All Films

Who Am I? is a 48-minute documentary which explores humanity's eternal quest for the truth of who we really are. From Ramana Maharshi's direct method of self-enquiry to H.W.L Poonjaji's assertion that we are free here and now and the sharp and provocative teaching style of Nisargadatta Maharaj, this profoundly absorbing documentary is a rare visual treat for viewers. Interweaving precious archive footage, a deeply inspiring narrative and heartfelt interviews with devotees, this beautifully presented film features, amongst others, acclaimed author David Godman and S K Mullarpattan, respected translator to Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Deep sea: 1000m below the surface no light, immense pressure and icy temperatures. The deep sea encompasses more than 90% of the planets habitat. Yet we know less about these depths than about the moon. This film documents the technical, scientific, and ecological challenges of deep sea researchers. Scientists work worldwide together to collect data on the physical state of the upper ocean. With more than 3000 autonomous floats they monitor the oceans for influences on weather systems like El Nino or the monsoon. Does it affect global climate change? Does the deep sea offer solutions for the CO2 issue? Researchers in the Okinawa Trough are trying to find out. The sea floor harbors enormous amounts of resources: oil, natural gas, methane. Scientists work hard to try and locate these materials. Millions of deep sea dwellers are waiting for their discovery. The Census of Marine Life is trying to catalogue these bizarre ocean creatures before they disappear.

This little film was blown up from Super 8 to 16mm Kodachrome, and was shot frame by frame on the balcony of the 15th floor of the Bourcry tower. This was during one of the Preview Shows at Light Cone when a violent storm in Paris transformed day into night. When I got home, the water had seeped into my camera, rendering it definitively out of order.

I’ve Heard Stories combines video and drawing into an animated short that speculates on the events surrounding the murder of Lebanese politician and businessman Henri Pharaoun at the hotel in 1993. - MoMa

Short 8mm experimental movie by Meritxell Colell Aparicio.

Beijing Changping Qiliqu Temporary Shelter is a shelter that was part of the network of temporary shelters used in China from the early 1950s to accommodate homeless people (the liumang 流氓). Changping Qiliqu shelter was used as a detention center in the 1990s, in particular, to incarcerate recalcitrant Yuanmingyuan artists, including Xu Ruotao. With its cold and soulless images, this video has a latent subversive tone, and a consistent vision of a hostile world.

A mid-length film of Cho Hye-Jung

A short parody animation based on the My Little Pony franchise.

From "Watershed" Bonus DVD

Salvador talks on the phone with his compadre one routine morning while getting ready to go to work, however he hides something from him.

Gillian Ayres studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1946-50, before running the AIA Gallery with painter Henry Mundy whom she married. As a young artist in the 1950’s, Ayres was closely involved with leading British abstract artists including Roger Hilton. Ayres was quick to respond to European tachism and American abstract expressionism, creating a body of work that placed her in the forefront of her generation. In the sixties she was the only woman artist to be represented in the important ‘Situation’ exhibitions, showing large paintings combining oil and paint that aimed for the sublime using very radial drip and pour techniques of action painting.

Sun (One Day Old) is the montage of 35mm photographs of different superior mirages of the sun at the moment of sunset.

She puts her hands together and makes a wish to heaven. At that moment, right above her house, high in the sky, something huge is flying with its wings outstretched. On its back is a mountain range along its spine, and at the foot of the mountain is a wide, wide forest. In the depths of the forest, three cephalopods with big eyes are playing a game with mysterious cards that resemble playing cards. The course of the game has a strong influence on the fulfillment of her wish...

A young couple break into an abandoned school. Strangers to one another they struggle to achieve the intimacy they desire.

With a title hearkening back to the analog era, The Peace Tape is a frenetic remix of old and new "found" video. Culling his sources from thrift stores (countless straight-to-VHS childrens' programs), the Internet (a single YouTube clip featuring "dog in a dog costume"), and his own designs (flash animation of eyes and mouths, subliminal flickers of text), Ciocci concentrates hours of light entertainment into a dense, four-minute block. Saved from total sensory overload by the musical logic of Extreme Animals' "A Better Way," The Peace Tape is cryptic, hypnotic (and above all), empathetic. "Culture is out of control," Ciocci explains, "but it is ok."

an Animated Short about Balloons

An intimate experience in a public place.

A trip to the Los Angeles film festival leads to a glamorous gauntlet of flashing smiles and flashing bulbs that add the extra “humph” to a reunion of old friends. Witness a premiere in full swing as the meatballs simmer for a summer bash in La-La land!

This is the final part of a trilogy about the tribulations of Sherri Frankenstein (at least I think it's the last of these atrocities). Made with my class at the San Francisco Art Institute, this fast paced cheapy looks like a million bucks worth of eye candy as it relentlessly snowballs to a chilling climax. The thrills are cheap too as the plot details the heroine's joy ride through Hollywood and her detour into a cathedral of corruption. Fun for the whole, dysfunctional family!

The film is about "maroon berets", soldiers of the special forces "Vyatich", who serve in Chechnya. About war, about peace and about how shaky the border separates these concepts from each other in the minds of people in the North Caucasus.

The Pomors are the descendants of the ancient Novgorodians who left the power of the Moscow prince for the harsh forests of the Tersky coast in order to preserve their former freemen. Today they fish, farm and even plant forests. They will not exchange their harsh, difficult, but free life for any other.

Aokigahara Sea of Trees, which stretches at the foot of Japan's most sacred mountain, Mt. Fuji, one of the most famous haunted places in Japan. The DVD presents a selection of shocking footage recorded at the sea of trees, which is said to be a famous suicide spot, and where "once you enter, you can't get out.

In this anti-tourist film I refused to look up. Too polite to steel people, or too cowardly, I looked down and filmed my first contact along the black constellations of E14th St. in New York.