APPLICATIONS CLOSING EARLY! Applications will close one week prior to the earlier announced deadline of May 28, new deadline is May 21. Please note that the selection is almost complete, but there is still some space left for a few more films.
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Less than a month to apply for our Summer 2026 Edition! Official selection will be on air on pebblesunderground.art from June 14 to 22! Visit the link in bio for more details.
The winners of the Summer and Winter editions will be on VisualcontainerTV early 2027!
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Now accepting application for the Summer 2026 season, calling for independent documentaries that are experimental, or non-mainstream in nature, underground films, experimental video art, screendance, performance, surreal films, animations, mixed techniques, essay films, non-films, interactive projects etc. Links are in bio🔥
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A heartfelt thank you to all the artists, filmmakers, viewers, distributors, and last but not least VisualcontainerTV platform for making the award winners' stream a success!
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Only a few hours left to see the program featuring the award winning films from Winter 2025 screenings of Pebbles Underground! The program is streaming on VisualcontainerTV!
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BÁJANJE by Neža Jamnikar | Slovenia | 2024 - don't miss your chance to see the winner of the Audience Award in the program THORNS IN A BOOK of our winter 2025 session, now part of the award winners' stream on VisualcontainerTV, available ONLY until February 15! All the links are in Bio and About sections 🔥🔥👀🎞🔗
LANGUAGE : Slovenian
COUNTRY : Slovenia
YEAR : 2024
DURATION : 14m
DIRECTOR, EDITOR : Neža Jamnikar
DOP : James Risbey
ORIGINAL MUSIC (lyrics: folk song): Brina & String . si - 'Pobelelo polje'
MUSICIAN (folk song): Janja Habe
Financially supported by the Municipality of Velenje, Culture Moves Europe, and donators.
SOUND DESIGN : James Risbey
DANCERS : Gea Erjavec, Simona Kočar, Kaja Marion Ribnikar, Kristina Slapernik, Katarina Bogataj, Neža Jamnikar
PERFORMERS : Janja Habe, Darja Jamnikar, Lidija Lončarič
TEXT AND VOICE : Neža Jamnikar
BÁJANJE is a short experimental film in which author Neža Jamnikar explores elements of Slovenian folklore through movement and a fantastical tale. The focus of the research is on the intertwined interpretations of motifs from Slovenian folk dances, music, old-faith (pagan) rituals, and symbols, which are experimentally woven into the physical and conceptual embodiments of the Krivopete and Vedomci—entities from Slovenian folklore and mythology—and are gradually revealed through the film’s fictional narrative.
On their journey toward “the knowing,” three women traverse hills and forests, twist their bodies, utter incantations, and make offerings. They dance around the maypole until, in their half-dream state, they hear incomprehensible words that guide them to the “other side of the sky.”
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Limited time to see NO ENTRY TO THE GALLERY by Tigran Abramjan, Andran Abramjan | Czech Republic | 2025! The film has won the Jury Award in the program THORNS IN A BOOK of our winter 2025 series, and is now part of the award winners' program on VisualcontainerTV, streaming only until February 15, all the links are in Bio and About 🔥🔥🔥👀📽👀🔗🔗
COUNTRY : Czech Republic
YEAR : 2025
DURATION : 4m
DIRECTOR : Tigran Abramjan, Andran Abramjan
CAMERA, EDITING, SOUND : Andran Abramjan
MUSIC : Tigran Abramjan, Andran Abramjan
We enter a space where entry is officially prohibited. Over the course of five years, we have observed the spontaneous transformations of this environment – contrasts between absolute emptiness and overwhelm, where one substance spills over into another: concrete, graffiti and manure. The observer brings another dimension to this remarkable gallery, where unique connections emerge, functioning as works of art. Each new visit seems like a different exhibition opening.
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Only a few days left to see WHY-EEELA by Ian Gibbins | Australia | 2025! The film received the Special Mention in the program EFFICIENCY FIRST of our winter 2025 screenings, and is now part of the award winners' stream on VisualcontainerTV available ONLY until February 15!!! All the links can be found in the Bio and About sections of our page 🔥🔗🎞👀📽
LANGUAGE : English
COUNTRY : Australia
YEAR : 2025
DURATION : 4m
DIRECTOR, CONCEPT, EDITING, SOUND : Ian Gibbins
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The Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhyncus funereus) has a distinctive, relaxed loping flight and a loud plaintive call: "why-eeela, weee-la". It feeds on the seeds of diverse trees including eucalypts, banksias and hakeas. Much of this habitat has been destroyed or degraded by human activity. However, the cockatoos are often seen around the outer suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, feeding on seeds in the cones of introduced Monterey Pines (Pinus radiata) planted along roadsides and in parks and gardens.
As a yellow-tailed black cockatoo searches for food and missing companions in urban deserts, we hear fragments of its calls...
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Time is running out! The film LOS by Martin Del Carpio | USA | 2020 the winner of Jury and Audience Awards in the program EFFICIENCY FIRST in our winter 2025 session is now part of the winners' stream on VisualcontainerTV available only until February 15, all the links are in Bio and About sections 🔗🔥🎞👀
LANGUAGE : English
COUNTRY : USA
YEAR : 2020
DURATION : 06m
DIRECTOR / WRITER : Martin Del Carpio
ANIMATION AND COLLAGE ART : Nikola Gocic
PRODUCER : Martin Del Carpio
COMPOSER : Sharif Sehnaoui
In another time, in a different world, mankind has made progress . . . Ruled by the very AI they developed and employed to set them free, humans have become slaves to their machine. We have lost friendship, love, and sex, and we are the machine labor and means of production. In a tomorrow-land without touch or value, a future very much of our making, upon which human life is transaction and output, we have lost humanity. The AI, the machine, has put us to work, and we humans do not work without it. We labor and toil for calculations and machinations logical and unfeeling, having forgotten one another and ourselves.
Yet there are the Los: the most human of us, ostracized, exiled, and refuted by the rest for knowing nature and refusing to resist intimacy and the intangible connections of life. It is the Los who would free mankind to return to their humanity and to become again the collective “we” of individuality, of love, of freedom from artificial design. The Los will go to war for the humans who were not and for the humans they are, but . . . will they save us?
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Only a few days left to see NORMAL LITIO by Massimiliano Marianni | Italy | 2025
The film has won the Audience Award in the program LONELINESS IN AN ENVELOPE in our winter 2025 screenings, and is now part of the award winners' stream on VisualcontainerTV, available only until February 15!!! All the links are in Bio and About sections 📽🎞🔥👀
COUNTRY : Italy
YEAR : 2025
DURATION : 11
DIRECTOR, WRITER, SOUND, ANIMATION : Massimiliano Marianni
I don’t know if “Normal Litio” is the most personal work I’ve ever made so far but it’s definitely the least intuitive from a first viewing.
Each of my works is a step towards a self-analysis that doesn’t always reveal itself immediately; each work is a very personal visual/sound staging that sometimes (I hope) touches universal territories.
The theme of this work specifically is the inner crisis; starting from my experience of a moment of creative/emotional stasis in which I found myself paralyzed both from a human and artistic point of view.
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The film تَرَک / CRACK by Marziye Feyli | Iran | 2024 received the Jury Award in the program LONELINESS IN AN ENVELOPE from our winter 2025 screenings, and is now part of the winners' stream on VisualcontainerTV! Streaming only until February 15, time is running out! All the links are in our Bio and About sections 🎬🎞🔥👀🎥🔗
LANGUAGE : Farsi
COUNTRY : Iran
YEAR : 2024
DURATION : 13m
DIRECTOR, WRITER : Marziye Feyli
PRODUCER : Mohammad Feyli
CAST : Sarina Shoja / Shirin Rezaei / Mahoor Fahami
CINEMATOGRAPHER : Amir Khosrow Salehi
COSTUME DESIGNER : Marziye Feyli
COLOUR CORRECTION : Arash Kazem zadeh
MAKE-UP ARTIST : Mahboobeh Olia
EDITOR : Kaveh Ghahreman
SOUND DESIGNER : Peyman Vahedi
SOUND RECORDIST : Kavoos Aghaei
COMPOSER : Arad Asgari
SET DESIGNER : Reza Arabi
Nora, a 16 - year - old student, who won the first stage of the school drawing competition, has been selected as a school representative to enter the second stage. Nora feels anxious and worried when she faces the situation, looking for an excuse to exclude herself from the competition.
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A WEAK & PANICKED ANIMAL by Jake Starr | Australia | 2024 - the film has won the Audience Award in the program THE LOST ABILITY TO SPEAK in our winter 2025 session and is now part of the winners' stream on VisualcontainerTV, available only until February 15 📽🎞🔥👀 Links are all in Bio and About sections 🔗
LANGUAGE : English
COUNTRY : Australia
YEAR : 2024
DURATION : 12m
DIRECTOR : Jake Starr
Within the ordered infrastructures of human civilisation, society endeavors to minimise the existential uncertainties of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing - each serve as a boundary, a tacit agreement between the human and non-human world: a contract stipulating that neither shall cross these thresholds without becoming subject to the law of the other. These spatial and symbolic thresholds represent an attempt to contain nature, to insulate ourselves from its unpredictable vitality.
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