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Constructed from over five decades of films featuring Robert De Niro in New York City, 'De Niro, New York' (2024) moves through space and time with a dream logic; placing De Niro’s many on-screen personalities in direct conversation with each other. These moments of connection and interaction paint a portrait of an artist and his city evolving together over more than half a century. Originally screened at Tribeca Festival in 6 channel format on the Hexadome—a six-screen, 52-speaker spatial installation engineered by the Institute of Sound and Music in Berlin.
An experimental essay film about terrorism, media, violence and globalisation. Three infotainment news broadcasts - a rollercoaster, a hijacking, and an influencer - are soundtracked by pulsating experimental electronics that push the psychic residue of a post war-on-terror world out of the unconscious and onto the screen. Capitalism, imperialism, desire; all three are implicated in a nihilism that has seeped from the news into the social psyche.
Jacqui's sister Leia comes home for a week to help her decide whether to sell their late mother's house. Leia thinks Jacqui should learn to communicate with the dead.
Feeling lost, a holidayer takes a vacation, only to discover a world that is as banal as it is hyper-real. A found-footage essay film. A home-movie. A music video. An experimental documentary about the fantasy of air travel. Taking a tour of the global centres of accumulation - New York, Dubai, Burning Man - Twilight documents the unreal, the mundane and the spectre of ecological collapse.
Peeking behind the curtain: This is how the Grannies describe what they’re up to. Behind the jokey name is a small group of creatives who play the computer game Red Dead Online together—though they’re not actually “playing the game” as intended. Rather than completing the missions set in late 19th-century America, they set out like true pioneers towards the periphery of its playable world—and beyond.
A plane takes off, bound for Paris (Charles De Gaulle). A pilot advises his co-pilot on the finer points of speed and altitude management. As the plane makes its approach, ghost transmissions invade the cockpit. The majesty of air travel is momentarily undone by a visit from a guilty conscience.
Written and filmed in four days each, "The End Of History" tracks Australian techno producers Darcy & Pat as they struggle to acclimatise to a changing Berlin where the clubs have (briefly) been closed down. Forced to either talk to each other or to finally engage with a city they know only as a playground for high expats, they leave as fast as they can to East Germany proper to create "something no one's ever done before".
