All Films

My Conspiracy Theory

2012 • 7 min • France

What if a little girl making paper airplanes was responsible for the attacks of September 11th, 2001?

Mudcity

2012 • 33 min

Filmed on the road with no permits over a period of five days, Mudcity is the story of a young, nameless vagabond who, after finding a box of photographs and cassette tapes in a recently deceased woman's home, decides to seek out the deceased woman's son.

Phryne

2012 • 17 min • Brazil

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Maria Rilke.

Graham Clark: Live at the Waldorf Hotel

2012 • 54 min

Comedian Graham Clark (Maximum Fun's Stop Podcasting Yourself) delivers his unique brand of offbeat humor in this live performance from Vancouver's legendary Waldorf Hotel.

Death Grips: NPR Music Live

2012 • 43 min

Live at the Le Posson Rouge, NYC

Role Play

2012 • 11 min

Author John Dykstra, who writes under the pen name Rick Hardin, has had too much beer to drink at his mystery writer’s group meeting and desperately needs to find a rest stop on his return from Jacksonville, Florida to Sarasota, Florida. There is only one other car at the rest stop, and he overhears its occupants in the ladies’ bathroom. He hears a woman’s and a man’s voice coming from the bathroom, and the sounds of domestic abuse. Based on the short story "Rest Stop" by Stephen King.

Heartbeat 48

2012 • 30 min • Hong Kong

Hong Kong, twenty years later. The city is a perpetual construction site where the wheel of development must turn to build more shopping malls and higher residential towers. Enter members of the all-girl pop sensation, Heartbeat 48, an ever-expanding army of eco-warriors who are tasked with checking the heartbeats of centuries-old trees and villages and losing no time to pronounce their deaths. When Doy, an internet nerd and one of the few surviving village natives, is transported from the past into the fanciful realm of cute tutu outfits dresses, toy stethoscopes and hugging farewell routines – all staged for the benefit of the camera – he gets trapped a nightmare he can’t wake up from.

Reddakh

2012 • 28 min • Macedonia

A story of a gamer, whose family is hit by a serious financial crisis, who manages to help his family overcome it by becoming one of the best players of CONQUER ONLINE, an online computer game, and in this way he earns money.

Falling Up

2012 • 56 min • United States of America

The transformation that occurs for Johnny Popp, a Vietnam Veteran from Michigan who is a crack addict on the streets of "Skid Row".

Il Fiume, A Ritroso

2012 • 48 min • Italy

A girl goes up a river from the mouth, backwards, perhaps in search of a place or fleeing from something... Among wolves and mysterious glances she will find someone who will give her refuge and who, in turn, will ask her for help...

Pareidolia

2012 • 8 min • United States of America

An abstract narrative, exploring the landscape/architecture of the body as a container of memories. Layers of stories, dreams and memory fragments are interconnected like muscle fibers

The Linear of Nightmare

2012 • 2 min

Linear of Nightmare is a tongue and cheek piece about the pointless of fear. The film is a surreal self-inflicted mental infliction that ultimately leads to its own demise. Fear is worry magnified leading to disconnection between the mind and the body. Fear is just about the worst form of mental activity there is—next to hate, which is deeply self-destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio-chemical reactions that harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between.

Pedro Saieg: Campeón Mundial

2012 • 2 min • Argentina

A short video featuring Pedro Saieg La Banda.

14 Postcards

2012 • 8 min

While editing the sound for Thom Andersen's Get Out of the Car, I realized that many of the images had different meanings for me than for him. So I took 14 scenes, made them all 30 seconds, and created my own non-specific narratives, though traditional sound design. (C.S.)

Sight

2012 • 7 min • Israel

A futuristic short set in a future around the corner, where contact lenses have replaced computers and smartphones.

The Forest and Water

2012 • 15 min • Czech Republic

A poetic documentary film "The Forest and Water" was created by Escape to Nature production for the Administration of the Giant Mountains National Park in Czech Republic (KRNAP). Film was awarded at several film festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad. Fifteen minutes long documentary "The Forest and Water" was filmed during last year and completed in the beginning of January 2012. Film is in Czech language with English subtitles.

The Tape

2012 • 5 min

A man digs through his attic looking for something clearly of great significance. What it is, we're not quite sure. When he finds a VHS tape and realizes he nor anyone he knows owns a VCR anymore, he goes on a quest to find it.

The King's Body

2012 • 32 min • Portugal

How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout Portuguese history?

L'Aubade

2012 • 2 min

A poetic embodiment of an unsaid goodbye during the final two minutes of a dying man. He bids farewell to his wife while his soul is riding a fast train exiting his bodily realm. This is an animated odyssey constructed with vintage medical engraving illustration taken from century-old med-school textbooks. Inspired by a recent family mourning: Our reflection, contemplation and heart-to-heart dialogs that followed soon after that.

The Green Ruby Pumpkin

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

On Halloween night kids come from afar to call on Miss Deats who holds the green ruby pumpkin that’s brimming with sweets.

Gimp

2012 • 8 min

Gimp is a black comedy about a gimp, a dominatrix and an alarm clock. It begins in a dark, dingy flat with a gimp handcuffed to a radiator and a dominatrix beating the living daylights out of him. However, after the Dominatrix takes a much-needed break, she chokes to death on a piece of macaroni cheese, leaving the gimp handcuffed to a radiator with no mean of escape. And an alarm clock on repeated snooze...

The Strange Strangers

2012 • 15 min

Following the journey of Life as she meets the world for the first time.

Education, Education

2012 • 59 min • China, South Africa

Documentary about Chinese higher education: the pressure to get into state-sponsored schools, and the marketing of private colleges that may not provide the education they promise.

The Right Time

2012 • 1 min

A short animation based on the directors own experience of coming out.