Can You See Us

A high school girl in Shenzhen helps her father to work as a truck driver at the Hong Kong border. One day, she becomes friend with a vietnamese migrant.

Serbian rock band Electric orgasm celebrates the 40th anniversary of work.

As prologue to a trilogy of films about 9/11 America, this is the first channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. The film captures, in haunting slow-motion, the faces of stunned and saddened onlookers gazing at the unseen rubble of the World Trade Center shortly after the 9/11 attacks. The soundtrack is composed of the National Anthem recorded in October 2001 at the Yankees' World Series Game 4 in New York.

This is the second channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. It is comprised of United States military footage of interrogations, conducted shortly after 9/11, with two U.S. prisoners in Afghanistan, one of whom, Salim Hamdan, is the subject of Poitras’s feature documentary THE OATH.

Having recently split up, Ezra and Frankie reckon with love, loss and life.

Lesbians explore the issues surrounding the production of lesbian based art: visibility, marginalization, subject matter, peers, and the medium itself.

Figment needs Todd and Dhara to help him. He is on a treasure hunt, looking for the "Bookus Dragonius," which contains all of the world's wisdom. The book was hidden by his Uncle Max (The Reluctant Dragon) who loved word play, puzzles, and anagrams. Together they find many clues left by Uncle Max: rhyming clues, anagrams, puzzles, books, brain-teasers, and a rebus are all part of this mystery. They solve these clues—and then finally figure it all out.

An absurd dystopia featuring our senses. About sound, sight and wagging tongues.

Sometimes people are merely passengers, but the mark they leave affects every future timeline.

A spatial exploration of Miami, and the endless pursuit of the American Dream in an era of immigrant mass mobilization, the absurd dominance of wealth and border securocracy.

A family drama about the entangled conflict, love, and reconciliation of the characters around them, centered on Mammal's eldest daughter Jin Ju and Eun Ju's sister Eun Ju, who grew up with her parents' love.

In Can You See Me?, I portray the ghostly presence of an Iranian woman amid Montreal’s streets, symbolizing invisibility and detachment in a new cultural landscape. This performance, conducted in February 2023, six months after my move to Montreal, aims to understand perception and belonging in a foreign environment. It provokes thought on human perception’s selective nature and invisible barriers shaping cultural assimilation.

A man who was just released from prison tries to make amends with his ex and become a father to his 6-year-old son while staying with a stripper he met on a pen-pal website.

Grappling with the isolation of a recent glaucoma diagnosis, Eric Ellis embarks on a poignant journey to find human connection. Armed with a phone book, he reaches out to random strangers, desperate to forge meaningful bonds before the encroaching darkness separates him from the world forever.

Dive into an invisible world you'll have to see to believe. Nearly 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. But you’ve never seen most of its inhabitants like phytoplankton, parasites and extremophiles. Plus, delve into ocean currents and underwater acoustics.

In Jerusalem, between the west bank and the east bank, lies a promenade which serves as a border line between the Jewish neighborhoods and the Palestinian ones. To the wanderers on both sides, the view posed along its length is a view of the conflict (from the separation wall, through the Palestinian neighborhoods and reaching the Temple Mount). Turning back to the landscape, and observing the Israeli people overlooking it, the film turns the promenade into a "canvas" on which the Israelis celebrate its confused identity - between the day-to-day and the national holidays, between the flowers and the memorial monuments.

Beautiful emptiness, anguish and calm. Absence rendered visible and traces of presence in winter light.

24 hr fake news of visceral simulation. Everything now exists in a heightened state of simulation, from TV news broadcasts to internal human bodies, nothing is real, everything is constructed.

"...flattened images are dictated by actions happening outside of the frame. Choreography of bouncy balls and water fountains are involved." (Rick Bahto)

Filmmaker, Grant Conversano, interrogates the medium of the family photo, and what means to be photographed as a child by one's father while exploring inter-generational trauma, grief, and addiction.