A wife should obey her husband’s every word, and live only for him. This is how one could briefly summarize the attitude of some women who identify with the wedLOCK tradWIFE phenomenon. This film is based on their statements on social media, presented in a shocking concentration and painful collage, with period footage from the 1950s.
A combination of archival film and footage from a road trip I took with my sister last year. When I went on this road trip I’d been thinking a lot about the paths taken and decisions made that resulted in where I was in that moment. Now more than ever have I been dwelling on that idea; both in the context of family lineage and the state of the world.
Xiao Lan, weighed down by depression rooted in family pain, struggles between escape and entrapment. A dark cloud follows her—yet she clings to the hope of finding a way out.
Focusing on the art of visual communication artist Birol Bayram, the documentary explores his multifaceted work in the art world as a caricaturist, illustrator, and cartoonist. Bayram is perhaps known as one of the artists who has designed the most book covers in the world. Having designed 6,000 book covers over 26 years, Birol Bayram has left a deep mark on every reader's memory.
Four Acts of Recovery, is a video piece following a fishing family living in the Indus Delta of Pakistan as they use drawing as a means to overcome unprecedented infrastructural violence and climate collapse. Set in a rapidly submerging delta region, the work depicts how coastal communities employ and transform visual expression to create new forms of faith, resistance, and belonging. It explores the emerging trend of mural painting depicting ancestral creeks and shrines, connecting it to the tradition of talismanic depictions in Islamic culture.
Ukraine, August 2024. Tomasz, a Polish photojournalist on the frontlines, is determined to prove to his editorial team, the Ukrainian soldiers, and himself that his work can make an impact on the dwindling interest in the war.
An experimental film exploring the dissonance between the romanticization of natural landscapes and the reality of a technological and modern world. Filmed in the forests and fjords surrounding Oslo, Norway, this film juxtaposes idyllic, untouched, “natural” landscapes with moments from my day to day life in the cityscape of Oslo and cyberspaces online in order to challenge notions of Norwegian romanticism and nationalism in relation to nature. Made by screenprinting iPhone footage and found videos onto strips of 16mm film with acrylic and bleach, then combining the screenprinted frames with 16mm filmed footage of Norwegian forests.
An author finishes one book and plans another, aiming to convey her disillusionment with common understandings of time. An interleaved puzzle-box collage of literary and cinematic echoes, amid fluid landscapes of a western coast.
A young woman seeks a stage inside. This short essay-fiction explores the complexities of a relationship to someone close who might be dealing with mental illness. Following a sensual relationship to space and image, it challenges viewers’ perceptions of the film’s reality and the directionality of the voice.
“Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.” – Gilbert Adair
Flytipping Digital Waste is a short film composed of nocturnal fly-tipping sites, sliced with computational intelligence and predictive technology. Driven by automation, advances in technology and the resulting ethical consequences, the film captures waste, simulates speculative waste, and simultaneously creates digital waste, as remnants of footage have been dumped across social media platforms.
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