Todo Lo Solido (All that is Solid)
16mm | Color | Sound | 80' | 2025
Todo Lo Sólido (All That Is Solid) tells the story of an island sinking into the Caribbean Sea. As a nameless drifter searches for explanations about the island's destiny, reality and fantasy merge to reflect on the construction of a nation and the burden of progress.
Project supported by: Sundance Documentary Grant, Sandbox Films, Vision Sud Est, BAVC Media, UnionDocs, DocLisboa: Arché Development Lab, Interbay Cinema Society: Lightpress Grant
Directors: Luis Gutiérrez Arias & Zaina Bseiso
Currently in postproduction
Detours
16mm & Digital | Color | Sound | 70' | 2021
Taking place in sleepy neighbourhoods, among the concrete walls of high-rises, behind garages and amidst abandoned railroads, the film alternately follows and loses track of Denis, the “treasureman” who hides stashes of drugs all over the city.
Awards: Special Prize Venice Critic's Week 2021
Project supported by: Bright Future Award - Hubert Bals Fund, Eurimages Award for work in progress at Les Arcs Film Festival and Boost NL Development Program.
Director: Ekaterina Selenkina
mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again
Super 8mm & Digital | Color | Sound | 70' | 2025
In a post-apartheid Indian township in Durban—still fraught with internalized colonial violence—Lishana tends to her dying mother. Using photography to reflect on life and death, past and present, she begins oscillating between the tangible and mystical.
Supported by: Sundance Institute, The Points North Institute & The Allan Sekula Fund
Director: Advik Beni | Producer: Nehal Vyas & Rob Rice
Currently in Post-Production
Jikele Maweni Ndiyahamba (Let's go to the mines)
Super 8mm & Digital | Color | Sound | 3' | 2022
Jikele Maweni Ndiyahamba (Let's Go To The Mines) is an essay film that parallels a replicated mining town of Johannesburg in California to the mines in South Africa. It serves as an indicator of how those who profiteered of mining in South Africa, the white population, were able to leave and start a whole new town based on where they came from, whereas those who work the mines, the black population, are still faced with excruciating conditions. This is seen via the archive footage of the Marikana mines massacre of 2012.
Screened at:
Encounters SA International Documentary Film Festival
Camden International Film Festival
Prismatic Ground
REDCAT, LA
WHAMMY! Analog Media
New York Counter Film Festival
Director: Advik Beni
Made in the Bahia
Todo Lo Solido (All that is Solid)
16mm | Color | Sound | 80' | 2025
Todo Lo Sólido (All That Is Solid) tells the story of an island sinking into the Caribbean Sea. As a nameless drifter searches for explanations about the island's destiny, reality and fantasy merge to reflect on the construction of a nation and the burden of progress.
Project supported by: Sundance Documentary Grant, Sandbox Films, Vision Sud Est, BAVC Media, UnionDocs, DocLisboa: Arché Development Lab, Interbay Cinema Society: Lightpress Grant
Directors: Luis Gutiérrez Arias & Zaina Bseiso
Currently in postproduction
mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again
Super 8mm & Digital | Color | Sound | 70' | 2025
In a post-apartheid Indian township in Durban—still fraught with internalized colonial violence—Lishana tends to her dying mother. Using photography to reflect on life and death, past and present, she begins oscillating between the tangible and mystical.
Supported by: Sundance Institute, The Points North Institute & The Allan Sekula Fund
Director: Advik Beni | Producer: Nehal Vyas & Rob Rice
Currently in Post-Production
Detours
16mm & Digital | Color | Sound | 70' | 2021
Taking place in sleepy neighbourhoods, among the concrete walls of high-rises, behind garages and amidst abandoned railroads, the film alternately follows and loses track of Denis, the “treasureman” who hides stashes of drugs all over the city.
Awards: Special Prize Venice Critic's Week 2021
Project supported by: Bright Future Award - Hubert Bals Fund, Eurimages Award for work in progress at Les Arcs Film Festival and Boost NL Development Program.
Director: Ekaterina Selenkina
Jikele Maweni Ndiyahamba (Let's go to the mines)
Super 8mm & Digital | Color | Sound | 3' | 2022
Jikele Maweni Ndiyahamba (Let's Go To The Mines) is an essay film that parallels a replicated mining town of Johannesburg in California to the mines in South Africa. It serves as an indicator of how those who profiteered of mining in South Africa, the white population, were able to leave and start a whole new town based on where they came from, whereas those who work the mines, the black population, are still faced with excruciating conditions. This is seen via the archive footage of the Marikana mines massacre of 2012.
Screened at:
Encounters SA International Documentary Film Festival
Camden International Film Festival
Prismatic Ground
REDCAT, LA
WHAMMY! Analog Media
New York Counter Film Festival
Director: Advik Beni