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Putting it all out there on a first date

Archive footage from the 1920s juxtaposed against a film-within-a-film parodying the melodramatic excesses of popular cinema of the day.

The line between reality and imagination becomes blurred with the creation of a bestiary in this documentary on taxidermy.

A method actor commits a heist that goes wrong. He befriends the critically injured victim and tries to reconcile his guilt before his one shot audition in New York.

A restless eye beholds the viewer. In its pupil, wars, natural disasters, and everyday accidents are reflected. These somber images alternate with scenes touching on recovery and new life: tiny, growing lifeforms, the expanding cosmos, and new technologies. How should we respond to these images of catastrophe? What new possibilities could emerge? The video work by Sebastián Díaz Morales (1975) was filmed in a single take. As the eye slowly moves around, the pupils reflection remains at a fixed point. The endlessly turning eye symbolizes a world that continues to spin, even in chaos. The viewer experiences a connection between destruction and rebirth, between crisis and restoration. Total collapse is an ending, but also an opportunity to reimagine the future. Envision the future!

A society cracksman is caught when his dying victim pulls out his glass eye. There's a hint of Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty to the criminal mastermind of this WWI crime entertainment.

A propaganda Basij member named "Qasem" (Alireza Eshaghi) is sent to the front. Although his job is to promote and take pictures of scenes of fighters clashing with Iraqi soldiers, he goes to the front lines to help. His camera films the entire incident.

In 1992, semi-retired detective and author Martin Dye is hired to track down a missing duffel bag of cash tied to a fatal 1970s crash that left one friend dead and another in a wheelchair. As Martin follows the trail through old classmates, small-town gossip, and buried lies, he uncovers a dark legacy of drugs, betrayal, and shattered lives - and learns some secrets refuse to stay buried.

Shot in under an hour, this is a micro-portrait of Jost Haas, the last glass eye maker working in the UK.

A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in his jacket pocket. Kurt after that a second, mysterious murder happens: A city-famous dancer of the Las Vegas Girls, who perform at the London Odeon Theater, is poisoned. Is there a connection between the pretty dancer and the hotel guest? Inspector Perkins and his colleagues are pressed for time. The "man with the glass eye" strikes deadly again and again. A first clue leads Scotland Yard to a billiard club, where one has to show a glass eye as an admission ticket.

Ilona Sagar’s newly completed film, Haptic Skins of a Glass Eye, combines references to affective computing, flat design, haptic technology and virtual design systems with historical and medieval studies of the glass delusion. This condition was an external manifestation of a psychiatric disorder recorded in Europe in between the 15th to 17th centuries. The first clear glass, cristallo, was invented 15th century, and it was around this time that the glass delusion was first reported. People feared that they were made of glass, pottery and wood and therefore likely to shatter into pieces. In modern times, the glass delusion has disappeared, accounts of people believing themselves to be materials have been replaced with the development of neurological terminology such as hypochondria. The exhibition unpicks the corporal dialect of the contemporary body and reveals the relationship we have to it as both an advanced and primal signifier.

To split the visual realm in two: one is permeated with a schizo-imaginific detour, the second vibrates in a collateral contrast. When the split screen goes off, it's hard to tell the difference.

Taiwanese horror movie from 1969.

A man is left reflecting over the loss of his wife after an ill-fated night with the undead.

A consciousness reflects upon the collected memories of the sentient cosmic explorers it has harvested experiences from.

The passage of time told from the perspective of a used pair of glasses, showing the permanence of everyday objects compared to the ageing bodies of their owners.

The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered the most experimental among the 20th-century British writer's literary works, from which the young filmmaker took inspiration for his film, borrowing passages and visions to explain his own understanding of what cinema is. A film that plays with water - precisely - and light, and yet in a very dark b&w lit up by rare flashes of colour, making a journey in the night in which the shadow of a man gradually acquires substance.

The film traces the fierce delicacy of tiny lives — flickering between serenity and violence, survival and surrender.

In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.

Enrique kills a man for stealing him a check he has received due to an accident. However, things get complicated because it had not yet been cashed. This will force him to try to forge the signature and eliminate any suspect, including his girlfriend Clara, who works in a law office and who talked him about the check. Police tracks the case, but by chance Pedrito, the police inspector's son, is also investigating on his own.

A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He's led to Ainsley DuPree and her new husband, Jack, a man whose interest in family may very well outweigh his morals.

An English charwoman, believing herself protected by a magic eye amulet, travels to Nazi Germany to personally assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.