Selected

August-November 2023

Wind

Mike Hoolboom

Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). LaMDA was designed to create chat bots that interact with humans...

Scraggliness

Johanne Chagnon

Emaciated beings in a desolated landscape stand out in front of suspended remains. The poses of these silhouettes make the human figure almost animal, hardly recognizable. Can we detect in this ghostly wall the spectres of the people to which these abandoned moults belonged, these remains of a past existence?...

some of do tell

GEORGE ANGEL

So far, our only return to the garden. The text is from the piece do tell, which is part of the book gossamer buttresses by george angel.

Ruby Baby

Marion H von Loewenstern

HOLD MY HAND

Alexandra Alekhina

Masha is over forty, and she is pregnant. The event is long-awaited and joyful - she and her husband really want children. A visit to the perinatal center casts doubt on the possibility of having a healthy baby – tests show a high risk of having a child with the Down syndrome...

Andy Keys Clark - 'She’s So Spector-Esque'

Ignatius Rake

An animated tribute to legendary singer and 60s icon Ronnie Spector (1943-2022), this epic music video for UK soul and ska stalwart Andy Keys Clark (AKC) blasts Space-Race rocketry out to the furthest corners of the cosmos to help a lovestruck astronaut reconnect with his enigmatic lover.

Somebody's Baby

Mervyn McCracken

A homeless woman who, driven by grief, snatches a baby.

Nothing To It

Barbara Spevack

Can the rest of the am dram troupe convince the male actor playing Juliet that it’s okay to kiss Romeo?

FROGGER, THE CREATURE OF THE LAKE

Stephane Laurencin

A young man turn into a creature after falling in a polluted pond

Orpheus In The Underground

Tipu Sultan

Orpheus the bard is reminiscing about his ex wife Eurydice, as he heads off to the underworld, the London Underground in search of his wife.

ATLANTIS 1

Misaki K. Asamie

This is a story of the Atlantisians in 9593 B.C. The people of Atlantis live desperately through the repeated wars and many earthquakes. Marissa who loves her hometown meets a scholar foretelling the ruin of the Atlantis. He says that he want to evacuate as many people as possible before it's too late. But, soon after that, he is arrested by the government of Atlantis and he is sentenced to death. Marissa and her childhood friend try to save him. This is the message from Atlantis beyond 10, 000 years.

Sun Opener

Alvin Case

A former rock n roll drummer from NYC, gets a call from a club in Utah to act as house drummer. A quoting fan of the artist Robert Smithson, he is ready to make his pilgrimage to Smithson's most recognizable work, The Spiral Jetty, when he realizes his long forgotten drums are stored at an old friend's house and retrieving them will come with an unexpected condition.

Is work a form of prostitution? ENG

Ezaelde Marco

Since every individual carries out any job to earn money, he practices prostitution to all intents and purposes. Selling your sex organ is no different than selling any other part of your body, like your voice, brain, muscles, and more, just to get money. The term prostitute should not be attributed only to a sex worker, but to all those who carry out an activity for money...

Phone Call From Leavenworth

Rudy Strukoff

As the man enters Leavenworth Prison, he remembers what he had, what he did and what he lost. Realizing that he'd been standing with the devil all along. Take the journey into madness with this death row prisoner as he takes the last stop on the subway to hell.

Sweetest Vacation

Phillip E.Walker

95th Academy Award® televised ceremony appearing Phillip E. Walker Stars in this much celebrated Serlingesque mini short film which leads viewers on a dark comedy fantasy romp through the mind. There an elder is thrusted into a different world . . . via some assistance. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21979222/