Movies: Reflection

A diary of a boy grappling with identity, love and belonging while exploring our fragile journey through a chaotic world....

The main character is a modern girl named Rise. One day, she wanders into Wonderland, and when she meets Alice, the story begins to unfold....

From his modest apartment in Lima, a teacher gives virtual classes, seeking to reflect with his young students with low socio-economic backgrounds on racism, politics and inequality: issues that resonate in an increasingly fractured country....

Brenda, Laura, Ruben and Willem meet each other at an uneasy therapy session. The unconventional therapist (Pamela Tevis) tells them they only have 48 minutes left to live. Looking back at their lives, they start making choices they never dared befor...

A young lover has to cope with losing the love of his life and come to terms with the fact that she has moved on to bigger and better things...

A cinematic and conceptually inventive film that explores the haunting memories of Asia’s late 20th-century modernization through the large-scale export of wigs during the Cold War. Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past....

American Reflexxx is a short film documenting a social experiment that took place in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Alli Coates filmed performance artist Signe Pierce as she strutted down a busy oceanside street in stripper garb and a reflective mask....

A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself....

‘…I lose my bearings. But after all, is that such a bad thing?’ - FT...

An interconnected look at tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, as seen through labor practices that link an endangered salamander, mass-produced apples, and the evolving fields of genomics and machine learning....

A student is shocked to find his shower interrupted, by himself....

A teenager suffering from an identity crisis struggles to escape something that haunts her as she tries to find herself in this morally blurred and empty world....

in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping, the moon tells me a secret, a confidant As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own and a million light reflections pass over me, the source is bright and endless. She resuscitates the hopeless. With...

Honour West and Joan Camuglia-May share their experiences in this upbeat roller-skating documentary....

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance....

For her entire professional life, renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered climbing techniques to study "what grows back” after an ecological disturbance in the rainforest canopy. Now, after surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, she must...

An old sage with a troubled past attempts to extract the badness from within himself....

A burning flame, black-and-white, opens Nasos Karabelas’ “Osmosis”, a philosophical piece on life, death, loneliness and nothingness. Nothingness, this absence, this lack of something, is a major force in Karabelas’ film. It’s disorienting, just like...

This is a reflection of & on class consciousness...

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other....