Slow Light
A story of a man with a very dense eyes who sees all the surrounding reality only after seven years. The consequence of the eye defect translates into the mental immaturity of the man, lack of understanding of the present and belated reflections on long-gone facts. The man is never mature enough for his age and constantly lingers on the past.
Hello, World!
When a young android programmed for extraordinary purpose discovers a rogue coworker, he is inspired to pursue an ordinary life - a choice that threatens the future of himself and his mentor.
Light
A university professor on the verge of divorce and a new life is confronted with a series of encounters that make him doubt his desires — and reality.
Leaving Loveland
As Mio goes on a journey to Loveland to find closure, an incident occurs, giving him new hope for his heart to shine again. A story about the importance of loving and coping, of hearts connecting and separating.
Beyond Darkness
After a power cut one night, Stan thinks he is seeing things. All alone, he must face what lurks in the dark.
False Heat
Sensuality and spaghetti are the stars in a playful study of the body.
Soji-ji
Soji-ji (1979) is a video work documenting a chant recitation at a Zen temple. The chant recited by many monks does not proceed in unison like group singing. Each monk recites in sync with his breath, so that the intake of breath occurs at different moments. That is to say, each monk articulates the chant differently. Since there is no unified division, when the multiple chants overlap, an endless wave of chant (sutra) appears as a collective density or modality (at the same time, each monk’s steps form a totally different rhythm from the individual chants).
Tracing Light
Light is a fascinating phenomenon. Without light, there would be no cinema, no film – and no life. So light is at the origin of everything, and yet it remains invisible to the eye until it hits matter. This moment is – quite literally – the starting point of Thomas Riedelsheimer’s latest work, for the springtime spectacle of rainbow shreds in the cinematographer and documentary filmmaker’s flat became the starting point of a search for the origin of the images we form of this world. For this quest he dived deep into two spheres that seem to follow different laws but always strive to fathom the magical: physics and art.
Light Leak
Light is information, a signal more lasting than recollection. If there’s anyone out there to receive the message. Isolated in a sealed apartment, a lone observer regards an outside world outside become increasingly unreal or unreachable. Archaic illuminations, old slides and the pin-lights of the camera obscura, crawl across the walls. Connections fray. Time loses meaning. A science fictional essay film, or its inverse. A rumination on optics, memory, data, and endings.
Brighter Days
Set in the near future where natural light has become a luxury, Brighter Days tells the story of Edgar, a father determined to drag sunlight into his dark home and give his kids a magical experience they'll never forget.
Memorial
Cold Hands
Two hands over a light.
Rush Light
Shot in downtown Minneapolis, Rush Light assembles a rapid montage of fleeting street compositions. Through quick cuts and sudden shifts, Devereaux creates a collage of ready-made visual moments—buildings, signs, shadows, and chance alignments glimpsed in passing. The film operates as both a study of three-dimensional space and a meditation on the eye’s ability to seize upon images in a split second. Color, light, and shadow flicker across the frame, transforming the city into a shifting field of accidental design.
Vertical Red
With a static camera Tan films the dense night-time traffic in West Los Angeles from her temporary studio location at the Getty Center. Undercutting the cinematic quality inherent in this view of teeming traffic, the upright frame instead suggests a domestic window or an abstract painting. The space is flattened, and the viewer is unsettled. Shorn of a narrative, Vertical Red is part of a trio of video works that are a series of dream-like moving pictures.
Diam's : De la lumière à l'ombre
Diam's, the beloved icon of French rap, gave up everything at the height of her success. The young woman experienced a real descent into hell: depression, loneliness, and disillusionment in the face of suffocating fame. On the brink of disaster, she found refuge in religion. Rare archives, memorable music videos, and previously unseen testimonials reveal the violence of her success and her vital need to disappear in order to rebuild herself, choosing the shadows after the light.
Finding Light
A young woman's night takes a sinister turn as she must confront the possibility that she's not home alone.
96 Souls
A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his situation even worse.
ReBuild
After the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, I witnessed many changes. Towns were lost in a moment. Children living in Fukushima couldn’t go out and play freely. This work was made from the pictures drawn in the landscapes of parts of Japan. Using the reflection of sunlight, we tried to capture people’s emotion for "energy". Source: CaRTe bLaNChe
Lords of Light
On a film set a light fixture breaks down. The two electricians Olaf and Stefan are called to replace it. The gaffer is not there, so Stefan sees his chance to prove himself to everyone. Olaf on the other side has made muffins and wants to eat them with Stefan, he couldn’t care less about the light. A delicate relationship drama between two tough guys ensues. And the film crew has to wait through it all.
Samambaia
A computer generated fern follows a modular synthesizer soundtrack.