Parallel Tracks is a short dance film following a young woman's journey through a fragmented urban landscape as she confronts her inner self. Caught between motion and stillness, presence and reflection, she navigates an emotional terrain where reality and psyche blur. Echoing the introspective tone of Bergman’s Persona, the film explores identity, duality, and the silent tensions that shape our inner lives.

Between urban bursts and fragments of nature, the portrait of M as a sensory and rhythmic journey. An experiment with the technical possibilities of the S8 camera.​

A young couple is stuck in a never-ending cycle of miscommunication and quarrelling. Their argument becomes more and more distorted with each repetition, until the characters’ shapes visually dissolve and get lost in the magnetic particles. This experimental short film uses the medial limitations of analogue video to explore the damaging effects of repetitive toxic patterns on relationships between couples.​

In the modern world we are surrounded by machines. Caring for the machines we forget the most complex one: our human body.​

A phytogram cocktail made with three varieties of basil.

Ruth Hayes animates in film, video, flipbooks and other precinema devices, experimenting with form and content while exploring visual phenomena, engaging in political critique, and mining personal experience. She learned to animate at Harvard, earned her MFA in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts, and taught animation in the interdisciplinary curriculum of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington for 25 years, retiring with emerita status in 2021.

Violence is not limited to physical acts—verbal violence can also cause irreparable harm to the soul. Synopsis: This experimental short film visualizes the intangible damage of words through striking imagery. The fragility of paper mirrors the vulnerability of the human heart. Each act of violence leaves irreversible marks on its two-dimensional surface, just as verbal abuse etches scars into the psyche. The film asks: Do we underestimate the power of words? If harm doesn’t bleed, does that make it acceptable?

An arrangement of found image sources from the 16th Century onward, the film looks at the changing representations of the giant star at the center of the solar system. From celestial maps to telescopic photos, the film traces the sun as a natural constant, a mirror of human curiosity, and a radiant symbol of mystery.

Derek Taylor creates films that explore the intersection of documentary and experimental filmmaking, with a particular emphasis on themes of history and landscape. He often examines the tension between the temporary and the enduring aspects of lived experience, using formal and textural elements to explore this dynamic...

A short story by István Örkény about how to hammer a nail. The short story presents various situations and methods of driving a nail, possible arising problems and their solutions, as well as exceptional cases.

The boy doesn't want to live like this, he wants to escape and never come back. The girl is waiting, the heavy rain erodes everyone.

A protist is an organism that is neither animal, vegetable, nor fungi. Plant-like protists are called algae – such as those “flowers of the sea” cyanotypes created by Anna Atkins and published in a landmark book in 1843. In a mesmerizing frenzy of images and text, this animated short transforms her images into a protest of the historical erasure of the colonial violence that enabled their creation.

Sasha Waters' essay films and experimental shorts ­– from Chekhov for Children – a Top Ten mention in the Senses of Cinema World Poll – to 16mm films such as Respiration and Fragile – embrace a personal, artisanal approach to craft...

Panna and Atus live in timelessness, while the grass just withers around them. But can this last at least until the end of the allergy season?

Although my experiences inspired me to try myself out in filmmaking, my life has been full of twists and turns. After I finished my studies in history and art history in Budapest, I left for China to start a new chapter in my career. In Shanghai, I tried to absorb everything that being a foreigner and traveling in Asia could give me. I worked in a video art studio as a curator and had the chance to get a glimpse at filmmaking, helping to create performance art pieces. After I started publishing my short stories back in Hungary, I made my first short film. It was then I realized I truly arrived home...