Pulsion

Two young men sitting at the top of a hill. One of them is reading a book, the other is immersed in his thoughts. Both are waiting. A sign? An event?

Lyé-buhl

An ascetic monk who follows Buddhist teaching confronts agony between the world of Color(Phenomena) and the world of Void(Fundamental). The two worlds exhibit stark contrast with one another like nature and man-made, past and present, day and night, eternity and…

Anticline (Anticlinal)

“Plucked from the ground, we glide over the landscape. In the blink of an eye everything has changed. A hundred-meter chasm extends below us. We suddenly fall into a vortex. The machines, which appear to us as prehistoric creatures, have…

Umbrella Dance For Hong Kong

This film records Hong Kong’s modern dance master Mui Cheuk-yin’s Umbrella Dance (1995) through today’s lens. Produced in the colonial days, what new meanings can Umbrella Dance create? Concerned with social movements, Mui’s dance survived the 1997 handover of the…

Man with Shadow

Genetic code forces people to reproduce. Infants have no choice: they become a part of this world without any will of their own, and as completely helpless beings they are subjected to training in the civilizational norms… Is anything else…

Words Words Words Are Decorative Sounds

The video investigates the complex relationship between language and cultural identity in our contemporary times. Instead of considering languages as simple communication tools, here they become viruses able to contaminate each other shaping new identities and geographies.The starting point of…

Judy versus Capitalism

A bio-doc about my pal Judy Rebick: iconic second wave Canadian feminist, radical activist, journalist and writer. She is the founding publisher of rabble.ca, Canada’s irreverent progressive online news source, and a former president of the National Action Committee on…

At the entrance of the night

Two young Senegalese men walk through a Moroccan forest at night. They seek a “passage” to the north and evoke a strange premonitory dream. Two Guardia Civil officers patrol along the southern Spanish coast in a 4×4. The headlights of…

Fragile Machines

Fragile Machines is an independent art film which tells the story of a married couple and the affairs that make their relationship irreparable. The film follows a non-linear, gestural narrative—shifting between seasons, homes, oceans and embraces fluidly and rapidly. The…

Fossil

Fossil is a short film that explores the lapses in memory and the gaps in language of a person who has suffered brain damage. The film follows a series of exchanges and physical struggles between two men, one older than…

Stem – Sound from the Tropical

STEM (Sound from the Tropical) is a new film by Lasse Lau about the migration of plants. Years of neglects of the Lisbon University Botanical Garden have created a romantic environment where the garden is slowly growing wild. The film…

Sonja

Sonja is a poetic portrayal of the story of the sightless potter Sona Zeliskova, who despite adverse fate found her life yourney in art and ceramics. The film experiments with audio-visual components to recount Sonya’s unique story. Combining a documentary,…

Bookanima: Martial Arts

BOOKANIMA, a compound word of ‘Book’ and ‘Anima’, is Experimental Animation to give new cinematic life to book. It aims to create ‘Book Cinema’ in the third scope between Book and Cinema by Chronophotography Animation, paying homage to Edward Muybridge…