Francis Alÿs
The Silence of Ani
Armenia, Turkey I 2015
13 minutes
Filmed in an ancient Armenian town on the Turkish border, The Silence of Ani (2015) is set in the ruins of a city whose quietude is broken only by birdsong. In a landscape as strange as it is breathtaking, a group of children play the duduk (a traditional double-reed wooden flute) as a game of hide-and-seek unfolds. Their repeated calls become a ballad for the future – or an elegy for the past.
Jonathas de Andrade
O Peixe...
Elouan Le Bars
PEAK PERFORMANCE
France, 2024
28 minutes
Drawing its narrative from corporate games, PEAK PERFORMANCE (2024) is a documentary fairy tale set in a space in perpetual motion, evoking both an exhibition space and a meeting room. The film features seven of the director’s friends playing versions of themselves as they participate in team-building activities and share stories from their professional lives, between authenticity and performance.
Caroline Mesquita
Noctambules
United...
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Somniloquies
France I 2016
1h15
Somniloquies is a descent into the dream world of our unconscious. A city of dwarfs for rent, an alien invasion, an exorcism séance, a far-fetched military maneuver, a wild, burlesque and fetishistic spectacle, a surgical procedure gone horribly wrong, an impromptu orgy, cold-blooded murder, mass drowning, a sex contest, sudden depressurization causing nail polish to fly off… these were the subjects of nocturnal...
Ben Russell
River Rites
United States, Surinam I 2011
11 minutes
Filmed in sequence on a sacred river in Upper Suriname, the daily secrets of a Saramacan animist are revealed as time itself unravels. A swim, a fisherman pulls his net out of the water, a young girl washes clothes on a stone. This is the duration of a single take, a reel of Super 16 film.
Carolee Schneemann
Meat Joy
United States I 1964
6 minutes
Meat Joy is a performance conceived by Carolee Schneemann and presented for the...