Mudpuppy

A reflection on loss and nature’s quiet observance in a small nook of the Ozarks. 

Light

feature-film by Rafael Rebolledo

FALL

And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine

From the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity's unique obsession with the camera's image and the social consequences that lay ahead.

Luz

As a prayer, a character exhausted by her own life desperately calls out to something with no name as a last resource for help in her existence. Through the analogy of a lamp that slowly turns on as if answering her request, let there be "light".

Obscura

While working with wet plate collodion Ruhter came up with an idea to show the world the beauty of these objects in a size that was deemed impossible. This led him and the Silver & Light Team to a forgotten town on the edge of the Salton Sea called Bombay Beach, located in California’s Imperial Valley. The idea was to create a camera out of an abandoned house. The structure would serve as the framework for the camera. Instead of focusing on the decay from the outside, this house camera allowed a view from the inside into someone’s dream. Once the giant lens was placed on the front of the house, images of Ted, a 100 year old resident who recently found himself homeless, were projected in, breathing new life into this abandoned structure and once again making it a home. During this brief moment in time when Ted’s photograph was captured, he was present in both places. In reality, he was homeless in the outside world.

De Wind

Bodies of Desire

Using Varsha Panikar's poetry series by the same name, it follows the journey of a poet as they rediscover love, passion, and identity after encountering their muse.

Dreamtale

An experimental visual poem about a sick lonely old man stays in his big empty house, dreaming of a glorious life that he could have. In this dream, he plays a Rubik's Cube, which connects the memories of his prime in a paralleled universe, the chapters of love and pain.

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Monks

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

Light Leak

Light is information, a signal more lasting than recollection. If there’s anyone out there to receive the message. Isolated in a sealed apartment, a lone observer regards an outside world outside become increasingly unreal or unreachable. Archaic illuminations, old slides and the pin-lights of the camera obscura, crawl across the walls. Connections fray. Time loses meaning. A science fictional essay film, or its inverse. A rumination on optics, memory, data, and endings.

Downtown

A girl comes to the city for studying for the first time.

Regard Silence

“I love poetry because it makes me feel like my mind expands.” In Regard Silence, that's the very first sentence expressed—in sign language of course. Watching the poems signed by deaf people in this film has a similarly mind-expanding effect. That’s because sign language—the Mexican version in this case—is a very different means of communication than written or spoken language.

Longing for Spring

A visual poem where a woman visits various Buddhist temples in Nara and winter turns to spring.

El mar, el cuerpo, la nada.

Zdrowaśki

A poetic coming-of-age, in which the characters drift through memories, searching for a place in a world that constantly casts them aside. It’s an intimate, indie-aesthetic story about reminiscences preserved on camera, about lost and regained bonds, about people learning to grow up within a space lacking both home and the assurance that anyone is waiting for their return.

Tears in Rain

Digital images decomposing in rain-like effects. A visual poem, trying to capture the poetics of a cinematic rain shower into the structure of its images. Still images from the 1982 science fiction film noir classic Blade Runner become animated, a frozen memory of two lovers is washed away in time.

Our Punjabi Market - a poetry film

A kaleidoscopic montage, interpreting the poem "Our Punjabi Market" by Kuldip Gill depicting the vibrance of the Punjabi Market at 49th and Main in East Vancouver, BC.

Fue una clara tarde, triste y soñolienta