Rituals For A Still Life

After incurring debts from his failed business venture in China, Zong Hua (Cheung) returns to Malaysia after a decade's hiatus. The demoralised Zong Hua faces problems finding a job and tries hard to get used to things at home, including his estranged relationship with his step-father, Xiaotian, who runs a Cantonese opera troupe, and half-sister, Jing Jing (Cathryn Lee). Jing Jing is hostile towards Zong Hua as she always has the impression that the death of their mother was caused by the excessive fights between Zong Hua and his step-father.

A woman is sacrificed and her heart is ripped out of her chest. The police are after these Satanic Cults and they have no leads. A man is released from prison and gets involved in fighting this cultist with a friend and a female singer.

A Slovenian horror short.

Dr. Shin succeeded in creating a robot called "Aribot", an artificial intelligence that can communicate with nature. In the world where rain has stopped, more and more people are pursuing Aribot, as it's the only way for it to rain again. Dr. Shin eventually gives up and goes into a rural temple to hide. While staying in the temple, Aribot listened to Dr. Shin's past love stories. The robot felt the lovers' love, the immature expressions, the breakup due to mistakes, as well as the regret. While Aribot was being upgraded with various emotions, it was eventually caught by 'X', the mysterious being who is in a persistent pursuit of Aribot.

A shaman’s mystical invocations, a protest of furious electricians on a hunger strike and a euphoric football crowd collide in the Zócalo of Mexico City, the country’s central square and ancient ceremonial heart of the Aztec empire. Mitote (Nahuatl for chaos or celebration) transforms the plaza into a wrestling ring, where national commemorations, postmodern rituals and the remains of pre-Hispanic culture clash to the beat of a country enraged.

A Taiwanese girl falls in love with a Han Chinese man, leading to a tragic end.

The materiality of reversal-film is being portrayed. This analogue technology, with its exposed chemical skeleton is clashing in an anachronistic filmic gag with contemporary digital animation. Colour is not presented as a natural, but a highly constructed medium in the expierence of film. This is a short experimental-essay which is questioning canonized and hegemonic film-rituals used to build and test cinematic-images.

[uh-kuhlt, ok-uhlt] transitive verb : to shut off from view or exposure : cover, eclipse

Heesoo Kwon’s A Ritual for Metamorphosis (탈피를 위한 의식 ) is a video in which the artist attempts to re-frame her traumatic personal experiences through creating an alternate reality. Kwon imagines virtual space as a utopian realm where one can reimagine and revisualise the past. Through the body of a nude 3D avatar, she travels back to her childhood home, stepping inside home video taken by her father of family gatherings long ago. There she faces patriarchal family rituals and coercive religious rituals that she didn’t notice when she was young, and interrupts them with her avatar. On the soundtrack, we hear the repetitive rhythm of traditional ironing sticks hitting stone, used both a metaphor for the invisible labour of Korean women, and as a sound of healing and catharsis.

Aurora, a restless and mischievous Indigenous girl, begins a fantastic adventure exploring her own culture with pride and joy while discovering her identity.

A story about four preteens who live outside of society's safety nets due to domestic violence. They lack role models and authority figures until they meet a Wiccan who organizes rituals to teach them confidence and how to combat violence and patriarchy — for a fee, of course. Candy for life! Magic in color!

This is a large projection of aerial footage that has been shot by pigeons equipped with lightweight digital cameras. With heavy wind and the nervous flapping of wings the viewer gets only a fractured impression, though immediately identifiable, of a political demonstration.

This film focuses on I-OMANTE ritual that is to liberate the souls of the Gods from the furs and meat and send them back to the Land of the Gods. The Ainu believed that bears were Gods. The Gods come to the Land of the Ainu, which means “human beings”, with meat, furs and medicine (the gall bladders of the bears) as their gifts.

A gifted but troubled detective investigates the disappearance of a celebrated filmmaker.

As a child, they said: "A bad game does not lead to good." "Ritual" is a state of some kind of bad–bad trip, when you intuitively see a chain of events that may lead to the wrong place in the game, but you continue to play, catching yourself on this annoying anxiety.

a trio of amateur filmmakers take a last minute project about the summoning of "Maria Labo", a local sinister figure.

Away with words.

Solito returns to his hometown on Palawan Island and captures the sacred rituals and daily lives of its people on film. We see the ongoing disintegration of the islanders’ way of life due to the intrusion of multinational corporations and other forces, and the resulting anger. The echoes of percussion and rhythm of the images unite harmoniously, drawing the viewer into the extraordinary world of this film.