All Films

Menino da Gamboa

2014 • 14 min • Brazil

Gum is a child born and raised at Gamboa island. He admires his older brother, who works as baggage carrier for tourists. Gum wants to be like him.

Happy Hands

2014 • 20 min • United States of America

How Tippi Hedren played a role in the development of Vietnamese-American nail salons in the United States

Louis Theroux: LA Stories - Edge of Life

2014 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Louis is at Cedars Sinai Medical Centre in L.A to learn about the American way of death.

Samurai Zombie: FRAGILE

2014 • 24 min • Japan

Action comedy short film about a samurai zombie and an 80-year-old wannabe detective, and their fight against the zombie mafia.

Evidence

2014 • 4 min

In evidence, Julie Tolentino’s naked, moving body articulates backward on her hands and knees, balancing a cluster of Asian medicine cups. The piece, originally made in 2010 in collaboration with Abigail Severance, was remixed for Visual AIDS in 2014. Tolentino's self-made sound piece was added and initiates the video with a queer list of loved ones living and lost, recognizable or not, as both invocation and provocation of individuals who deeply shifted her perspective. As the listed names blur and are archived in Tolentino's body, evidence opens up to the list's potency through a female, brown, artist/activist body in the unseen yet held spaces of relationship, memory, sex and loss. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2014 as part of ALTERNATE ENDINGS, a program of seven videos that bring together charged moments and personal memories amidst the public history of HIV/AIDS.

The Book of Silence

2014 • 49 min • Bulgaria

A film about the value of words in an age of information abundance; about the troubled communication and imbalance between silence, talking and sounds, but also about how human speech shaped and developed and what should be done to reconcile with silence, turning it into Word.

The Sweating of Sea Urchins

2014 • 18 min • Slovenia

Stane and Bojan are two young people, working at a kiosk. They try to break the boredom and repetitiveness of their daily routines by observing their potential customers, trying to guess their consumer appetites and by doing drugs. When a junkie breaks into the kiosk and disturbs their daydreaming, the potential for a change ensues.

Hassanlou Cup: I Said to Contemplate This Dividing

2014 • 30 min • Iran

For the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Hassanlou Cup, Aslani revisited the subject of his 1966 debut film, employing new digital zoom and color technologies and interweaving his own modern poetic verses with those of the 12th-century poet Attar. The film is a portrait of the artist as an older and more contemplative man.

Bloodmare

2014 • 32 min • United States of America

The town of Millis Point harbors and unholy evil. It has been asleep for 300 years now it has awoken and its thirsty. Will the townspeople be able to survive this curse, or be taken over one by one?

Grey Ambition

2014 • 47 min • Canada

Canadian seniors over 65 are staying active through philanthropy, the arts, volunteerism, education, entrepreneurship, or the workplace. Profiled here are a fashion tycoon gone back to school in his 80s, a 95 year old who builds and flies airplanes, a competitive darts player and painter without hands, an entrepreneur, an avid community volunteer, and a couple in their 90s who continue to teach roller skating.

Ufologist

2014 • 17 min

Peter Davenport runs the National UFO Reporting Center, a one-man operation fielding phone calls and collecting data from UFO sightings around the U.S. Prank calls, hoaxes, and misguided interpretations mix in with legitimately breathless reports of the extraordinary. As a quiet bachelor in solitary scientific pursuit, Peter remains something of an enigma in the small town of Harrington, WA.

Open Hands

2014 • 34 min

Open Hands is a Christian short about forgiving your brother, letting go of this world, and dealing with hate. It's an action packed Spaghetti Western with Christian undertones.

Jason Xmas

2014 • 31 min

Jason invites himself to a family's holiday reunion.

Copland, Bernstein

2014 • 56 min • Italy

From the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium in Turin: Aaron Copland, Danzon Cubano; Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas brasileiras No. 2; Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story symphonic dances. Conductor John Neschling. RAI National Symphony Orchestra.

No No, Homo

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

Alone at a matinee together, with a big, mouthwatering bucket of popcorn.

The Last One

2014 • 15 min • Azerbaijan, Russia

The old man outlived everyone. His friends, wife, children. But he wasn't lonely. An old fridge buzzed hoarsely in the corridor, and - substituted for friends and family. Every evening he lay down to die. Waking up the next morning he shambled to the fridge. Every day he would sit down opposite the fridge and write: "8.00 - turned on; 9.15 - turned off; 9.47 - turned on...". That day started as usual. The old man woke up alive and headed to the porch. The fridge was in particular nasty. The old man got angry and switched on TV - for the first time in years. It changed his life forever.

The Butcher's Waltz

2014 • 14 min • Sweden

The film takes place over one day in Sweden. From dawn in Västervik to sunset in Stockholm a variety of characters going about their everyday lives.

Deal with it

2014 • 59 min

Shamira Raphaela (30) travels the world as a TV director. Her life is in sharp contrast with that of her father and brother, who are both in and out of jail. In this intimate family portrait, we enter the chaotic and colorful world of Shamira's father Pempy, a drug dealing addict, and her brother Andy, who's following in his fathers footsteps. They both counter their seemingly desperate lives with lots of resilience and humor. Simultaneously, it's impossible for Shamira to remain unaffected by the vicious circle trapping her father and brother. A film about destructive family patterns and unconditional love.

Disintegration Loops (dlp 5)

2014 • 52 min • Mexico

Disintegration Loops (dlp 5) consists of one static shot, which transmutes in an emotional odyssey.

Her Confession Rankings

2014 • 21 min

Short film directed by Shinichiro Ueda

Over Here, Nothing New

2014 • 10 min • Portugal

Alex is a young adult from a social housing district. When he left his home in the morning, he faces a situation apparently out of the ordinary.

On Dark Paths

2014 • 20 min • Finland

Sometimes the only way to safety lies on dark paths....

Pickman's Model

2014 • 12 min • Mexico

July, 1925. Thurber Phillips, an art collector, is invited by his favorite painter, the elusive and mysterious Richard Upton Pickman, to visit his home, a sinister place where his friend's macabre paintings seem to threaten him from the walls in shadows.

La Paloma

2014 • 7 min • United States of America

Music by Austin Cesear, 16mm film by Paul Clipson.