Body Atlas

The film explores the essential role of care in maintaining and inhabiting our architecture. A tribute to the invisible hands of architecture that keep everyday life running, sustain our homes, and form the foundation for life and well-being.

A series of questions and statements unfolds around the experience and revelation of living with epilepsy. Through a collage of archival footage and fragmented images, Reem searches for the memory she lost during her first seizure. The film weaves together fragments that evoke the poetic and fragile

Squame explores the body's sensitive envelope, the skin. The ephemeral animated desquamations, created with the help of sugar casts, evoke fragile landscapes in a world at the edge of abstraction. Somewhere between archeological artifacts and macroscopic observations, the friable frontiers of these

"Swish," made with moving subject and open shutter of a moving camera, deals with the physical properties of the film medium and pushing those distinctive features to their limit. It is an attempt to get inside of motion. The subject, a female body at close range, provides an intimacy and eroticism,

Thermal infrared study of how bodies react, adapt, and seek connections in a world shaped by surveillance and mediated violence.

In a bizarre and intimate space, a body is thrown into existence. Through play and sensations, it embarks on a journey of self-discovery. The short film proposes observing this internal process and its relationship to the territory beyond the skin we inhabit. The narrative is abstract and sensory; a

WHEN I STOP LOOKING 2025 - Video - 15 minutes By Todd Edward Herman Going beyond the imprint of appearances, When I Stop Looking invokes the intensely private worlds of those portrayed, each of whom lives with significant facial and cranial conditions; a vivid affirmation of existence comes forward,

A meditative journey along the shores of the Persian Gulf and deep under its waters. 'Primary Organs' intertwines diverse but connected vignettes from historic and contemporary maritime cultures of the Arabian Peninsula: a diver travels to sites once visited by Jacques Cousteau during his 1954 surve

Mosaic explores evolution in its natural and artificial forms — the deliberate and random modifications of an organism. As a mixed genre, science-driven anthology film, Mosaic is the first of its kind featuring ten visionary, international filmmakers and stories from the most influential scien

Orfeo Nel Canale Alimentare (Orpheus in the Alimentary Canal) is an animated opera about the digestive tract. In the film, Orpheus attempts to rescue Eurydice from a bout of indigestion by crossing the river of her inner-under world. But in the alimentary canal there are no heroes, only the multitud

We all have a biological identity - a genetic hardware that can not be easily changed. About half of Drosophila's brain is dedicated to vision. What they can see, is who they are. What about us? a film by Janne Pulkkinen Hannes Vartiainen Pekka Veikkolainen Huayi Wei with Nefertiti Matos Olivares mu

The wellness universe evaluates the spiritual mechanics of the pain-body as it searches for answers.

Tiny workers run a domesticated factory under the supervision of giant hands. This fantastically convenient at-home solution for disposable creation is absurdly inefficient and potentially an answer to the question of how we get rubber gloves. The timer is ticking.

Life as a theatre of its own. A film inspired by the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge (1830 -1904), the pioneer and the inventor of zoopraxiscope - a device for projecting motion pictures.

This is the point where you stop and I start. Lactation period. It captures, records, takes care: the camera as a reader of traces of radical intimacy and as the alienation from one's own body. The transformative experience ends with Weaning ; the point where the nourishing substance hits my camera

After an extremely stressful situation, I developed skin hypersensitivity: a nervous eczema. The darkroom of my camera welcomes ants that wander on its sensor. They are the involuntary companions of this introspective journey where my body and the camera are the sensitive elements of this experience

After so many years in a dormant state, a young man sets off on a long, perilous yet healing journey from the mountain to the sea where he conducts his most ambitious symphony piece ever undertaken. This is the journey through the young man's brain waking up and recovering the ability to detect moti

Experimental analog and digital video (dual screen). Media: scratched 16mm film and scratched 35mm photographic film + digital video. This video reveals a space that first opens outward (toward nature, the sea), then closes in on itself within an enclosed environment. The intimate merges with nature

Electric Mom begins after a fatal accident: Noah brings his wife Hannah back home near a wild forest, but she returns altered in a biomimetic synthetic body. Her memories seem intact, yet her body is optimized for performance, constant attention, and caregiving within the family. Set in a quiet dome

Lake Urmia in Northern Iran was once the biggest lake of the Middle East. But human influence has set its course and brought the drought. Nowadays just 5% of the original lake remain. The rest is dried out and covered by salt. It became a political symbol all over the country. This cinematic essay o

Wandering through the body puzzling out a system of symbols. The trouble is, affect resists signification outright. The inside and outside become muddled when you start to feel your body in relation to the image. This film is an exploration of the body, specifically the affective register of bodily

Emergence is a silent 2-channel video installation created to symbolically counter the violence of blackface in its representation of Blackness. Shot in extreme slow motion and projected at a large scale, Emergence features four Black models, two males and two females, with a range of complexions. T

In this documentary essay, the reflections of renowned timeless thinkers are combined with intimate material to explore a particular neurosis about bodily identity framed within a modernity laden with consumerism, overproduction of images, and a growing record of mental disorders. This essay seeks t

Stomach, thighs and ass refers to the various sites of the body where I can inject myself with insulin. Every night and every morning, and before every meal, I check my blood sugar level, record it in a notebook and take my insulin. For two years, I have kept a video diary of every single insulin in

Witness: An Organima Film' is an experimental animation short film that captures the sentience in small life-forms: ancient beings on stone, an intelligent water droplet, and spirits of sunlight. Crafted with a novel animation approach that asks natural materials to guide their own story, elemental

Jours en fleurs is a reclamation of flower-power in which images of trees in springtime bloom are subjected to the floriferous ravages of menarcheal substance in a gestation of decay. The title is based on an expression from my coming of age in Acadian French Canada where girls would refer to having

Vast farmland flickers over a young man having a wet dream involving cowboy hats. Created with found materials, this collage film blurs the line between a queer body and the land it inhabits, between sleep and not-sleep, between desire and dreaming. There are no borders here...

This experimental 16mm filmed letter explores the remnants and memory of a love relationship through the image of a body as a landscape-an architecture of memory that distorts beneath water. Through a sound archive recorded by the woman being filmed, and through the intimate voice-over of a poetic l

A film essay that explores, through collage, the sense of detachment from space and the body itself, as both are part of a common symbolic territory.

Medical imagery, retrieved from the filmmaker's body when he had a bone marrow transplant in 2021, becomes the foundation for disembodied questions of selfhood. In this experimental documentary, 2D and 3D animations create an abstract series of landscapes out of scans originally taken for medical tr

The illusion of control is a privilege. وهم التحكم بمحيطنا هو مجرد رفاهية.

Our skin both exposes and protects us: it is part of our sense of identity, a witness, like it or not, to the events in our lives, a tool of communication, and plays an important role in how we relate to the world. Awarded the Prix du Jury / Jury Prize at Rencontres Internationales Sciences, Cinemas

Sowing the gaze as a search for the body on land and the land in the body. Burying and digging up shapes, spots, scars and any accumulated traces. Seconds, minutes and hours no longer have any meaning.

Matters of the Heart , a series of six, silent, black-and-white films of operations were shot with a 16mm Bolex film camera in the operating room: Heart, Blood Flow, Stomach, Eye/Hand, Vertebra, Brain . Two choreographies overlap: that of the surgeons and that of the intuitive-conceptual camera edit

Eva Giolo, a Belgian artist whose work explores the possibilities of film, video, and installation, presents us in her second appearance at the festival with a lyrical portrait of Fogo Island in Canada, re-situating us in nature, in the act of observing and waiting, while we meditate on the relation

This Is How I Felt was filmed in a twenty-four period while the filmmaker was wearing a heart monitor to investigate possible arrhythmias.

Water has been shaping our existence for as long as there has been an "us" to speak of. It is everywhere and always in motion. Planetary waters and the waters within human bodies merge and mingle, dissolving boundaries between species and ecosystems, and impacting both human and non-human worlds. 'T

Soma of the Land / Becoming Landscape approaches the body not as a bounded organism, but as a sensing terrain—porous, receptive, and entangled with the intelligence of the living world. Through biomaterials (wound healing bandages), 3d scans of bodies and landscapes, moving image, and sound, t

What happens when you smell something? This whimsical look at olfaction follows the journey of a smell through the nose. A film by Anna Lindemann and Albana Kodra as part of the Imagine Science Symbiosis Competition Animation by Anna Lindemann. Illustration by Ziael Ponte. Microscopy by Albana Kodra

Teeeeth is a short film shot on 16mm that examines the role of human teeth in the context of contemporary diets.

At 25, Christian begins to piece together a silenced memory: the rape he suffered in his childhood. Driven by the need to heal, he embarks on a journey to the sea, which he has never seen before, hoping to find answers on the horizon. Through letters, images, and confessions, he attempts to document

Short experimental film about anticipatory grief and my brother's upcoming orthognathic surgery through the anatomy of the human body.

A girl predicts the end of the world. The deteriorating desert ecosystem directly affects this film: Blake Knecht treated the 16mm film with salt dried up from the Great Salt Lake and buried it in desert soil.

As her team digitises the traces of an unidentified creature, a palaeontologist mourns a loved one. A meditation on preservation, daughter of discovery and mother of loss.

Sky Sweat Star Spit is a multi-species love song tuned to the ecstatic and grotesque textures of existence. Born from the American experimental tradition, it's a fever dream that meditates on transformation, dissolution, and the blur between the spiritual and the bodily. Adapted from a passage on th

Through the principles of hinge protein design, How to Connect Two Bodies is an experimental documentary exploring the invisible choreography in meaningful connections of objects across various scales. This film was created as part of Symbiosis 2025, which took place from May 5 to May 19, 2025. The

Complaint is a video essay series that discusses a topic of general interest, offering a deep dive into its historical and philosophical backdrop.

In a series of appropriated images – more or less randomly – from the internet, we wander through an amusing and frenetic discourse on the tension of love-hate for the body. In this protein shakes and energy bars culture, we are faced with two inverse but complementary feelings: on one h

Here you are SCUM, creature in cage. Your gaze waves inside the rage of our age/era. Your scream testifies us an individual and societal wound, traumatic memory of our condition to overthrow. Your gesture, survival drive, questions our visceral link to violence. SCUM, in your hands of silicon young

A self-isolated young human known as "James" delves into the hidden world of microscopic organisms, forging a tender connection with these nearly invisible creatures and developing a massive online following, as he seeks to understand his own place in the cosmos and accept the scars of his past. "A

Holly Márie Parnell's film Cabbage (2023) examines the complexities of bodily autonomy within an ableist paradigm. Parnell focuses on her brother, David, particularly his texts written with the assistance of eye-tracking technology – he comments his "eyes are his voice," which is made v

An experimental film that explores the director's own experience of hearing — or the partial absence of it. Being deaf in her right ear, she builds a sound narrative that invites the audience to perceive the world as she does: hearing only from one side. The sound travels from left to right, b

Coalescere is the acceptance of becoming-other without losing oneself, of growing together through matter and relationships. It is a slow and continuous movement, made of contact, nourishment and regeneration. It tells the story of Ifa's birth, generated by a queer union, and the mycelium filaments

An analogical pilgrimage evokes the terrors and splendors of the human body as the undiscovered, mysterious continent. Extreme magnification increases the ambiguity of the visuals, tongue-in-cheek commentary counteracts or reinforces their sexual implications. The method is that used by the imagist-

HUMANI CORPORIS ORCHESTRA is a "glitch art" video art. It represents a song where all the sound inputs come from one human body. The inputs were then modified to create electronic music. The sound of the music was used to distort the image using Touchdesigner.

How many neurons do you need to recognize your mother? "A Sentimental Science" explores the limitations of our understanding of how our experience is encoded in neural activity. ISFF13 Symbiosis

The film is a visual experiment, an effort to attend to the recurrent cylindrical formations that permeate human bodies, our technology, our parasites, and most of our cities' infrastructures. Through a focus on form, the project seeks to generate unexpected connections between categories often seen

An account of a scientist trying to teach machines how to infer depth from two-dimensional pictures. A parable of a prince trying to resurrect his lover by fashioning a chair out of his lover's things. A question about the need for human beings, and the things they are in need of.

It is part of the "Movies" series, produced between 2014 and 2018 The first thing that caught my attention in the film "How to Turn the Eyelid Inside Out" (1948), produced by the London Institute of Ophthalmology, was the opening shot of a woman with pale, slightly rosy skin and a round face, the at

The film 0.1 g shows what our body produces for our well-being. We experience the variety of shapes and colors of the human body in close-ups and in time-lapse. We see tears of joy and suffering, beads of sweat, and other secretions from the body, ensuring the smooth functioning of our body. They de

This documentary tells the story of nine parts of the body of persons who have suffered irrevocable changes during the year. Animations of body transformations —through growth, aesthetic or pathological changes —are illustrated with testimonies and images of some of the spaces that surro

A video about the proliferation of images and the disappearance of bodies. A series of physical and digital ruptures guides our protagonist through age-old questions on existence. For locations not captured by Google Street View cameras, people can upload their own photos to the map. These volunteer

The title alone promises to reveal some inharmonious details within one's own personality or self-image. Already in Anna Vasof's work Amazon Woman (2021) she, as a performer, leaves the terrain of the conducting artist who demonstrates her ideas in animated sequences. The unpleasant loss of controll

The flash of a childhood memory, its childish body, the beginning of its molecular transformation. Audiovisual artist Sofia Angst creates an entrancing experimental self-portrait with real-time image manipulations, using webcams and digital microscopes, breaking through the boundaries of identity. A

ashleycondina.com site specific durational performance on video with original sound SOGNO SALE / SALT DREAM / PHASE I Meditation in motion, grounded in the origins. Body and Earth.

A young woman who lives in her thoughts goes back to the sea to centre herself. As she dives into the water, she dives under her skin and penetrates her psychological wrapping.

The lens of the camera is a key to the senses and the sensual. The close-up renders tactility inviting touch, the obscured image tests the boundaries of the frame beckoning one to enter. But as all the senses are awakened, the lens of the projector relays a distance that cannot be collapsed.

As the day ends for a worn-out office worker, a sense of unease grips him when he encounters the mysterious gaze of a chimpanzee. Their silent exchange prompts him to make a decision that will prove irreversible. Set against a bleak, dehumanized industrial landscape, A Dying Tree reflects on how con

in ocula oculorum interrogates the unknown and the internal, in both subject matter and experience. Dealing with the contemporary state of perpetual doom, the film contemplates various stages of life and death from the point of view of our human bodies and perceptual systems. It explores beta moveme

The film When Land Becomes Earth looks at Earth; as a self-regulating planet; earth as material both multiple and singular; from its granular form to mountains terraformed by extractive technologies. It encounters scientists, farmers and activists working like soil, using nature-based solutions, res

Exposition of two different processes of forensic identification in exhumed bodies with signs of violence.

Even in silence, the moon exudes light. Or perhaps especially in silence, which may be one of the reasons Daniela Zahlner's magical film Upwards Tide begins its flow without a sound. It makes sense to get used to the bright spot of light, which is interspersed throughout the film, in something akin

In a realm embroidered with the threads of history's battles, the human form transforms into a poignant landscape, echoing the violence etched upon its land and people in the tapestry of the Arab land.

A film-poem made after Gerald Murnane's short story 'The Battle of Acosta Nu' (1985), about the aftermath of a failed Paraguayan socialist colony founded in 1912 called New Australia. Murnane's unnamed narrator, a displaced Australian descendent living in Paraguay, is beset by his son's dire physica

"La próxima te acompaño is the result of the combination of various animation techniques and supports, both physical and digital. The process begins by converting computerized images of a person's interior into blueprints. This work seeks to play and expand the notion of the representa

Bolivian artist and filmmaker Luciana Decker Orozco delves into ancient and essential acts: eating, masticating and digesting. Her suggestive celluloid slips through mouths, intestines and entrails, as well as experiments in the catacombs of the human being and the Earth. Inspired by the avant-gardi

After a solar storm, a sea creature washes ashore. Its journey unfolds as a reflection on birth and loss amidst the desolate landscape. The creature wanders the empty expanse, seeking understanding in the silence of its surroundings. In a final act ,she makes herself disappear, merging with the eart

An experimental infrared thermal (IRT) short film about the hormonal transition of Menopause in an abstract approach to the transformation of the female body, as the energy cycle shifts from reproduction to a realization of a new spiritual power. Shot entirely with a military grade infrared rifle sc

"The rebellious voice, the split voice. The voice is suture, the voice is seam, the voice is cut, the voice is tear, the voice is my identity, it is not body or spirit, it is not language or image, it is sign, it is a sign of the images, it is a sign of sensuality. It is a sign of symbols, it is bou

Stop-motion animation. The figure of a small white doll grows from a ball of modelling clay, is cut and sewn shut, and then buried and 'reborn', among a nest of white granulated sugar and the dark stain of slut's wool – the fluffy dust that collects under furniture and along skirting boards. T

Jessica explores the inner-workings of our sister planet. Examining the atmospheric composition of Venus, this piece, narrated by Jackie Reynal, exposes a reminder of what could happen on Earth.

What does it mean to see the heart? The film Visio Cordis takes medical imaging as both subject and provocation, tracing how systems built to observe and measure do not merely reveal the body, but shape how care and rupture are interpreted. At its center is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or broken-heart

As playful in its form and technique as it is thoughtful in its take on womanhood, this animated wonder by Quebec's Marie Valade uses a woman's surrealist journey to explore her love–hate relationship with her breasts, body, and femininity.

When future medicine allows people to live past the human body's shelf life, a young woman visits her grandmother in the hospital and is forced to question the value of immortality when you still end up in a box.

The film showcases medical records of posthuman patients in an imaginary hospital through experimental digital images.

Alyss runs bare, exposed to their environnement and affected by their surrounding elements. Their exhausting journey becomes a pretext to reflect on a quest for personal authenticity.

Immortal is a visual poem about youth; a dialogue between three voices. The short explores time and the poetry of embodiment, lingering in the space between the biological and the philosophical. The young woman is light and idealistic, she presents herself as a gaze, and through her runs the eternit

Contrary to what the title of the film suggests, River Plate is not set in the stadium of the eponymous Argentinian soccer club, but instead, along the gravel banks of a flowing river bed in northern Italy, where a group of swimmers has gathered on a hot summer day. Nonetheless, references to sports

Exploring notions of observation, distance, and perception, Atlas is sited around a specific physical object in the history of optics and vision. This object is the first accurate 'map' of the retinal surface, traced using a camera lucida by Richard Liebreich, and published as the Atlas of Ophthalmo

What if the body could be read as a map? What landscapes, memories, and unknown geographies might it contain? In times of planetary destruction, Tentacular Atlas is an immersive video installation that approaches the body as a living atlas—an ecosystem in constant transformation. Through a poe

An attempt at mourning both personal and political futures that never arrived, organised around a broad interpretation of the trope of the ghost. We see depersonalised figures, urban ruins, consuming fires and microscopic images of decaying bodily matter; footage was shot in Washington DC, Lima and

Our memories make up the foundation of who we are, but they are constantly changing. Like a living organism with its own personality, memory can be loyal and reliable, sneaky and surprising, or capricious and cruel. Shot primarily in 16mm film, this creature called Memory is made from museum objects

Simon Pummell's epic movie tells the story of a human life, using found footage from the last 100 years of cinema, cut to a powerful score by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead.

2021 single channel video with sound Filming Location : Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Aomori Hotoke-ga-ura seashore, The Submerged Forest in Dekijima seashore, Spring Water of Gudari Swamp Higashi Hakkouda Tashiro Highlands, Hokkaido Horonobe Underground Research Center Supported by Aomori

My world was jolted by two shadow images: one, thrilling, the other terrifying. After a years-long effort—with 200 other scientists—we made the first image of a black hole, its shadow of no return. Then I fell into debilitating pain. A deadly shadow blot appeared on an MRI of my spine. F

Optically printed images of a man and a woman fragmented by a film frame that is divided into four distinct sections. An experiment in the form/content relationships peculiar to the medium, 1987.

Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from a loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day. The companion records the limb being exposed to textures and materials. What will become of the limb and the video recordings?

An animated poem about Hair that reflects themes of identity, belonging, and patterns linking physiological features with nature and the elements.

The Mouth as Landscape presents fractured human tooth fragments under the microscope. At this scale, enamel becomes cliff, pulp chamber becomes cave mouth, crystalline dentin becomes translucent glaciers. The familiar body part dissolves into something geological and vast. Teeth are sites of pain, m

Nyctophobia is an essay-documentary about psychological distress. Jean-François Boisvenue tells us about his childhood fears and his history of mental illness. On the screen, we can see a series of hand-drawn animations projected onto his body that plunges us into psychosis and depersonalizat

Two immigrants recount the changes brought about by their journeys to the U.S., paralleling that of cells migrating in response to a wound. ISFF13 Symbiosis

How do we influence the world around us? A flow analysis tool ordinarily used in the laboratory offers new interpretations of human interaction and our place in the world. This film was made as part of the 2023 Symbiosis initiative presented at the Science New Wave Festival XVI (Imagine Science Film

...While the shade of a tree is being stolen away, bodiless organs sit in the enormous gaps of the drained earth. Under the constant noise of unseen machines, disjointed body parts touch the drying soil and breaths are only audible to insects. In this quiet, distorted world, old songs of goodwill ar

Through interweaving dance and dialogue, Material Bodies is a sensual and cinematic look at the relationship between amputees and their limbs. This visceral and colourful short film explores how a prosthetic leg can be more like a piece of jewellery, a dance companion, or a part of you.

If people were blood cells they would use the city's arteries as transportation. This documentary style video work is a visual letter of artistic acknowledgement to the metropolitan arterial network: the Mumbai Local Trains. RAKTMARG is a Hindi phrase that literally translates to the word 'bloodstre