After Meet Night

Story is about a man who is suddenly beset with horrendous disasters that take away all he holds dear.

Directors:

Eugene Feoktistov

Key Cast:

Dmitry Feodorov

Writers:

Eugene Feoktistov

Producers:

Anastacia Vlasova

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Short

Genres:

Dramma

Duration:

0:14:38

Country of Origin:

Russian Federation

Completion Date:

-

Language:

English

Alchemy

In this episode Batho reveals the secret of the third door.

Directors:

Giampaolo Paoli, Flavia Hettinga

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Giampaolo Paoli

Producers:

Giampaolo Paoli

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:10:33

Country of Origin:

Netherlands

Completion Date:

2017-06-01

Language:

English

Alla Bua (A different cure)

In this ethnographic documentary, Maria, Lele and Flavia share their personal stories of healing, all of them connected to a historical-religious phenomena: "Tarantism" in Southern Italy. Since the 14th century the "Pizzica" has been played and danced to cure people from the bite of a spider. Today, as Flavia, Maria and Lele tell us, it can be a cure for any physical or psychological pain, a cure even for the troubles of a fast-paced world. To them, the Pizzica is more than a music or dance form, and by listening, dancing or playing they experience "alla bua", a different cure, which is connected to trance states, visions, the invisible and holy.

Directors:

Zoë Beer

Key Cast:

Maria Fortunato, Emmanuele Ferrari, Flavia Sabato

Writers:

-

Producers:

Zoë Beer

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Student

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:32:34

Country of Origin:

Switzerland

Completion Date:

2021-04-21

Language:

Italian, Swiss German

ANIMA

ANIMA is a short documentary film created with the goal of decreasing violence against animals by raising awareness of what different faiths teach about compassion, animals, and the environment. The film features leaders across religious and cultural backgrounds including: Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Jainism, the Baha'i, and members of First Nations/Native American communities.

Directors:

Jennifer Jessum

Key Cast:

Saginaw Grant, Sam Bearpaw

Writers:

Jennifer Jessum

Producers:

Lo Sprague, Jennifer Jessum

Other Credits:

Cinematography: Joseph Tamas, Aaron Torres

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

Animal Rights, Diversity, Religion, Faith, Interfaith, Environment, Nature, Peace, Peace-keeping, Multi-Cultural, Non-Violence

Duration:

0:12:35

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2020-08-22

Language:

English

Awakening the Soul

A psychedelic trip into the heart of Ayahuasca — a sacred visionary plant medicine. This documentary deep dives into how and why this medicine is so profoundly effective at unravelling and healing the root causes of trauma, addiction and mental health issues.

Directors:

Samuel Austin

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Psychedelic

Duration:

1:08:00

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

-

Language:

English

Bardo (Di Maio)

Bardo in tibetan means intermediate state, and indicates the condition of transition between two states.

This film is a journey that reflects on the concepts of Life and Death, of Transition, of Life as a Dream, and of all the illusions that manifest in our lives.

It is an invitation to connect with a deeper sense of understanding, found within the space between each sound and image.

The audiovisual stream becomes a resonating bridge to the Unseen and Unheard, to a knowledge we know exists, but of which we are habitually unaware.

There is an alternative way of experiencing this film, which is to watch it twice, first blindfolded, and then with eyes open.

By removing the sense of sight the first time, much more attention is given to the sound stream.

Stripped of their ability to "see" outwardly, the audience gains space to picture moments and memories according to their own sensibility.

This internal manifestation, this dance of light and color that occurs in the "mind’s eye" in reaction to the soundscapes, becomes a shadow-play of subconscious imagery, replacing "the real" imposed by the eye, by "the possible one" suggested by the ear.

As such, the ear becomes the new "sensitive eye", one which is born out of the enhanced combination of external sounds and internally perceived light.

The sound will break this light into rarefied shadows, and will introduce the listener to one of the main topics of the film: reality, as we know it, could be nothing but a dream.

Directors:

Alessandro Di Maio

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Alessandro Di Maio

Producers:

Palzom Films, Alessandro Di Maio

Other Credits:

Sound Design: Alessandro Di Maio; Original Music Score: Alessandro Di Maio

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:10:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2021-01-20

Language:

English, Tibetan

Bardo (De Stefano)

SYNOPSIS

A man on his deathbed makes a visionary journey between the past, present and future of his land. In those moments it becomes clear and limpid what he has seen and known in life and that the magical rites that he has studied all his life still manifest themselves around the country in other much more modern forms.

STORY

A man on his deathbed clearly sees that the magical and religious rites he has studied all his life can be brought up to date even in the contemporary era. The omniscient eye of the deceased will wander all over the country and will meet different characters, each one struggling to practice magical rites.

The deceased will see a politician on duty seek the consensus of the streets by pointing to an external scapegoat (immigrants) as the evil that afflicts their fellow citizens, just as before the peasants removed the devil from their dry and run-down cultivated land. The deceased will meet a loving couple who argue in a bar and whose boyfriend shares a fake video on his smartphone that portrays blacks hatefully destroying a local police car, and understands the parallelism with the ancient cathartic practices of the sorcerer for atone for the devil from love affairs. The soul still wanders and sees the mother who tries to console the mourning of the loss of her child alone by taking psychiatric drugs and understands more clearly how in the past the mourning process was instead shared with the other members of the community. The gaze of the mother leads the deceased to meet the priest who shortly before celebrated his death and who has now abandoned himself to gambling raising his eyes to the sky just as the devotees of past years raised their gaze to the saints on the altar to seek prosperity and fortune. Finally, the essence of the deceased scholar will be embodied in the eyes of a boy who will become aware of community life and aggregation.

Directors:

G. Daniele De Stefano

Key Cast:

Graziano Bellezza, Maria Cisterna, Ciro D'Amico, Carmine Pisapia, Luigi Vitelli, Daniela Castronuovo, Mario Petracca, Enzo Montemurro, Claudia D'Anna, Carmine Calandriello, Rocco Calandriello, Antonietta D'Amico

Writers:

G. Daniele De Stefano

Producers:

Associazione Allelammie, Lucania Film Festival

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:09:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2020-08-01

Language:

English, Italian

Be ready - The keys of Pope Celestine V

"Be ready - The keys of Pope Celestine V" tells the life of the holy hermit Pietro del Morrone, who became pope in 1294 with the name of Celestine V. He was known for having renounced, by official act, to the papacy after only a few months. The film focuses on the short but intense papacy, on the famous renunciation and on the imprisonment imposed by his successor: Boniface VIII, in the prison of Fumone where a fight takes place, a fight between two different conceptions of the Church: the Spiritual one and the Material one.

Directors:

Luke Anthon, Giuseppe Tandoi

Key Cast:

Lino Capolicchio, Giovanni Visentin, Giulio Tropea, Claudia Lucia Lerro, Giovanni Marchione

Writers:

Eulalia Caterina Rosati, Giuseppe Tandoi

Producers:

Giuseppe Tandoi

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:15:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2021-08-05

Language:

Italian

Cloud of lights

George is a young quaker, who moved to Brussels to work on sustainability. This new city becomes the place of his coming of age, and an internal journey in which his thoughts about faith, the divine and his place in the world confronts a new reality.

Directors:

Hugo Sénégas

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Editer: David Lestienne; Sound editing and audio mixing: Enzo Tibi

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:18:51

Country of Origin:

Belgium

Completion Date:

2022-08-18

Language:

English

Corpus Piggy

A young doctor engages in a strange culinary ritual, invoking the magic of tarot and surgery. He invites a food photographer to document the process. Dozens of Polaroids later, she finds herself undergoing an unexpected transformation.

Directors:

Kimberly Lovie

Key Cast:

I.B. Kwok, Kimberly Lovie

Writers:

Kimberly Lovie

Producers:

Kimberly Lovie

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:07:16

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-02-10

Language:

English

Cosmic Engineers

The doc is about the formation of the Solar System according an ancient Babylonian myth. Syusy Blady tells some hypothesis about the origin of the cosmos, up to a surprising one found on a book by Marco Pesci: the origin of the Solar System is artificial! Made by the digital artist Lorenzo Mariani, with a field overlapping technique in homage to Georges Méliès. He made the very first sci-fi movie ever 120 years ago, "A trip to the moon"... We could define this work a Méliès 2.0!

Directors:

Maurizia Giusti, Lorenzo F.P. Mariani

Key Cast:

Syusy Blady, Marco Pesci, Alessandro Morbidelli, Martin G. Snidaro

Writers:

Maurizia Giusti, Marco Pesci

Producers:

Maurizia Giusti, Lomar Graphics

Other Credits:

Creazione e animazione 3D: Lorenzo F.P. Mariani

Project Type:

Animation, Documentary

Genres:

Sci-Fi, Spirituality, Archaeology, History, Mythology

Duration:

1:03:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

-

Language:

Italian

Dramayama

Follow Branly, timekeeper in Iximulew -Corn Land/Guatemala- a 21st century Mayan, on his vision quest for meaning and reaffirmation of his Mayan spirituality through the echoes of an ancient civilization in the Vedic South of India.

A journey Inside, an Astrological Cosmic Dance beyond the End of the Maya Calendar.

Experience a space time travel to the past, present and future through the eyes of Branly Gio López, timekeeper in Iximulew -Corn Land/Guatemala- along rituals for the Planets of our Solar System still alive in the Dravidian Temples in the Vedic South of India. Ever since the ‘End of the Mayan calendar’ Branly has researched techniques and the meaning of Mayan Cosmology, trying to recover ancient rituals and knowledge painfully devastated by 500 years of colonization. During his vision quest he slowly recognizes deep roots in the echoes of an old civilization. Meanwhile the volcano erupts, the temple elephant dies and the turtle breathes home.

Directors:

jeanette Groenendaal

Key Cast:

Branly Gio Lopez

Writers:

jeanette Groenendaal

Producers:

jeanette Groenendaal

Other Credits:

Editor: Zoot Derks, Jeanette Groenendaal; Framefucking: Jandries Groenendijk; Color Correction: Jeroen Weeda; Sound Post.: Warning studio's; Music: Stephanie Pan, Stelios Manousakis; Co-Production: Ted Baijings; Post Prod. assistent: Zilfer de Boer; Graphic Design: Zilfer de Boer; Languages: Spoken Languages, Subtitles

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:30:00

Country of Origin:

Netherlands

Completion Date:

2020-12-21

Language:

English, Hindi, Spanish, Tamil

Eclipsed

In Chilean Patagonia, this dark tale explores the videogame addiction of Nicolas, and his healing path when he meets a local shaman on the day of a Solar Eclipse.

Directors:

Vicente Manzano

Key Cast:

Diego Saavedra, Carolina Vargas, Luz Clara Camus

Writers:

Vicente Manzano

Producers:

Vicente Manzano

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:18:00

Country of Origin:

Chile

Completion Date:

2021-09-01

Language:

Spanish

Escape Velocity

To overcome writer’s block and finish her horror film, an aspiring occultist finds isolation deep in the rainforest to perform a life-changing ritual.

Directors:

Samuel Davenport

Key Cast:

Sophia Roud

Writers:

Samuel Davenport

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Editor: Samuel Davenport; Animation: Marc Aquino Michaels; Music: Fitting Graves, Val Killer

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:06:30

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2021-04-15

Language:

English

FILM

During the recent excavations at the former “Parenti” Sanatorium located in the north Garda Lake in Italy, was found the camera belonging to the two film directors who disappeared ten years before.

The “Film” case, called so by the authorities, will be reopened.

The investigation will reveal the insane project still in progress designed by the two directors.

Directors:

Niko de Pinto, Valentino Tonoli

Key Cast:

Niko de Pinto, Valentino Tonoli, Tiziano Tonoli, Matteo Aldeghieri, Giovanni de Pinto, Katia Bombardelli, Jeck Mai

Writers:

Niko de Pinto, Valentino Tonoli

Producers:

Niko de Pinto, Valentino Tonoli, Tiziano Tonoli

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Other

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:34:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2021-03-23

Language:

Italian

From Source

A skier wanders alone by a glacier on a bright full-moon night and steps into the abyss of a glacier cave. His longing for spiritual liberation guided him there, as far as possible from everything he knows. Diving in the depths of the unknown, he experiences a mystical connection with his higher self through his freeride skiing visions.

The next day feels like seeing the world with different eyes as he comes back to civilization with a fresh and rejuvenated spirit, dreaming about dancing freely on the spring mountain playground.

Directors:

Yann Rausis

Key Cast:

Yann Rausis

Writers:

Yann Rausis

Producers:

Yann Rausis

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:15:00

Country of Origin:

Switzerland

Completion Date:

2021-08-30

Language:

English, French

Good Morning R.I.P. (EP4)

Sky’s mind bending adventure through the dark recesses of his subconscious force him to confront his fears and insecurities. Entrenched in an endless nightmare, he struggles to cope and distinguish who can be trusted (including himself).

Is he a victim of circumstance or did he bring this on himself? Can he hold it together long enough to find help and escape back to reality or will he spiral into madness?

Directors:

Luke Jacunski

Key Cast:

Luke Jacunski, Alastair Morley Jaques, Nylah Brooks

Writers:

Luke Jacunski

Producers:

Luke Jacunski

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short, Web / New Media

Genres:

Horror, Psychological, Thriller, Mystery

Duration:

0:09:08

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-02-17

Language:

English

Hallucinations

Aliens descend in crystal spaceships to make contact with people through guitar amp distortion and glowing animal skulls.

Directors:

M. Wild

Key Cast:

Ifeoma Kpaduwa, Sierra Erika Taylor, Lary Muller

Writers:

M. Wild

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:34:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2020-09-03

Language:

English, Italian, Spanish

Imagemaker

A documentary short film, "Imagemaker" was shot during a 13-year art residency of preparing the image of Goddess Kali for Kali Puja, a traditional Hindu ritual. Complemented by image-making process, archival sources, expert interviews, "Imagemaker" delves into an 80 year-old mystical and artistic tradition in Los Angeles, occasionally turning the lens on the artist and her experience with motherhood.

Directors:

Uma Sanasaryan

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Uma Sanasaryan

Other Credits:

Editor: Uma Sanasaryan

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

Art, Religion

Duration:

0:28:40

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2021-04-07

Language:

English

Imbas Forosnai

Following the clairvoyant practices of poets of ancient Ireland, a young man in present day Limerick seeks answers from the Otherworld.

Directors:

Shane Serrano

Key Cast:

Shane Davis, Claire J. Loy, Billy Mag Fhloinn

Writers:

Shane Davis

Producers:

Pete Moles

Other Credits:

Editor: Philip Shanahan; Score & Sound Design: Ronan Mitchell; Director of Photography: Stephen Hall

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Art House, Fictional

Duration:

0:15:00

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Completion Date:

2021-08-20

Language:

English

In the beginning

Buried in darkness, a woman witnesses centuries passing by as she cries out to the world in search of her identity and place in the world.

Directors:

Shaun Clark

Key Cast:

Carrie Thompson

Writers:

Chris Lince

Producers:

Carrie Washington

Other Credits:

Editor: Ariadna Fatjo-Vilas; Sound Design: David Pringle; Music Composer: Madison Willing; Director of photography consultant: Nick Cooke; Actress: Carrie Thompson

Project Type:

Animation, Short

Genres:

Drama, Fiction, Animation, Historical, family

Duration:

0:10:46

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2022-01-16

Language:

English

INFERNAL NEBULA

INFERNAL NEBULA is an excursion in 8 chapters featuring an original score in 8 movements. Beauty, mysteries, dark dreams and dark histories unfold.

Directors:

Michael Sefton

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:40:00

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2021-08-13

Language:

-

Kali Yuga Chants

Kali Yuga Chants follows “Uncle” and “Aunty”, a mixed-race couple living in India, and the 35 children they’re raising in a makeshift foster family. The film chronicles individual kids' transformations over ten years: from begging and picking through garbage, to learning meditation and math, gaining confidence and navigating teenage crushes and turbulent emotions.

Under the mentorship of an internationally-known teacher, the teenaged girls become expert chanters of Hinduism's ancient Vedic mantras, which helps them to break free from the caste and gender stigma of their births, but ironically also brings backlash from the established elite and male priests.

As the whole group struggles to build a permanent home in the jungle, external and internal "complications" threaten to tear apart the family, and raise questions that are central to the human condition.

Directors:

Nilima Abrams

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Robert Pollin, Sigrid Miller Pollin, Ellyn Shander, Heidi Tappan, Doug Nedde

Other Credits:

Consulting Editor: Charlene Music; Advisor: Delaney Ruston; Sound Editor: Tim Joy

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature, Student

Genres:

International, cross cultural

Duration:

1:31:05

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2018-06-12

Language:

English

LARVAE

Turin, 1909. Cesare Lombroso, the world-famous founder of the School of Criminal Anthropology, arrives at the isolated mansion of Lazar, an elderly illusionist. Lombroso, attracted to Spiritualism, challenges Lazar: to prove that the supernatural exists and that it may be the cause of a heinous crime.

What could have unleashed the murderous fury in the young seminarian Tommaso and what binds him to the paranormal faculties of Lazar and his son Lorenzo? Is it illusionism or is there something real?

The ancient and decadent house of Lazar hides many truths and Lombroso's scientific vision will have to open up to new perspectives.

Directors:

Alessandro Rota

Key Cast:

Stewart Arnold, Roberto Accornero, Niccolò Fontana, Fabio Renis

Writers:

Alessandro Rota

Producers:

Alessandro Rota, Francesco Cerrato, Fabrizio Nastasi

Other Credits:

Music: Francesco Cerrato; Production manager: Federico Dedo Gorgoglione; Cinematography: Gerardo Fornari; Set design: Maurizio Corigliano, Sergio Luca Loreni

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Horror, Historical

Duration:

0:30:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2021-12-31

Language:

English

LES-1

HAH's Music vid : a witch discovers a path to the other world - using neural style transfert, optical flow, and Deep dream

Directors:

Micha Vanony

Key Cast:

Charlène Dray

Writers:

Micha Vanony

Producers:

Micha Vanony

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Music Video

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:04:30

Country of Origin:

Monaco

Completion Date:

2021-07-01

Language:

-

MAGICK

A portrait of a young woman in Encinitas, California, and how she uses spirituality and faith to overcome her personal demons around mental health and suicide.

Directors:

Hannah Leis, Juliette Benedetto

Key Cast:

Melia Ennis

Writers:

-

Producers:

Juliette Benedetto

Other Credits:

Cinematography : Kento Komatsu; Editor : Maxwell Sauerbrey; Color Correction: Kento Komatsu; Drone Cinematography: Maxwell Sauerbrey

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:12:11

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-05-11

Language:

English

Magnum Opus

ENG

An alchemist begins a spiritual journey that will test him several times. Among obscure caves and surreal places, the man faces a path full of strangeness and occult symbols that force him to face his fears, and then find himself. The goal is the legendary Philosopher's Stone that gives immortality. But it represents much more: a new life and a renewed awareness of himself and the world.

ITA

Un alchimista intraprende un viaggio spirituale, che lo metterà alla prova più volte. Tra oscure caverne e luoghi surreali, l’uomo affronta un percorso pieno di stranezze e simbologie occulte che lo costringono ad affrontare le proprie paure per poi ritrovare se stesso. L’obiettivo è la leggendaria Pietra Filosofale che dona l’immortalità. Ma essa rappresenta molto di più: una nuova vita e una rinnovata consapevolezza di sé e del mondo.

Directors:

Carlo Frigenti

Key Cast:

Ettore Nigro, Rebecca Furfaro

Writers:

Carlo Frigenti

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Cinematographer: Gaia La Rocca; Editing: Ivan Mazzone

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:14:47

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2022-02-28

Language:

Italian

NAMARALI

NAMARALI is a 50min documentary charting artist Donny (Yorna) Woolagoodja's quest to rekindle deep connections with his traditional ancestral culture. Yorna's spiritual beliefs revolve around the wandjina - creator beings whose images adorn the caves and rock ledges throughout the Kimberley in Western Australia. Refreshed with new ochre each year by his ancestors the wandjinas are now fading away with the absence of Yorna's people.

But the community's decision to allow one of Yorna's designs to appear at the 2000 Sydney Olympics opening ceremony empowers a progressive new perspective. Yorna is compelled to visit the big-boss wandjina NAMARALI in his cave. His mission; to repaint the imposing 4m wandjina image with fresh ochre and restore NAMARALI back to his full glory.

On a distant, inaccessible section of the West Kimberley coast, the film is witness to the radical action of a man and his community determined to bring their deity 'back to life'.

NAMARALI was created over 20 years by Tim Mummery and senior knowledge keeper Yorna Woolagoodja (2021 Red Ochre lifetime achievement award).

Directors:

Tim Mummery

Key Cast:

Yorna (Donny) Woolagoodja, Alison Burgu

Writers:

Tim Mummery

Producers:

Tim Mummery, Yorna (Donny) Woolagoodja

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:52:11

Country of Origin:

Australia

Completion Date:

2021-04-30

Language:

English

Nameless Natives

Ethnographic populations and tribes have seen gradual fading out to complete disappearance from the face of earth over the centuries. Who knows which were the inhabiting populations that we never got a chance to know about? The Santhali community is one of the oldest existing tribes which have continued to exist through the test of times and changes both environmentally as well as socially. So, what intrigued us was to tap into their life more closely and try to investigate their components of strengths, belief & practices which makes the core of their uniqueness and timelessness. Their changes and developments as a tribe matching step with this overhauled globalization and digitization of the outside world and still holding onto their age-old practices haven’t been much spoken about and we at UinDhi strongly believe that such communities like the Santhalis make the real heroes today who are still holding onto their core elements in the face of modernization. Their lives, their stories of pain, pleasure etc deserves to be told and we have made our first step towards it through this documentary of ours- the “Nameless Natives”.

Directors:

Utsav Mukherhee

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Taposhri Ganguly, Priya K Gopal

Other Credits:

Cinematography: Somak Bhattacharya; Sound Design: Probar Mukherjee; Editing: Dibyendu Roy, Utsav Mukherjee

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

Indigenous, Natives, Tribes, Humanity, Philosophy, Spirituality

Duration:

0:14:57

Country of Origin:

India

Completion Date:

2021-08-31

Language:

Bengali, English

Opus

Inspired by the hermetic language of alchemists and the psychic symbolism of Greek myths, Opus is a series consisting of 5 episodes, which tackles the turbulent path of self-discovery, in a hallucinated and timeless key, where the boundary between human and divine, real and mythological it dissolves and solidifies.

Directors:

Alessio Del Donno

Key Cast:

Enzo Mirone, Claudio D´agostino, Valeria Masiello, Marco Iannuzzi, Consuelo Giangregorio, Maurizio Tomaciello, Ilaria Masiello, Diana Cusani, Maria Pia Rubino, Alda Parrella, Gianpaolo Iannace, Flavia Iori

Writers:

Francesca Mazzoni, Alessio Del Donno

Producers:

Carlo Corso

Other Credits:

Soundtrack: Carlo Corso, Andrea Vernillo, Alessio Del Donno, E.A. Ghost Collective; Editing: Alessio Del Donno

Project Type:

Experimental, Other

Genres:

Hermetic, esoteric

Duration:

0:39:03

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2022-06-30

Language:

Italian

Past Future Journey Nile

Behold the Ancient Egyptian temples along the Nile in their ascending order of awareness and enlightenment; revealing their holistic wisdom and spiritual destiny. "Past Future Journey Nile" is composed from a vintage photo collection, a slideshow travelogue that has been transformed through specials effects into an audiovisual meditation on Ancient Egypt’s sacred vision of our world. Their gods are symbolically portrayed as aspects of the Spirit in Nature and along with their distinctive temples speak to both our rational and intuitive faculties. Traveling through their land as well as their history, philosophy and metaphysics, "Past Future Journey Nile" explores the deep influence of Ancient Egypt on Western civilization and its special meaning for us today and for tomorrow.

Directors:

Mike Mannetta

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Ra Sa

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:00:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-03-18

Language:

English

Percy Grows Up - A Mythic Comedy

While an intern at Grail Industries, Percy encounters mysteries that soon vanish. As he begins hunting for the Grail and an ailing CEO, Percy also searches for what it means to be a man. A comedy inspired by the legends of Percival and King Arthur.

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Directors:

Laura Lewis-Barr

Key Cast:

Nick Sleeper, Stephen Gagin

Writers:

Laura Lewis-Barr

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Short

Genres:

Comedy, fantasy, Mythical, Legends, Fairytale, Stopmotion

Duration:

0:13:33

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-06-27

Language:

-

Quintessence

A distraught young woman returns to her childhood home, but becomes fixated on finding the source of a strange melody.

Directors:

Marah M Herreid

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Marah M Herreid

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short, Student

Genres:

Drama, Experimental, Narrative, Hybrid

Duration:

0:09:53

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-04-28

Language:

English

Quite another story

This documentary aims to investigates what I like to call "Another story"! I started from the studies of Zecharia Sitchin, above all his idea about our planet being visited far away by some ancient astronauts who gave man civilization and created him as a ‘primitive worker’ at their service. A story between science fiction and mythology, offering a valuable explanation to a lot of historical and archaeological facts that we cannot explain otherwise. The very first – and most important – revelation that I’d verify with this documentary is about our origin: Genesis, or the other Genesis actually.

We know that homo sapiens appeared in Africa, more precisely in South Africa. The homo sapiens first appeared in Africa, more precisely in South Africa. But the fact that right there are also the oldest gold mines in the world, matched with this ancestral presence of human activity, is a real mistery.

A thick mistery if you consider that a lot of stone circle constructions have been spotted in this area with Google Earth: they suggest some kind of considerably intelligent presence, or technological either. I traveled to South Africa to meet mr Michael Tellinger, who studied these structures widely. Structures suggesting the Sumerian myth called Absu, seen from above, i.e. the place of the gold search and the creation of man. A place almost uncharted yet, where Michael Tellinger sought the traces of a very remote past instead. Myth, archeology and human history cross here, revealing something that can change history as we know it into... "quite another story"!

The travel continues in Baalbek, the place where Gilgameš wandered looking for immorality according to his epic. Then in Ecuador, where I found the Agua de Oro, long life elixir. In addition to Michael Tellinger and Zecharia Sitichin's contributions (with some rare excerpts taken from my very first interview with mr Sitchin, made twenty years ago in New York), the documentary collects some unpublished interviews with Mauro Biglino, who reinterprets the Genesis Biblical; Alessandro Demontis, who interprets the Sumerian and Babylonian myths of creation; Pietro Buffa, who analyzes the different phases of human evolution from the genetic point of view, and to some friends of the Tesla group.

Directors:

Maurizia Giusti

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Sci-Fi, History, Travel

Duration:

0:58:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

-

Language:

Italian

Rinaldi - Instrumental Transcommunication To The Other Side

For almost three and a half decades, a slight and unassuming Brazilian researcher has been bringing forth evidence of an Afterlife via various processes of Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC). Using technological devices such as telephones, televisions, recorders, computers and cameras, Sonia Rinaldi has been able to record both voice messages and visual images of those who have passed on from this life providing comfort to those who have lost a loved one and helping to prove, definitively, that life continues after bodily death.

Over time, the quality and quantity of these voice messages and visual images have become increasingly clearer, and her work has caught the attention of many well-respected researchers. Hear from some of them, as well as from a small sampling of parents who have lost a child, who attest to the amazing influence Sonia Rinaldi's work has on current understandings of concepts such as life and death.

Directors:

Robert Lyon

Key Cast:

Alan Ross Hugenot, Rosanne Grover Norris, Robert Craig Hogan, Caroline Chang, Brandon J Kim, Patricia McHenry, Jennifer Brazier, Lisa Laniewski, Jann Rudd, Diane Hayek, Christa Collins, Sonia Rinaldi

Writers:

Lisa Laniewski, Robert William Lyon

Producers:

Sandra Champlain

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:21:30

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-02-22

Language:

English

Ripple in the Mirror

A wild journey through the whimsical struggle of dancing with your inner demon.

Directors:

Oren Kaya Dayan

Key Cast:

Oren Kaya Dayan, Craig Charter

Writers:

Oren Kaya Dayan, Craig Charter

Producers:

Oren Charter

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short, Other

Genres:

Abstract, spiritual, comedy, Psychological, drama, experimental, arthouse

Duration:

0:20:00

Country of Origin:

Not Specified

Completion Date:

2022-06-08

Language:

English

S☉N OF THE SUN

S☉N OF THE SUN is a Hermetic fable illustrating inner alchemy or in particular the Mysterium Coniunctionis --or reconciliation of opposites: Light / Dark, Female / Male, Active / Passive etc..... With an original choreography based on the the ancient Mystical dance of the whirling dervish, the video depicts the symbolic dance of polarities that is found everywhere from the macro to the microscopic scales.

Directors:

Brian Whar

Key Cast:

Mark Wagner, Kat Hanula

Writers:

Mark O Wagner

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Music Video

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:03:41

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2021-12-01

Language:

Latin

S☉N RISE

The Hermetic Philosopher or Alchemist is depicted in his laboratory, he contemplates and recounts the creation of the world and in doing so, he separates and recombines himself, appearing and dissolving in the creative act.

S☉N RISE

AND THE S☉N RISES FROM HIS ASHES

AND EVERY DUSK MUST BRING ITS DAWN

AND EVERY DAWN WILL BRING ITS MORNING, AND SO WE MOURN THE DAY BEFORE

AND IF I SEE YOU AT MY WAKE IT'S BECAUSE I MIGHT HAVE DIED

BUT IF EVER I MIGHT DIE WELL THEN AGAIN I WILL AWAKE

COS' MY MOTHER IS THE SEA

AND MY FATHER IS THE WAVE

AND I FOLLOW IN THEIR WAKE

AND SO I ALSO MUST CREATE

I'M THE S☉N OF THE SUN

AND MY MOTHER SHE IS NONE

AND HER OTHER HALF IS ONE

THEY MAKE ALL THINGS UNDER THE SUN

AND SO THE TWO GIVE RISE TO THREE

AND THUS CREATING YOU AND ME

AND YOU AND I SEE EYE TO EYE

BECAUSE WE COME FROM THE SAME SEA

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WAVE

AND SO THE WAVE IT PENETRATED

AND SO THE WATERS SEPERATED

AND THE WHOLE IT BECAME OPEN

AND IN AND OUT THE WAVES GIRATE

SO THAT THE OCEAN IMPREGNATES

AND SO LIKE RIPPLES ON THE WATER

SEPARATE AND REPLICATE

AND SO THE WATER LOST HER WATERS

AND DOWN THE HOLE THE OCEAN WENT

A VORTEX FLOW OF FRACTAL FORM

CRYSTALLISING IN ITS DESCENT

AND SO YOU SEE, THE SEA GAVE BIRTH

TO THE WORLD, TO THE EARTH

TO CURVES AND CIRCLES, SNAKES AND SERPENTS

SOUND & FORM, GEOMETRY

INTO THE HOLE THEN LOOPS THE WHOLE

IN A GREAT FEEDBACK SYMPHONY

ONE FAMILY, A SINGLE TREE

OF WHICH THE FRUIT CONTAINS THE SEEDS

AMD WE ARE NOT AN ENTITY

THERE IS NO YOU, THERE IS NO ME

ETERNALLY IN UNITY AND SO WE ARE INFINITY

AND THE S☉N RISES FROM HIS ASHES

AND EVERY DUSK THUS BRINGS ITS DAWN

AND EVERY DAWN THEN BRINGS ITS MORNING

AND SO WE MOURN THE DAY BEFORE

AND IF YOU SEE ME AT THE WAKE IT'S BECAUSE I MUST HAVE DIED

BUT WHENEVER I WILL DIE WELL THEN AGAIN I WILL REBIRTH

COS' MY MOTHER IS THE EARTH AND MY FATHER IS THE FIRE

AND SHE BIRTHED ME FROM THE SEA AND HE TOOK ME TO THE SKY

Directors:

Ross Adams

Key Cast:

Mark Wagner

Writers:

Mark Wagner

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Music Video

Genres:

-

Duration:

4:50:00

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2022-01-01

Language:

English

SAMADHI ROAD

A journey in search of wisdom, provided by worldwide personalities and the great discoveries of their inner lives.

Samadhi Road narrates the journey of two young brothers, who, searching for wisdom, decide to take timeless questions to personalities such as the Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, the American saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller and the Jamaican master Mooji. Drawing a parallel between the brothers' first experiences in India, during their childhood, and the interviewees' inner journeys, the film promotes an immersive experience in universal issues of human life.

Directors:

Julio Hey, Daniel Hey

Key Cast:

Gilberto Gil, Sonny Rollins, Mooji, Robert Thurman

Writers:

Julio Hey, Daniel Hey

Producers:

Claudio Loureiro

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

Documentary

Duration:

1:30:00

Country of Origin:

Brazil

Completion Date:

2021-04-30

Language:

English, Portuguese

Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder:

A Visual Music Film by Stephen T. Pope and Friends

"Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder" is a multi-award-winning feature-length non-narrative "visual music” film; its five movements (the short-subject contains one section from each movement) use computer animation, painted film, and photographic sources (together with an original electronic-music soundtrack), and map loosely onto the sections of the catholic mass (but with an epistle lesson from Martin Luther King and a credo by Mahatma Gandhi).

The five pieces of music incorporate voices in Latin, English and Arabic (texts from the Bible, by M. L. King and M. K. Gandhi) as well as bird and whale songs. Each of the videos was made to fit the music of the respective movement.

The motivation for "Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder," for making a new mass for the new millennium, is summed up in the following paraphrased quote from the late Joseph Campbell, "Those who have heard the rhythms and hymns of the angels, who have understood any of the words of the angels, will try to recite those hymns in such a way that the angels will be attracted."

Quotes from reviews: Riveting - a tour de force - a hypnotic flow - this is deep electroacoustic music - a fluid and engaging rhythmic and harmonic sense - works both as music and as ritual - incredibly profound - the sonic landscape is pristine - mesmerizing - I can't wait to see it again!

Directors:

Stephen Travis Pope

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Stephen Travis Pope

Producers:

Stephen Travis Pope

Other Credits:

Animations: Stephen Travis Pope, R. Lane Clark, Lance Putnam, Graham Wakefield and Haru Ji

Project Type:

Animation, Experimental, Feature, Music Video

Genres:

Experimental, Visual-Music, Spiritual

Duration:

1:18:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2018-12-09

Language:

English

Selkie

In Celtic and Norse mythology, selkies, meaning ‘seal-folk’, are beings capable of therianthropy: changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. Emerging when the time and tides are correct, seducing or being held captive by human lovers, similar to their cousins the ‘kelpies’ and ‘finfolk’. Our composite shape shifting water siren emerges from her underwater world to ours, casting her spell of seductive and violent dance. Is it love and desire or appetite and malice? Soon a fleeting wisp, she returns to the aquatic depths, leaving only our quickened pulse and vacant stare.

Directors:

Adam Carr

Key Cast:

Ephyra Ana, Tree Carr

Writers:

Adam Carr

Producers:

Adam Carr

Other Credits:

Production Design: Beattie Hartley; Composer: Mike Lindsay; Costume Design: Jivomir Domoustchiev; 1st Assistant Director: Alexa Pearson; Movement Director: Ted Rogers; Lighting: Simon Paul; 1st Assistant Camera / Clapper: Gavin Brabant; 2nd Assistant Camera: Ben Driftwood; Gaffer: Robin Brigham; Selkie Concept Director: Jamie Bull; Hair and Make-Up: Olivia Cochrane; HMU Assistant: Meagan Louise; Prosthetics: Emma Warren; VFX / Colourist: Gully; Sound Recordist / Design / Mix: Geoffrey Papin; VFX: Luis Carlos Santana; Production Assistant / Runner: Sean Goldring; Title Design: Tropic Colour

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Fantasy, Dance

Duration:

0:06:08

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2022-03-14

Language:

No Dialogue

Servants - So Called Humans ft Ed Sykes

Alejandro Jodorowsky meets Grant Morrison in a psychedelic hero's journey into the mysteries music video.

Directors:

Will Wright

Key Cast:

Ed Sykes, Benny Moss, Ronan Grey, Keiran Chatten, Matt Coy, Adam Sawyer

Writers:

Will Wright, Ed Sykes

Producers:

Ed Sykes

Other Credits:

DOP: Sam Bignell; Art Director: Broa Sams; Art Department Assistant: Clive Double; Costumes: Clare Sams; Camera Assistant: Marcus Pierpoint; Editor/VFX: Will Wright

Project Type:

Music Video

Genres:

Occult, Pyschedelic

Duration:

0:06:52

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2017-06-21

Language:

English

Sister

Spiritual horror film about a nun haunted by evil spirits. Filmed in parts of Indianapolis where real-life murders took place, blurring the lines between the real and unreal. Starring Indian actress Vasudha Krishnamoorthy with special appearances by pop star ANZA.

Directors:

Colin Denhart

Key Cast:

Vasudha Krishnamoorthy, Matthew Davis, Katie Harbridge, Jody Fedor, Joshua Scantland, Anza, Jada Buehler, Jesse Mattysse, Mauricia Cortez, Lovely Jane Lanzaderas

Writers:

Colin Denhart

Producers:

Colin Denhart

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

Horror, Drama

Duration:

1:09:04

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2021-06-27

Language:

English

Skagit

Four friends leave Seattle for a weekend in a remote, rain-soaked corner of Washington State's rustic Skagit Valley. The foreboding October landscape begins to warp their minds, plunging each of them into alternate realities where they must grapple with personal demons, sexual tensions, and a sinister natural world as they claw their way back to sanity.

Directors:

Nick Thompson

Key Cast:

Taigé Lauren, Allen Miller III, Rheanna Atendido, Keenan Ward

Writers:

Nick Thompson

Producers:

Leah Trangen, Producer, Rachel Price, Executive Producer, Tracey Breese, Associate Producer, Hailey Williams, Associate Producer, Nick Thompson, Associate Producer

Other Credits:

Director of Photography: Alexander Lenzi; Production Designer: Stephanie Pieper; Original Score: Kevin Middleton; Casting Director: Bobbin Ramsey; Sound Designer: Lorenzo Rossi; Colorist: Tristan Seniuk

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

Psychological Horror, Thriller

Duration:

1:43:49

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2021-06-14

Language:

English

The Babalon Working and the Atomic bomb ritual

Strange slide show style film. Photos of the occultist/rocket scientist Jack Parsons and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.[

Directors:

Stash

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Stash

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:11:42

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

-

Language:

-

The Deep End

A determined pathologist's investigation into why body parts have been washing up at a family beach leads her to an ancient and dangerous forest.

Directors:

Sean Pettis

Key Cast:

Jessica Headington

Writers:

Sean Pettis

Producers:

Sean Pettis, Matlock Zumsteg

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:09:36

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2021-10-07

Language:

English

The Dream Machine

A woman experiments with a Dream Machine, hoping to escape trouble. Within the light and dark of the machine, violent emotions awaken.

Directors:

Michael William West

Key Cast:

Edouard Huss, Paloma Martinez

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Composer: Saul Adamczewski

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

horror, surrealism

Duration:

0:09:29

Country of Origin:

France

Completion Date:

2021-07-26

Language:

French

The instruction of Batho

The Instruction of Batho is a series of short 3D animations in which an ancient Egyptian hierophant performs fascinating thaumaturgical operations. In an intimate but monumental ambience adorned with powerful occult symbols, the Egyptian sage reveals ancient secrets, magic spells and prophetic divinations.

Directors:

Giampaolo Paoli, Flavia Paoli-Hettinga

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Giampaolo Paoli, Flavia Hettinga

Producers:

Giampaolo Paoli

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:07:39

Country of Origin:

Netherlands

Completion Date:

2016-12-01

Language:

English

The Kybalion

The Kybalion is a feature-length documentary shot on location in Egypt exploring the “Master Key” to the mysteries: the immensely popular 1908 occult classic of the same name attributed to an unknown Three Initiates. Occult historian Mitch Horowitz guides us through the book’s seven principles of Hermetic philosophy and, along the way, we encounter seven experts working in metaphysics today and discover where truth and mystery meet.

Directors:

Ronni Thomas

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Mitch Horowitz

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Occult, special interest, paranormal

Duration:

1:16:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2021-02-05

Language:

English

The Lobster Eats the Apple Seeds

"The Lobster Eats the Apple Seeds" is a meditation on the metaphysical conundrum of solipsism, that can either be a comforting spiritual spiral, or a grinding hamsterwheel. Do we harvest the best fruit in the middle of our blank canvas, or through introspection within the safety of our exoskeleton?

Solipsism, sun worship, eucharistic adoration, or the bing bang theory; united we are drawn to the power of the singularity.

Directors:

Jonah Steeman

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

absurdist, symbolist, occult, philosophy

Duration:

0:01:00

Country of Origin:

Belgium

Completion Date:

2022-06-30

Language:

-

The secret of the fruit

A man performs a seance in an attempt to release a couple caught in the ruins of a town.the lovers are pursued by a faceless enemy. Will his seance be successful? Or will he only be able to watch as they repeat the same cycle.

Directors:

Adriaan De la Rey

Key Cast:

Adriaan De la Rey, Jacinda Barker, Morne Delport, Marrisa Adriaanse

Writers:

Robin Burke, Adriaan De la Rey

Producers:

Adriaan De la Rey, Robin Burke

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:22:38

Country of Origin:

South Africa

Completion Date:

2020-06-15

Language:

Afrikaans

The Unholy Knight

A hooded character is journeying through a dark snowy forest, holding a torch high in his hand. Trying to claim something once lost he wanders through memories and nightmares as darkness materializes before him in various ungodly forms. As the figure travels through the forest, he meets different mythical archetypes such as those of the King and the Witch, who try to help the traveler in becoming the champion of the Ruler, a legendary knight.

Directors:

-

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Horror

Duration:

0:18:04

Country of Origin:

Finland

Completion Date:

2021-10-31

Language:

English, Finnish

The Wormwood Heart

A glass of absinthe becomes a scrying glass for strange communications with a mysterious woman.

Directors:

Matthew Brendan Clark

Key Cast:

Jill DeGrasse, Matthew Brendan Clark

Writers:

Matthew Brendan Clark

Producers:

Matthew Brendan Clark

Other Credits:

Cinematographer: Matthew Brendan Clark; Sound Designer: Matthew Brendan Clark; Composer: Matthew Brendan Clark; Editor: Matthew Brendan Clark

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

Horror, Fantastique, Experimental

Duration:

0:05:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2022-01-10

Language:

-

Tod.Sein

A group of people meet for a festive dinner in a mysterious place to discuss questions about death, being and dying. While the conversations at the table become increasingly confused and chaotic, the images and sounds lead us deeper and deeper into the hidden abysses of our own (non-)existence.

Directors:

Raphael Zürcher, Micha Stuhlmann

Key Cast:

Marlies Verhofnik, Tobias Schmidli, Alois Witzigmann, Carmencita Fuertes Vettori, Lilli Stuhlmann, Kurt Riederer, Gerda Löw, Micha Stuhlmann, Martha Moll, Monika Guélat, Alexander Lipp

Writers:

Micha Stuhlmann

Producers:

Jacques Erlanger

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other

Genres:

Essayfilm, Artfilm, Documentary

Duration:

0:52:06

Country of Origin:

Switzerland

Completion Date:

2021-06-01

Language:

German, Swiss German

Transgressor

A man visits a Psycho-analyst to unravel his claims of being the Pharaoh of Egypt in his past life.

Directors:

Leroy Rogers

Key Cast:

Pawan Sahni, Sunil Patel

Writers:

Pawan Sahni

Producers:

Maria Alexandrova

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:09:28

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2022-04-04

Language:

English

True Believer

A documentary Film about people who believe in the existence of UFOs directed by Kojitani Hideki who has

compiled interviews with a variety of people who have experienced UFO encounters.

Kojitani is inspired by a video on YouTube of an alien corpse on the surface of the moon.He inquires with

researchers as to its authenticity.but many opinions say it is fake. Meanwhile one day, Shoji Tetsuo. " the man

who can summon UFOs",arrives and together they attempt to photograph a UFO. However, Kojitani is unabie to

film one, Months later Kojitani tries once again to photograph a UFO, but the indispensable Shoji goes missing.

Directors:

HIDEKI KOJITANI

Key Cast:

Tetsuo Shoji

Writers:

-

Producers:

EMI KOJITANI

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

2:03:00

Country of Origin:

Japan

Completion Date:

2021-07-22

Language:

Japanese

UnTyMe

UnTyMe is a short fly on the wall film about a group of friends that flee the city on a rave escape to the hills. Devised by musician HforSpirit (DAIS, Ecstatic, Northern Electronics) and directed by Nick Hadfield, UnTyMe brings collaboration from Olubiyi Thomas (British Fashion Council), Jonathan Castro (Metahaven) and Salomé Pressac (Rambert Dance).

Documented during the pandemic, their pilgrimage to post-industrial landmark Skull Quarry (the infamous “rave cave” of the 1990s) invites a union with nature and a new beginning in the dance.

“UnTyMe reveals a collective intention to find a new sense of belonging. In response to the feeling of dissociation caused by prolonged isolation, we went in search of the ancient rhythms of the land. It became an exploration of ritual movement, symbols, and silhouettes inspired by the ancestral myths of Britain.” says Nick Hadfield

“It’s an impulse - we had no idea what to expect. We created the circumstances to come together and be free for a moment. It was born from necessity.” says HforSpirit

The project explores a communion of new ideas around ‘heritage’ - welcoming participation from a range of international artists reimagining ancient myths today.

“I’d been speaking with H for some time about deconstructing what it means to be Celtic. When you take the myths out of context they become more real - the garments were taken from my Future Highlander collection, which celebrates being wild, feral and free.“ says Nigerian born Glaswegian designer Olubiyi Thomas.

“The hairpin I made with Delphine Lejeune explores concepts tied to identity and memory but also reflects on how we perceive ‘historical objects’ in present or future times to come.” says Peruvian artist Jonathan Castro.

“Dance unifies the masses - it felt so good to touch and connect again. Escaping London at that time was such a liberating experience. Once we got up there our movement really came alive as we drew from the nature around us.” says Salomé Pressac

It was premiered at ‘E-Birth’ a specially curated rave symposium hosted by Emulsion Magazine exhibiting work inspired by the film. Alongside UnTyMe, E-Birth featured an original film by Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey, an installation by Jonathan Castro and original music by Gabber Eleganza (Warp) alongside performances by Blackhaine, Space Afrika and BBC’s Zakia Sewell.

Directors:

Nick Hadfield, HforSpirit

Key Cast:

Salomé Pressac, Jet Sweeney, Olivia Stewart, Olubiyi Thomas, HforSpirit

Writers:

HforSpirit

Producers:

Scarlett Anderson

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Music Video, Short

Genres:

Folk Horror, Rave, Occult, Celtic, Road Trip, Travel, Movement

Duration:

0:05:19

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Completion Date:

2021-07-19

Language:

English

Uromastyx Maliensis

Lanfranco Secco Suardo is the great-grandson of Giovanni Secco Suardo, the founder of modern art restoration.

The heir of a noble family whose family tree dates back to the year 1000 A.D., the owner and dweller of an astonishing castle that fights every day not to yield to the weight of the centuries (and of contemporaneity), Lanfranco is a renowned filmmaker who, in the tradition of Jean Rouch, explored and captured a lost world, and the protagonist and co-author of this documentary. However, despite this premise, and although this documentary can definitely be included in the biographical genre, the actual protagonist of the film is not him, but Time.

How can eternity be measured? By the wear and tear of a massive wooden and iron door that has been lying in the cellars of the huge building for generations, waiting to turn to dust? By the average lifespan of a dog running through the frescoed rooms of the castle, or that of its owners, who have all been born and died there for generations? Or through the works of art which, at the time they are conceived, are a representation of contemporaneity and, at the same time, a symbol of antiquity, as the decades roll by and envelop them in the dark rooms of a household that seems to have no end?

Could time be calculated by the very slow pace of the Uromastyx, a reptile friend of Lanfranco's, born in the desert, which walks for its entire existence, without certainty, in search of a fellow creature? In the castle of Lurano (a country village outside Milan) Lanfranco kept a very precious archive, always evolving and growing, of manuscripts coming from all over Italy and from all centuries, daily consulted by scholars from all over the world. In one of them, a contract entrusting land to various families for 900 years. Once again: what is time? A documentary in which we get to know a human being who is confronted with ancient sets of keys that perhaps no longer correspond to a door, with objects that someone put down in a hurry and that have not been moved since the days when Napoleon crowned himself king of Italy. Through a Virgil who is as charismatic as he is mesmerising, this documentary aims to provide insights into a subject that has always been as elusive as the one that combines seconds and epochs. And we, with shorter or longer memories, fight against windmills, against oblivion, as long as we are allowed to.

Accompanied by the religious songs of Lebanon and the compositions of Luciano Berio, one of the fathers of European avant-garde music, this documentary moves through the centuries at the ancient and lively pace of its protagonist.

Directors:

Antonio Pintus, Elia Romanelli, Lanfranco Secco Suardo

Key Cast:

Lanfranco Secco Suardo

Writers:

Lanfranco Secco Suardo

Producers:

Paolo Morosi

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

biography, memory, social change

Duration:

0:41:27

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2021-01-01

Language:

Italian

Who is there ?

In an ordinary suburb, away from the French capital, another world peeks from the fringes of this one, a world of djinns belonging to the night, connected to a distant origin.

Directors:

Souad Kettani

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Souad Kettani

Producers:

Damien Froidevaux

Other Credits:

Editer: David Jungman

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:55:00

Country of Origin:

France

Completion Date:

2020-03-15

Language:

French

Wolf + Lamb

Wolf + Lamb (Lupo + Agnello) is above all a "coming-of-age novel", based on the immortal and homonymous fable of Aesop. It is the story of the relationship Luca (Ladislao Liverani), Thomas (James Ferrara) and Elisa (Virginia Diop) entertain one another and behaviors such as bullying and the search for identity. Unbeknownst to them, are guided by a mysterious professor (Lino Guanciale) anthropology, and his blonde assistant, in this "Bildungsjourney" between ancient masks, religious festivals and archaic rituals that will inevitably lead our protagonists to confront each other and understand that wearing a mask is not enough to be what you want to be, but above all, every choice has consequences and responsibilities. With an unexpected ending and absolutely open to any further development.

Directors:

Giuseppe Schettino

Key Cast:

Lino Guanciale, Giacomo Ferrara, Virginia Diop, Ladislao Liverani

Writers:

Alberto Nucci Angeli, Giuseppe Schettino

Producers:

Marielisa Serone, Anna Paolini, Lino Guanciale, Stefano Francioni

Other Credits:

DOP: Rea Matteo; Editor: Marco Signoretti

Project Type:

Experimental, Short, Student, Other

Genres:

Drama

Duration:

0:14:59

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2022-01-01

Language:

Italian

Abbey of Thelema

In 1955 occult underground experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger went to Cefalu in Sicily in order to find “The Abbey of Thelema” which was Aleister Crowley‘s residence and spiritual centre in the first 1920s. Kenneth Anger made a documentaty about the house and its murals for the British television series Omnibus. However, shortly afterwards the film was lost.

Today the small Italian villa that once housed Aleister Crowley and his dedicated Thelemic followers is barely standing. It has been vacant for nearly 100 years. The Abbey’s roof is almost entirely caved in, garbage and debris are masking the floor. Some original furnishings of the home are still there, although marked by shrubbery and rust. The walls feature modern graffiti and show little of the originals painted by the infamous Aleister Crowley, whose poems and Enochian prayers accompany you through the rooms. "Abbey of Thelema" (2020) is an experimental documentary about the cursed rooms of this former cultic place place, which is now dilapidated and overgrown with plants.

Directors:

Michel Kessler

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Michel Kessler

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:07:15

Country of Origin:

Germany

Completion Date:

2020-02-01

Language:

-

Amongst the Plants

Entre las Plantas (Amongst the Plants) portrays a Peruvian Amazonian family living in the Ucayali region. Flor, Karina and Julio work and communicate with plants that according to their Asháninka

culture have an elevated status of teachers. In their garden they cultivate medicinal plants to protect against negative energies and to heal their Peruvian and foreign clients. During the night, they sing to ‘the mother of all plants’, plant-teacher Ayahuasca, for her to visit, heal and to consult on how they can help their clientele. In their garden, which is a microcosmos in itself, good and evil seems

in a constant duel as dangerous gorillas and snakes get contested by brave chickens and eagles. With patience the film-maker learns as an apprentice how plant, animal and human work together in this garden for his own and other’s healing process.

Directors:

Mark Lindenberg

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Mark Lindenberg

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:33:35

Country of Origin:

Peru

Completion Date:

2020-10-26

Language:

Spanish

An American Satan

Founded in 1966 in California by a former organist and lion tamer named Anton Szandor LaVey, the Church of Satan has often been surrounded by mysteries, scandals and moral panics.

Some of today’s active members of the church and other free-styled Satanists will share their views, memories, ritual practices and personal stories about how they got involved with Satanism, discussing the false myths that still surround the movement. An immersive journey into one the most fascinating phenomena of American religious pluralism.

Directors:

Aram Garriga

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Aram Garriga, Xavi Prat

Producers:

Aram Garriga, Carles Torras

Other Credits:

Cinematography: Benet Román; Editor: Aram Garriga; Production Company: Morning Light AIE, VISUALSUSPECTS, Zarabiskie Films Production

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Religion, Arts and Culture

Duration:

1:12:00

Country of Origin:

Spain

Completion Date:

-

Language:

English

Annapakta - One who can digest food.

Yoga and Ayurveda - Science of Life

This film uncovers some of the foundations that make up yoga and Ayurveda, and which have been diluted in the course of their worldwide spread. Yoga scholars and teachers, yogis, Ayurveda scholars and doctors, all of whom were chosen for their decades of honest and profound practice and experience, respond to common misconceptions and prejudices: does Ayurveda mean vegetarian? Is Yoga a religion? What is a yogi? What is knowledge? What does science mean? What is life?

The film presents authentic and highly experienced personalities, such as:

Ayurveda scholar Dr. Vinod Verma who has two doctorates in medical sciences and years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, decided decades ago to change and dedicate her life “to health and not to disease”. She was the first scientist who brought knowledge on Ayurveda to Europe, by now having completed 27 books that are translated into various languages.

R. Sriram, Yoga teacher and scholar since 37 years, had studied with famous yoga teacher Krishnamacharya and Sri Desikachar. Over the decades, he has managed to maintain the pure teaching tradition and prevent it from becoming commercially. His work is considered pioneering also in Western culture which he knows deeply.

Performer, author and thinker Anjali Sriram lives between India and Germany since almost 50 years, creating artistic projects and actions which must be regarded as avant-garde. Her unique insights and independent ideas help enormously to expose common prejudices and to transform them into conciliatory statements.

Swami Nadananda has openly and generously shared his experiences of his life as a true yogi. This made it possible to give the audience an authentic insight into a way of life that is far removed from our everyday way of being. And yet their questions and doubts are the same.

These personalities, even if some of them are quite well known, were not chosen for their degree of fame, but they all stand out for their tireless, consistent, truthful work, which has never fallen victim to commercial thinking. They are true masters of their kind, not afraid to face the most critical questions - for they have asked them themselves long before the film did.

Directors:

Rajele Jain

Key Cast:

R. Sriram, Anjali Sriram, Dr. Vinod Verma, Dr. Nrusingh Charan Panda, Swami Nadananda, Sudhir Natarajan, Swami Paramadvaiti, Dr. T.G. VInodkumar, Dr. A. Sudheer, Dr. G. Meera

Writers:

Rajele Jain

Producers:

Gerd R. Peun

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:48:38

Country of Origin:

Portugal

Completion Date:

2020-10-08

Language:

English

Aqua Permanens

The video is a poetic and symbolic exploration around some concepts developed by the alchemical thought regarding the four elements (earth , water , air and fire ) and the quintessence.

Directors:

Jonnathan Blake Pinto

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Edition: Jonnathan Blake Pinto; Sound: Jonnathan Blake Pinto

Project Type:

Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:09:36

Country of Origin:

Colombia

Completion Date:

2016-09-16

Language:

-

Bacchae

In this surreal adaptation of a Greek tragedy, Pentheus, the king of Thebes, must defend his kingdom from the foreign cult of Dionysus. When Dionysus offers to show him the cult's mysterious rites, Pentheus gives into temptation and takes up the offer. Red curtains, golden masks, crossdressing, and cannibalism are in store.

Directors:

Noah Schachter

Key Cast:

Cristobal Paulino, Ian Brownhill, Meredith Gosselin

Writers:

Noah Schachter

Producers:

Jason Perry, Jr.

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Short, Student

Genres:

Fantasy, Drama

Duration:

0:12:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2020-04-28

Language:

English

Before the Close of Day

The documentary Before the Close of Day is a poetic meditation on Dante’s Purgatorio. Set on the Staten Island Ferry during winter storms, passengers cross the New York Harbor while Cantos from Purgatorio are read evoking a spiritual passage between places. As the boats pass Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, questions about our obligations for welcoming others are suggested. Back and forth the passengers travel, but there is no deliverance in this journey, no paradise on the other side, only the waiting and the reflection of that destined voyage in the hereafter.

Directors:

Peter Lucas

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Peter Lucas

Other Credits:

Motion Graphics: Garry Waller; Music Producer Sound Designer: Ben Kruse

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:17:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2021-01-01

Language:

-

BRAIN DEATH

After the disappearance of her girlfriend a young trans woman comes into contact with an ancient evil.

Directors:

WL Freeman, John Harrison

Key Cast:

Hesse Deni, Anders Croft, Elliot Masters, Lillian May

Writers:

WL Freeman, Hesse Deni, John Harrison

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Feature

Genres:

Horror, Experimental

Duration:

1:30:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

-

Language:

English

Carry Us, Luminous Traveler

An homage to 70s fantasy & rotoscoping. This is a visual album of an audiobook written, recorded, and drawn by Stephen Cowdrey. The audiobook tells the story of a traveler whose quest is to destroy a demon and save the world.

Directors:

Stephen Cowdrey

Key Cast:

Cameron Clack, Stephanie Aderholt

Writers:

Stephen Cowdrey

Producers:

Salacious Wizard Cult

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Other

Genres:

Fantasy, Musical

Duration:

0:33:33

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2021-02-11

Language:

-

Circumincessio

Circumincessio is a hypnotic, iconoclastic meditation on the holy trinity. The wisdom of the father, the sacrifice of the son and the translucent prescence of the holy spirit; intertwined in a spiritual cascade.

Directors:

Jonah Steeman

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Jonah Steeman

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Music Video

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:03:00

Country of Origin:

Belgium

Completion Date:

2021-05-01

Language:

-

Corpus Chaosum

Corpus Chaosum is a musical. A horror film. An experimental film. A trance film. A stupid film. A brilliant film. A film that lies. A film that tells the truth. Involving ideas culled from anxiety, depression, addiction, chaos magick, tarot, jewish mysticism, christian mysticism, catharism, process church of the final judgement, burroughs, jim jones, junk science etc. All music, lyrics and dancing by C Burtt. Shot on Digital Video. 76min. 2019

Directors:

Carey Burtt

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Carey Burtt

Producers:

Carey Burtt

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:15:25

Country of Origin:

United States

Completion Date:

2019-11-26

Language:

-

Dry Rain

“Dry Rain” presents a glimpse of Anang Nursyam's life, a self-assured rain shaman who lives in the village area of Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia. Anang spends most of his time outside work cultivating his own livestock, and when he’s not on the farm, he enriches his knowledge of divinity, either through discussion with his friends or meditation. Throughout the film, the audience sees how he works on set and also remotely from home, hired to prevent the rain. By the end of the film, we find out how he got into the business and why his employer hired him in the first place, all of which combine to communicate the culture and glimpse the complex ways the Sundanese Indonesians believe.

Directors:

Bhima Aryateja

Key Cast:

Anang Nursyam

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Sound: Abdul Rozzaq Ariwahyono; Story Consultant: Joseph Ives

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:14:00

Country of Origin:

Indonesia

Completion Date:

2020-06-19

Language:

Indonesian

Egeria

It is dawn in Rome. The Tiber flows silently. From its waters Egeria is born, the nymph loved by Numa Pompilio, second king of Rome. Her duty is to constantly surveil and protect the city’s waters, to the point of merging with them at the fall of darkness... to be then reborn the next day at sunrise.

This experimental short film was created using a personal technique that combines pixilation and long photographic exposures.

Directors:

Mario Kreill (aka Mario Cirillo)

Key Cast:

Giulia Quacquarelli

Writers:

Mario Kreill

Producers:

Mario Kreill

Other Credits:

Music: Saverio Rossi

Project Type:

Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Student

Genres:

experimental

Duration:

0:04:18

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2018-06-15

Language:

No Dialogue

Embers of the Sun

The first lasting structures weren’t built for the living, but for the dead.

Megaliths, the ‘great stones’ erected during the Neolithic and Bronze Age, are the beginning of architecture, the first expressions of our domination of the planet and her resources; of our ability to alter and shape the earth. They signal the r/evolutionary moment some 10,000 to 5,000 years ago when our ancestors razed the forests to cultivate plants and breed the animals they’d tamed, spreading and multiplying in an ever expanding pattern of settlements and chiefdoms, boom and bust.

Through the agency of stone, the gods, and the cosmic dead, these first farmers affirmed their divine right to the spaces they cleared and claimed. They carved petroglyphs on living rock, constructed tombs for the ruling elite and raised monoliths and stone circles to mark social and religious boundaries that transformed the natural landscape into a cultural landscape; a ritual topography that linked soil and sky, past and present, with man at its center.

The great stones bear witness to a time when we first stood apart from the wilderness and looked back at it in awe; the moment of separation and the birth of the modern world: the biblical Fall. Like visual cues, the monoliths direct our gaze across time and space to ancient horizons that enclose us still. Facing them we confront ourselves and our origins in an agrarian death cult to which we are heir.

A journey into the sacred landscapes of prehistoric Armenia, “Embers of the Sun” evokes a primeval earth transfigured by monuments of mysterious design: rock art found in the desolate volcanic wastes of the Geghama and Syunik mountains, solitary monoliths and cyclopean tombs in rural fields, and the megalithic complex of Zorakarer; vestiges of a lost Bronze Age cosmology that haunt the modern mind.

The impressionistic aesthetic of analog video - the cinematic equivalent of watercolor or polaroid - conveys the emotional impact of the monoliths and the numinous beauty of the spaces they address. Equally integral is the soundtrack by the British group Urthona, taken from the album “Urthona plays Atlantis?”, a collaboration of the band with legendary musician, writer and prehistorian, Julian Cope. Neil Mortimer’s thundering guitar, Michael York’s ethereal duduk (a traditional Armenian wind instrument), and Cope’s ritualistic percussion conjure up a vanished realm that mirrors the film’s images in sound: the vastness and majesty of the mountains, the raw energy of the elements, the intimation of ancient powers, cosmic and chthonic.

At once a lyrical documentary and archeological science fiction, “Embers of the Sun” is an apocalyptic vision of the future in the past. In the prehistoric landscape it sees a post-historic age where civilization ends where it began: an event horizon through which we disappear - by ecological disaster, famine, plague, or genocide - leaving only the ruins of our dreams behind.

Directors:

Zareh Tjeknavorian

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Zareh Tjeknavorian

Other Credits:

Camera: Vahagn Ter Hagopian; Editing & Sound Design: Alina Tjeknavorian; Music: URTHONA

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Other

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:12:27

Country of Origin:

Armenia

Completion Date:

2019-03-05

Language:

English

FORCED TIME OUT

On March 19th 2020 the Government of Portugal implemented state of emergency measures due to COVID-19.

This movie was edited during a quarantine period of 6 weeks

The footage and audio used are in Public Domain or under Creative Commons licences CC-BY CC-BY-SA CC-BY-NC-SA

The VOICE OVER was extracted from Podcasts and Conferences

by Alan Watts, Charles Eisenstein, Erik Davis, Michael Garfileld, David Orban, Australian Psychedelic society

Some additional footage and visuals are scannographs ( photos created with the scanner) included in the -The SpaceShip project-.

"FORCED TIME OUT" includes 3 chapters:

I - 2020 - a year of wonder

II - THE FUTURE - when everybody is somebody, no one is anybody

III - EARTHKEEPERS

Directors:

Marzia Braggion

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

voice over: Michael Garfield, Charles Eisentein, David Orban, Alan Watts , Erik Davis; video post production: Marzia Braggion; video: Creative Commons

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Web / New Media, Other

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:44:22

Country of Origin:

Portugal

Completion Date:

2020-06-09

Language:

English

Front Line

Piacenza was one of the cities most affected by the Covid-19 and despite many national newspapers did not talk about that, it experienced a huge tragedy, with so many infected and so many people died for the Covid. The hospital in Piacenza was subjected to terrible pressure. Nurses, doctors and health workers worked h24, seeing excruciating scenes and feeling something they had never felt in their lives. They make each other strong, they try to comfort people, to reassure them, but it was very hard. This documentary wants to pay homage to all those operators, doctors and nurses who have been always on the front line, risking their lives to save all of us. It is through their testimonies that we can understand what they have really gone through and what the city of Piacenza has gone through. Director Biography - Simone Schiavi, Raniero Bergamaschi.

Directors:

Simone Schiavi, Raniero Bergamaschi

Key Cast:

hospital staff

Writers:

Simone Schiavi

Producers:

Associazione Culturale Cinemaniaci

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:22:08

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2020-10-20

Language:

Italian

Grünen Metallglanz

This video is the first scientific proof that the green luster of sasairo-beni has properties similar to metal reflection.

Directors:

maiko Sasaki

Key Cast:

momoka Endo

Writers:

hitoshi Yajima

Producers:

hitoshi Yajima, hiroshi Nose, maiko Sasaki

Other Credits:

music: Yoshiharu

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:10:45

Country of Origin:

Japan

Completion Date:

2021-01-22

Language:

Japanese

Homeopathy Unrefuted?

Despite the homeopathic doctors studying medicine, they treat their patients against the basis of scientific knowledge. Allegations of fraud surround the topic. In the film, homeopaths embark on adventurous explanations of their popular belief system.

Not an easy task with drugs like "North Pole" or "Laser", which are administered in the form of globules. Homeopathy, which is often confused with naturopathy, is "one of the most popular medical systems worldwide". This is how Jens Behnke of the Carstens Foundation puts it. After investing about 30 million euros in research, pressure is increasing to prove that homeopathic drugs are more than just placebos.

MD Christine Laschkolnig prefers to trust the positive feedback from her patients: “Children throw themselves on the floor and scream for their globules. They clearly feel this in their bodies.” Her colleague MD Maria-Lucia Kaut says: “What you observe is true. Period!“ But if all homeopaths make different observations and believe they are true, then critics are no longer needed to make the discussion exciting.

HOMEOPATHY UNREFUTED? is an argumentative piece without an opponent. In any case, the protagonists are armed for defense. Too much is at stake, their own profession and how they view the world.

Directors:

Erik Lemke

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Erik Lemke

Other Credits:

Composer: Tobias Burkardt; Animator: Matthias Daenschel

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:26:00

Country of Origin:

Germany

Completion Date:

2020-12-15

Language:

English, German

HU MAN - HEALING JOURNEY TO BEING HUMAN

A documentary showing the ability of humans to rise above their limiting self understanding into true grandeur by putting Indian Vedic Wisdom into action.

Directors:

Annette Muller

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Annette Muller

Producers:

Annette Muller

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

Documentary Short healing stories, human rights

Duration:

0:37:27

Country of Origin:

Germany

Completion Date:

2021-01-25

Language:

English, German

HYPNAGOGIA' a DEATH VALLEY GIRLS music video

Hypnagogia music video aims to represent both a mystical dream and a universal spell, trying to include rites, superstitions, and symbologies that were taken, with absolute respect, from different beliefs around the world.

Maybe, it can also be understood as an audiovisual Totem.

Directors:

Arturo Baston

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Suicide Squeeze Records

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Music Video

Genres:

Magick, Alchemy, Beliefs, Animation

Duration:

0:04:57

Country of Origin:

Spain

Completion Date:

2020-09-01

Language:

-

Il Malego

A young man, who always thought he was "different", enters a world of mystery and spiritualism.

Directors:

Valerio Vena

Key Cast:

Valerio Vena

Writers:

Valerio Vena

Producers:

Valerio Vena

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

Psychological, Spiritual

Duration:

0:28:09

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2020-12-31

Language:

English, Italian

IN MY DREAM

Tariq is a city boy aged 8-10. His father dies in a car accident, he suffers from amnesia. His mother is in a coma in the hospital due to the same accident. Because he has no one left, he is sent to the village to his grandparents. Tariq cannot remember his past because of the accident, but he constantly has symbolic dreams that he cannot understand. A donkey hit by a car is found dead in the village. This donkey has a newborn SIPA. Tariq makes a connection between this donkey cub and his own situation. And he makes it his goal to keep him alive.

Directors:

murat çeri

Key Cast:

Nevzat Yılmaz, Harun Reha Pakoglu, Recep Çavdar, Ferda İşil

Writers:

murat çeri

Producers:

Filimetre Media

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Duration:

1:39:21

Country of Origin:

Turkey

Completion Date:

2021-01-01

Language:

Turkish

KYS

Not a story but a series of visions and awesomeness that are articulated in a path.

A trip into the author's inconscious and into the viewer's too, dedicated to the calls we receive and to those looking for keys..

Directors:

Jo Velli

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Jo Velli

Producers:

Jo Velli

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:10:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Completion Date:

2020-08-12

Language:

English, Italian

LA ISLA

LA ISLA is an art film that invites you to explore a mystical place: a sacred dimension beyond time and space that celebrates Gods, Goddesses and religious beliefs around the globe and throughout time. Witness the union between the earthly and the divine and how, during this process, human conflicts arise and mayhem breaks out.

Directors:

Totemworlds (Katan R Lamarque)

Key Cast:

Ivanna Sofia Ferro

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Experimental

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:04:00

Country of Origin:

Mexico

Completion Date:

2020-11-30

Language:

English, Spanish

LEA-Nº1-MM-(Mandala-Museum)

Sacred Art in Tibetan Buddhism: LEA-Laboratorio Experimental de Antropología (The Experimental Laboratory of Anthropology) performs in the main hall of the National Museum of Anthropology of Madrid a "Sand Mandala and a Puja Ritual in honor of Green Tara", the Mother Goddess of all Buddhas.

The Mandala is held for 3 days from 03/9/2019, a sacred cosmic day in Tibetan Buddhism and International Women's Day.

It is an immersive and ineteractive spiritual anthropological experience for citizens and users of the Museum during the process and ritual.

The first LEA 5.55 minute audiovisual piece is a winning project that was worked in the Residence & Conference of the VRN-Visual Research Network of the Granada Center for Visual Anthropology & Department of Social Anthropology University of Manchester.sept. 2019-.

The LEA intends to carry out experimental anthropology activities by documenting them in a multimodal new way (Text, photo, video, VR, AR, Performance…) adapting to the way of consuming ideas of each age, population or cultural segment.

LEA wants to propose a new Ontological Turn including the documentation of reality and its presentation in multimodal, transmedia or crossmedia formats. All this implies a new epistemological and methodological approach, new objects... Stimulated by the citizen's experience, without losing the anthropological rigor.

Directors:

antonio cadierno parodi, Iria Sanjurjo, Juan Eduardo de los Santos, Sonia Gonzalez

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

LEA

Producers:

Antonio Cadierno Parodi, Museo Nacional de Antropologia Madrid

Other Credits:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Short

Genres:

Anthropology, Ritual, Religion, Buddhism, Tara, Experimental, Museum

Duration:

0:05:55

Country of Origin:

Spain

Completion Date:

2019-11-25

Language:

English

Lebenspanorama- A portrait on the search for Reincarnation

The majority of people believe in life after death, for example in the immortality of the soul or the resurrection of the dead. About 25% believe in reincarnation.

Cult and observation sites from the Bronze Age are witnesses that our ancestors already believed in life after death.

The question of what form the transformation of the spirit takes after death is now accompanied by research in the field of neuroscience, near-death experiences, reincarnation research, Buddhist belief and regression therapy. The film poses these questions to the Buddhist teacher Ole Nydahl, the psychologist Hans Markowitsch and the reincarnation researcher Dieter Hassler. Will the new insights bring us certainty?

Directors:

Malte Füllgrabe

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Malte Füllgrabe

Producers:

Malte Füllgrabe

Other Credits:

Camera: Konstantin Reinhart

Project Type:

Documentary, Short, Other

Genres:

-

Duration:

0:24:00

Country of Origin:

Germany

Completion Date:

2019-11-30

Language:

English, German

LOS

In another time, on a different world, mankind has made progress . . . Ruled by the very AI they developed and employed to set them free, humans have become slaves to their machine. We have lost friendship, love, and sex, and we are the machine labor and means of production. In a tomorrow-land without touch or value, a future very much of our making, upon which human life is transaction and output, we have lost humanity. The AI, the machine, has put us to work, and we humans do not work without it. We labor and toil for calculations and machinations logical and unfeeling, having forgotten one another and ourselves.

Yet there are the Los: the most human of us, ostracized, exiled, and refuted by the rest for knowing nature and refusing to resist intimacy and the intangible connections of life. It is the Los who would free mankind to return to their humanity and to become again the collective “we” of individuality, of love, of freedom from artificial design. The Los will go to war for the humans who were not and for the humans they are, but . . . will they save us?

Directors:

Martin Del Carpio

Key Cast:

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Writers:

Martin Del Carpio