All Films

Memoirs of a Killarney Houseboy

2012 • 15 min

An improvised tragi-queer film about an older gay man who was once the (caviar and) toast of the gay rave scene. He takes care of the homes of residents in a high-rise Johannesburg suburb, from older Jewish women to messier gay men. The houseboy is obsessively in love with his client, the celebrated captain of the Flamingos synchronized swimming team. He is the ultimate bunny boiler in the bunny suit. Rejected by the object of his affections, he takes refuge with a kinky lesbian/queer couple. Tensions rise as he drives a man-sized wedge in their relationship.

No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon

2012 • 4 min • United Arab Emirates, France

A fake "Cinematon".

The Funeral Director

2012 • 5 min

A funeral director searches for purpose in a job that consistently incapacitates him with grief.

Lights Out

2012 • 8 min • Netherlands

Lights out tells the story of a couple that just broke up. Sarah is mad at Thomas and steals his car, hitting him with a crowbar in the proces. As retaliation Thomas buries Sarah alive in the car. Sarah is panicking in the car, and doesn't know what to do. Then she hears something outside, it's Thomas. Realizing that she (Sarah) is not really buried, she puts the seatbelt around her neck to make it look as if she has committed suicide. When Thomas accidentally made a noise, he goes to check out the car, thinking Sarah must have heard. But when he sees that Sarah committed suicide, he rushes to call 911. When Thomas is busy calling, Sarah makes her move, and slips trough Thomas's fingers for the second and last time.

Flawless Life

2012 • 4 min

A lucky day in the life of a homeless man.

A.b.m

2012 • 6 min

A new law has swept through the land, bananas are illegal. A government agency has been created named the Anti Banana Movement or ABM to stop those who smuggle bananas.

To Cordoba

2012 • 23 min • China

A sick, middle-aged man gets on a train bound for Tianjin. A young man told him that this train could take him to Córdoba, or anywhere...

It Was Fall

2012 • 4 min

A short film based on the director’s poem of the same name featured in Impeachable, the journal of bad art collaboration, Fall 2012.

POST-ITive Message

2012 • 6 min • Spain

A guy in love leaves a love message to his girlfriend. He has bought her a gift and he is going to give it to her in an original way. Everything is very well planned. He has it all planned.

La Sed

2012 • 6 min • Costa Rica

A mother and her son talk while while driving in her car

Taxi for Two

2012 • 13 min • Canada

The film poetically explores the universe of two eccentric Montreal taxi drivers. Film places the viewer in the back seat of the taxi as Louis and Jamel take us for a ride in their cab from Port au Prince to Algiers, from overseas to the island of Montreal, the protagonists passionately discuss life, love and death. Aesthetically the film uses panoramic image multiplications to complement the magical realism found in the storytelling.

La mujer del andén

2012 • 24 min • Argentina

In the 1990s, the trains stopped working, condemning many towns to isolation. The locals are going to die at the train station, as a metaphor for the death of their dreams.

Praner Manush

2012 • 15 min

Chaitak and his mother deal with their soon-to-strike tragedy as he wants to confess to his mother every little thing about himself within the little time he has. He also gets confronted by his past during the same period of time.

Puntuka's Stone

2012 • 4 min • Lithuania

The film presents the story of the origin of the Puntuk stone with the help of animation tools.

Independence Day

2012 • 6 min • Lithuania

One day, a musician runs away from the radio station. Too much sugar sinks the ship and the hope of finding love outside the door with a heart. Fortunately, the missing hat appeared.

NS Roulette

2012 • 23 min • Serbia

A story about an unusual break-up.

Innocence of Muslims

2012 • 14 min • United States of America

An anti-Islamic short film made up of overdubbed scenes from an unfinished feature-length film.

Wooden People

2012 • 27 min • Belarus

The woodcarver Mikalai Vasilevich Tarasiuk, a folk craftsman of Belarus, lived in Pruzhanshchyna. Near his house is a unique museum "Memories of the Fatherland", which has no analogues in the country. The self-taught master carves figurines from wood, decorates them with vines and straw, and arranges them into scenes from peasant life and everyday life. Specialists call this kind of activity instinctive art. That is, his creativity was formed naturally and such is free from the sphere of any professional influence. Through the personality of the hero and his wooden people, the film provides an opportunity to join the ancient way of life of Belarusians, which is gradually disappearing.

Nintendo Power Memories

2012 • 12 min

The Game Overthinker (Bob Chipman) holds a sustained twelve minutes of silence in remembrance of the now defunct magazine "Nintendo Power."

Pig Goat Banana Mantis!

2012 • 3 min

Pilot short for the series Pig Goat Banana Cricket.

Trixie and the Treetrunks

2012 • 50 min • United States of America

Trixie and the Treetrunks is an episodic puppet series begun in 2006. As this story unfolds, a terrible snowstorm has destroyed the magical forest, leaving an ugly patch of dirt. Trixie plants a mysterious box of seeds and grows a Happy Tree, which starts giving out secret messages from the Center of the Earth to she and her best friend Marsha. One of the first messages from the tree is to, “start a band”! Soon the ice is melting as they try to find a drummer and get ready for their first gig at Harvest Fest. Quintron and Miss Pussycat are featured in a performance in the Center of the Earth where they play Witch in the Club.

Checkmate

2012 • 20 min

Checkmate is a short romantic drama written by Sanat Misra and Steven Perring that became an unlikely hit during the 2011-12 academic year. It has been described as a "cult classic" and even included in the marketing entry for NaSTA 2012.

Potolok

2012 • 38 min

Facing sub-zero temperatures, with no protection from the elements, free-diver, Natalia Avseenko, swims naked with beluga whales in a bizarre experiment designed to tame the shy creatures.

Coda Nera

2012 • 26 min

The final installment in director Casey T. Malone's 'Blood of the Witch Trilogy' (preceded by Blood of the Witch & Fortuna). The Witch has grown more powerful than ever. A coalition has formed to hunt her and bring her to justice. Dark allies are rallying to her side and eldritch forces have awakened in the forest. The hunters will become the hunted.