All Films

Paradise Lost?

2015 • 9 min • United Kingdom

After discovering that John Milton is buried within London's Barbican grounds, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard reimagined his epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ as part of Doug Aitken's Station to Station project. The piece uses the architecture and atmosphere of the Barbican to update the story, which is told in three parts.

Voyagers

2015 • 15 min • Canada

Travel along with the Voyager spacecrafts as they traverse the solar system on their planetary expedition spanning over three decades.

Airline '79

2015 • 51 min • United States of America

In this homage to the disaster genre of the 1970s, an insane hijacker takes control of an airplane and demands one million dollars.

King Ripple

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

Four teens travel into a desolate and decrepit urban wasteland brought forth by the very being they wish to find, dead or alive.

World Wide Woven Bodies

2015 • 16 min • Norway

At the end of the 1990s the Internet comes to Northern Norway and coincides with the sexual awakening of young Mads (12). The introduction of pornographic images into his life complicates his relationship with his parents, and their house becomes a minefield filled with uncomfortable interactions.

Aún hay tiempo

2015 • 16 min • Spain

Ángel goes to the supermarket with a clear goal: to win back his ex. It gets complicated when he finds himself trapped in time loops.

Buffalo Returns

2015 • 22 min

Native American Natural Foods is one of the only private enterprises on the Pine Ridge Reservation. When their new energy bar gains national distribution, it gives new hope to a struggling community.

At Dawn

2015 • 15 min • United Kingdom

An insomniac decides to make a difference and steps over the threshold into sleeping people's bedrooms, changing lives forever.

Of Men and Mice

2015 • 20 min • France

While the town of Detroit is eroded by economic crisis, two armed robbers find themselves trapped by the police. They are far from imagining the outcome of the negotiations.

Guyland

2015 • 35 min

In this powerful new film based on his bestselling book, sociologist Michael Kimmel maps the troubling social world where boys become men -- a new stage of development he calls "Guyland." Arguing that the traditional adult signposts and cultural signals that once helped boys navigate their way to manhood are no longer clear, Kimmel provides an astonishing glimpse into a world where more and more young men are trying desperately to prove their masculinity to other young men -- with frequently disastrous consequences for young women and other young men. Guyland offers a way for all of us -- parents, young men and women, community members, and professors and administrators -- to envision new ways to support young men as they navigate this often perilous world.

The Flame

2015 • 15 min • Singapore

In 1965, an Indian family, whose men have been loyal servants of the British Royal Air Force, are faced with a life-changing offer of British citizenship as a reward for their years of service. The anglophone father is determined to follow his colonial masters back to England, while his newly-wed son yearns to build a new life in Singapore with his pregnant wife. Their conflict studies the notion of state and identity in a time of post-independence uncertainty.

Growing Young

2015 • 14 min • Australia

Minks, 16, is living with her Nan who has dementia. Unaware of what Dementia really is, Minks is trying to understand the severity of her Nan’s forgetfulness. The two women share a unique bond, despite their generational gap, which is highlighted by Nan’s good sense of humour. However it’s only a matter of time till Minks is forced to realise she can no longer care for her Nan on her own.

Wild Flowers

2015 • 50 min • Mexico

Marta, a woman who is suffering from an eternal pain she expresses through silences, lack of communication, and unspoken issues – and yet, it is there. Her friendship with a young man from the area creates an interest triggered by its ambiguity: is there s sexual tension, or rather she sees in him a memory of what she lost? Is there an attraction or does the young man stand for the ghost of that past that still exists in Marta's everyday life?

Lazarus Come Out

2015 • 14 min • Italy

45 year old Don Valter is a traditional priest who still wears an old fashioned black tunic out of nostalgia. One day young Claudio and his exuberant troupe of actors appear, proposing to perform an avant-garde show based on the Gospel's miracle of the rebirth of Lazarus*. The powerless priest is overwhelmed by this young upstart, who stirs within him emotions that will, whether he likes it or not, pull him into the modern era.

The P.I. Experiment

2015 • 26 min

Adam and Charlie Flint are two young, hip, film-maker brothers who decide to make a docudrama web-series about a real-life private investigations company, but the only company that will agree to be the victims of their constant amateur following and bad "in your face" shooting style is "The Investigation Mill", a struggling business of misfit, degenerate, somewhat professional private investigators. 'The P.I. Experiment' is a hilarious dark comedy with witty endearing characters that captivate your attention like a bad car crash.

The Sadness of the Trees

2015 • 12 min • Canada, United Kingdom

Two separate, yet poetically connected films that act as a threnody on nature. Mikel Guillen's film is dedicated to the artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto. Scott Barley's film is dedicated to the artist, Vija Celmins.

Want It

2015 • 11 min • United Kingdom

An intruder breaks into a modern and luxurious home. He wants it. As he samples the lifestyle his senses are heightened. When the owner of the house returns unexpectedly, the tables are turned, and the intruder finds himself naked and powerless. A film about passion, longing and desire in all its forms.

Meathook Massacre

2015 • 60 min • United States of America

3 young women encounter car trouble on the way to a Dragonsclaw concert during a rainstorm. They are forced to go seek help, where one by bloody one they are attacked by a masked maniac and hung on meathooks. Who will survive and what will be left of them?

The Last Days of Cinema

2015 • 24 min • Spain

Just as the city's movie theaters are closing their doors, the relationship between Leandro and his son Martín is fading; but Leandro tries to redeem his past mistakes, free Martín from a gray life and get him to recover his imagination, to dream again and find the light.

Paper Ruscha

2015 • 2 min • United States of America

Renowned Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha prints his newest work,”ZOOT SOOT” at Aardvark Letterpress.

Emic

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

An Interstellar x Google Play collaboration. Building off the themes of Interstellar, this short film weaves submissions from people around the world into a story celebrating the human experience on Earth. Directed by David Brodie and creative directed by Angus Wall, the film will serve as a time capsule that shows future generations what life on Earth was like, should we leave this planet.

Evenfall

2015 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A silent poem to celebrate the winter light and the sense of solitude that it brings.

Decker Vs. Dracula: Behind The Truth

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

Decker creator and star, Tim Heidecker, sheds light on the troubled production, Decker Vs. Dracula.

Homúnculo

2015 • 14 min • Argentina

A strange creature, which can only live inside a human body, escapes from a group of military men who want to hunt it in a decaying futuristic world. On the verge of being caught, his last escape is to possess the body of a man.