Film Categories: Religion

  • aw • rah • nyoosh

    A documentary filmmaker attempts to imagine, along with his father, his grandmother’s experience at a labor camp during the holocaust. As they get drawn into a world of the grandmother’s romance, they begin to lose control of their imaginations. “The son installs the camera, the father stands on the sofa. They are preparing to begin an intergenerational dialogue based on the newspaper that their mother and grandmother, Sari, held in the 40s, during his deportation. aw • rah • nyoosh [aranyos] , from Ben Neufeld, takes time to set up; the viewer takes time to understand the contract that the…

  • Tenders

    Tending to her farmette after retirement, Anna thought she’d left work behind. But when the woman who took over her job comes asking for advice, unresolved emotions boil to the surface and leads both women down a path of self-discovery and reconciliation.

  • Pulp Revelation

    “Pulp Revelation” is a surreal tale born from the bizarre realm of the Bible’s Revelation prophecies. A cryptic vision of the second coming of our maker…but did we make the maker? Is redemption, betrayal and rebirth a never ending cycle for mankind? A grand yet intimate journey of memory, faith and the zenith of artificial intelligence.

  • The Forms of Utility

    A short film essay analyzing a landscape shaped by religion, capital, and war. The film blurs the line between memory and history, only to reveal their cyclicity. The focus of this work is the mistreatment of the modernist architecture of Zilina, a small town in Slovakia, built by a growing Jewish minority in the 1920s and 30s and by new settlers from rural areas in the 50s and 70s. Their tastes and ideologies have been visibly projected onto the town.

  • Bubba

    BUBBA shows the portrait of an old man (the filmmaker’s grandfather), altered in several, increasingly abstracting ways. The first way the man is shown is through composite imaging, and the use of masks while shooting 16mm on a Bolex camera, achieving surreal, distorted, cubist-like impressions of the face. The second effect was achieved by sandwiching the negative print and positive print of the original portraits and printing them using a Model J printer. The third, and final effect was generated by hand processing the negative/positive hybrid, alongside negatives from a previous film. The concluding effect is a feeling of the…

  • View

    Nameer must take action, as he is being watched as a ‘thief’ by numerous viewers.

  • Deema

    After years of living abroad, Deema is reunited with her childhood friend Nidal. When their love blossoms like the Arab Spring, a pain nested deep within suddenly re-surfaces as she fights to revive the phoenix inside of her.

  • Daily Bread

    In a WWII internment camp in Indonesia, Jeanne and a group of Dutch women and children face a daily struggle against abuse, disease, and starvation. Meanwhile, the Camp Commandant’s beloved white fluffy cat is fed fresh juicy meat….

  • Dear Grandpa

    Using my grandfather’s old eight-millimetre film camera, I explore the deteriorating relationship I had with my grandfather during his final days after being diagnosed with cancer.

  • Le Dormeur Du Val

    Art essay video, free interpretation of Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Le Dormeur Du Val”, aimed at pointing the absurdity of war: through history and continents, no matter their race or religion, soldiers, instruments of the authorities, represent one and only person: another victim.