After Reality

In this soothingly sedated work, dragon-boat rowers train in heavily vegetated areas of the city. We are transported between seasons and continents without us realising.

Aldeia dos Rapazes – Orfanato Sta. Isabel de Albarraque

Bárbara Virgínia's only short film is about an orphanage. She adopted a perspective exceptional for her era by filming at the children’s eye level.

L'amant d'un jour

A philosophy lecturer houses his 23-year-old daughter with a broken heart and his mistress of the same age. He tries to be a father to one and lover to the other. French filmmaker Philippe Garrel’s Lover for a Day concludes a trilogy of anecdotal, black-and-white films on the vagaries of love.

El arrullo de la araña

Simón, the owner of a hardware store, humiliates and constantly controls his four employees. Through this universally recognisable situation, Campusano paints a portrait of microscopic power exerted in the realm of labour without forgetting about other forms of abuse directly related to history.

Asino

Medea, Jason, Bacchus and Saturn – are they donkeys and/or mythological creatures here? Like the Italians in Alba during the donkey races, Anatoly Vasiliev worships donkeys. His film also summarises the donkey’s role in Western culture: from stupid and stubborn to a loyal beast of burden.

El azote

The determination and dedication of a former musician who is now a social assistant in Bariloche – one of the best-known tourist resorts in Patagonia – is not enough to avoid the misfortunes experienced by local youths. This film reveals, without concessions, the picture never presented in the postcards of this town.

Behind Your Walls

In true Zwartjes style, the filmmaker creates an intoxicating, surreal microcosm – this time through a bizarre pantomime featuring extras in heavy makeup.

Birds

Hypnotic, repetitive film featuring Trix, Zwartjes' regular partner in crime – and in life. The second 'turtle dove' is a piece of a toy between her fingers.

Blindly

Painting sessions with six blind people lead to conversations about shape, colour, reality and what it means to be sightless.

Blue and Red

Shot in Guangzhou and Bangkok, this quietly captivating video considers the role of public squares as we watch gathered crowds bathed in artificial neon lights.

The Bottomless Bag

This Russian adaptation of the story that inspired Kurosawa's masterpiece Rashomon (1950) is filmed in stately black-and-white and is set partly at the Court of Czar Alexander II and partly in a wood where a murder takes place. Three involved parties give their version of the story. Which is true?

Brooklyn Experience

A minimalist, choral tale in which several characters typical of indie American films issue a collective statement on an era and its politics. The register is essentially maximalist − everything is shown in 360 degrees, establishing an aesthetic possibility which could be called the 'expansion of the field'. VR experience!

Chicken Speak to Duck, Pig Speak to Dog

Taking its title from a Chinese proverb, this two-channel video observes men up a tree imitating animal sounds, bringing an ancient custom to an urban park.

The Collection: Katarzyna

Quiet observation of a physically handicapped woman reveals that effortless movement isn’t always a given. Element of the multi-part The Collection (2016).

The Collection: Roman

A man with a physical disability steps with the greatest difficulty through a still decor made up of light and shadow. Part of the series The Collection (2016).

Confusion Is Next

Thai noise musician Thom AJ Madson confines himself in a room for an experiment to give a plumeria tree a sound. He alternates between creating sound experiments and the meditative rhythms of his daily spiritual routine. 

Cookbook

A one-off cookery course in a women’s prison – with lobster on the menu – highlights the dismal food normally served up in the cells.

Creation in Cooperation

Artur Żmijewski challenges participants in a workshop to present their improvised performances in public spaces, for audiences of random passers-by.

Dragonfly Eyes

Chinese artist Xu Bing’s directorial debut could be described as The Truman Show, but in Real Life. He weaves a story of a boy and a girl in modern-day China out of security camera footage. This by turns shocking and poetic, but always fascinating, experiment reflects on our obsessive visual culture.

An Eye for an Eye

Portraits of people with and without amputated limbs: in intimate embraces, the division between bodies and able/disabled is resolved, forming a single entity.

Fango

Two friends decide to form a 'tango-trash' band. The woman of one of these friends is kidnapped by the leader of a female gang, bringing consequences in its aftermath. This all happens in the precarious urban regions surrounding the European-like city of Buenos Aires; in these areas everything resembles the universe of Western films.

Fantasmas de la ruta

A microscopic tale about the trafficking of women, from the viewpoint of Campusano's universe. Including Vikingo and his bikers, who try to rescue Antonella, who has been kidnapped and sold to a brothel in northern Argentina. A rigorous narration with several subplots in which the narrative craft of this director gets to shine fully.

Le film de Bazin

In 1958, influential film critic André Bazin started his own film project, about Roman churches. He died a few months later, leaving his dream project in the form of photographs and notes. This documentary essay reanimates (quite literally) the uncompleted script. Pondering ruins and restoration, we are forced to acknowledge the passing of time.

Film II

To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost.

Following Bauhaus

In search of a 'new visual reality', Żmijewski and the local art community in Liverpool re-implement Bauhaus ideals 80 years later.