In a near future, Adam's life unravels as eerie visions of his sister Claudia, drenched in seawater and shadows, haunt him. Society teeters on collapse, with chips governing minds and drones enforcing laws. Struggling to grasp reality, Adam confronts dark truths of his past as Claudia nears a dangerous, irreversible cliff edge. Based on the first chapter of my feature"After Adam," this short is a visually stunning, mind-bending exploration of control, sacrifice, and the cost of life.

In a not-so-distant future, Adam lives in a world where technology dictates emotion, thought, and reality itself. Society teeters on the edge of collapse, Adam's life begins to unravel when eerie visions of his sister Claudia, drenched in seawater and shadows, haunt his every step. In a world where chips govern minds and drones enforce laws, Adam grapples with forces far beyond his control. As his grip on reality slips, he must confront the dark truths of his past and the growing storm within, all while Claudia inches closer to a dangerous, irreversible choice. 
This short is based off the first chapter of my script "After Adam" which is a visually stunning, mind-bending journey that explores control, sacrifice, and the terrifying cost of survival in a world on fire.

After Adam

A man goes in search of his dreams, but is caught between homesickness and attachment to his new home.

Bittersweet Home

Set in urban Germany, A City is Also a Wounded Body explores fleeting human connections amid constant motion. Through a poetic lens, it captures the raw energy of nightlife and public spaces, where strangers meet and part. Blurring reality and emotion, the film reveals unspoken stories in tunnels, subways, and clubs. It honors those who reject modern life's monotony, embracing chaotic emotions. It questions what lies beneath our orderly lives and the future we truly pursue.








Set against the vibrant, yet isolating backdrop of urban Germany, A City is Also a Wounded Body delves into fleeting moments of human connection amidst a world in perpetual motion. Through a poetic lens, the film captures the visceral energy of underground nightlife and public spaces, where individuals are simultaneously drawn together and pulled apart. The blurred lines between reality and emotion mirror the unspoken stories of strangers as they navigate tunnels, subways, and clubs—ephemeral encounters suspended in time.
It is a tribute to those who challenge the numbing mediocrity of modern life, embracing the chaos that comes with feeling deeply. In a world defined by order, where does the pleasure of disorder take us? The film leaves us questioning what remains beneath the surface, and what future we are truly chasing.

A city is also a wounded body

As part of MINAXIII we present New Voices on MINAVault., curated by Max Schleser.




A category for young and emerging filmmakers (including students). MINA’s new voices program will feature work by emerging filmmakers, artists, and activists. We are keen to explore fresh and exciting perspectives in, but not limited to: - Experimental Screen Productions - Mobile Social Media - Progressive Storytelling - Socially engaged and Community-based Narratives We celebrate diversity and invite youth, students, and new filmmakers to challenge the status quo in image making and storytelling.

 Featured films:&nbsp;

<ol>
<li>ECHOES OF LIGHT BY BREE BARTLEET</li>
<li>SUPPRESSION BY BLAKE ROBERT FONTI</li>
<li>HOLLOW BY ALYSSA WONG</li>
<li>HERITAGE BY AXEL HUTAMA</li>
<li>DREAMBREAKER BY JIAYUN WU</li>
<li>EVE BY LUCY JOY PEMBROKE</li>
<li>BUSY BY YUHAO ZHENG</li>
<li>FLOWERS BY YEN LY</li>
<li>LOOKING CLOSE BY ARABELLA STEELE</li>
<li>WAVES BY AMIN YEKTA</li>
<li>PEARLESCENT GLASS BY LAURA ISABEL BREARLEY</li>
</ol>

New Voices

As part of MINA XIII we present the Mobile AI category. Curated by Max Schleser.

Featuring:
NIGHTMARE A1 BY SHUAI LI
SHE BY SUSAN DETROY
SOMETHING I DO NOT WANT BY VASCO DIOGO
MOVIES + MATH BY DAVE LEIBOWITZ

Mobile AI

As part of the Creative Category we are presenting the Vertical Films 2024 as part of MINA XIII. Curated by Max Schleser.

Featuring:
CHRYPTOCHROME BY DAFYDD SILLS
JONES LIMBUS BY M.C. JONET
MOLECULAR MEMORIES BY PATRICK KELLY
SOMETHING I DO NOT WANT BY VASCO DIOGO
BOOK OF THE DEAD BY BRIGID TUCKER
CHARLOTTE CHAMPAGNE BY SHANNON KERIS
HUNTER LOADING BY SASA NUMIC
FLOWERED BY BRUNA PIAS

Vertical Films

A Chilean man on walkabout in the Canadian wilderness has his principles put to the test after he punctures the fabric of reality.

Bullseye Butterfly

A young artist contemplates the value of holding onto the past, or whether it’s time to start afresh no matter how difficult it may be.

A young artist contemplates the value of holding onto the past, or whether it's time to start afresh no matter how difficult it may be.
We love happy endings, but that's not always how things turn out. This naturalist-inspired short film conveys the air of desolation that accompanies big changes and decisions. That's not to say that change is just a daunting prospect, not at all! But rather the outcome may not be what you expect…

a new page

‘DURANGEN’ means ‘grow’ or ‘growing’ in a number of dialects of the traditional Bundjalung language, and this documentary features six matriarchs speaking about their insider perspectives on plant art.

‘DURANGEN’ means ‘grow’ or ‘growing’ in a number of dialects of the traditional Bundjalung language, and this documentary features six matriarchs speaking about their insider perspectives on plant art.
Discussing our artworks in the film highlights the contribution of women’s work in growing culture, alongside some of the many native plant companions revered in daily living for us as Aboriginal people since time immemorial, but are now under threat from recent floods, fires, drought and pests. It is essential for us to have an archival record and be able to reshare this, especially as it involves the irreplaceable biological heritage of the plant queendom.
As senior artists and cultural practitioners of the matriarchy, we each represent different clan groups that make up some of the Bundjalung Nation and are featured in collaboration with cyberTribe: Euphemia Bostock (Munanjali), Faith Baisden (Kombumerri), Tania Marlowe (Nyanbul), Deidre Currie (Minjungbal), Jasmin Stanford (Githabul), and myself as Artist Curator Filmmaker, Jenny Fraser (Migunburri).
The artists interviewed for the DURANGEN documentary were also part of a world first Bundjalung plant art showcase in Japan, representing Australia at the 2023 JAALA Biennial held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. The self-funded group collection featured a range of weaving, textiles, ceramics, photography, film and text, all with a focus on a bio-regional approach to native plant uses.&nbsp;

DURANGEN

Something I Do Not Want is a day dream trip around the figure of Vasco Diogo, using only a mobile phone and several artificial intelligence apps.

Something I Do Not Want

Who is “She?” Perhaps a goddess? and a “Planetary Sister” my most recent series. Using self portrait and word prompts, describing my aspirational and earthbound self, I expand my nine year project “Portrait of a Woman.” With my face as primary art tool, I transform my likeness into celestial creatures. The sisters occupy a cosmic realm, melding my aging human face and the female entities born with AI. Each sister transforms my human essence into a cosmic personae.

Who is “She?” Perhaps a goddess? Watching the compelling visual story move on the screen, these might be viewer questions. We are captivated seeing a colorful, changing, melded flow of images with AI blended figures and cosmic atmosphere scenes accompanied by expansive audio.
Susan Detroy created an ethereal film with a composited AI personae. “She” is born from a sister family of transformed figures blending human and celestial. “She” occupies the film as main character, overseeing a flowing world mixed with a fanciful, airy cosmos. “She” is celestial guardian floating in glowing stars, planets and butterflies.&nbsp;
“She” is one of the “Planetary Sisters” films, Ms.Detroy’s most recent video series. With these sisters, Susan expands her nine year “Portrait of a Woman” project. Since 2015 Ms. Detroy has been using her own face as a primary art tool. Now Susan expanded into AI, transforming her own likeness into blended celestial creatures, occupying a heavenly realm. “She” is one of several sisters residing in a non-earthly, fluid space. The sisters are melded figures using Susan’s aging human face and the AI prompted female entities. Ms. Detroy gathers and blends, enlisting her long-time generated self portrait images and word prompts. The prompts describe desired traits, aspirational ideas, plant life forms and planetary fantasies. The promoted creatures are mixtures of heavenly and fantastical selves. Each sister is a cosmic personae who is a combination of human/Susan and AI characteristics. “She” is one of the sisters who live in our film universe.&nbsp;

She 

"El Hombre y La Cinta" / "The Man and The Tape"
A man against his walkman.
The man, the tape from his Walkman. An absurd situation. 

<h2>Credits</h2>
Director
<ul>
<li>Marcelo I. Lagreze C.</li>
</ul>
Screenplay
<ul>
<li>Mauro Belmonte</li>
<li>German Torrens</li>
<li>Marcelo Lagreze</li>
</ul>
Idea
<ul>
<li>German Torrens</li>
</ul>
Production
<ul>
<li>Adriel Zanetti</li>
</ul>
Director of Photography
<ul>
<li>German Torrens</li>
</ul>
Editing
<ul>
<li>Marcelo Lagreze</li>
<li>Mauro Belmonte</li>
</ul>
Sound Postproduction
<ul>
<li>Mauro Belmonte</li>
<li>Marcelo Lagreze</li>
</ul>
Art Direction
<ul>
<li>Pamela Krupnik - Verónica Martinez</li>
</ul>
Titles
<ul>
<li>Adriel Zanetti</li>
</ul>
Actors
<ul>
<li>Juan Ignacio Manzi</li>
<li>Verónica Martinez</li>
</ul>

The Man and The Tape

The city was quiet and hauntingly beautiful. Peace flooded the places that, before, had 
noisy crowds. We were experiencing the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the 
environment on the subway was not different. A place that used to be flooded with 
people became an empty place that invited us to a parenthesis, a PAUSE to think and 
reflect...

<h3>Director's Statement:</h3>
It was a special moment for all. Almost without realizing it, our life changed. “A new way of living,” they said. Forced to leave confinement to receive medical treatment due to an accident. I traveled by subway to different stations in the city. Being there, I couldn't help the strange feeling of being almost by myself in a place that used to be synonymous with crowding.
At that moment, I decided to capture images of the lonely people in the subway. These images and the voices in the film invite us to rethink and reflect on important aspects of living. Which, unfortunately, under normal circumstances, we forget or overlook.
<h3>Credits:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Direction: Marcelo Ignacio Lagreze</li>
<li>Producer: Marcelo Ignacio Lagreze</li>
<li>Camera: Marcelo Ignacio Lagreze</li>
<li>Editing: Marcelo Ignacio Lagreze</li>
<li>Sound Postproduction: Alejandra Oyarce</li>
<li>Music: Maxence Cyrin - Where is My Mind - The Pixies Piano cover</li>
<li>Voices: Alejandra Oyarce, Marcelo Lagrez</li>
<li>Writer: Marcelo Lagreze</li>
<li>Graphic Design: Oannes Federico Lagreze</li>
<li>Technical Support Jorge Diaz</li>
</ul>
Shot with iPhone Xr
Santiago de Chile, July 2021

Pause

A collection of smartphone films presented under the MINA International Mobile Innovation, curated by Max Schleser.

<h2>Films in the collection</h2>
<ol>
<li>3EMW by Carlos Vazquez (02:00)</li>
<li>Shiny Spinning Objects 2 by David Leibowitz (04:53)</li>
<li>The Wriggles by Stew Burchmore (05:00)</li>
<li>Fires on the Ridge by James Wolff (04:53)</li>
<li>Unforgettable Scar by Christine Blacky (07:11)</li>
<li>EvAlive by Julia Uzkikh (09:00)</li>
</ol>
Image credits: "Fires on The Ridge" - James Wolff

International Mobile Innovation

A collection of smartphone films presented under the MINA New Voices, curated by Max Schleser.

Films in the collection: 1. Oneiros by Alexey Belov (05:24)
2. DeReality by Louis Prandolini (02:45)
3. In My Head by Phoenix Sherman (02:27)
4. Insomnia by Isaac Baker (02:37)
5. Detached. By Isabelle Broadbent (03:07)
6. Insomnolence by John Ross (02:38)
7. Reflector by Declan Scott (03:27)
8. The Pieces of Other People by Rosie King (02:47)
9. If I Knew This was the Last Time I'd See You by Lily Newcombe (02:44)
10. Flicker by Jodhi Ramson Mavric (03:20)

Image credit: "The Pieces of Other People" - Rosie King

A collection of smartphone films presented under the MINA Creative Category, curated by Max Schleser.

<h2>Films in the collection</h2>
<ol>
<li>Taking drones to the next level - FPV Showreel by Zorian Passmore (0:04:09)</li>
<li>Filters by Ginna Parra (0:05:00)</li>
<li>“Confluence” by Oola Cristina (0:01:00)</li>
<li>Let’s Socialize by Nadine Benichou (0:01:06)</li>
<li>Shiny Spinning Objects 2 by David Leibowitz (0:04:53)</li>
<li>Egg Day by Syarisa Yasin, Claudia Dickson &amp; Samantha Oo (0:02:39)</li>
<li>Digital by Vanessa Vox (0:01:00)</li>
<li>Confusion by Hoang Chau Anh Pham (0:02:30)</li>
<li>The Secret History of Tardigrades in Early Soviet Cinema by Jeffrey Turboff (0:10:02)</li>
<li>&nbsp;Refugees and social integration, a seed for democracy by Juan Manuel Cuéllar Bermejo (0:13:18)</li>
<li>And furthermore (indexed) by Ian Gibbins (0:04:57)</li>
<li>Old New Age by Vasco Diogo (0:03:52)</li>
<li>Art by Liam Parigi (0:01:57)</li>
<li>&nbsp;Broken Toys by Amelia Godbold (0:03:02)</li>
<li>Anemoia by Jehanna Mae Omega (0:03:05)</li>
</ol>
Image credits: "Taking Drones to the Next Level" - Zorian Passmore

Creative Category

Robot with a Movie Camera is an excerpt from a diary. On my way to work, I kept walking past a robot. One day I stopped and took a closer look at the Robot’s arm.

Robot with a Movie Camera is an excerpt from a diary.

&nbsp;On my way to work, I kept walking past a robot. One day I stopped and took a closer look at the Robot’s arm. It seemed that the robot could hold a movie camera. A few days later John McCormack, a technology-based artist and researcher with a major interest in human movement, and myself, a filmmaker exploring smartphones and emerging media for experimental screen production, met in the Factory of the Future and conducted an experiment in cinematic communication. Adam Nash’s soundscape Child in the Wild provided a conceptual bridge to transition between the world of Robots and the film space. Being inspired by Dziga Vertov and the work of the Kino-Eye, we explored the robot as a camera operator in the film as well as the Virtual Reality environment.&nbsp;

The purpose of this experimental work is to continue the exploration of the Kino-Eye’s cinematographic language. Vertov’s manifesto explored the sensory domain of the world through film. “We therefore take as the point of departure the use of the camera as a kino-eye, more perfect than the human eye, for the exploration of the chaos of visual phenomena that fills space. The kino-eye lives and moves in time and space; it gathers and records impressions in a manner wholly different from that of the human eye. … I am kino-eye, I am mechanical eye.&nbsp;

I, a machine show you the world as only I can see it.” Future experiments will continue to explore the filming and editing in VR worlds by kino-eyes.

Robot with a movie camera

Interesting intersections can be observed between the so-called new ecologies and the development of storytelling towards immersive media. 

Interesting intersections can be observed between the so-called new ecologies and the development of storytelling towards immersive media. The climate crisis is the most significant issue in our times and consequentially, we need to explore new forms of re-connecting with nature through digital media.
Scatter explores imaginative landscapes as a dynamic environment where these new ideas about ecology and media can take form.&nbsp;

This experimental smartphone, immersive media production, aims to explore ecologies that otherwise remain hidden or unnoticeable. Our basic premise for Scatter is that the current environmental crisis involves a crisis of the imagination that requires a different kind of art and a different kind of action, one tailored to 21st-century storytelling.

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After Adam

Bittersweet Home

A city is also a wounded body

New Voices

Mobile AI

Vertical Films

Bullseye Butterfly

a new page

DURANGEN

Something I Do Not Want

She

The Man and The Tape

Pause

International Mobile Innovation

New Voices

Creative Category

Robot with a movie camera

Scatter