Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock

Music photographer Mick Rock is best known for his photographs of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Queen, and many others. The artist guides us through his psychedelic experiences as the record-keeper of these myths and legends.

Partition

In Partition, two neighbours live an isolated existence, the wall between them constantly becomes thinner until, one day, a mysterious light flickers.

Ninnoc

Ninnoc wants to adapt to the group but she’s afraid of being excluded.

Rodnye (Close Relations)

Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses his home country after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large family, whose elements are on different sides of the barricades.

Serguei / Sir Gay

A fictitious auto-biography by Sergei/Sir Gay Eisenstein: his films and sexual desires.

Tati vs Bresson: The Gag

Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson were very different directors, yet the way they structure a scene is very similar.

O Cravo

Macau’s alleys as if in a film noir, in O Cravo.

Stand-by Office

An inventory of everyday office work gestures, in Stand-by Office.

Rosa la rose, fille publique

A Parisian hooker, who works in Les Halles, has an understanding pimp and leads an uneventful life. One day she meets Julien and falls in love. She is now torn between love and her “professional conscience”.

The Alchemist Cookbook

Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemic pursuits. But when he turns from chemistry to black magic he awakens something far more sinister and dangerous.

Once More

A man decides to leave his wife and finds a man with whom he falls in love. Once More is the first French film to link homossexuality and AIDS.

Somniloquies

In this film we are plunged into the dreams of one Dion McGregor – a New York songwriter from the 1960s and 70s who was known as “the world’s most prolific sleep talker”. A radical and absorbing ghost film.

Seins Fiction

A stereoscopic experience which incorporates dissociative sequences that blur the distinction between fact and fiction.

O Rapaz no Oceano

Twelve-year-old Mathias discovers the need of sexual experiences on a sailing boat.)

 

O Crime de Aldeia Velha

Set in a Portuguese village, where everyone is very religious, the film tells the story of Joana. She is badly regarded by other women and it doesn’t take long until everyone claims she was possessed by the devil.

Stella 50.4N1.5E

A sea of dunes. An unpopulated seaside resort. Hands putting together a heap of documents. Stella 50.4N1.5E.

Sisterhood

Two masseuses in Macau during the 1990s were best friends. On the eve of Macau’s handover, the girls have a fight and part ways. A film that reminisces about a period when casinos were few, and sentiments were rich.

The Challenge

Three years of observing falcons have captured the spirit of a tradition that keeps a close rapport with the desert, despite Qatar’s predominantly urban lifestyle. This contradiction is exposed through a meticulous filmic construction.