All Films

Dot Delight

2014 • 2 min • Norway

A lazy afternoon in Stavanger, Norway, a collision course between the two most iconic patterns to ever adorn a fabric is set in motion. Lines are drawn in the sand. Who will run circles around their opponent? Pick a side. Stand back. Tick tock...

Slimzee's Going On Terrible

2014 • 21 min

A short documentary that follows the fortunes of Slimzee, the influential grime DJ. Featuring Skepta, Novelist, J Cush, Jammer and others.

Tight Skin of the Ambience

2014 • 15 min • Iran

The story of 6 deaf young men who go to Luna Park to get crazy.

The Shop of Songbirds

2014 • 18 min • Ukraine

The film is set in an urban city of the future, where machines have replaced living beings. The main character tries in vain to sell an exotic commodity—live singing birds. One day, he rescues an amazing creature—a magical bird that will change his life forever.

Slug Street Scrappers: Goodbye Goddess

2014 • 54 min • United States of America

The final battle has begun. During a short calm among the chaos, the few remaining Scrappers on Slug Street decide to pull together in a last-ditch effort to change their fate.

Le liemba

2014 • 56 min • France

Life aboard an old steamer that still ferries people and goods up and down the shores of Lake Tanganyika. The star of the film is an old boat called The Liemba. It is now over 100 years old but still chugs up and down Tanzania's western coast. In 1913 it was built in Papenburg just west of Bremen and was then disassembled and shipped, in kit form, to Dar Es Salaam, in what was then German East Africa. The pieces made their way by rail to the lake and the boat was reassembled. This film is in the same class as Fred Wiseman's early work as it takes us on board this creaking ferry which becomes a metaphor for Africa itself. The long-distance traveler is sometimes criticized for 'just passing through' but this film will have you on board the Liemba full time, and you'll be there for the whole voyage.

Threaded

2014 • 10 min • Colombia

Threaded takes place in a dream that gradually turns into a nightmare. A man will go through different states of consciousness to finally reach his deepest fear. Thus, the thread that holds this man's reality is transformed by a sinister creature who manipulates it at its own will.

Burning Bright

2014 • 52 min • Sweden

Burning Bright depicts a unique gathering of musicians from the Swedish contemporary and creative music scene, and their common voyage through a torched winter landscape. Fire! Orchestra is a collective voice in which the vocal chords are plucked individually by the members. The notes, the words, and the images are torn down to be built up again. We exist to be able to enter as if the titles of the praised records spoke to us: first came "Exit", then "Enter". But how far inside can we go before we find ourselves exiting again?

Jacob's Walk

2014 • 11 min • Canada

Jacob walks here and there, roaming around, trying to escape his own inertia.

Men's Barbershop

2014 • 14 min • Kuwait

The story of Abdulrahman's struggle to change his barber.

The Story of Klaus

2014 • 14 min • Germany

Meat was his life and exactly this is what Klaus left piled behind. Klaus is a butcher and on the journey to his personal fortune he discovers the previously unknown succulent appetite. A short film about a man who follows his desire to travel and embarks on a quest to find himself while overlooking the fine print

Bootlegger's Picnic

2014 • 4 min • United States of America

On an adventure with his older brother a young man comes face to face with the darker side of the bootlegging business.

The Bohulano Family

2014 • 8 min • United States of America

Home movie collection of the Bohulano Family of Stockton, CA. Footage dates between the 1950s-1970s.

L.o.l.

2014 • 18 min • Greece

A young woman accidentally kills her boyfriend during foreplay.

Projection on the Crisis (Gauweilereien in Munich)

2014 • 37 min

Philipp Gufler's video installation "Projektion auf die Krise (Gauweilereien in Munich)" provides a kaleidoscopic look back at the beginnings of the AIDS crisis in Germany in the 1980s - a time when Munich's repressive policy against homosexuals reached its peak. The work brings together newspaper articles, posters, photos and press reports from this period. The historical material from the 1980s is commented on by artists.

Primate Cinema: Movies for Monkeys

2014 • 3 min

The artist creates incredibly short and slightly pornographic films to appeal to squirrel monkeys, who have an attention span of two seconds.

Lagich

2014 • 25 min • Russia

Mummers

2014 • 12 min • Canada

'Mummers' - 12 minute thriller about the cycle of vengeance. Two twenty something Newfoundland men set out to bring Mummering back to it's former glory. But when they meet up with a third Mummer with a far darker purpose, to avenge the murder of her father, the situation escalates to mayhem and murder.

Caballero Ape

2014 • 3 min

This is the story of a young, red-blooded American boy. In his costume and in the deadly car, he’s about to start a unpredictable terror. Masked hell raiser, standing outside the law. His name is Caballero Ape. Only one man can stop him now…

Secrets of the Desert

2014 • 58 min

Told from the Leader of the Tarabin Bedouins, one of the most renowned tribes dating back many centuries before the British mandate, Ottoman and Mumaluk control; this documentary unveils what the Western World has kept hidden. Shiekh Aied explains his tribe’s connection to the Holy Land and the truth about the 1948 war, the battle of Auja, and why many Africans are now refugees in strange lands.

Portals

2014 • 4 min • Canada

Like much of Sabrina Ratté’s video work, this collection for Undervolt & Co. explores the visual and sonic relationship between modular synthesis and simulated space. In all three pieces – Littoral Zones, Landfall, and Habitat – Ratté uses her signature modulator technique to intricately layer a series of moirés and checkerboards that bring depth to the otherwise flat surface of the video screen. Where others create depth through recording or simulating hallways and tunnels, Ratté bends the signal of the video itself to carve out corridors of an undetermined distance.

In Another Life

2014 • 30 min • Japan

Three short stories in Tokyo about people's death and how they see their life after death. In each story the main character experience death and they live another life that seems just like another day. Regretting their ignorance that caused pain to their beloved ones, each tries to find a clue to what went wrong in another life.

The Innocent Victim

2014 • 17 min • United States of America

Tim returns from war, but is still troubled by dreams he has of someone dear to him killing him. He makes the horrifying discovery that his own mother had him aborted twenty years ago... and he never even existed...

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2014 • 29 min • Sweden

Ankan and Monkan finally have a chance to get their first own apartment. All that's required is a permanent job. With tears, Alfie Atkins and a tableware, they are transformed into full-featured sellers of cellphones. The apartment contract seems to be a possible dream.