Dancing Plague, a GTA V mod, flips the script. Holding H key forces male NPCs to dance uncontrollably, revealing the game's biased animations where female characters (often sex workers) have the flashiest moves. This disrupts the game's gender roles, making masculinity both playful and challenged. Interestingly, female characters ignore the male dance frenzy. This is a humorous critique of the game's gender politics. The mod's soundtrack, by Azu Tiwaline, blends electronic music with trance traditions, deepening the critique and adding an immersive ritualistic feel.
2000
2025
A non-binary teen goes on a journey toward acceptance, after being kicked out.
The mental unraveling of Rowen, a religious leader faced with questions of identity and meaning as a prophesied revelation approaches.
An, at times, experimental film about the tainted nature of love set against the Alberta landscape.
2024
An artist holds a pen on paper and slowly starts drawing the line. The line gradually increases its pace, leading to curves, reversions, curveballs, and inconsistencies. As the artist nearly finishes, the artist lifts the pen to show the entire drawing. The artist slowly returns to drawing and continues the following chapters of life.
2023
An experimental and short compilation of rhythmic documents about the devolving state of entertainment and reactionaries in it's entirety. From the parodic controls between the obscure artifacts of media-consumed culture, to the real world consequences of how film discussion shapes the political and mental state in a society.
A young actor, trapped in an abusive film set, starts spiraling in an anxiety induced attack and reflection as he ponders on his work and role in society. His attack and thoughts get heavier and more sporadic as he sifts through interviews he's done throughout the years - all showing the pain that lies within.
A man sees mountains and sets out to recreate them. During a traverse across the Western United States, we observe familiar sites in a new light, and the world gets lost in the fold.
1975
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Childhood memories continue to live inside me. Some of the most painful ones are the ones that echo the longest.
2011
An inspiring 75min DIY documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. It was all filmed on the heat of live action of the first NOVA Contemporary Culture Festival, July and August 2010 in São Paulo, Brazil.
