Deep Focus Short
Overview of films
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Man Carrying Shame
Su Hui-Yu | 5' | Taiwan | None
Shrouded in darkness, the private imagination of a man addicted to pornography is made public in Su Hui-yu’s eerie video. -
Mauro em Caiena
Leonardo Mouramateus | 18' | Brazil | None
Drawing parallels between the different generations of his family, a narrator reflects on his childhood in Fortaleza. -
Mothlight
Stan Brakhage | 4' | USA | None
Stan Brakhage is attracted to creating films like an insect to light. Mothlight resurrects dead moths in the projector’s beam. -
Nue Quan
Su Hui-Yu | 9' | Taiwan | None
Based on a real-life incident, this ethereal video is a quiet requiem for a man who suffocated to death from erotic asphyxiation with his one-night… -
An Old Dog’s Diary
Shumona Goel, Shai Heredia | 11' | India | None
An Old Dog’s Diary assembles, in puzzle-piece evocations, a portrait of Indian avant-garde painter Francis Newton Souza, revealing the cultural condit -
On the Invention of the Wheel
Richard Tuohy | 14' | Australia | European premiere
Ultra-short, 16mm sequence of a bicycle wheel turning becomes a repeating machine thanks to the power of the loop. Homage to the mechanical art of… -
The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
Charlotte Pryce | 4' | USA | None
An intoxicating flower drenched in luminous colours and sparkling light. Such luxurious and temporary beauty shows the transience of life. -
Pilgrim
Cauleen Smith | 11' | USA | International premiere
A recording of a piano performance by Alice Coltrane guides Cauleen Smith through three sites of creativity and generosity across the USA. -
Prima Materia
Charlotte Pryce | 3' | USA | None
Delicate threads of energy spiral into mysterious cells of golden dust: these are the luminous particles of the alchemist’s dream. -
Pwdre Ser: the rot of stars
Charlotte Pryce | 7' | USA | International premiere
An encounter with a mysterious, luminous substance and the mythical star jelly. Coronal Kirlian photography joined with hand-processed images. -
Remembering the Pentagons
Azadeh Navai | 23' | Iran | International premiere
Sensual, lyrical depiction of the filmmaker’s earliest memories of the overwhelming smells and colours of Iran. -
Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band
Cauleen Smith | 10' | USA | None
A flash-mob performance of Sun Ra’s anthem Space Is the Place, performed by The Rich South High School Marching Band.