My Glances Went Like Gleaners

Experimentation on paper exploring artistic appropriation in cinema and how each film borrows from the works that preceded it.

Eu, Senhora Do Meu Sonho

A Birthday Song

At the end of October (a few days before my birthday actually) Nicole asked me to produce a small film for a great man, a short film, a film like a birthday song, a common gift. Nicole sends me many portraits that she li

Sonata

Before an important audition, a mute theater student summons his five core emotions as he deals with the loss of a close friend.

Alma's Song

Aleluia, the Infinite Song

Component of the vocal trio “Os Tincoãs”, the singer and composer Mateus Aleluia developed his musical career between Brazil and Angola. Back in Brazil around the 2000s he retakes his artistic production in an acclaimed

Train Song

Surrounding a hidden monument honoring Chinese migrant workers, alongside a railroad located in Canyon Country, California, Train Song uses reflective material to distort the image of the railroad as an approach to conju

Snake Oil Song

Chino spends his days on the outskirts of the Amazon river hunting the anaconda that ate his dog. When an American hires Chino as a river guide, an encounter with illegal gold miners puts his life in jeopardy.

Sons of Toledo

After receiving the news of his younger brother’s murder, a mourning barber pushes through the muddy waters of grief to find the courage to do the impossible - give his brother one last cut.

Spring Song

Winter comes to an end as a wood nymph plays his flute to Mendelsohn's "Spring Song".

Harmonizing Songs

Jack King plays the piano and also asks some questions. Josephine Harmon goes through some songs and quips with vocal harmonizing.

The Song of the Bektashi

'The Night of 40 Martyrs' is one of the most important rituals of the mystical Bektashi dervishes. This is the first time this ritual has been completely caught on camera.

Full-Throttle Song

A Movie Based on a Song, About Biking???

Spirit Song

UCLA student ("Project One") documentary about Allison Mills, a young African American woman who was a successful teenage actress in the 1960s and 70s. Unhappy with the roles available to women of color, by the mid-70s M

Os Sonhos Guiam

Ohio Sonata

This is chapter 451 of Ohio Sonata, a neverending Tolstoyan novel of stock images. An ungovernable soap opera of imposterous photos where film genres devour each other. Filmmaker Lluís Galter reorders and rewrites the me

Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone

This classic documentary made by director Robert Elfstrom shows Pete Seeger as a fighter for human rights through songs such as I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night and If I Had a Hammer as environmentalist with a sequenc

Sonic Mirror

The multi-award-winning Finnish documentarian Mika Kaurismäki, brother of Aki Kaurismäki (The Man Without a Past), helms the nonfiction work Sonic Mirror -- a protracted exploration of rhythm as one of life's driving for

Young Sons Of The Desert

Five young Qatari men, used to Twenty-first Century life in the Gulf, take on the ancient desert traditions of their forefathers. They’re physically and mentally pushed to their limits by a wise Desert Sheik in some of t

Songs Of Rebellion: Lorde On Curating The Soundtrack

Focus on the message and meanings of the music