ESQUISSESBetween new films by Mike Hoolboom and Sandro Aguilar, two filmmakers we’ll never get tired of hearing from, a few explorations of the world, difference, power and fatigue. Sketches that often rely on cinema to bring back the magic of cinema.
Lensed in Ohio’s Broadview Develop- mental Center in 1967 by secret camera genius and audiovisual healer Jeffrey Paull, Scrapbook tells the story of audacious autistic woman Donna Washington in her own words as she encounters pictures of one of her former selves fifty years later.
Short film , Experimental
CANADA, United States | 19 minutes | 2015
Around the fire, six figures are found. One of them starts a journey.
Short film , Animation
ARGENTINA | 13 minutes | 2015
In the world’s most secretive capital, a crowd is attending a show when a disaster threatens to destroy the city... A spectacular CGI reflection on totalitarianism.
FRANCE | 9 minutes | 2015
Brief notes on tiredness.
GERMANY | 7 minutes | 2014
Kolja’s experiment of merging his human body with nature in the form of a tree while venturing into a border zone between the earth and the sky may be due to his purity of spirit, the grandeur of fools or the madness of mystics. Is this enlightenment — or simply an elaborate suicide?
Short film , Documentary
PORTUGAL | 8 minutes | 2015
A young girl spending time with her swinger parent in a campground meets an emotionally unstable man and becomes fascinated by his special powers. He falls in love with her, but soon finds out his love is unrequited.
Short film , Fiction
PORTUGAL | 30 minutes | 2015
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