Queen Elizabeth I commissions a magnificent mechanical organ for Sultan Mehmed III, crafted by the famed Thomas Dallam. The organ, adorned with singing birds and celestial mechanisms, is shipped over six months of treacherous seas. Upon arrival, Dallam assembles it and personally plays the organ as the Sultan eagerly awaits. Yet, despite its grandeur, the organ’s story ends in tragedy. Postbellek's short documentary was produced with the guidance and narration of Emre Aracı, and it leverages artificial intelligence by Atıl Altaş.
‘In thin air’ attempts to touch the invisible plane of pure image wedged between camera and subject, to move the world within the frame rather than turning the frame towards the world. Ruptures within the image allow visible subjects to be woven and sifted through the weave of the edit like strands of hair through fingers.
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.
A Viennese painter cooks twelve seasonal dishes that reflect the stages of human life, from conception to death. The Cycle of Life is a meditation on the transience of existence and what is eternal.
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.