Catalyst

China, 1997. An unhappy marriage, a love affair and a child who holds all the secrets.

A bride walks on the desert. She takes off her bridal ornaments and turns into a harlot. A multitude of people crawl on their bellies, become sick...

"As a painter carries a sketchbook and practices drawing, I carried a Super 8 camera and shot frame by frame, as an everyday exercise to make...

"The second film in the series, showing my study especially in apparent shapes – a shape that cannot be seen in a single frame but only through...

"The third film in the series, which starts with a sequence of paired images: a focused image and a blurred image of the same subject, which was...

"The fourth film in the series, for which I focused on colors and shapes. It was shot on Kodachrome, all edited in camera, and processed at...

"This is the last film in the series. I shot at the site of Marin Headlands County in California when I was an artist in residence at the Headlands...

"A study in visual rhythm with images of architecture in Manhattan, New York, using the technique I did for the first sequence in Sketch Film #3. All...

Kaveh is an LGBT sculptor. He lives in Iran and lives in isolation because of his sexual orientation. He has a lover named Farhad. Their relationship...

Augusta tries everything in order to make herself look beautiful.

In a forest clearing, as she runs away from an invisible menace, a little girl meets a strange-looking child.

Music by Austin Cesear, 16mm film by Paul Clipson.