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Flies.
An older man lives alone in a deserted apartment complex. He unintentionally witnesses a murder after which the killers end his loneliness. CharacterPublished on: -
Self-portrait as a Dead Stick Insect
An artist and the dead star of his last short. Chen Sheinberg certainly identifies with the creatures he shoots.Published on: -
The Second of August
Two girls and a boy make a road trip to some woods, where they set up camp and spend the night. A speechless ode to…Published on: -
13 Essential Rules for Understanding the World
‘Never try to change anything,’ say tulips with faces. In his parody of educational films, Magdy’s humour has a cynical edge.Published on: -
Playground
American football is played on rectangular fields, 120 yds long and 160 ft wide. A battle between nature and culture, between organic grass and artifiPublished on: -
The Normal Heart
New York in the early 1980s. AIDS has not been identified yet but it is already killing people, mostly gay men. This is forcing them…Published on: -
Mainsqueeze
A compelling mix of attraction and repulsion, Mainsqueeze is entirely composed of footage found online, surfing the deep web.Published on: -
Glass House
Beloff attempts to realize a script Eisenstein never succeeded in filming. The result is a merry excursion through the brain of a visionary avant-gardPublished on: -
Narbe Deutschland
A hallucinatory, sixteen-hour flight above the zone that for decades bisected the world: the entire length of the Iron Curtain: 1,378 kilometers.Published on: -
Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship
Basim Magdy’s wide range of work extends from painting to filmmaking and photography. He blends fiction with reality by manipulating how images are rePublished on: