All Films

Reyes of El Sereno

2012 • 11 min

A documentary short on the El Sereno, CA based artist Albert Reyes, focused on his permanent, yet ever changing, haunted house installation in his backyard.

Kūrybos mįslė

2012 • 54 min • Lithuania

The film about the famous Lithuanian sculptor Dalia Matulaitė - the author of many decorative sculptures, monuments and small sculptures.

Skateboard of Horror

2012 • 16 min • Germany

Two guys purchase a skateboard from a mysterious shop. When they go to use it, it comes alive and goes on a killing spree.

Children of Socialism - Replace My Head

2012 • 48 min • Slovenia

A mid-length documentary about cult band Otroci Socializma (Children of Socialism), Slovenian version Joy Division. Without being sentimental, with just a hint of nostalgia, the movie tells the story of the band, being reunited at a concert almost 30 years later.

Chaizu

2012 • 12 min

A hermit's static routine is disrupted when a fantastical force sets up residence in his attic.

Pearl of the Sky

2012 • 28 min • Macedonia

Documentary about Jane Angelevski, a popular Macedonian folk music performer.

Garçon au diable

2012 • 25 min

Nil follows Luca off the beaten track through tall grass and low branches. The rising sun on his face. He observes Luca, his back, his nape...

Light Buffer

2012 • 2 min • Canada

The tranquility of this film stretches the information of frames into the rays of a new sun, and desaturate and increase the contrast of frames to conjure up new stars.

Lisboa Orchestra

2012 • 12 min

Shaved

2012 • 3 min

In Shaved, Hess examines the aerodynamics of the human body. For the short film, a swimmer was covered from head to toe in a thick layer of shaving foam. Hess teamed up with a pair of human shavers manipulating a two-meter long blade, turning a mechanical act of grooming into a strangely hypnotic performance.

Eighteenth Birthday

2012 • 20 min • Poland

A girl from Youth Educational Center in Lodz will soon turn eighteen. After coming back home, she is planning to throw a birthday party.

Camping Wesertal

2012 • 29 min

In Wallonia, there's a place called Camping Wesertal, where Jacques Doum, a former oil trader in his eighties, and the people who have installed their trailers on his land must coexist throughout the year. Camping Wesertal is a Wallonian western, a Master's project for Luca School of Arts in Brussels.

David and the airplanes

2012 • 11 min

Far away, at a distance only an airplane can reach.

Alexandria

2012 • 41 min • Egypt

Goth-Trad - Anti Grid

2012 • 3 min

A frantic projectionist spools up the projector while scratching, slashing and bleaching his film before setting in motion the manic cut and paste montage he has frankensteined together. All the super 8mm, 35mm and 16mm films are excavated deep from the iloobia archive.

Room 606

2012 • 15 min • Switzerland

The travelling salesman Jonathan Fisch peddles glass eyes. His journey takes him to the edge of the province, where he checks in to a run-down hotel. The attic room number 606 has its pitfalls. Something rather peculiar is happening beyond the wall. Jonathan Fisch can expect a very turbulent night. A night that begins one evening in late autumn and doesn’t end until spring.

Rodicas

2012 • 53 min • Germany

Bru-Two

2012 • 23 min

A full length HD skateboard video based out of Virginia featuring footage from all up and down the East Coast.

Kalifornia

2012 • 28 min • Germany

The pasty grey, which surrounds Pavel's caravan resembles the life inside of it: the 71-old Russian spends the evening of his life in a dismal and monotonous way between marram grasses and sleepy seaports. But at one point Pavel makes a decision: He picks up the telephone receiver, calls his old friend Jack and starts walking – just straight ahead to California.

L'aube des mauvais jours

2012 • 12 min • France

September 1914. War rages between France and Germany. René, a young soldier, sent as a scout with two comrades, has the mission of warning the authorities of the advance of German troops. In the back, his wife, Brooke, waits tirelessly for his return, as guardian of the home. Despite the distance, they communicate mentally, their voices meet, they call each other, they tell each other about their terrible daily lives. Especially for René, the situation is becoming critical: the Germans are after them and he will soon have to obey the harsh law of military honor.

Birds Of Passage

2012 • 25 min • India

Both of them were alienated before they meet up. They spoke to each other. They shared their personal memories. Hesitation became the major factor for creating distance between them. However, both of them overpowered their own emotions. Gradually, they became good friends. Was it really supposed to happen? Where has their feminine ego gone?

Ari

2012 • 16 min • France

David, an ambitious young businessman, sees his life turn upside down when he moves into a high-tech apartment controlled by an artificial intelligence called ARI. Initially designed for home comfort and household management, ARI surreptitiously intrudes on David's professional life and privacy, under the suspicious eye of Gump, his soulful robot companion.

Super Vodka

2012 • 20 min • Portugal

Three men try to be "masculine" again. A clerck, a Saints Salesman and a "house-husband" pack up and decide to travel... to a bar. This is a movie without words, where the communication happens through the eyes and of some violence too.

Cine/Sine: Spanish Beginnings of Philippine Cinema

2012 • 40 min

Based on Nick Deocampo's award-winning book, Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines, this digital documentary traces the beginning of cinema in the Philippines in 1897 when two Spaniards showed the first moving pictures in Escolta. Against the backdrop of war and revolution, film developed to become the emerging Filipinos' dominant form of public entertainment. The documentary further explores the elements of Spanish culture found in Filipino films as evidenced through the classic films made by three National Artists - Eddie Romero, Lino Brocka, and Ishmael Bernal. This is Deocampo's homage both to Philippine cinema and the Filipino nation that is its twin.