THINGS I DO WHEN I'M BORED
A collage of videos from Youtubers and their relationship with being and/or feeling bored.
SKETCHES FROM MOABIT
Marc Augé coins the term "non-place" to spaces of transience, spaces that do not hold enough significance to be considered a place, where the human remains anonymous.
BEING RIGHT THERE
Transitions are traditionally used for temporal or spatial transformations on the continuity of the film’s narrative.
LIGHT ON SILVER
The dream machine traps the characters in a world of decay and disintegration, of discarded objects and waste. They face the mortality of the material that nails them to the past.
WORKERS BEFORE LEAVING THE FACTORY
Workers are subjected to a very restrictive discipline of everyday behavior that transforms their individuality into a passive condition where labor power is the fundamental purpose of human existence.
WHO SINGS CASTS MISFORTUNE AWAY
At the age of 87 Maria da Conceição interprets the story of her life through Portuguese popular songs, old films and her own poetry while she faces her memories and ghosts from the past.
MIRRORS #1-2
Set in one of the many abandoned and fallen-apart houses by the riverside of Porto, the video explores the space as the artists perform with mirrors for the camera questioning the represented and reflected image.
BOND, FOUND BOND
An analysis on the action films of James Bond, its plot is deconstructed and punctuated by the soundtrack—full with gunshots and explosions!
NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO THERE YOU ARE
The word globalization has become a common term in our vocabulary. But what does the globalized world really look like?
FRAGMENTS #5
These are fragments of memories that interpret the human condition in a specific space and time, capturing the minuscule human existence. We record images to extend our memory but they will never replace our experience.
LITTLE PORTUGAL
Little Portugal is located in the downtown west of Toronto and covers a solid community with social, cultural, commercial and religious institutions.
POLAND IS NICE
A view on urban landscape and society identity in the quick changing post-communist Poland and its ten years of European Union. An essay on Polish contemporary issues focusing on racism, xenophobia, homophobia and immigration.
SWIEBODZKI
In this impressive documentary, Pedro Ferreira manages, however, to see the different faces of Świebodzki. Once a week, with the arrival of traders, the area around the palace becomes a carnival of consumption. (New Horizons IFF'14)
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