Documentary backdrop image for Minotaur (2020)

Documentary backdrop image for Minotaur (2020)

202064 minGdocumentary

Minotaur

202064 minGdocumentary

Fifteen years of the author's life are captured through cell phone recordings, Instagram posts, and vacation videos in this film essay.

Genres

Director

Zulfikar Filandra

Synopsis

Fifteen years of the author's life are captured through cell phone recordings, Instagram posts, and vacation videos in this film essay.

People

Zulfikar Filandradirector

Zulfikar Filandrawriter

Zulfikar Filandracast

Synopsis

Cell phone recordings and Instagram posts form the backbone of Minotaur, a film essay that spans 15 years of the author's life. The documentary incorporates segments from previous films and vacation videos. It presents a collection of personal archives that reflect on themes of transience and the everyday moments of growing up. Through these fragments, the author confronts memories of loved ones and the poetry found in small experiences. The film runs for 64 minutes and was released in 2020.

Comments

What are people saying?

Play More Like This

How to Make Animation with Almost Nothing (2025)

How to Make Animation with Almost Nothing

Filmmaker-artist Jo Roy shares her creative process and techniques for crafting the experimental short CORPUS AND THE WANDERING using minimal resources.

How to Make Animation with Almost Nothing

Voluntary Memory (2024)

Voluntary Memory

A young woman records her daily thoughts and struggles with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on her iPhone, seeking a sense of home and identity.

Voluntary Memory

Explore Minotaur

Browse more like this

How to Make Animation with Almost Nothing (2025)

How to Make Animation with Almost Nothing

Filmmaker-artist Jo Roy shares her creative process and techniques for crafting the experimental short CORPUS AND THE WANDERING using minimal resources.

How to Make Animation with Almost Nothing

No digital watch option in your country

That's Not Me (2023)

That's Not Me

2023•47m•★9.0TMDB

A teenager creates a film during the pandemic, reflecting on depression and nostalgia while revisiting significant places from their past.

Stories of Passers Through (2017)

Stories of Passers Through

2017•1h5m•★5.0TMDB

Thirty years of exile from Baghdad shape Ameer Kazmi's visual diary, reflecting on alienation and the search for belonging amid conflict.

Stories of Passers Through

Diarios (2022)

Diarios

A collection of personal photos, mobile images, and found materials creates a mosaic of daily life, reflecting childhood memories and shared experiences.

Baldilocks (2024)

Baldilocks

Twenty years after surviving childhood cancer, Marthe examines her past through her father's camera, searching for memories of her illness.

Compound Memories (2023)

Compound Memories

Cinema can outlive its creators, making every moment captured on camera a matter of life and death.

Compound Memories

Refusal (2017)

Refusal

A 26-minute video essay connects themes of monsterhood and post-fossil transgression in the lives and practices of artists.

iSola (2020)

iSola

An 80-minute personal documentary filmed on a mobile phone during lockdown reflects on illness, isolation, and the role of storytelling in facing fears.

The Mythology of the Everyday (2016)

The Mythology of the Everyday

Public spaces serve as a canvas for personal mythology, illustrating how daily routines shape individual perceptions and create unique systems of meaning.

The Mythology of the Everyday

Tempus Fugit (2024)

Tempus Fugit

An extensive 16-year film record captures the thoughts and memories of Camilo, a teenager with a muscular disorder, as he transitions into adulthood.

No Echo (2020)

No Echo

A 29-minute short film uses fragmented phone footage to reflect on personal and global changes during the tumultuous year of 2020.

Is this your film?

If you made this film or hold the rights to it, we'd like to talk. We can license it and pay you a share of what it earns.

License it with us →