35mm

sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars

For six hours from sunset on 24 June 2014, a 100-foot-long roll of 35mm negative film was buried beneath fallen leaves along a rural roadside approximately 25 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Retrieved at sunrise the following morning, the film bears traces of its exposure to the surrounding environment: insect sounds, starlight, and the physical conditions of the site.

16-18-4

The film was shot using a toy 35mm camera equipped with 16 lenses, which captures a rapid sequence of 16 images over a few seconds, arranged in two rows across two standard 35mm still-photography frames. This mechanism recalls the apparatus devised by Eadweard Muybridge to photograph a galloping horse in 1887, prior to the invention of the motion-picture camera.

Forever

Forever explores the enduring power of art at Paris' Père-Lachaise cemetery. Through the eyes of visitors, it reveals the tranquil beauty of the graveyard. The cemetery emerges as both a resting place and a source of solace and inspiration for the living.

Tailor Made Dreams

Isaar, a unique Indian tailor, sets off on an adventurous trip across Europe to his once faithful customers, in hope of new orders, the reunion with old friends and in hope of love. Marco Wilms accompanies Issar on his trip through European. This final journey is also Issar's last chance to fulfill a secret wish: his first role as Bollywood star - in Europe's first Bollywood documentary!

Class Picture

A lyrical, nostalgic piece evoking faded memories and the archetypal class picture, develops alongside the crashing of waves on a beach in the background.

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earthearthearth

Director SAÏTO coaxes complex shapes and patterns from the natural environment, with skies rendered in electric hues. Scored by experimental musician Jason SHARP, the result is a hypnotic, sensory meditation on our earth.

Mother Dao, the Turtlelike

A compilation of clips from documentaries and propaganda films shot by Dutch cameramen between 1912 and 1933 in their former colony of Indonesia. Much of the footage used to be shown in the Netherlands as an illustration of the beneficial effect of the Dutch presence, but nowadays it merely evokes negative associations. The filmmaker added natural sounds from Indonesia, indigenous music and recited poetry, but no voice-over.

Let the Wind Carry Me

What can be retained with photography? Where is the cinema leading us? Is there meaning to life after all? Mark LEE goes on the road and tries to answer these questions at a pace of 24 frames per second. We followed his swinging footsteps and gathered the fragments lost between frames to discover the passion he gave to the Taiwanese cinema.

Mysterious Object at Noon

Mysterious Object at noon is part fiction, part documentary, and part pseudo documentary about several unrelated lives in Thailand. The film emphasizes a documentary approach that presents people with different professions rather than looking for a perfect and unbroken narrative of the fiction's storyline. After the journey, the crew set back for Bangkok, where the collaborated story is shot in a fiction-drama style with non-professional actors.

Yellow Box

You can almost see this transparent glasses built vendor selling this special Taiwanese chewing gums everywhere in Taiwan. It’s called the “betel nuts stands”. Then a betel nuts girl is there to match the male customers’ sexual fantasies. In the tiny glasses house, the girls talk about stories of themselves.

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