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I Am Still Here
Sissi Kaplan, Vivian Wang and Cyril Wong, 2020, Singapore, 11’43 mins
I Am Still Here is a found footage film that combines materials from an old National Geographic animal documentary with a series of photographic portraits of a woman in a remote landscape. Set in a post-civilisation vista, she lives with dead and living animals, their reproductions, as well as the encroaching planets. Her alienation, solitude, and quest for meaning are juxtaposed with the natural instincts of animals and the invariable trajectories of planets, hinting at a larger system of time and space, gesturing at alternative possibilities for navigating the world. In this visual poem, image, sound, and text release distinct yet interconnected mental and emotional spaces, orbiting each other to form new and incessant constellations
The Last Seaport of Limerence
Melody Woodnutt, Crys Cole and James Rushford, 2025, Australia, 6’11 mins
A seaport that sits liminally between hope and uncertainty. The two channel 16mm film piece finds a heterotopian quality due to an anachronistic and mirroring approach. The piece collapses Woodnutt’s previous films and her unused film negatives into a new liminality between her body of works. In doing so, a mysterious new ‘topia is found at the sea’s edge.
The work was created in collaboration with the experimental music duo Ora Clementi.
Maspeth is America
Ben Kujawski, 2024, USA, 6’59 mins
A semi-fictional working-class lamentation captured on the outskirts of industrial areas in New York City. Photographed in black-and-white Super 8, the film reverberates the sentiments of a worker grinding away another day in a never-ending cycle of generational labour.
Mythology of Memory
Justin Brown and Adrian Cousins, 2024,USA/UK, 6’08 mins
Mythology of Memory is a collaborative video installation consisting of Cousins’ elegiac home movie alchemy, and Brown’s palimpsestic layering of the footage into a shifting, dreamlike collage.
Abbaglia e Svanisci
Riccardo Tesorini, 2024, Italy, 6’08 mins
VHS tapes are manipulated, distorted, and reinterpreted through the filmmaker’s use of video circuit bending. In doing so, the fragility of personal and collective memory is examined, with the unpredictability of the process often resulting in surprising outcomes. The accompanying soundtrack utilises self-built audio circuits, modular synthesis, and digitally processed aluminium sounds, all shaped by custom algorithms.
About Wintering - Parts 1 - 3
Nina Maria Allmoslechner, 2023 - Ongoing, Austria/Italy - 2’49” (Part 1) / Austria/Spain - 3’03” (Part 2) / Austria - 4’58” (Part 3)
About Wintering is an ongoing series of shorts that documents periods of retreat and personal reflection for the filmmaker. Each part is released annually and shot entirely on a single roll of Super 8 film. The title of the series references Katherine May’s 2020 bestselling book Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times.
Part 1 explores Allmoslechner's mental health struggles and loss of sense of time, while Part 2 sees her confronting personal and collective grief during an artist residency in Spain. Finally, in Part 3, she explores her troubled relationship with her body, stemming from the premature puberty she experienced at the age of seven and a half.
A Life Half-Lived
Rob Munday, 2024, UK, 7’32 mins
A propulsive journey through places seen, dreams glimpsed and lives cut short. Within kaleidoscopic loops we find the oppressed and suppressed. From kidnapped Argentinians to pro-democracy campaigners and proponents of socialist body culture. And then the individuals: an astronautical scapegoat, an accidental artist’s muse and the much-studied victim of a botched lobotomy. Time flies by in a whirl of faces, dates and developing structures that build into a lattice of memories that refuse to die.
We Breathe Each Other In and Out of Existence
Archer Boyette, 2021, USA, 5’25 mins
A celebration of the magic of plant life. Created using plants harvested in Pisgah National Forest.
The film was originally presented as an installation incorporating 16mm clear leader with adhered botanicals, digitised projections, environmental field recordings, and tree stumps.
I Have Done It Again
Mor Fleisher Leach, 2023, USA, 7’32 mins
A study of identity through language, food, and bandages. An experimental short shot on Super 8 film.
Shape
Sida Wang, 2024, Australia, 5’36 mins
Shape is an experimental short film that examines the intricate and often unnoticed conditioning of human life within urban environments. By adopting an observational stance, this project documents the daily ebb and flow of Sydney's city life, capturing fragments of moments that, when pieced together, reveal the subtle ways in which the urban landscape shapes and regulates human behavior.