Sirens of the Revolution (Novosibirsk, 1993)

Based largely upon the sensational discovery of previously unknown footage and sound recordings locked in a fridge at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis at Akademgorodok, this documentary goes deeply into the origins of Arseny Avraamov’s legendary performance of Symphony of Sirens (Гудковая симфония) at Baku in 1922. Perhaps the largest sound based performance ever to have taken place, Avraamov redefined the scope and context of the contemporary understanding of the avant-garde and the political nature of art itself.

The Kiss of the Seventh Art (Paris, 1902)

A 22-second 16mm film by Eadweard Muybridge, originally part of his motion study series, captures the first recorded lesbian kiss in cinematic history.

VIPs (Hurgada, 2009)

A Marxist horror following a pair of aimlessly wandering vampires haunting abandoned luxury resorts. Humourously nostalgic and endearingly self-referential, it wrestles with the inevitable question: what is there left to haunt?

Undercoverers (Buenos Aires, 1998)

A group of high school students conduct a series of unsavory experiments with sex, money, and race.

/currently unavailable/

Love Thy Neighbour (Toronto, 2015)

An anthropological documentary of a Marxist hair salon collective, claustrophobically locked within its rituals of daily grooming.

36 Shadows of the Sun (Geneva–Saïda, 1966)

A surreal, fever-dream journey of a young man mourning his father. Amidst loss and despair in the Algerian desert, he encounters a blind guide, by what seems like a miracle. Together they invent a sensuous language that unsettles their notions of heritage, knowledge, and vision.

Chuchelo (Moskau, 1984)

Witch-hunt, orthodox iconography and humiliation. This Soviet coming of age drama exposes the psychic underbelly of collectivism through the microcosm of seventh graders navigating power, conformism, and sacrifice in uncanny detail.

/in cooperation with Soyuz-Mosfilm/

I Spy With My Little Eye (Frankfurt, 2001)

A pseudo-documentary study of urban life, captured entirely through peepholes on Super8 film.

Golden Standard (Darfur, 2015)

An 8-episode reality series echoing Survivors, set in Sudan’s gold mines with real-life employees as cast and crew.

/produced with the generous support of the World Peace Foundation, UN, Saudi Gold Refinery Mining Company, and Gazprom./

Dostoyevsky and His Friends (São Paulo, 1997)

A Tarantino-style thriller performed by drag kings, where an absurd spectacle of excessive violence frames a contemplative drama of longing for a personal “promised land.” The script weaves misappropriated quotes from A.P. Chekhov, F. M. Dostoyevsky, and M.A. Bulgakov.

Love Island (Christchurch, 1978)

A visceral exploration of distance, colonialism and pre-wave feminism, this miniseries follows the astonishing true story of the wives sought for three Lutheran missionaries stationed on the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu [Māori], Wharekauri [Moriori]). A perverse but life-changing choice is faced by the putative wives upon arrival, whilst genocide and epidemics prevail on the islands meanwhile.

Mommy, Come (Tel-Aviv, 2000)

An 8-minute videoloop of distorted freeze frames, assembling an archive of maternal tropes in visual pornography from 1924–2000.

The Garden Rose, Rose, Rose (Kabul, 1974)

A voice-animated slideshow of 35mm photographs produced by an anonymous group of teenage girls during summer break, re-enacting both factual and fictional scenes from the lives of Sufi mystics Rumi and Shams. The medium of film itself is actualised as a living roleplay, a space where desire and introspection come into being.

Read My Desire (Nollywood, 1988)

A vibrant rom-com infused with magic realism, following a turbulent love octagon — a passionate entanglement between eight people, each hiding their own skeletons. Between spirit incantations, telepathy, and mismatched timelines, the characters painstakingly grapple with the essence of attraction: supernatural, and all too human.