The Experimental Image World of Shuji Terayama

A woman struggles to find balance in her own relationship with nostalgia while unravelling the fate of a childhood friend who vanished after becoming consumed by it.

In the Achromatic World, forgotten desires, ambitions, and dreams from our own reality take shape and walk the earth. It is a realm without color, composed solely of light and shadow, where fractured figures inhabit ruined stone temples flooded with sunlight. Within one of these temples lives Torre, a female presence akin to a dark virgin cast in bronze. She yearns for materials with which to complete her colorless paintings. Her apprentice, Ave, offers to journey to the river in search of them, now that the rain has ceased. Thus, Ave sets out on the pilgrimage.

An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, costuming and color play an integral role in this piece.

A woman washes up on a beach and embarks on a surreal journey, encountering others and fragmented versions of herself in a quest for identity.

A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman. The film also shows a shadowy darkness and people filmed at odd angles, an exposed human heart, and other occult symbols and ritualistic imagery which evokes an unsettling and dream-like aura. Considered an unfinished film.

a lucid dream leads to a dance with Death.

In this vertical short-form video, a strange fortune teller comes with a message for a specific collective.

A socially awkward, neurodivergent youth struggles to adapt at a social gathering that quickly takes a turn into the uncanny and surreal.

A female hotel employee wanders around different guestrooms and searches for an unreachable dream. Wandering in other people’s dreams, she encounters a mysterious guest and hears a story about a woman who dances deep inside her dream and a dancing procession...

During his visit to a graveyard, a young man is suddenly projected into a dream-like realm. Empty and removed from time, the familiar landscape forces him to confront certain pains when blood suddenly effuses from his hands.