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SOLIPSIST

A psychedelic fantasy about otherworldly beings whose minds and bodies converge into one entity. Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang

By EL Pobre Profe

on breathing

Essay showcasing the strength of the Earth.

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Alpha is suffering from the death of her twins sister

By Shora Falah Vahdati

Flights in Dream and Reality

Flights in Dream and Reality

The girl dreaming of a wedding does not reckon with an arranged marriage.

By Alexander Podoprigorov

26:32

Anyone can memorize the alphabet of a new language in 26 minutes and 32 seconds.

By Pendar NasserSharif

An Idealist wanders around a city between reality and dream.

By Felipe Barreto

SNOW

Hypnotic cross-cutting between images.

By Stuart Pound

Reality Fragment 160921

Reality Fragment 160921

Two people create their own spaces against and via understandings of distance.

Look, But With Love

Look, But With Love

If only one had the time, they would notice intricate details of the world around them. This film creates the time and space to contemplate and imagine the stories once lived by objects found in the streets. The film explores the streets of Budape ...

By Shezray Hameed

Howard Barker Double Bill

Howard Barker Double Bill

The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo & Judith: A Parting From The Body. - Love, truth, sex and war collide in this exhilarating double bill by Howard Barker, �England�s greatest living dramatist� (The Times). First, the London premiere of Barker�s dark comed ...

By Matthew Bartlett

In Your O

The mundane symphony of cyclic despair.

Speaking in Bootongue

Speaking in Bootongue

"Speaking in Bootongue" represents the visual and aural language used between the cities of the living and the cities of the dead.

K.E.R.O.S.E.N.E poems from the planet

K.E.R.O.S.E.N.E poems from the planet

" I need to get to the space" When you are not granted a new launching pad , the task of being a cosmonaut becomes next to impossible."

By Jukka-Pekka Jalovaara

Cine Pobre 2016 teaser

Cine Pobre 2016 teaser

another bumper Cine Pobre 2016 video: Albano Afonso, "Self Portrait as Light" Hyper Lapse clip spoken word: Beau Lotto "Optical illusions show how we see light" lyrics, guitar & vocal: RogerBunn.com "Up for grabs" chorus background tribal ga ...

By J. Michael Seyfert

they only want you for your labor

they only want you for your labor

Eddy Baker & Purpdogg - Growhouse Southside Ontario #HEALTHYBOYZ, USA - Strike! is a 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein. MASHUP by JMS / OCT 15, 2015

By J. Michael Seyfert

Re-Animation

A painting comes to life and transforms the world into a work of art

By Marcelo N. Reis

Panta Rhei

Three childhood experiences recovered in the flow of life, the beginning of reasoning is articulated from the mythical abstraction.

By Ander Parody

Pylon

Pylon is an experimental film exploring issues with the human nature and human shape pylons form across our Snowdonia landscape. There are 88,000 pylons in the United Kingdom, whats not to be scared about. http://www.825films.com

By Richard Edmunds

2.866.642 Ways to Create Space

2.866.642 Ways to Create Space

2,866,642 Ways to create space is a visual and conceptual experimentation of what spatial representation in film is, or can be. Therefore, its primary intention is not only related to film as material � emphasized by the film�s partial hand-processin ...

By Sofia Caetano

Nirvana / a Cinematic Montage of Relativity Of Events

Nirvana / a Cinematic Montage of " Relativity Of Events "

a film without synopsis.. Its a Cinematic Montage of " Relativity Of Events ", Life rules without script, No starting point nor end. All things happens on relativity. Its about life, people, culture, traditions and how time carry all things toge ...

BEASTS

BEASTS explores the idealized notions and uncertainties of post-college life. From the perspectives of three post-grad students, BEASTS chronicles the daily struggles of paying rent, sex, and failure.

By NICHOLAS COLLINS

A Perfect Day

In a city far away from the nature, a man wakes up, has his breakfast and starts a perfect day.

By Oguzhan Kaya

9:30

"Like sitting in the back of a dilapidated movie theater, making out while some punk kid cranks tunes out of his fuzzed-out boom box in the back row over a horror movie-marathon - this film is the cultivation of campy horror, rock�n�roll, and all thi ...

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Building bridges based on the
belief that film becomes art
only when its materials are as
inexpensive as pencil & paper

Cine Pobre is the 100%
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culture and capabilities
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NOTABLES
The Last Photo
The Model
Fourteen Days
La Descorrupcion
Yomigaeru To Live Again
Veni Etiam
The Servant
Young Syrian Lenses
Brazil is Not Copacabana
Forest of Copper Columns
About Killing The Pig
The Caramel Corn Riot
Fiona Humphrey: A Family Album

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