Memento Mori A Váci Legenda

Since his release from prison where he spent 21 years, Philippe has been begging at the Wagesberg train station. Under judicial supervision, his freedom is only possible if he behaves impeccably. When Anna, a young activist on the run, asks him to take her in, his well-adjusted daily life is turned upside down by the echoes of his past.

A post-mortem photographer's certainties are shaken by his latest subject, a recently deceased young woman.

The Man in Black is reunited with his beloved. After her initial disinterest, he manages to strike up a conversation with The Woman in White, who proposes a deal to save her former love and not end in ruin.

memento mori is a layered exploration of the total photographs captured over the course of a lifetime – over 100,000 in total. This personal archive, the dizzying documentation of a life, represents a plurality of subjects, objects, thoughts, dreams and experiences, forming an encyclopedic index of the possibilities of sight.

Matthew's heart stopped beating on the tattoo parlour table. Now, his parents hold their dying boy. But in their hands they also hold the fates of others: the promise of new lives, and death postponed. With astonishing access and remarkable intimacy, Memento Mori carries us headlong into a world of hope lost, and hope returned. An elegy to the beauty of life in the shadow of death.

An intimate view on suicide, its taboo and its effects on two different families and a friend.

Follow in real time the peregrinations of a small pack, prisoner and resigned, recount death like a children's tale, share the twilight between tranquility and terror. Film the fence as one would a still life.

Paul comes out of the hospital where, after a series of tests, his doctor tells him that he only has a few more days to live. Devastated by this news, he decides to hit the roads of France.

By marking the grave of an NN with the word Chosen, the Animero has sealed a pact with “the devil.” Now he must do whatever it takes to keep his promise to find the head of an unnamed body. A dramatic allegory about the armed conflict in which death—and the dead—mark every action and every day of life with: Remember that you will die.

In 1983, a scientist in isolation resurrects a dead colleague.

When Michael is introduced to his friend's new girlfriend, her presence releases a ghost from his past.

Tells the story of a teenage lad developing fear of death after a series of unrelated deaths in a rural area in Metro Manila.

Winner of the Best Short Film at the Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in 1995, Hubbard’s highly personal experimental work, Memento Mori, is a moving, queer meditation that individualizes the immeasurable collective trauma left in the wake of the AIDS epidemic. Stylistically, Hubbard powerfully departs from the small film gauge formats that dominate his documentary work, instead utilizing widescreen Cinemascope that serves to illuminate the enormous scale of loss for each individual that has perished. Through the artful juxtaposition of universal imagery of death and ritual, deliberate close-ups of a human skull to the scattering of ashes, Hubbard’s dream-like elegy transports the viewer to a deep, universal state-of-consciousness that anyone that has lost a loved one will instantly recognize. The resulting depth of emotion and empathy serves as both a mournful prayer and an indelible filmic monument to the dead.

Viewed from the world of Roger Ballen. Ballen is renowned for his confronting and bleak black and white portraits of marginalised South Africans. Melle van Essen follows in Ballen’s footsteps by creating 'Living' photographs with fixed frames and strong black and white contrasts with great emphasis on composition.

A study of light and shadows, framing and composition with no clear narrative. A visual essay on silence and the passing of time.

A stop-motion meditation on the inevitability of death, dedicated in loving memory to Gravy, the Nebelung gremlin kitty.