All Films

La Valse

2012 • 26 min

A choreographic poem by Maurice Ravel.

Perfect Pitch

2012 • 5 min

Band Class. Cody tries to find love through his unappealing instrument, the clarinet. He tries to conquer various girls and none take him seriously until he learns his lesson; that he must like himself for others to like him.

Trickle Dickle Down

2012 • 2 min

An animated parody of trickle down economics

Natasha

2012 • 14 min • Belgium

About a Russian bear and the love of his life.

A Road as a Street

2012 • 24 min • Portugal

Travels around Portuguese roads, with its very peculiar landscapes: a seismograph of passing time.

Secret Room

2012 • 4 min

A story told with gestures and glances. The tightness of a car is a perfect space for fantasy. Here two lovers' separate fantasies, “secret rooms” abut.

10 Questions for Werner Herzog

2012 • 5 min • United States of America

Interview with Werner Herzog during his visit to the Indiana University Cinema.

At the Graveside of Tarkovsky

2012 • 20 min

A homage to Russian film giant Andrei Tarkovsky, this work integrates excerpts of soundtracks from Tarkovsky’s films with a slideshow of landscapes shot by Akomfrah and an evocative sculptural installation. Working with long time collaborator, sound artist Trevor Mathison, Akomfrah creates an environment thick with longing and the evasive and yet inescapable presence of death. At the Graveside of Tarkovsky is a mixed media installation with sound and single channel HD colour video.

Apeocracy: Chronicle of the Great Economic Backwash

2012 • 6 min • Spain

The causes of the crisis. The background of the crisis. The effects of the crisis. Irrational corruption. Social involution. Dysfunctional government. Apeocracy has arrived.

Without You

2012 • 8 min • Sweden

A young girl gets her first menstrual period.

Alone with the Moon

2012 • 13 min • United States of America

Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendo-ing in time with Christopher Doulgeris’ portentously pulsating soundtrack.

Aequador

2012 • 19 min • Colombia, France

A journey upstream the Amazon river where Modernist constructions have been abandoned like the memories of an engulfed civilisation of the future. A science-fiction documentary evoking the colonization of nature, former utopias in the Latin America forests and their cohabitation with the present.

Pinky

2012 • 3 min • Japan

Two friends make a video together.

A Little More

2012 • 7 min • France, Ireland

A universal tale of proud Mme Rousseau who is on a mission to spend the perfect day enjoying the endless cakes of Paris with sweet liberty. But Paris is not the city she remembers. And life has some bittersweet lessons to teach.

Lucy Contra los Limites de la Voz

2012 • 10 min • Mexico

Lucy, a seven year old girl, wants to know if a person's voice can run out and if that could be the reason why her grandpa stopped talking. To find the answer, she decides to perform a risky experiment defying her Aunt Rose's strict rules.

Foodie

2012 • 30 min

Foodie is a dark comedy about a food service industry professional who receives an invitation to an exclusive, underground dinner party and finds out there's much more on the menu than he bargained for.

Djurgårdsfärjan

2012 • 14 min • Sweden

A paraphrase on Eric M. Nilsson's film Djurgårdsfärjan from the early 1960s.

Likriktningen

2012 • 4 min • Sweden

Horace Engdahl dreams that he is forced to review a performance in which the bodies of Russian czars are used as actors.

Love

2012 • 1 min • Japan

A short animation by rapparu.

Dynamite Girl

2012 • 14 min

Thiago is in love with a girl who appears every night in his dreams. Obsessed with the desire to meet her, the boy can no longer sleep.

The Winter

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

When her husband is dragged into the darkness, a woman must survive the elements of frontier Kansas. However, something evil is waiting outside her door.

Martin Hill: Camera Man

2012 • 30 min • United States of America

In the small town of Midland, NC, Martin Hill has been collecting the artistic tools of master filmmakers. His story is one of passion and preservation, obsession and compulsion, expectation and disappointment. In "Martin Hill: Camera Man," Hock takes a six year journey with Martin through his dilapidated bowling alley, where he buys, houses and hoards an array of historic film equipment. His priceless treasures include classic motion picture cameras that were used to create some of Hollywood's most iconic movies including "Star Wars," "Gone with the Wind," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Ten Commandments".

Romeos & Juliets

2012 • 42 min • Canada

From grueling rehearsals to the world premiere, Romeos & Juliets offers an unprecedented behind-the-curtain look at the National Ballet of Canada as ten dancers vie to perform the lead roles on the coveted opening night of "Romeo and Juliet," as envisioned by acclaimed choreographer Alexei Ratmansky in celebration of the company's 60th anniversary.

An Old Pot

2012 • 60 min • Slovenia

Based on a true story, movie takes us back to 1944, when a daring attempt to rescue prisoners from infamous German prison "Stari pisker" in Celje, Yugoslavia took place. Six partisans with help from prison guard are trying to save 80 prisoners from getting shot by Nazis.