection. Unexpectedly, a call from a sad stranger changes both their worlds.

2023 release

2023 release

The film opens with "Eve Clone" in Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man pose atop a tower, with the "Tower of Babel" behind. She transforms into a blue wireframe and begins moving her limbs to display her allure, traversing history into the digital era. Below, a blue wireframe city shifts, flips, and rotates in response to "Eve Clone's" movements and control. Eventually, "Eve Clone" leaps downward into the city streets, wandering like a ghost, searching and drifting, before finally returning to her original position atop the tower.

I always wanted to capture a farmer's feelings toward the corn he has grown for a lifetime in my films, so this is a compilation of footage I shot over twenty years, documenting the entire process from planting to harvesting corn.

2023 release

Haku, a 26-year-old Chinese student studying abroad, meets Rion, a 13-year-old girl who is a follower of a certain alien summoning ritual, on a suicide buddy recruitment website. When Haku finds out that Rion has run away from home, he invites her to his house. Rion suffers from bulimia, and binge eats and vomits almost every day. Every time she surprises Haku, she will whimsically lie about having eaten a cigarette, which worries Haku to death. As these exchanges continue, the relationship between the two becomes increasingly sour.

To You, in 2000 Years is a video art that explores the intersection of language, oppressive history, and the pursuit of freedom and soul. The work tells a personal experience where the director attempts to record memories, experiences, and contemplative moments that question existence, using film as a tool to create a series of events. Drawing inspiration from the book "The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth," it invites you to join in creating a Lao-Chaiyaphum dialect expression, narrating an ancient fable of tragic love between two individuals who consume bitterness, driven by an unattainable desire in this earthly realm

A world where the fluctuations of a woman's emotions intersect, a daydream seen between dreams and reality, and the start of a day that transforms into madness. A world made up of everyday shots invites experimental challenges using techniques such as collage, multiple exposures, and stop-motion photography, and the pieces connect to construct a unique worldview.

Here lies the haunting cries of spirits captured in villages facing adversity, abandoned villages lost to time, villages with tragic pasts, and cursed ghost towns. In an era where people and things concentrate in cities, these recordings reveal the lingering presence of souls. A terrifying collection of footage featuring sorrowful female spirits, vengeful ghosts filled with deep resentment, and multiple spirits attacking from all directions, guaranteed to leave a lasting trauma.

Story of an old tea house at the old village of Digu. What will happen to it at our moder times?

Between 2022 to 2023, the artist embarked on four filming trips into the Changbai Mountains and the upstream region of the Songhua River. She captured documentary footage of activities such as logging, hunting, ginseng digging, fishing, and more, using video mediums like 16mm film, digital camera, drone, and GoPro. Throughout this process, the artist not only experienced the changing seasons of nature but also encountered immense challenges posed by extreme weather conditions, particularly the harsh cold, which tested her physical and mental resilience as well as the filming process itself. The film A Darkness Shimmering in the Light portrays the frozen Songhua River as a gateway to a journey through time and space. By integrating segments from ethnography of Siberia and the Xing'an Mountains, Northeastern literature, and folklore into the documentary footage, the artist constructs a series of fictional ecological narratives.

A lone female student spends her summer holiday hanging around an empty highschool. A female teacher tries to befriend her but with little to no success. The student then meets a biology teacher who is boiling a bat carcass in the corner of the schoolyard.

The 66th in a chain of horror ghost stories! Ghost stories are the art of telling ghost stories and spinning tales of terror. A ghost story told by one person stimulates the brain and brings back the memories of another person.

The 64th in a chain of horror ghost stories! Ghost stories are the art of telling ghost stories and spinning tales of terror. A ghost story told by one person stimulates the brain and brings back the memories of another person

Due to a severe case of writer's block, successful author Mind has had to search for a roommate to help her make rent. What she doesn't expect, however, is that her new roommate Cake is a big fan of her work. As they get closer, can Mind continue to keep her identity a secret? Will she even want to?

Xue Hai, deputy highway station chief, is appointed first secretary of poor Jiangzi Village. His dedication earns villagers’ love, but a road contractor, angered by Xue’s quality control, frames him, leading to suspension. Villagers rally with a petition, and higher authorities clear his name. Xue returns to work tirelessly, but collapses from exhaustion and dies. The villagers, heartbroken, bid him a sorrowful farewell.

Horror unfolds at a video streaming company. Kurara had been planning a reverse prank, but her partner TETTA accidentally dies due to a mishap. From that point on, TETTA's spirit begins to manifest. Other video streamers also get involved, and terrifying events continue to occur. And Kurara finds herself cornered.

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"eternal return / op.1 wonderful world" is an experimental film work, provoking a sense of obligation for the time being. The center of the work is an installation artwork of an Ape represented as an AI, indicating our biological and technological development. Along with the symbolic metaphor, the title pays homage to the philosophical theory of recurrence to navigate the imagination into an unbounded perception.

Appearance, hormone, sex appeal. When we are tired of everything about these, all we want to do is break, demolish, and destroy. With crazy cut-out animation, this film is trying to release us with the strong beat of the song and search for revenge in a chaotic but unique world.

After a traumatic failure at a competition, platform diver Farrah retraces and reconciliates with her past through a stream-of-consciousness journey across space and time.

I search for answers in the tunnel. I reach out to feel the wind but all I can touch is my shadow.

A modern re-telling of the Japanese tale of the bamboo cutter and the moon princess. The moon princess listens to the untold intelligence of the cosmos as observed by the trees to become closer with and eventually return home.

A teenage girl is interrogated for a murder committed in a motel. This mysterious black-and-white thriller is an attempt to show solidarity with victims of sexual abuse.

As a random phenomenon without rules and patterns, the chased signal from inputs 1 and 2 of 'wave forecast' turns into cycle frequencies, called music, and sends them back throughout outputs 1 and 2, to where they belonged. As mentioned, the music performance, delta w, composition film, achieved and presented as a composition film. Homeostasis, that’s how we live in a stable life pattern within a cycle of nature.

Plant portraits consist of various participating individuals and their parameters. Indivisuals: Plant Body (PB), Sunlights (S), Films (F), Plant-based Film Developer (PD), Plant Bioelectricity (PE), etc. Parameters: Time (t), Weather (w), Humidity (h), Temperature (K), etc. Individuals generate plant portraits, which are not independent and continue to be entangled with the various parameters.

In order to escape the gambling debt owed by her dead husband, Zhen and the mentally retarded child picked up by her keep hiding themselves from one place to another

North Korean girl Seolhee crosses the border alone despite the risks in order to find her mother in South Korea.

In a technologically advanced yet collapsed society, cyberpunk SF and traditional oriental martial arts converge. The story follows the emotional entanglement between a long-lost chivalrous couple and a person with regenerated organs starting from a fight for a mystic magic lyre. From the perspective of the capabilities of regeneration technologies, it prompts audiences to contemplate the amplification or dissolution of emotional value.

Inhumation is a traditional Chinese funeral custom. People believe that the dead can rest in peace only when they are buried in the earth. Otherwise, their souls will be lost and become wandering ghosts, never to reincarnate. The place where cattle laid comes from an ancient Book called Jin, which means a geomantic treasure place where people can rest in peace. In modern days, the Reform of Funeral and Interment began, and many stories of conflict with faith occurred. Old Li and the Fool’s journey took place in the autumn of the year when the burial was changed to cremation.

The film records the daily life of James, a 19-year-old autistic patient, and his mother. During the day-to-day study and work, we see that music brings a different power to his mother. Music also makes us look forward to the future.

This is probably the last work of the legendary Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, presented in digital format in the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker at the 2023 Image Forum Festival.

She is a hotel maid. She has freckles on her face. She doesn't think her life is interesting. One day, she hears strange laughter coming from one of the rooms...

Star Troupe's stage play about Edgar Allan Poe.

Throughout his campus life, a primary school student from the Yao ethnic group on the Sino-Vietnamese border slipped through a chess game indifferently and then took the initiative to join the game. He was not very interested in Go at first, but in the end he seemed to like Go again. This process seemed to be dark humor and destiny. At the beginning of the film, bursts of garbage are burning on the campus, and waves of fog are rising. People and people, like this garbage, are also burning energy for unknown reasons, but they are all left on this uncared-for border

Korean Short Film

Bullied gay teen, Queer, yearns for normal love. One day, his cosmetics morph into four stylish men. They lead him to a mystical room where he confronts Queen, his other self. Queer wants to embrace his identity, but Queen advises hiding.

Humans defeated the King of Hell and occupied hell through numerical superiority and they redesigned the reincarnation process using high tech, but they overestimated their ability

The little boy lost his beloved sister in an accident. One nigh, the little boy vaguely heard his sister's sound, and then entered an unusual fantasy world to bid farewell to the family he loved...

As the world continues to come face to face with the consequences of decades of environmental degradation, Danny Kim’s documentary Zero Waste explores the ways that five individuals in South Korea have taken it upon themselves to create solutions to the country’s plastic waste problems, which has been exasperated by the global pandemic, and whether their efforts can be enough to make up for decades of neglect. Both sobering and uplifting, Zero Waste paints a portrait of both the magnitude of the problem, and the perseverance of those people willing to address them.

Ode to the Centaur considers the intersection of Chinese history and queer identities otherwise hidden from public view. The film centralizes representations of the centaur in ancient mythology, exploring how the horse-human hybrid can be used to question limited views of masculinity in present day China.

After a catastrophic event, a group of people live inside a sealed enclosure, cut off from the outside world. They survive on a strict daily ration of bread and milk supplied by a mysterious religious authority that enforces absolute obedience and forbids escape. Among the inhabitants are siblings Reina and Sena, whose quiet routines are shaped by fear, faith, and unspoken doubt. When they meet Kiryū, an outsider who questions the logic of their confinement, cracks begin to form in the community’s beliefs. Together, they plan to cross the forbidden boundary, driven by curiosity and a longing for freedom. As they venture beyond the walls, they discover that the truth about the world — and about the system that controls them — is far more unsettling than they imagined, forcing them to confront the cost of belief, survival, and choice.

In the 19th century, a rice merchant encounters a mother who tries to buy rice in exchange for her own child's clothes. The merchant becomes Monk Seishin and relieves the islanders of Miyajima from poverty by digging wells and starting the wooden ladle industry.

Human Infrastructure's project devises and performs feedback-based noise systems that explore the relationship between infrastructure and the myriad bodies that comprise it. Combining modular synthesizers with a 16mm film projection.

From far up, humans look like ants. Or like a virus, driven by consumption and mass production, attacking the earth's resources.

A drama about four sisters living in a provincial city and searching for their own identities.