All Films

Zahy - Uma Fábula do Maracanã

2012 • 5 min • Brazil

Zahy Guajajara, 23, is one of the indigenous leaders of a village created next to Maracanã, in the old Museu do Índio, in Rio de Janeiro, threatened with demolition. In this video created with four hands with Felipe Bragança, Zahy, a shaman and storyteller from his village, takes a new look at the place where he lived and resisted.

Michigan Central Station

2012 • 2 min

A single time-lapse shot of the abandoned Michigan Central Station in Detroit. Recording subtle changes in light as it pierces the hollow skeleton of the building, the film was made at a rate of one frame every ten seconds. Part of a series of 7 films completed by the artist in Windsor-Detroit.

A Day Worth Dying For

2012 • 17 min • South Korea

When 11-year-old Yu-jung gets an early first period she immediately leaps to the incorrect conclusion that she’s dying and confides in her closest friend. But when the prettiest girl in the 6th grade professes her love for him, Yu-jung is overwhelmed by jealousy.

Les Ambassadeurs

2012 • 16 min

Two men spend a day of vacation by a lake. They accompany their peregrination with formulae and commercial promises taken from a marabout's pamphlet, bathe, navigate, banter, dredge, steal a little money, buy souvenirs, challenge gravity and, by force of circumstance, find themselves in the skin of The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein Young person.

Li.li.ta.al

2012 • 8 min • Japan

Each verse, as they get repeated and recited, they fulfil their destiny and later crystallise to become LILITA.AL. It is somewhat similar to how human decompose after death, but it’s more about the spirit －spirit of the syllables- that sublime and skeletonize… A verse may forfeit its life, but the spirit returns home with the wind, and wait for destined rebirth.

Backspace

2012 • 21 min • India

A man experiments with a sheet of paper, that can retract any action performed by one's hands if one writes the word 'backspace' on it, only without breaking the word.

Moonstruck

2012 • 2 min • Switzerland

The love story begins when a young prince hunting in the forest chases a squirrel to a beautiful princess.

O Beijo na Morte

2012 • 1 min • Brazil

Tiny film made for the "1-minute Film Festival". When the death comes, it is time to kiss her.

Slash: The Making of Apocalyptic Love

2012 • 28 min • United States of America

It explores a behind the scenes look at the Making of the Record.

Simon Says

2012 • 23 min

Simon Says is a trailer park revenge flick about a cult-like group of children suffering abuse at the hands of their parents. Grim and dark, this short pulls few punches and satisfies the gut-reflex for vengeance.

Tour de France 1972

2012 • 4 min

1300 meters from the arrival of the 13th stage Carpentras-Orcières Merlette (192 kms), then, in the Col de Sauze, the 14th stage Orcières-Merlette-Briançon (201 kms) of the Tour de France 1972. Filmmaker Gérard Courant photographed Eddy Merckx (yellow jersey), Cyrille Guimard (green jersey), Luis Ocana (white box combination), Lucien Aimar, Lucien Van Impe, Joachim Agostinho (Portugal champion), Felice Gimondi (Italian champion), Raymond Poulidor, Karl-Heinz Kunde, Leif Mortensen, Bernard Thévenet. The stage of Orcières-Merlette was won by Van Impe ahead of Agostinho and Merckx and that of Briançon by Merckx in front of Gimondi and Guimard. This clip is an excerpt from the first episode of Gérard Courant's "Carnets filmés" entitled "Aurore collective".

Witness 11

2012 • 21 min

Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) during their notorious Hollywood 10 investigation, famed German playwright Bertolt Brecht must choose between betraying himself and his friends, and imprisonment.

Inner empty

2012 • 7 min • Greece

The confused memories of having once stood and the dizzy hope to get up again.

Salah Gaul

2012 • 17 min • Indonesia

Residents from many circles were asked their opinion about the 4l4y (Children Kite) trend which has become popular since 2008

Salt Lake City: A Downtown Story

2012 • 27 min • United States of America

In the very core of Salt Lake City, two special downtown blocks serve as a mirror. Just a handful of acres of land hold more than 150 years of the Utah story. On planners' maps, they're known as Salt Lake City Blocks 75 and 76. But to generations who have worked, lived, and played along their streets, Blocks 75 and 76 are a world unto themselves.

The Traveler

2012 • 3 min

A shady organization recruits a time traveler for a mysterious mission

My Mirror is the Door

2012 • 52 min • India

The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which women poets were a very strong presence.

Hank Danger and the Woman from Venus!

2012 • 12 min

Intrepid adventurer Hank Danger must thwart a gorgeous Venusian spy's plot to steal an earth scientist's fantastic new weapon for use in an assault against the earth.

Green Feet

2012 • 4 min • France

Lovebound: Love Abounds

2012 • 22 min

Heartbroken Henry Stain is about to see action, betrayal and therapy.

Flores

2012 • 23 min

Valeria arrives at her aunt's house in a big city to spend some time and starts working taking care of a small child. The only memory he has of home are some seeds that his mother sent to his aunt as a gift. Valeria is pregnant, and her family doesn't want anyone to find out.

Playcenter DOC

2012 • 39 min

"Playcenter DOC" is a documentary film made independently in 2012 by employees of the Rides department ("Raides": the department responsible for operating rides) of the Playcenter amusement park, which was located in the western part of São Paulo, Barra Funda, from July 27, 1973 to July 29, 2012. The film tells the history of the park with a greater focus on the Rides department. In it, you can see employee meetings before the park began operating, moments of relaxation, lunch, among many other remarkable things that only employees had access to. And even never-before-seen footage of the dismantling of Boomerang; the first major attraction to leave the park.

ERGO: Energetic Ray Global Observatory

2012 • 4 min

ERGO is enabling kids all around the world to turn the Earth into a giant telescope. By placing 'pixels' that detect cosmic rays in classrooms around the world, ERGO is turning the surface of the Earth into a giant, rotating telescope.

S.P.A.R.T.A. - The Territory Of Happiness

2012 • 56 min • Russia

SPARTA is the Agricultural Poetized Association for the Development of Labor Activity. This is how the commune calls itself, which has been engaged in the development of the "Theory of Happiness" in the Ukrainian village "Karavan" for more than 20 years. Unable to reconcile with the collapse of communist utopia, the "Spartans" created their own.