The Power of Silence

Blue Distance Occupying gaps in memory and history, Blue Distance serves as a personal and poetic intervention into the filmmaker’s familial immigration story. The film places in communion the mythic powers of cinema and the production of personal and cultural histories. Underpinning these tensions is the immigratory reality of occupying stolen land while trying to secure one’s own actualization.

Pilgrimage A devotional love poem, a City Symphony. In 2011, Craig Baldwin drew me a map of the city of San Francisco. Over the years, the city became my spiritual home, and Craig became my mentor. In 2015 I rediscovered the map and decided to literalize it. For six months I walked the streets of San Francisco with a Bolex, clicking off frames, simulating the map, enacting every single circle, mark, straight line, etc… Part performance, part love letter, the film is a celebration of the City of my dreams. For Craig Baldwin.

Paranoid A boy and girl talk about something wrong

YY-KAA-KOO An old woman returns to her childhood home to recollect memories.

Local Commercial A 58-year old director loses his job to a 14-year old director who loses his job to an 8-year old director.

Like A Friend A street gangster, who has suffered from a lot of neglect, and a transfer student, who has been ostracized, become each other's only friends in a series of accidents.

Our World Order Dr. Do Rong and Ivana Gettsum conspire to steal the world's most horrible weapon in order to sell it to Osama bin Badd. Jamie Bondo from the British Secret Service is called in to quietly rectify this situation.

The Envelope of Grief Upon her father’s death, a sole child, only want to pray her father peacefully. But she cannot fulfill her desire due to tradition, which forces her to take care her father’s funeral. She being forced to pay everyone who takes care of the funeral at a predetermined tariff, including the ones praying for the deceased. She knew it was wrong and she refused to follow, but she continues to be pressured by her aunt and some neighbors to keep up the tradition. She also experienced a dilemma, must follow the tradition for the smoothness of his father's burial or remain in her stand. Many families in West Java, Indonsia left behind by the deceased experience a great sense of sadness and being burdened to face traditions that they didn’t actually approved.

I Dreamed A Dream An experimental "dream yoga" master Li Shihao experiences a stroke and falls into a coma. His daughter decides to go to his dream world to drag him out and wake her father up.

Filmsommerliches A feuilletonistic conversation with the movie audience about the question: How do you feel about going to the movies? In general - and especially in summer? What do people expect from movies these days and what criticism do they have on their minds? The interviewees are vacationers of all ages and tastes. The occasion and background for this not entirely serious survey is the 1965 Summer Film Festival, which is captured in a cheerful reportage style. Interviews with actors on the festive opening evening and climax of the film confirm that there is only a relative cinema fatigue. It depends on the quality of the film on offer.