All Films

Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship

2012 • 25 min

Rats are glorious deserters and we must admire them. Rats don't want to be captains trying to keep the cause afloat. But swim on open water.

Vishaparvam

2012 • 30 min

A video essay that looks into the contemporary simulation of the old relationship between sign and referent. A traditional toxicologist, a convict, a herpetologist, a traditional healer – ponder deep to get closer to the reality of things that are under layer upon layer of images.

Dreaming of the Golden Eagle

2012 • 8 min • Norway

Brothers Axel Emil (13), Eivind (10), and Eirik (8) are obsessed with wildlife and birds. They are out in the forest almost every day taking pictures and looking for birds. But there is one bird they have yet to see: the Golden Eagle, one of Norway's largest birds. In this feel-good wildlife documentary we follow the brothers on their quest to see the Golden Eagle.

Crabs in the Sand

2012 • 11 min • Israel

A story about a thirteen-year-old boy and his friendship with a thirty-year-old man.

Outer Osmo Ghost Mode

2012 • 11 min

An original animated short film by Alan Palomo (Neon Indian/Vega) and Director/Animator Johnny Woods

Quod Erat Demonstrandum

2012 • 26 min • Switzerland

A collaborator since 2002 (Notre Musique), Fabrice Aragno did not want to make a documentary ‘on’ but ‘with’ Jean-Luc Godard. The latter decided on a mathematical approach. The TV station asked for 26 minutes, and so Godard suggested they make 26 one-minute sequences, and have 4 shots in each sequence, all recycled from his work.

The Artist

2012 • 2 min

THE ARTIST by David Shrigley

Dan Invited Hannah over for Dinner

2012 • 9 min

Hannah questions her boyfriend's intention behind an "arbitrary" dinner invitation.

Beyond That Wasteland

2012 • 10 min • Iceland, Sweden

Beyond That Wasteland is a poetic depiction of being in a borderland, in the wake of the disaster. A place where one is forced to stay awake in order not to perish. It is a timeless ninja epos about facing an ultimate, life-changing decision - to resist or surrender.

Columbos

2012 • 9 min • Japan

A re-imagining of Columbo with puppet animation.

Feather Robe from Heaven

2012 • 4 min • Japan

Story of Hagoromo, or feather robe from heaven, is a legend of Miho Beach. An angel sets her foot on the beach to bathe in the sea. Watching her, a fisherman sneaks her robe out, but returns it due to feeling guilty. That makes the angel very happy and she flies up to. . . heaven, dancing in the sky.

Tomato confit

2012 • 5 min • Japan

There once lived two brothers in a town. The elder lived alone. The younger lived with his parents. They did not get along well... They called each other occasionally. The elder one was impatient and emotional and did nothing but work... One day the elder brother’s face turned into a tomato...

One Breath: The Story of William Trubridge

2012 • 11 min • United States of America

ONE BREATH is a short documentary about William Trubridge, a world champion of free-diving, a form of deep water diving done without the aid of external breathing devices. In 2011, Trubridge won the World's Absolute Freediver Award naming him 'best all around free-diver'. One Breath is the result of a few days spent with Trubridge in the Bahamas, offering a unique glimpse into his unusual and magical world.

Linda LeThorn & the Musicbox

2012 • 17 min

Inside of a dysfunctional love triangle, Linda LeThorn is brought to her breaking point by a possessed music box she inherits from her Aunt Lucinda.

The Skin and the Soul

2012 • 21 min • Spain

Two sisters in love. Mar is in love with her older sister Celia and Celia with Mar. How will this affect them?

7596 Frames

2012 • 5 min • Bulgaria

Bulgarian director Martin Georgiev's film traces the evolution of a particle in a black-and-white geometrical world where the choices it makes will shape its form and its form will shape its choices.

All I Think of Is You

2012 • 8 min

A woman is approached by a stranger possessing the memories and emotions of her dead husband, a scientist who had his mind uploaded into a computer.

There Were Always Dogs, Never Kids

2012 • 24 min • United States of America

A documentary ode to legendary New York City video store Alan's Alley, where bizarrely arranged movies enticed clientele from cinephile to celebrity to local prison inmate. Charismatic owner Alan Sklar sifts through the nuance of his neon-flickering livelihood, in his store’s last days as a fixture in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.

The seven deaths of Pedro. The boy who collected cow skulls.

2012 • 6 min

A boy who believes that there are only seven ways to die.

21 Chitrakoot

2012 • 9 min • India

21 Chitrakoot exhumes a mystical land composed of 1980s chroma-key backdrops from a famous Indian television series.

Life

2012 • 7 min • Sweden

A man walks through a crisis in life, he no longer knows what to do and starts to question his life.

Armada

2012 • 15 min • Brazil

Armada is a Brazilian short movie about the dictatorship times that laid its iron fist over the country. When a journalist is taken to the basement where the torture claim its victims, the truth is no more than a detail.

Seule

2012 • 1 min • Spain

Seule is a lone woman: She lives alone, works alone, talks alone, plays alone, takes breakfast alone, eats alone, takes dinner alone, sleeps alone, dreams alone, walks alone, runs alone, smiles alone, smokes alone, cries alone, drinks alone , dresses herself alone, undresses alone, shower alone, she looks at herself alone, she imagines herself alone, but she never feels lonely

Nem Que Tudo Termine Como Antes

2012 • 13 min • Brazil

A very in love couple decide to set the date of their breaking up. They believe that ending their relationship on the top of their love would keep it preserved forever. The breaking up day arrives and they have to deal with it, each one in its own particular way.