Dantes Traum von der Hölle

Darkness and light, as seen by VIFF’s favourite Buddhist erotist. Part of the TOKYO LOOP animation anthology produced by ImageForum Japan.

Someone wanders through a house while fleeing from a mysterious presence. Their body dissolves on-screen, and their mind is invaded by a strident gray...

In what could be considered a follow up to Al Qasimi’s 2020 work Mother of Fire, she once again invokes the figure of the jinn (spirits in Islamic myt...

A collection of interwoven images are threaded together by a string of unspecified women who roam their dreamscape which they are unable to escape. Th...

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

Based off the poem by H.P Lovecraft, it tells the tale of a dying man who slowly enters a strange dream world where he fades into oblivion.

“Leda + Swans” depicts an infernal, mythic birth of cinema, dredging the violence and horror from Wallace McCutcheon’s comic short film “Photographing...

1982. 15'50". A French black and white experimental film. Bloody, violent, and disturbing. Full production credits unconfirmed.

Through experimental editing and the recitation of movie trivia the film comments on the chaos of information in the age of the internet.

This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited p...

Shot on 16mm film in New York and composed in Berlin, the work explores polarizing themes of the metropolis. Audibly and visually, the viewer is put i...

This short film follows an intoxicated character's journey through the mystery, beauty and eeriness of his environment.

A synthesis of sound and movement; colourful characters dance and move in repetitive patterns to percussive and melodic elements. A combination of mot...

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.