Film on Film

Through a vast montage of Holocaust imagery drawn from decades of cinema, an interrogation on how moving images shape collective memory, exposing the blurred boundaries between historical record, fiction, trauma, and cultural mythmaking.

This landmark essay film uses hundreds of film clips to reveal how Los Angeles has been mythologized and distorted by Hollywood, reclaiming the city as both a real place and a cinematic protagonist.

The celebrated filmmaker revisits decades of personal footage after the sudden death of his son, weaving suddenly tragic family archives withan ongoing attempt to realize a Hollywood remake of his classic 1985 essay film Sherman’s March.

In the ambiguous space between fiction, documentary, and essay, this film presents a reflection on image-making, our relationship with the camera, film school, and the question of attention.

Through his characteristic deadpan humour and a deceivingly simple premise, the director reflects on how having the most generic name in the English language has impacted on his sense of self.

Two archives meet and gaze back at each other in this film about American journalist Edward Serotta’s trip to 1980’s communist Romania to photograph daily life, and the state surveillance photographing him in return.

Blending colours and textures, sound and voices, to recompose Chinese rural hearsays. A poetic and visual tribute to the 8.75mm celluloid, a filmmaking format developed and produced in China between the 1960s and 1980s.

Interconnected relationships between the Inuit, caribou, and lichen challenges the boundaries between human, animal, land, and image-making.

A rebellious remembering and reclamation of The University of Ibadan, a former institution of British colonial rule in Nigeria.

As a filmmaker retraces erased histories of violence in the south of the Philippines, the act of making a film becomes an encounter with buried trauma, revealing cinema itself as a battleground between remembrance and forgetting, and transforming the filmmaking process into a meta-cinematic essay about the ethics of representation.