Pulsating and sensual, the latest collaboration between Beatrice Gibson and Nick Gordon recasts the machismo of a subculture though nocturnal footage of hotshot moto and sound system enthusiasts from the periphery of Palermo, set to the words of American poet Magdalena Zurawski.

Shot in Cambodia and borrowing a title and a punk sensibility from Qiu Miaojin’s classic queer novel, Daphne Xu’s Notes of a Crocodile follows an unnamed woman who roams the streets of a Phnom Penh in flux, encountering humans and animals in her search for a lost friend.

With Adrift Potentials, Brazilian filmmaker Leonardo Pirondi reflects on questions of (lost) history and colonialism by way of an unfinished film, invoked through deft, fleeting fragments.

Elegant and rigorous, while surprisingly playful, Chis Kennedy’s Go Between observes the Brisbane River, passing boats, and cars on the William Jolly Bridge through an intoxicating play of masking and superimpositions.

At once a treatise on landscape, translation, and indigeneity, The Sojourn, from recent Baloise Art Prize winner Tiffany Sia, responds to the work of wuxia legend King Hu by way of his collaborators and the misty mountain panoramas of rural Taiwan.