Passage

In our 'freelancer' age, many who reside in a city find themselves confined to their apartment and use a computer screen mostly to branch out. This film brings nature, lunacy, emotion and humanity into the apartment, using the colour blue as the main protagonist. It is the third instalment in an ongoing series of diaristic films.

Pirouette, a dreamlike journey, a dissolving into a flowing human-animal-plant-machine consciousness, follows a sound artist who records horse sounds with her own body while a cellist on the street invades her imagination. This is the psychedelic conclusion of a trilogy about horse sounds: Passage - Piaffe - Pirouette.

When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.

Ingeborg and Adam are visionary hand surgeons bound by love, control, and irresistible fixations. She is compelled to steal objects; he longs to become one. When an accident brings the enigmatic Gaia into their lives, unexpected desires begin to take shape, unsettling the careful balance that has long defined their relationship.

Using images from online amateur porn videos, Deux Femmes recreates pornographic footage shot by Man Ray and found in the artist's atelier after his death. Closely following the compositions of Ray's original film, director Ann Oren presents printed frames from online videos in a stack directly below the camera—adding a single frame to the stack every few seconds. The unhurried process of stacking the images by hand slows the otherwise speedy consumption of pornographic media in a nod to Ray's preoccupation with the female body as sculpture.

A western Cosplayer (costume player) of the popular cyber diva Hatsune Miku moves to Tokyo and gets to know the otaku community - obsessive manga fans. Her journey explores identity through cosplay and the fandom of the cyber diva Hatsune Miku, epitomizing collective fantasy as she is fan created. The film demonstrate the relevance of this behavior globally in terms of collective fantasy, with voice overs woven of lyrics fans wrote for Hatsune Miku.