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Poperratic: Zero Hero, 4min., USA
Directed by Jammes Luckett
“Zero Hero” is a layered new indie music video animated by the solo artist behind alternative rock project Poperratic. The clip marks the song’s 25th anniversary (after multiple appearances in film and TV soundtracks). The video offers a visually dynamic and layered exploration of the human condition through a metaphorical superhero origin story.

https://www.artmechanix.com/zero-hero

Counting Drops, 19min., Canada
Directed by Kalina Nedelcheva
“Counting Drops” is an audio-visual sensory poem that explores themes of intimacy, sexuality, and love through symbols, gestures, and textures. The experimental film’s three cantos depict different relationships to love—sensual love, sustainable love and heartbreak, and self-love, respectively. The first canto, filmed in Cape Chignecto Provincial Park (Nova Scotia), is a visual sequence of the awakening body as it morphs into the sensual shapes and textures of cliffs at low tide. The second canto, shot at Tommy Thomson Park (Toronto), works through themes of sustainable romantic love and growing apart on the background of the industrial lakeside. The third canto, filmed in the artist’s bathtub, presents a more contained picture of self-discovery and confronting the practice of self-love on a deeply intimate level.

Attic Reverie, 1min,. USA
Directed by Mattie Wilson
A Child wonders into her families attic, only to watch the world come to life around her

Puppets, Video and Synthesizers, 6min., Portugal
Directed by Leonel Vieira Coelho
Puppets, Video and Synthesizers is a surreal meditation on mimicry, media ritual, and recursive identity. Set in a hyper-stylized, dollhouse-like world of glistening surfaces and analog devices, the film loops through layers of screen-bound selves, where puppets watch puppets watching television. With ritualistic mantras, flickering broadcasts, and an eerie stillness pierced by absurdity, the film becomes both stage and screen, performance and playback.

Doctor Abdoctor, 5min., Portugal
Directed by Leonel Vieira Coelho
Doctor Abdoctor is a poetic meditation on identity, perception, and the porous boundary between embodiment and thought. The film blurs the line between alien abduction and philosophical awakening. Visually arresting and philosophically charged, Doctor Abdoctor explores the strange beauty of being—when memory flickers, and consciousness drifts between the imagined and the unknown.

In Warsaw, 1min., Poland
Directed by Dominika Machel
“In Warsaw” uses the unique, historic interiors of a traditional stucco workshop as the backdrop for a fashion film. The main shot, captured in a heritage stucco studio in Warsaw, serves as a tribute to material culture and architectural heritage. The installation blends aesthetics, history, and new media, creating a bridge between physical and digital space, while the fashion-driven narrative brings a contemporary context to the classical setting.

https://www.instagram.com/dominika_machel/

Wall unit, 10min., Poland
Directed by Joanna Polak
A ramshackle wall unit is a symbol of the monotonous life of a certain 40-year-old man living in a grey, dirty post-communist block of flats district. Right after his birthday, suffering from the midlife crisis, the man decides to change his dull and routine-based existence. Alas, his wife stands in the way.

WOOLDWORLD, 10min., Poland
Directed by Joanna Polak
Have you ever wondered what live would be in a world made of wool? In Woolworld, people, animals and everything that surrounds them is made of wool and all is closely tied together. The only person capable of making sure that Woolworld functions smoothly is Mr. Wooly. He is, however, old and tired and he wants his life to change. Unfortunately… his wish gets granted.