Ernst Karel

Nearest Neighbor is an essay film that explores the relationships and intersections between humans, birds and artificial intelligence. Playfully intertwining associated experiments in image and sound generation using AI, the film focuses particularly on language acquisition and mimicry between humans, birds and machines, asking fundamental questions about consciousness, learning and understanding.

O filme documental acompanha o cotidiano do trio canino Zeytin, Nazar e Kartal em busca de comida, abrigo e segurança. Em sua jornada, os animais embarcam em aventuras solitárias pela capital da Turquia e fazem amizades com os humanos que conhecem pelo caminho. A produção propõe uma viagem sensorial para novas maneiras de enxergar o próximo.

Como você monta o quebra-cabeça se a imagem está faltando? Você começa com peças individuais e vê como elas se encaixam. São os quatro jovens atores em uma viagem a Kanchanaburi, "uma cidade tão significativa e eu prefiro morrer se não ficar com você," como diz a música. O quarteto veio a Kanchanaburi para ver o museu, mas está fechado para reforma.

Constructed from the audio archive of the 1961 Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea: In the encounter with the Hubula people, this work reflects a parallaxing image of the histories of field recording, ethnographic film, and colonialism.

Constructed from the audio archive of the 1961 Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea: In the encounter with the Hubula people, this work reflects a parallaxing image of the histories of field recording, ethnographic film, and colonialism.

Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual.

From a snake charmer to a welder, from a weaver to an obstetrician, the inhabitants of the holy city of Varanasi are striving for survival, and transform and ennoble themselves in the process. A hypnotic study of people at work—a street beggar, a surgeon, a weaver, a priest, a masseur, a tabla drum maker, and a crane operator: people who in their intense concentration and ritualized movements evoke the idea of human labor as an act of spiritual devotion and social interdependence. Filmed largely in India’s ancient holy city of Varanasi

Brett Story's visionary look at New York City as it braces for an uncertain future.

Explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.

Marte, 2045. Um cineasta pensa nos indígenas que filmou na selva do Vietnã enquanto cria um filme que combina suas próprias memórias com as deles. Mas e quanto às suas intenções? Ele tinha o direito de filmar essas pessoas e de se apropriar das histórias delas?

Filmado em vários locais pelo mundo, Ghost Strata explora as diferentes escalas de impacto que a presença humana tem no planeta no passado, presente e futuro. Som e texto criam uma reflexão sobre tempo, memória, restos mortais e extinção.

Electro-Pythagorus is an intimate and subjective portrait of the late Martin Bartlett, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who studied with Pauline Oliveros, David Tudor, John Cage, and Pandit Pran Nath. His contribution as an interdisciplinary composer, educator, and founding member of Western Front, though undoubtedly extensive, is in danger of being erased from cultural memory since his death from AIDS in 1993. Navigating an array of archival materials including letters, correspondences, notebooks, personal photos, and a huge body of unreleased music and field recordings held at the archives of Simon Fraser University, Electro-Pythagoras is a journey through the evolution of Bartlett’s musical time and space, softly guided by Luke Fowler’s insightful camera and montage—creating an experimental portrait that defies one-dimensionality.

“Ah humanity! reflects on the fragility and folly of humanity in the age of the Anthropocene. Taking the 3/11/11 disaster of Fukushima as its point of departure, it evokes an apocalyptic vision of modernity, and our predilection for historical amnesia and futuristic flights of fancy. Shot on a telephone through a handheld telescope, at once close to and far from its subject, the audio composition combines excerpts from Japanese genbaku film soundtracks, audio recordings from scientific seismic laboratories, and location sound.”—Ernst Karel, Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Curta-metragem que combina imagens em alta definição e em super 8, Lampedusa é composta de narrativas entrelaçadas com base em uma série de eventos reais. No final de 1831, uma ilha vulcânica de repente surgiu do mar a poucos quilômetros da costa sul da Sicília. Em uma disputa internacional, uma série de potências européias reivindicaram essa "terra" recém-descoberta. A ilha recuou abaixo do nível do mar seis meses depois, deixando apenas uma borda rochosa debaixo do mar ...

A fascinating portrait of "thoughtographer" Ted Serios, a hard-drinking Chicago bellhop who caused a sensation in the sixties with his psychic ability to produce hundreds of Polaroid images from his mind.

Single Stream explores a recycling facility in the Boston area, where hundreds of tons of refuse are sorted daily. Blurring the line between observation and abstraction, Single Stream plunges the viewer into the steady flow of the plant and the waste it treats, examining the material consequences of our society's culture of excess.

A throng of believers all crowd together in front of a stage. The speeches have ended. They are enraptured. The 'new' Indonesia.

Exploring the intersection between experimental documentary and ethnographic anthropology, this short film silently follows a herd of sheep and a faceless cowboy through magic hour in Montana. A Western without guns or dames, just the open country, man and the animal world are left behind.

A short documentary that captures the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, The Yellow Bank takes you on a contemplative boat ride across the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki, who lived and worked in Shanghai nine years earlier, uses the eclipse as a catalyst to explore the way weather, light, and sound affect the urban architectural environment during this extremely rare phenomenon.

A static camera records the coming of day as a flock of sheep cross the titular stream in a painterly pastoral to restore the senses through a tradition of old.

In northeastern China the Songhua River flows west from the border of Russia to the city of Harbin, where four million people depend on it as a source of water. Songhua is a portrait of the varying people that gather where the river meets the city, and an ethnographic study of the intimate ways in which they play and work.