Forms and Designs

A Beacon in Havana The story of St Nicholas of Myra Greek Orthodox Church in Havana, Cuba; the first Church built by Fidel Castro's government and the only Church in over 50 years.

below-above A disorienting and hypnotic work that renders the natural world at once familiar and alien, André Lehmann's below-above is a staccato montage of trees, rocks, and water, alternating between both sides of real and imagined horizons.

Palmerston Blvd. Intimate and elegant, Dan Browne's Palmerston Blvd. depicts the world within and outside a bay window, captured over the course of a year, where seasons sweep by with the speed of a day or a setting sun.

La Libertad Produced out of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab, Laura Huertas Millán's quietly masterful La Libertad follows a group of matriarchal weavers in Mexico, formally mimicking the examination of an object through subtle shifts in scale and space.

Sleeping with the Devil An avant-garde video film short in which actors in various languages, states of dress and undress, standing or lying prone, pontificate about Geraldo Rivera's interview with Charles Manson (as well as the Greek myth of Medea), chopped and edited with off-screen directions and asides by the filmmakers and crew, to a state of borderline incomprehensibility.

The Seduction of Gina Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps hoping her lucky streak will last.

Heart of a Mountain The chasm between languages is explored through a photograph of a volcanic stone slice in Taiwan. As technology attempts to foster translation and understanding, it also produces new meanings.

Kupal “Kupal” is the story of a hunter and a taxidermist, called “Dr. Ahmad Kupal”. On the last day of the year, moments before the turn of the year, he faces an unexpected challenge.

A Rainy Day in New York Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.

Klim Voroshilov-2 Tank In July 1941 during the retreat of Soviet troops Sgt. Mamin tries to rescue his Soviet heavy tank KV-2, which has fallen into a river. He gathers a motley crew of soldiers and civilians and readies the tank for battle.