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When taking the train home, I always feel that some parts of myself cannot keep up with the moving carriage, and I feel that the order of my mind is also disrupted. The trivial matters that happened during this period began to appear in my mind, and the boundary between reality and memory began to blur…
Typically, every year, May 1st opens the summer season, always crowded with crowds that rush to the seaside to mark the start of summer with joy and gusto, on which occasion going out of town becomes an event. In 2020, however, May 1 comes with a muted and deserted atmosphere. In contrast to the usual days of May 1, this year, the silence and desolation of the sea were the consequences of the extreme quarantine of that period, in the midst of a global pandemic.
0116643225059 is an early experimental film by Weerasethakul made during his time at SAIC. The work is about a long-distance telephone conversation between the filmmaker and his beloved mother in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Weerasethakul superimposed a photograph of his mother in her youth alongside his own image and his apartment in Chicago. It renders a strong bond between the artist and his family.
The documentary explores the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It combines documentary chronicles with an exhibition at the National Museum of History of Ukraine in Another World War. The film delves into the chronology and history of the invasion, offering insights into the museum’s role as a living history of the region. It highlights the unity and resilience of the Ukrainian people as they face the challenges of war, fighting not only for their freedom but for the freedom of all Europe.
A radiology of Tehran bay homeless and migrant civil workers.
The search for truth of the 16 families of technicians killed in the April 23rd, 1999, NATO bombing of the Radio Television Serbia building.
03-FLATS follows the domestic experiences of three single women who are at different stages of their lives. It records how domestic resilience might resist the ennui of mass housing, turning housing into home.
The sound of billiard balls on a table, a montage series from television shows, steam rising from a bowl of instant noodles, reflections in the window of a public bus, a sun dressed in drab army green, daze caused by intermittent sleep, and the words hidden in a telephone card. The old wait for their coffins, the young wait to leave the island, the recruits wait and count the number of days before discharge, the rocks wait for people to come back, and I wait for the end of the film.
05.RED.04.CLAY, commemorates the 10th anniversary of the greatest milestone in Argentine tennis. The legendary Roland Garros Final between Gaston Gaudio and Guillermo Coria.
Quentin Lee returns to Hong Kong, where he was born and raised. As he explores his desire to move back there from Los Angeles, he interviews local artists, filmmakers, friends, and family about why they are in Hong Kong and why they choose to be there.
A community of pre-dawn cyclists realizes that the member’s bonds reach far beyond the sport.
In this installation Alfredo Jaar meditates on the events of June 1, 2020, six days after police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old Black man. One of the many peaceful protests following Floyd’s death took place in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square, near the White House. In order to facilitate a photo op for former President Donald Trump raising a Bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church adjacent to Lafayette Square, U.S. Attorney General William Barr ordered federal forces to clear the area. They subsequently fired on the peaceful protestors with tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets. They also flew two helicopters so low to the ground that the wind created by their rotors broke tree branches and scattered debris.
simple friends. simple walk, simple day, beautiful destination.
It will reveal previously unseen testimonies and images about what happened a year ago, when Pedro Castillo announced the closure of Congress hours before the vote on his removal.
The director films their neighborhood over the course of a day
From a rooftop, a camera films the El Pozo train station in Madrid on 11 March. It awaits the arrival of one of the four trains that took part in the 11M terrorist attacks, at the same place where it exploded in that Thursday of 2004.
Jean lives as a hermit in a forest. From his cabin, he listens to and records the sounds of the animals that inhabit the surrounding area. One night, he hears the cry of an unknown animal. Along with Mana, a young girl who sings with the birds, he goes in search of the mysterious creature.
9-10 is a recording made on Insecam between the afternoon of the 9th and the early morning of October 10, 2024, when Hurricane Milton arrived off the coast of Florida, in the United States. The film features shots of Florida and the surrounding area.
August 9, 2020 is the day of the beginning of the largest protest in Belarus. From morning till evening Minsk was filled with people in white bracelets. In the evening, when the central election commission announced the interim results of the elections, brutal dispersal of the protesters began. Alexander Taraikovsky died that night.
Montage of clips shot at a local college film club meetup.