Memory

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

An intellectual leaves the Cuban revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the 'developed' world. A portrait of alienation, of an outsider with no clear-cut politics or ideology. A stranger in a strange land struggling with old age, sexual desire and ultimately the impossibility for the individual to belong in any society. The film's narrative is a collage of flashbacks, daydreams, and hallucinations comprising live-action, animation, and newsreel footage assembled to suggest the way personal memory works, subjectively and emotionally.

While there is hope for the future as science gains momentum, millions of Americans are currently affected by the painful and deadly consequences of Alzheimer's. This documentary profiles seven people living with the disease, each in an advancing state of dementia, from its earliest detectable changes through death.

This is the personal journey of Damian, a guy who is losing his grandmother to Alzheimer while he receives the job offer he has been waiting for his entire life. He will have to choose between his family and himself.

Minho (35 years old) works as a counselor at psychological counseling center operated by the ward office. His daily psychological counseling with the local residents, most people come to tell him their worries and ask for personal advices. One day, Minho returns to home and tries to clean up his room and finds a scribble note in the detergent box, note that someone who had lived seems to have left.

The story takes place in Macao as the gambling industry just starts to bloom again in the city. Two brothers who could no longer endure poverty decide to go to Macau to make a quick buck. Yang (played by Winslow Chan) hates his job as betting agent because he needs to collect debts or engage in immoral behaviour. Not until he encounters Carmen (played by Kate Leong) does Yang’s life change. As they start to know each other better, Yang suddenly needs to take on the huge debt of his brother Fong (played by Leo Chu). The only solution is to run. Yang and Carmen start to realize the distance between them, and that they inhabit entirely different worlds, although both physically live in Macao. A few years later, on a quiet afternoon, Yang tells his mother about the Macao story, hoping to find some traces of her in his memories...

Venky, suspected of committing multiple murders, suffers from memory loss and finds himself entangled in a web of lies. However, the true identity of Venky and the person responsible for his predicament are complex and multi-layered, leading to the discovery of the real killer.

A young couple roams through a landscape of ruins, devasted by war. Time seems to disappear to remind us that what has already taken place can happen again.

Of the memories that generate unique moments full of life.

Using film clips recorded when the director suffered from paranoid delusions and severe compulsive thoughts, we are given insight into a terrifying existence.

Hyun-oh, who has the ability to remember dreams, meets new actress Joo-eun in his dream. The amazing truth that they come across...

About a memorial.

Changgyeong Palace was converted into a zoo in the Japanese colonoial period and continued to operate as such for some time after liberation.

A feverish look at the high-stakes and mind-boggling world of the mattress-selling business.

Manami's mother died when she was a child. She moves to Okinawa, where her ailing aunt lives and she feels connected with her mother. Manami has always lacked self-confidence, but she becomes more positive after meeting Koa, a Vietnamese researcher following his dreams. But then Koa returns to Vietnam.

How do we honor precedent while rupturing it for new life? As living beings we are time and space collapsed. We subvert linear time as we experience and shoulder the overwhelming shadow and noise of different memories, existences, and dreams in every moment. We cry, love, grieve, bleed, and just “are” every day. We pass down and inherit all of these things. We are entitled to keep them—a frighteningly stunning life. What is happening in the current moment, spliced with the past, is to live in memory, and that dynamic is to be human.

Alla Horska was a Ukrainian artist of the 1960s, monumentalist painter, one of the first representatives of the underground art movement, dissident, and human rights activist of the Sixtiers movement in Ukraine. She was murdered in 1970 while under surveillance by the KGB.

An abstract film that explores a process of dynamic organic forms made of distorted accidental hazardous found footage materials.