All Films

Notas de un adiós

2025 • 9 min • Colombia

Elena, a young marimba player, prepares for the most important performance of her life, longing to share that moment with her grandmother, her teacher and greatest inspiration. However, when her grandmother does not arrive on time due to a fatal accident, Elena faces deep sadness and an immense sense of loss.

The Complications of Pain

2020 • 2 min

Directors Purav Virdi and Melanie de Souza’s weekly vlog centers on relationship therapy in this episode

Falling from the stars

2025 • 10 min • Colombia

Luisa couldn't be more fed up with her job which she chose because of pressure from her mother, but when she goes to a graduation party and meets again with an old friend who has become teacher, he guides her and she discovers her true purpose in life.

Abissu

2020 • 13 min • France

In a delicate style, Moeschler portrays the return of a young man from the countryside to his hometown. The ecstasy of the reencounter, the possibility of a fresh start, friendship and love, the deserted streets at night.

Carl Brown

2010 • 5 min • United States of America

A short video documentary by Barbara Sternberg, approximating the dual-screen approach of the titular filmmaker. Brown speaks candidly, is shown in a studio; An excerpt from his film Memory Fade (2009) follows the footage. One of many of Sternberg's interviews with fellow artists.

vers(ing)

2010 • 10 min • United States of America

vers(ing) opens in a coffee shop. People, sit, enter and exit. A conversation is heard. The video continues, traveling through the streets of a city, to a park, to other coffee shops, other places. No particular destination is reached, but as we travel, fragments of text are read, conversations are heard, settings, people and objects are noticed. vers(ing) presents a moving toward that is transitory and offers a poetic contemplation of how life, meaning, and film are intertwined and constructed.

Colour Theory

2014 • 6 min • Canada

Goethe’s colour theory dealt with the optics of colour relations; Rudolf Steiner’s and Kandinsky’s theories attribute emotional, musical, and spiritual affects to colour; North American Natives see personality traits and states of mind, seasons, races, and the four directions in the four colours: red, yellow, white, black. What’s in a name, what’s in a word? A world of colour.

Far From

2014 • 17 min • Canada

Constructed with repetitions and variations, in reference to the musical form of a Nocturne, “Far From” is an accumulation of layers, a density of living, the noise of existence. Ghosts of lives lived and traces of lives being lived, rising.

Love Me

2014 • 7 min • Canada

Using only text-on-screen, Love Me distills the emotions of an earlier film, Beating – emotions which conflict, confuse, are difficult to reconcile. The texts ‘speak’ unsaid and unsayable thoughts, impolitic or just impolite. Suppressed exclamations from past injustices, hurts, angers surface, interrupting, erupting, demanding attention.

The Human Condition

2016 • 8 min

Ideas about how we live in the world as humans, the difficulties faced, the conditions of our brief existence, accompany us consciously or unconsciously, overtly or subliminally as we go about our daily lives. The video quotes images from art and film and texts from various philosophies to conjure the fraught and beautiful condition of being alive.

The Earth in the Sea

2017 • 8 min • Canada

Videoed off projected super 8 footage, this short film in four parts (titles from Artaud: “ the earth in the sea, the air in the earth, the fire in the water, the water in the air”) is suggestive of, on some level, the interrelatedness of everything. Porous, fleshy, granular atoms of existence, mutable unending energy, pulsing, beating, burning, blurring, clarifying, obscuring, revealing - fleeting.

Untitled #1 (sun vision)

2019 • 40 min • Canada

There were two initial impulses for the film: the paintings of John Turner (whence the bracketed title ”sun vision”) whose almost-not-there paintings dovetail with the space I find myself in at this stage of life: at the frontier between youth and old age, not all-is-still-to-come but not all-is-over yet either; and the spirit-filled paintings of Emily Carr, particularly her later swirling treetops and skies.

Once I Am

2020 • 3 min

The day as it went along – feeling the light of the present…what else is there?

Anything is Everything

2021 • 24 min

Anything is Everything is composed of sequences of disparate footage, but with threads to follow: circular shapes from outer and terrestrial space; animals and humans; words and ideas. Stuttering, flickering, blinks and blanks set bits of time and space next to each other - seeing connections from the traces. As with most of Sternberg’s films, Anything is Everything considers the questions: what is life, how do we perceive it, how as humans are we a part of the world?

Sunprints 1, 2, 3

2023 • 12 min • Canada

Based loosely on the tripartite plan of Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), the film was made by applying cyanotype chemistry to blank film exposed to sun. The resultant blue and white footage was then combined with camera footage in three sections: Into the Valley, Middle Ground, Radiance.

Humedal

2023 • 3 min • Chile, Switzerland

Black and white 16mm film, 3 min. The Batuco Wetland in the Metropolitan Region of Chile is constantly in danger. Nevertheless, it persists. Commissioned by IU Libraries Moving Image Archive in honor of the 100th anniversary of 16mm film.

El Cortijo

2025 • 10 min • Chile, Switzerland

For over two decades, I have been filming the neighbourhood where I grew up, a working-class area on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile. Once a year, I travel from Zürich to El Cortijo and film the things I cherish and the people I love. Family, friends, neighbours, and animals appear without any hierarchy in this fragmented portrait.

A Suspended Tide

2025 • 13 min • Canada

Strange auditory anomalies lead a sound artist through landscapes of the Bas-Saint-Laurent that blur the line between reality and imagination.

Anomalies dans le paysage

2025 • 7 min

Anomalies dans le paysage is a film in four tableaux – four audivisual landscapes that unfold in all their strangeness. Spices, leaves and local seaweed reveal and imbue with their hues this film shot and developed on the very banks of the Magtogoek/St. Lawrence river.

Sub-Unconscious

2025 • 19 min • Norway

She thought she was in control. But when one subject turns against her, everything begins to unravel. Fragments of forgotten memories surface, and the closer she gets to escape, the more she wonders: Was she the experiment all along?

Marcus Brigstocke: Absolute Shower

2025 • 54 min

From life to politics - Marcus celebrates the good and the absolutely rubbish bits in our world. Join him on his hilarious journey.

Eyelashes

2025 • 15 min

A newcomer to London must choose between his Islamic faith and the opportunity of a lifetime.

Pink Lemonade

2022 • 5 min • Australia

A young boy waits up on a balcony overlooking the beach, as he nervously practices confessing his feelings to his childhood best friend.

The Wild Variety

2021 • 3 min • Australia

A comical slice-of-life look into the daily lives of a variety of wild animals.