Sonzai Zone
Sonzai Zone is a speculative fiction film on intimacy and loneliness after the normalization of ambient communication media. An unlikely encounter between Yún and Souvd takes place in a near-future where social interactions are largely based on the mediation of human presence, known as ‘Sonzai-kan’. Shifting between XR games, Immersion Arcades and spatial home displays, their insidiously orchestrated relationship escalates into extreme idealization. Meanwhile, Souvd’s ex-girlfriend Ntzumi launches into undercover investigation.
Lake
Lake gazes down at a still body of water from a birds-eye view, while a group of artists peacefully float in and out of the frame or work to stay at the surface. As they glide farther away and draw closer together, they reach out in collective queer and desirous exchanges — holding hands, drifting over and under their neighbors, making space, taking care of each other with a casual, gentle intimacy while they come together as individual parts of a whole. The video reflects on notions of togetherness and feminist theorist Silvia Federici’s call to “reconnect what capitalism has divided: our relation with nature, with others, and our bodies.”
SLEEP
Plagued with a debilitating sleeping disorder, Ben's existence is a lonely one. He spends his nights wandering the streets of modern suburbia, hoping to break the chain of his monotony.
Distant Nixa
The film choreographically covers the distance between two women and their mirroring selves, under Laurie Spiegel's soundscape and with the ambiance of VHS video. Their bodies, sometimes two and others four, are always connected with a rope, influenced by white noise retro interference, sound scratches and pauses. They approach each other until they connect and then finally completely disappear, nullifying the distance between them. The reverse movement of these similar bodies-idols aims to compose a dance of the two and the one, our close and more distant self and to reach to the void in between them.
Tasty Morsels
A short film that poetically explores the sterile landscape of music consumption in the streaming era.
Daughter of the River
Ten years after the biggest environmental crime in Brazilian history, Leidiane goes out to buy bread.
Speechless: The Polar Realm
Beautifully filmed by New Zealand nature photographer Richard Sidey over the past decade around the polar regions, Speechless: The Polar Realm is a visual meditation of light, life, loss and wonder at the ends of the globe. This is the second film in Sidey’s non-verbal trilogy which is comprised of: - Landscapes at the World’s Ends (2010) - Speechless: The Polar Realm (2015) - Elementa (2020)
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Elementa
A black-and-white visual meditation of wilderness and the elements. Wildlife filmmaker Richard Sidey returns to the triptych format for a cinematic experience like no other.
Midwinter Hue
A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and show a beautiful array of hidden colors. A poetic, meditative short film about letting go of the past and embracing the unknown future.
Synthwave Ambient: Monster Kung Fu
Kick back and chillax with some lofi synthwave beats paired with high-action scenes from epic, old-school kung fu movies and monster flicks!
Bed & Breakfast
A paralysed woman awakens alone in her bedroom, as time continues without her.
Telestesia
In the middle of the night, you never know who can be a witness of your decisions...
Windham Hill: Western Light
Filmed during the months of June and August 1984 in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Mesa Verde National Park and the Navajo Nation. This program reveals scenes of the lushness of California's summer accompanied by the music of Windham Hill artists, William Ackerman, Alex de Grassi, Mark Isham, Shadowfax, and Liz Story.
Recollection
A recollection of East-African Asian displacement in the 1970s to an ambient score.
The Haunting of Comet Lodge
A short film about Comet Lodge Cemetery and the many souls bound to haunt the small patch of land with a brief segment revealing their faces and memories, then shifting to focus on a particular ghost by the name of M.W Lovejoy who appears and goes through his mourning ritual which he is cursed to repeat for all eternity.
A Bold Voyage
A tragic story of a musician taking a bold voyage in the pursuit of creation, ambition, and need. Letting life choose for him, as part of the art itself and coming to terms with his decisions.
Festive Fireplace
Cozy up to a Christmas hearth and be warmed by a soothing and joyful atmosphere of holiday merriment, perfect for adults, families, and friends.
Portrait #04: Eliane Radigue
Fourth in the IMA Portraits series, this short introduces us to the life and work of electronic/contemporary composer Eliane Radigue. Radigue discusses methods of composition, the challenges and difficulties of live electronic music, as well as biographical episodes with Pierre Henry and her own goals in soundscape production and consumption.
Al Basha
A police officer finds himself worthless as he soon realizes there's no way he could put an end to a businessman associated with running a prostitution ring.