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In a coastal town, women are not allowed to sing. A teenager joins a singing competition for a chance to move to the city, while hiding his true voice.
A documentary about the unlikely inspiration behind Todd Terje’s track 'Inspector Norse'. It follows Marius Solem Johansen, an unsuccessful musician from a small town who posts dance videos and homemade drug recipes on YouTube.
Three women gather in an old bathhouse and reflect on the body’s natural transformations through puberty, childbirth, and menopause. Blending documentary, fiction, and dance, the film explores movement as a way to understand and express emotions tied to bodily change.
While Eraserhead was stalled in production, Lynch created his first fully live-action works – two versions of the same short monologue, recorded as camera tests for the American Film Institute. In both films, a legless woman sits writing a bitter, heartfelt letter while David Lynch himself appears as the nurse tasked with changing her bandages. The result is strangely mundane yet deeply uncomfortable, marking the beginning of Lynch’s collaboration with Catherine Coulson, later celebrated as the Log Lady in Twin Peaks.
Traumas affect our breath and our movement, it disrupts our rythm, but the harmonic frequency in nature can help us find it back.
In a sterile laboratory, a woman anxiously awaits her test results with her young daughter by her side. Sensing the tension in the air, the girl watches her mother closely, trying to unravel the secret behind her unease.
Set among unused long takes from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939), the film breaks traditional narrative flow as a stand-in wanders the Lincoln Memorial. Lost between monumental pillars, he repeatedly freezes before Lincoln’s statue, trapped in a ritual without progression.
During Rio's Carnival, a street cleaner struggles with the loss of his sister and his work obligations. Amid the celebrations, he finds a lost child and sets out to help him.
A young person once lived guided by sharp intuition and boundless curiosity—a natural pull toward the unknown. Over time, fear and routine dimmed that spark, but a subtle pulse still lingers beneath the surface. This film reveals the moment they dare to listen once more. Shot entirely on Super 8.
The ocean is paradise for Fran the shrimp. Her deadly claws take whatever they desire. For the blind fish Milva, it’s a daily fight to survive. Fran sees her as beautiful and wants her to see the ocean in the same way. Can they overcome their differences?
After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the artist finally admits to the negative impact that possessing the commonest name in the English-speaking world has had on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, the film takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.
All George wants is to stop getting pushed around by the local bullies. So when a pair of weird twins offer to introduce him to their grandma they say can 'make him big & strong', he jumps at the chance.
The idea underlying phrenology is the postulation of a connection between the skull’s external outline and the different areas of the brain, areas where talents and aspects of the personality are localised. Today, nobody takes the theory seriously. Marianne Heske makes use of it to ask questions. Are there eternal truths and values in science (and art)? And the things we believe in and practise today, what will history’s verdict be about them?
An outcast girl must fight the bullies and overcome her fears to pursue her ambition to fly to the other side of the mountain.
Molecular gastronomy, pretentious self-realization, and the weird choice of having children are all ingredients in this semi-apocalyptic double date from hell.
In a world covered by wild weeds, a beautiful, hidden garden lies tucked away. When a violent storm flings weed seeds into the garden, the gardener must fight to protect what she loves.
Pau faces their biggest fear: going down an escalator.
A young woman's long-distance relationship with an older Norwegian man promises to pull both her and her mother out of their austere life in Cuba. But her dreams are shaken when she realizes he hasn’t been quite honest with her.
The status and love affairs in childhood through a skewed lens – revealing the liberating force of not caring about what others think.
Molecular gastronomy, pretentious self-realization, and the weird choice of having children are all ingredients in this semi-apocalyptic double date from hell.
An absurdist comedy in the spirit of Harmony Korine. Lynch appears alongside his son, Austin Jack, as two oddball characters who speak in high-pitched voices and peculiar syntax. Their quiet afternoon is interrupted by a hulking creature demanding milk — the “Neighbor Boy.” The chaos culminates in an off-screen cavalry massacre of Indigenous people, a dark reminder of the violence embedded in the foundations of American suburbia.
The cam girl and artist, Lindsay Dye, has fought her whole life against stigma in a patriarchal society - all shot on 8 mm.
Two extraterrestrials traverse the universe trying to share technological breakthroughs with less brilliant minds.
Four children give us insight into how they interact with someone who has difficulties expressing themselves verbally.
A boy shares the science of our solar system with his two year-old sister, as documentary scenes of the night sky collide with social media conspiracies.
After recovering from a mental breakdown, a young woman shows up uninvited to a friend's gathering, where a game of Would You Rather threatens to push her over the edge.
A data engineer rushes through life, believing multitasking saves time — but it only creates chaos. Despite his strict control over time, nothing gets done: his home is a mess, work overflows, and the breakfast is always burnt.
Two men - meeting at an intersection of alleyways - zoom in and out of past and present – An exploration of isolation, belonging, compassion and disdain, painting a portrait of life and longing on the streets of Venice Beach, where scarcity and abundance coexist.
'The video was recorded with a Portapak and is in black and white. Norwegian landscapes are, after all, black and white in winter. I walk with the camera in Tafjord and record my own footsteps in a forest of birch trees. It is winter, the snow is wet and heavy, and it is utterly indescribably beautiful. Unfortunately, this video is short (...): the colder it was, the faster the battery ran flat. That’s how prosaic it was.'
'I have been fascinated by William Shakespeare all my life. Already at the age of seventeen, I traveled to Stratford-upon-Avon and spent a summer there. In [this] video, I pursue themes related to roles and the stages on which they are played out — in this case the religious, the musical, the artistic, and the arena of life itself, which culminates in death.'