2008
Blake Williams returns to MIFF with a stereoscopic 3D piece that collapses time, distance and intimacy.
Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
Remembrance blooms in this New York Film Festival–premiering avant-garde short.
Happy Valley
Shot on cold-hued 16mm, this mournful, restless ode to Hong Kong sketches the city’s fragile present and indefinite future.
The I and S of Lives
Kevin Jerome Everson’s camera dances with a rollerskater in this mesmerising exercise in fluidity and embeddedness.
Maat Means Land
Poised at the intersection of activism and art, wunderkind Fox Maxy’s TikTok-esque tapestry documents the injustice and legacy of colonisation.
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean
In the age of information overload, the challenge is to avoid drowning.
Thorax
Siegfried A. Fruhauf returns with a dazzlingly abstracted Rorschach-like lightshow.
Train Again
Peter Tscherkassky pays homage to avant-garde filmmaker Kurt Kren, his own film L’arrivée and the cinema’s original muse in this Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection.
Valpi (Tectonics)
Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy present a lo-fi 3D film captured in the crushing shadow of volcanoes.