Futur Anterieur is, for the most part, a decidedly 'anti-retinal' affair: it consists of thirteen minutes of utter, stifling blackness filled with a the lo-fi wall of sound and an occasional glimmer of distant, shimmering twilight. Nothing points to anything until the clouds part to reveal an image of a four-year old kid in a Ferris wheel, beaming in the sunlight of his own smile.

A slowly moving camera captures the interiors of various houses in a village. They are all deserted except one house with a group of young soldiers. They are digging the up the ground. It is unclear whether they are exhuming or burying something... Filming in Nabua in northeastern Thailand, site of a bloody 1965 battle between communist farmers and the totalitarian government, Apichatpong employs an incantatory omniscient narration to simultaneously evoke the dangerous cycles of violence and repression, and the hope of perpetual rebirth and remembrance.

Kempinski
Neil Beloufa, FR/ML, 2007, 15'

“Imagine what your future will look like, but talk about it in the present tense.” Neil Beloufa gave some Malinese people this simple instruction and portrayed their sometimes bizarre expectations both sensitively and hypnotically. The result is a fascinating science fiction documentary.

The Exception and the Rule
Karn Mirza & Brad Butler, UK/PK/IN, 2009, 43'

Conscious of their outside perceptions of Karachi and its geo-political weight, the filmmakers investigate the everyday patterns of it’s inhabitants and social architecture in what becomes an experimental ethnography, avoiding traditional documentary modes ...

Purgatorio
Lav Diaz, PH, 2008, 16'

Purgatorio is a critique on the disappearances of people with dissident voices in the Phillipines. A triptych of a man and a woman lost, a ritual dance by the Aeta tribe and the exhumation of a skeleton.