Two brothers come into contact after a very long time due to the discovery that the world is going to end. Together, they find themselves face-to-face with the inevitable dilemma to either save the reality of their relationship or the world's existence.
Do you need children, careers and partners to feel happy? The filmmaker Lotta Stemme has for five years documented both her own and three of her friends' griefs in the middle of their lives. Lotta tries to catch up with everything. Catherine chose to break up and move away from her children. Linda may not be able to have children and Marika opted out of her career and has invested everything in being a mother.
A person ponders where their life is headed, in their own anxiety-ridden mind.
A short, abstract look at the effects of repetition on the human mind.
A dream character tries to sell telepathic devices on a dream TV network, only to be confronted with a poetic existential crisis!
Tranquility is a silent short film centering feelings of emptiness and the search for fulfillment.
A teenage girl spends her afternoon cooking. She is alone. Or isnt't she? A student short film shot and completed entirely from afar due to Covid19 restrictions.
"Like a Pig in Shit" is a twenty-minute video piecing together audio and visual material found online, a collage technique common to the artist’s practice. It comprises nine movements and a spiraling, ultra-introspective, stream-of-consciousness monologue that diarizes the cumulative effects of life in the mediated, surveilled, freelance matrix.
When a girl was ten-years-old she developed a brain tumor. Doctors were able to remove it, but at the expense of the perception of her own face. She can see, just not herself. One night she has a dream where she's offered a chance to finally see herself...
A young man and an older one meet by happenstance in a local cafe and decide to sit and talk about their points of view on life.
Two kids entangled in the pursuit of young love find themselves colliding with the life of a woman experiencing a crisis.
A young man, in the midst of an existential crisis, goes to his uncle for help.
Two brothers walk into a graveyard, yet can't find their fathers grave.
"Birth is not a beginning and death is not an ending. They are merely points on a continuum." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Makulatura [which means both scrap paper and pulp fiction in Russian] is a duo of poets Evgeniy Alyokhin and Konstantin Speransky, who have been performing together since 2003. Blending classic literature references, mind-bending introspection, musings on modern love and an ironic attitude to their act, they create what faithful fans and listeners call “existential rap.” The film follows Makulatura on tour through several Russian cities.
Nearing the end of his university studies, a soon-to-be graduate reflects on his life up to this point, all through the lens of a Handycam his father used to use.
A quiet meditation on the mundanity of life.