1. A Desert Moment with Noah
Paying tribute to artist Noah Purifoy and his Outdoor Museum, Matthew’s film ‘A Desert Moment with Noah’ rapidly animates 78 still Super 8mm images like a slideshow gone haywire. Exploring the of elasticity of time, the film manipulates the essence of a moment as it periodically pauses to allow the viewer a space with various objects, surfaces, and textures within Purifoy’s Joshua Tree sculptural environment.
2. Kites at the Kamogawa (for Jonas Mekas) (Kites at the Kamogawa (for Jonas Mekas))
Black kites soar on thermals along the Kamo river in Kyoto. Flags billow. Cacti spin. Plum trees blossom. Pigeons make love atop a clock. Friends chat by the riverside. Filmed February/March 2019 on a single 40 year old cartridge of Kodachrome Super 8 and hand-developed in Caffenol. The film was heavily fogged, but there are some images.
3. Dark Side of the Moon (Opération Lune)
A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
4. Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine
Said to be deadliest great white shark of all time, Submarine is a 30-foot shark that has terrorized the shores of South Africa for decades. Locals believe this shark is responsible for countless fatal attacks, but its existence has never been proven.
5. The Wild Blue Yonder
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
It has an average vote of 6.056 on TMDB.
6. The haunting in rosemary lane
A story of two men doing a documentary of a nearby woods called Rosemary Lane. And after they start to camp there to see whats going on. The demon Mary has other plans to make there stay as uncomfortable as possible
7. Is It Over Yet?
Three Indonesians studying abroad find a way to cope with their lives in quarantine due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
8. Memory (Memory)
Memory is a collaboration with musician Noah Lennox , exploring the relationship between a musician and filmmaker and their personal reflection on memories. From Super 8 home movies and entirely handmade, this film explores familiar memories, the present moment combined with past experiences and how it all seems to evade from our present memory.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
9. Bruxelles: à la Foire du Midi (Bruxelles: à la Foire du Midi)
The first film by Chantal Akerman, a short silent 8mm film shot during the Brussels summer Midi Fair, that was one of four short films she made as a short of entrance exam at INSAS were she studied for just a couple of months.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. I'm Leaving on Wednesday (I'm Leaving on Wednesday)
Somewhere in the Balkans, in a garden hidden by a large house, a story unfolds of a great love between two young women. Neither of them wishes to accept that their relationship might ever end. What happens, then, when one day fate takes an unexpected turn? Is it possible to part so suddenly from your beloved?
11. The Kiamichi Beast Expedition
The expedition for the Kiamichi beast up into the mountains was a tedious journey. For over 200 years the Kiamichi beast has roamed Arkansas, the Indians say he would raid the camp and steal the children. Now adays the locals are afraid to enter the woods at night. The howl’s coming from the woods are enough to make even a big man shake
12. El Paraíso (El Paraíso)
The film consists of video tapes made by the filmmaker’s father documenting daily scenes of family life, family celebrations, and holidays over the course of fifteen years. The tapes are a mixture of the personal and the political – the father was politically engaged in the revolutionary movement that brought Hugo Chávez to power. The family’s life becomes a backdrop for political and economic developments in Venezuela and their impact on the lives of ordinary citizens.
13. Untitled (Pink Dot) (Untitled (Pink Dot))
In Untitled , Murata transforms footage from the Sylvester Stallone film First Blood into a morass of seething electronic abstraction. Subjected to Murata's meticulous digital reprocessing, the action scenes decompose and are subsumed into an almost palpable, cascading digital sludge, presided over by a hypnotically pulsating pink dot.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
14. India In a Day
Directed by Richie Mehta, executive produced by Ridley Scott and powered by Google, India in a Day is a new form of non-fiction filmmaking that uses footage shot by millions of people in India on one single day to assemble a lyrical portrait of modern India.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. Once Upon A Time In Germany (Once Upon A Time In Germany)
Indifferent landscapes, refracting light, some lonely bird and the window to the sebum-laden living room made of patterned wallpaper and trivialities. Cut. Tenacious sequences inflate moments to cliff-hangers and shatter their tremulous spectatorship. Thundering leitmotifs – in constant intoxication by German disinterest – with no backrest or lederhosen. Black-red-gold at full mast, the cinema is dead.
16. Song 5
SONG 5: A childbirth song .
It has an average vote of 4.182 on TMDB.
17. Wet Snuff
In October of 2023, Two amateur filmmakers disappeared in search of dark web personality "WETBOXX".
18. American Zombie
Documents the daily lives of a small community of the living deceased who make their home in Los Angeles.
It has an average vote of 4.696 on TMDB.
19. Highland Tower (Highland Tower)
In December 1993, a luxury condominium tower block collapse after ground erosion from the neighbouring hillside. About 50 people lost their lives and to this day has become one of the darkest and saddest tragic incidents in Malaysian history. Twenty years later in 2013, a group of documentary filmmakers venture into the remaining two blocks that is left standing to do a ghost hunting expedition. What they discovered is not for the faint-hearted.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
20. The Gulf of Silence
Since 1945, only a select few in the US government have known the truth about UFOs. In 2020, one of them is finally speaking out. Join Dr. Laura Gale PhD on a guided tour through over half a century of disinformation, counterespionage—and mankind's attempts to make first contact.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.