Absolute Denial
An obsessive, genius programmer sacrifices everything in his personal and professional life to build a computer of unprecedented power.
Ayahuasca: Kosmik Journey
What happens when indigenous healing rituals and immersive technology converge? Inspired by his own experiences with ayahuasca, a plant infusion traditionally used in healing and self-discovery ceremonies by peoples of the Amazon, director Jan Kounen embarks on a spiritual, visual journey. He attempts to capture the physical and hallucinatory states of such a ceremony on film.
Blue Room
Incarcerated participants in a mental health experiment watch videos of sunset-soaked beaches, wildflowers and forests on loop, prompting them to reflect on isolation and wilderness. Equal parts meditation and provocation, Blue Room identifies the damage done by withholding access to the outdoors and how we are all prisoners when the essential human need for communion with nature is denied.
Big/Bad/Wolf
In a far away future a man travels to a mystical virtual forest. Only to find himself in a very dark and sinister fairy tale. And unable to escape.
Teorías de una Máquina
Um Novo Ângulo
Moon|Rabbit
A meditation on the Moon as a series of spheres melting away. The audio-visuals are synchronized via a repeated glitch process: the same values that databent the visuals are also used to change the base audio samples, creating a translation between a visual glitch and an audible one, even though in the final presentation they seem entirely different.
Eyewar
What threads of history bind Manhattan's Ground Zero to those of Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Or connect sight to truth, games to war, or the silkworm to the drone? What does the United States hold to be the role of science in warfare? How has war historically been waged in Buddhist traditions? These are some of the topics addressed in Eyewar: 80 minutes of found footage which traces the development of the digital image from the maps of the second century to the screens of the twenty-first, and the uses of the field of cybernetics from Japan in the 1940s to Chile in the 1970s and Iraq in the 1990s.
My Body Is Not My Home
My Body Is Not My Home is a 3D animated short film following the journey of an uncanny simulacrum who undergoes the process of becoming the ‘Other’.
The Flavor of Your Choice
After struggling to choose an ice cream flavor, Guido discovers his whole life has been a simulation engineered for that single decision. As reality unravels, he's forced to question identity, destiny, and the meaning of choice itself.
Citizen X13
In a dystopian world of concrete blocks and digital illusions, citizens live between work and simulated "peace." Citizen 2001X13 begins to question the system, uncovering erased memories through talks with a figure from his subconscious
Untitled Earth Sim 64
A woman is faced with existential crisis after learning that the universe is an untitled simulation.
Our Ark
OUR ARK is an essay film on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world.
BREACH: ITERATION 005
Alone, working in his office late at night, a man is interrupted by a system malfunction.
So As Not to Sleep
An artist on the verge of finishing his dream.
Move 65
A young chess player earns a rare chance to face a Grandmaster—but when the match ends, the day starts over. Trapped in a relentless time loop, he is forced to replay the same game again and again, chasing a victory he believes will set him free… until each attempt begins to change, and the game itself refuses to stay the same.
My Own Landscapes
Within the French and American armies, virtual reality prepares soldiers for their future battles just as it treats post-traumatic stress disorder after their baptism of fire. Antoine Chapon meets Cyril, former military video game designer and a veteran, who is dealing with the return to civilian life and loss of identity.
Some Real Places
A short structural film that questions the reality we live in under capitalism through various images of Paris, Edinburgh, and Disneyland.
Off-Shift
