A stop-motion animation showing two dancing figures that manifest within a man, each representing his emotions and functions. They linger in a divided space, isolated from the outside world. Suddenly, something rushes in and grabs their attention.
Off the coast of Manquemapu, Chile, buried beneath the indifferent waves, lies the wreck of the Janequeo. The ship capsized in 1965, and 51 people lost their lives. While the sea has swallowed the wreck, on land the memory of this disaster lives on—in the people and in the landscape.
In a world ravaged by violence and poverty, Rat, a teenage runaway, survives by stealing alongside his friends. On the eve of a typhoon, a betrayal comes to light. Fueled by rage, the boys turn on each other until the storm forces them to confront the fragility of their home and themselves.
Diana wakes up in her beach house when her ventilator fails. In an imaginary conversation with her father, Astor Piazzolla, she reveals what she could never tell him in life, until her final words reveal that she, too, has died.
A guide, responsible for sending fallen stars back up to the sky, encounters a fallen star that cannot return. That star changes into a creature doomed to remain on the ground. Angry and confused, it lashes out, chasing the memory of what it once was. With the help of the guide, it is able to accept its fate, and together they can guide the stars back up, brighter than before.
"A fathers first time being alone with his daughter" He notices that something is horrible wrong, his daughter Freya is missing her face, where the eyes, nose and mouth should be, is just skin... With an old folk lore book he desperately tries to fix Freya, but is the book really helping him?
Riel, high school student with satanic blood, is a guitarist for heavy metal band. After her band fails to perform at the school talent show, she fell in love with school’s handsome senior, Junhyeok. Junhyeok offers Riel to join his CCM band, but there are procedures to take.
My father often jokes that he's both a police officer and a hunter. While he has a busy job, he always returns to the tribe on his days off— to check traps, clear the water source, and weed the land.This film documents the time we spent together at the mountain spring. Step by step, he passed on his knowledge of the forest to me. I came to realize that he was trying to hand down the wisdom of my grandfather — how he drew water and lived in harmony with the land.
Perched on a bridge overlooking the Kamo River in Japan, a filmmaker imagines what their conversations would be if they were all Singaporeans like him.
In 2024, in the city of Manaus, as part of the Olhar do Norte Amazon Film Festival program, an experimental 16mm film workshop was held, taught by filmmaker and photographer Raffaella Rosset, a beautiful immersion in 16mm material. Through experimentation, the participants were able to paint directly onto the 16mm film, creating possibilities, freedom of thought and construction, thus generating a collective film full of feelings. The film also features the Rio Negro and its tributaries, which magically bathe the city of Manaus, which in the Manaós language means “Mother of the Gods”. All hail the magic of cinema.
Inspired by the tradition of visual music (in particular, the Fischinger-copped JS Bach sequence that opens 1942's Fantasia), Scantasia is a rhythmic composition performed on a network of analog synthesizers, where the same voltages trigger rhythmic, synaesthetic shifts in both image and sound. Neither sound nor image is cut to the other; both co-emerge in the flow of real time.
Boiling the piss (2023/2024, 2’ 40’’) is my debut 16mm film made at the coast near Den Haag (NL) with artist Hedwich Rooks. Together, we collected our urine and shared it in one pot. We boiled it down and watched the water evaporate until the dark brown minerals started to accumulate at the bottom. Boiling the piss is a process film considering the values embedded in bodies through a shared metabolic conversion of waste. It follows my artistic investigation into researching urine as a photographic developer and/or possibly a fixer too. The negative film was developed with the traditional developer D96, while positive was printed with the urine-based developer. The film also contains a chemigram which combines the leftover materials transformed with the urine liquid inviting a viewer into the metabolizing processes. The sound was added in 2024 during the residency at SOLU/Bioart Society, Helsinki, as a site specific reverse recording of their toilet.
"Carta Monir BDSM Film Club" is an experimental video edited from footage shared with me by artist Carta Monir that I edited using analog synthesis tools during my residency at Signal Culture in November 2024. All effects and audio in this work were generated by means analog synthesis tools, whose input/output methodology I have argued is impertinently queer because of the reactivity of the medium. The work is concerned with queer/kink theory, leather culture, and is part of an ongoing series of conversations and works made between d'Andriole, Monir, and other trans people in Michigan on the role of sex and violence in trans becoming as minoritized victims of transphobia, transmisogyny, and other violence's within the American empire.
“The Split” is a performative video documenting the action of splitting a phallic vibrator that tackles the psychoanalytical theories of “penis envy.” This theory was developed by Sigmund Freud regarding female psychosexual development, and states that young girls experience anxiety upon realization that they do not have a penis. The video takes a playful twist on this idea, by splitting the phallic object with a reciprocating saw, and opening it up, only to reveal its multiple layers: at first it starts to resemble a vagina, but in the end hides another phallic shape inside. It thus serves as a reminder of the anatomy invested with fantasies, of the anatomy as a radical contingency and of our discomforting and ambiguous corporeality.