Keyword Slow

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy has left behind, in hopes of finding The Room.

A person attempts to rid their apartment of cat urine smell.

A memorial mourns as time passes

An old widower, Jasper, routinely makes coffee in two mugs and picks up trash around his community. Some of his more interesting finds speckle his home. His neighbors mostly disregard him. On one of his regular hunts, he chances upon an envelope. To his surprise, he finds old wedding photos and presumes the addressee, Angie, to be the bride. Determined to complete the delivery, Jasper follows a map to the address. When he finally arrives, his excitement is upended when Angie, now divorced, rebuffs him and the photos. He leaves her with an open invitation to his home, should she change her mind. The next morning, Jasper starts his routine-only to find Angie at his door. After a heart-to-heart on loss and new life, Jasper invites Angie to pick up trash with him. Together, they go.

A person performs routine tasks and relaxing activities to fight a troubling zeitgeist.

Vinny's night is interrupted by strange screams coming from somewhere in his house. As he searches for the source, he finds himself face to face with something terrifying that feels disturbingly familiar.

A wandering peddler suddenly decides to separates from his group of travellers, his reasons are unknown and the dangers will be many.

A tableaux of poetry and images exploring the historical trauma, identity, and collective memory of the Armenian people centered on an Armenian filmmaker exiled in Berlin.

Opposite as black and white, the successful lawyers and business partners, tardy Stamatis and hasty Grigoris, fall for their supposedly single new secretary, unaware that she's already married. What happens when the charade is over?

An engineering student struggles to balance his experiences of loss, anxiety and serenity.

After an unremarkable semester one, several university hall residents try to process the idea of connectedness, fleeting relationships, love, and the future through the month-long ennui and languor of winter vacation stay.

Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike is Zefier's third film.

Lake gazes down at a still body of water from a birds-eye view, while a group of artists peacefully float in and out of the frame or work to stay at the surface. As they glide farther away and draw closer together, they reach out in collective queer and desirous exchanges — holding hands, drifting over and under their neighbors, making space, taking care of each other with a casual, gentle intimacy while they come together as individual parts of a whole. The video reflects on notions of togetherness and feminist theorist Silvia Federici’s call to “reconnect what capitalism has divided: our relation with nature, with others, and our bodies.”

A man goes fishing on a rowboat and realizes that no matter which way he rows, he can’t find land.

‘Under the Weight of a Waking Dream’ is Zefier's debut swan song to the ending year. Comprised of poetry and endless enumerations is a diaristic film chronicling the lessons and contradictions found throughout the human experience.

Constructed purely out of b-roll, “Waste of a Day” is a completely improvised and unscripted short film that follows a man that has left his light on for too long...

An artist, surrounded by the mess in her studio, struggles with frustration as she tries to find inspiration for her new painting.

Two aimless psychics develop a strange relationship as they come to terms with having been groomed for espionage as children in the Gifted and Talented Education program.

Outtakes, commentary from Zefier's third film: Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike.