2020s

A circumlocutory study of Mount Merapi, Indonesia. Shifting back and forth around the volcano, MERAPI is marked by the silent presence of its rumble and lava. Almost always at the centre, the volcano often slips away behind the clouds, a ghost. The work is silently structured around the rippling impression of the volcano on its surrounds: smoke through trees, the breaking of rain against its slopes and the rich fertility of its soils. A work as sensitive to the shift in light through swirls of 16mm grain and atmosphere as it is to what it is like to live within the horizon of the volcano, located near the densely populated Yogyakarta.Read More »

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When a twenty-something retail clerk meets a rising popstar, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.Read More »

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A collective memory of the abandoned community, and shows how these mothers and their love – withstand the trials of life in jail, far from family and loved ones.Read More »

Thomas, a taxi driver torn between the mundane reality of his life and his literary aspirations, spirals into an erotic obsession following the tragic suicide of a client.Read More »

“Hollywood Pandemonium is a fever-drenched descent into the occult underbelly of Tinseltown, where fallen starlets and demonic muses wage war beneath flickering marquees. Neon bleeds, contracts are signed in flesh, and the silver screen becomes an altar of possession and decay. In this surreal apocalypse of fame, desire is ritual, and every spotlight burns like a curse.” (Vogue Witch)Read More »

Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year.Read More »

Plans to build the largest power plant on the Congo plunge 17 million people into darkness and insecurity.Read More »

“Archipelago of Earthen Bones – To Bunya” forms part of a film constellation that stretches across the Pacific, from Chile to Australia. Malena Szlam trains her camera on far-flung volcanic landscapes, by turns barren and verdant. The dazzling in-camera multiple exposures of the film evoke the layered histories of Mount Beerwah to the titular Bunya Mountains, tracing a path along the central eastern ranges of Australia, which were illuminated in the afterglow of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai eruption. The film’s environmental evocations are further deepened by field recordings and sonified atmospheres from artist Lawrence English. —Malena SzlamRead More »

Benito Mussolini’s early career from his founding of the Fasci Italiani in 1919 up to the assassination of socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti in 1924 and his speech in Parliament on 3 January 1925.Read More »