John Michael Boling

Bouchra

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist, the rift in her cultural identity and an array of romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning becomes her path to expression.

Culturesport: Rotterdam 1995

In the Netherlands, the ocean is rising. A reclusive engineer has arrived in Rotterdam, promising to invent a new system of dikes and dams, using a computer that harnesses the power of dreams. A pair of twins are selected for the study - gabber kids, from the local hardcore scene. As the duo get sucked deeper into a digital dream world, they begin to wonder if the inventor's true goal isn't to protect Rotterdam at all.