Leonardo Pirondi Movies

  • 2024
    Adrift Potentials

    Adrift Potentials

    Adrift Potentials

    02024HD

    This pseudo diary film is made of found materials from an unfinished 16mm film. Potenciais à Deriva is a film started by a Brazilian artist...

    Adrift Potentials
  • 2022
    Breaking Myths

    Breaking Myths

    Breaking Myths

    7.92022HD

    “Breaking Myths” aims to open the world’s eyes to the fragile and “catastrophic masculinity” of Brazil’s current...

    Breaking Myths
  • 2024
    When We Encounter the World

    When We Encounter the World

    When We Encounter the World

    02024HD

    In 1934 an experiment by an amateur-scientist couple began. Named after a genus of moths, the Automeris Project placed a group of young children in...

    When We Encounter the World
  • 2022
    Nona

    Nona

    Nona

    22022HD

    Dr. Eva Ray is 90 years old. She lives in a house by herself outside of Philadelphia. Born in former Yugoslavia, her family fled the Nazis and...

    Nona
  • 2023
    A Slippage in Five Movements

    A Slippage in Five Movements

    A Slippage in Five Movements

    02023HD

    A visual accompaniment to Tōru Takemitsu's sonically sparse composition 'Corona for Pianist(s)'. Taking inspiration from the graphic score that...

    A Slippage in Five Movements
  • 2021
    If a Tree Falls in a Forest

    If a Tree Falls in a Forest

    If a Tree Falls in a Forest

    02021HD

    Set in the landscapes of Los Angeles, this hybrid documentary seeks to explore harmful cyclical occurrences that exploit natural resources and bring...

    If a Tree Falls in a Forest
  • 2024
    The Instability of Clouds

    The Instability of Clouds

    The Instability of Clouds

    02024HD

    Two neighbors bond after a shared traumatic event, a continuous home development creeps into nature's threshold, and a community celebrates freedom....

    The Instability of Clouds
  • 2023
    SMPTE FOREST

    SMPTE FOREST

    SMPTE FOREST

    02023HD

    iPhone video and SMPTE color bars were filmed on 16mm at 24fps. The digital overscan of the celluloid is played back at 0.24fps (1% of the original...

    SMPTE FOREST
  • 2020
    Earth Had Issues Loading...

    Earth Had Issues Loading...

    Earth Had Issues Loading...

    02020HD

    A meditation on the relationship between humans, nature, and technology.

    Earth Had Issues Loading...
  • 2021
    Benning's Dream

    Benning's Dream

    Benning's Dream

    02021HD

    an excerpt of a conversation between James and I during the Fall of 2019 - Santa Clarita, CA

    Benning's Dream
  • 2022
    A Thousand Years Ago

    A Thousand Years Ago

    A Thousand Years Ago

    02022HD

    An imaginary look back at the present and distant past from the point of view of the year 2049. The return of an exile to Los Angeles decades after...

    A Thousand Years Ago
  • 2023
    Welcome Home

    Welcome Home

    Welcome Home

    02023HD

    This film is an invitation for a new kind of horror film. Partially inspired by Freud's "The Uncanny" and the exploration of the etymology of the...

    Welcome Home
  • 2022
    Vision of Paradise

    Vision of Paradise

    Vision of Paradise

    02022HD

    The great voyages to the "New World" were seen as expanding the frontiers of the visible and displacing those of the invisible, therefore maps from...

    Vision of Paradise
  • 2022
    What Remains

    What Remains

    What Remains

    02022HD

    A film that explores the intersection of a virtual and analog image. Through the hand-processed 16mm and 3D simulation, the film questions what...

    What Remains
  • 2022
    Effulgent Gleam

    Effulgent Gleam

    Effulgent Gleam

    02022HD

    A cave named 'Gruta de las Pesadillas' was known to be a place whereby entering the cave with a torch or lamp, you would see your darkest nightmares...

    Effulgent Gleam
  • 2022
    The Perfect Room

    The Perfect Room

    The Perfect Room

    02022HD

    The rendering of an impeccably constructed computer-generated image displays a disarranged home. Filmed on 16mm and hand-processed, the image is...

    The Perfect Room
  • 2021
    In Search of Mount Analogue

    In Search of Mount Analogue

    In Search of Mount Analogue

    02021HD

    In Search of Mount Analogue journeys through ocean and land, bringing life to the imagined, metaphorical, and mysterious island from the 1952 novel,...

    In Search of Mount Analogue
  • 1970
    Fractais Tropicais

    Fractais Tropicais

    Fractais Tropicais

    01970HD

    Fractais Tropicais
  • 2019
    This is Mine, This is Yours

    This is Mine, This is Yours

    This is Mine, This is Yours

    02019HD

    This is Mine, This is Yours. Do not take mine and I may or may not take yours. A meditation on the unnatural lines drawn by human beings.

    This is Mine, This is Yours