All Films

Station Zero

2012 • 20 min • United States of America

Skeptic turns believer when a late night talk show host is visited by a mysterious guest.

Mike and Melissa

2012 • 16 min • United States of America

A college student named Mike is going through a normal day in his banal life when he hallucinates a purple skunk woman.

Demetri Martin: Standup Comedian

2012 • 60 min • United States of America

Demetri Martin entertains the New York City audience with a terrific set that brings the hysterical wonders of his smart, quick witted imagination to life.

Show Me Love

2012 • 11 min • Netherlands

Alize ran away from home after a fight with her parents. She's answering her phone, and now the evening is slowly turning into night, her parents are increasingly worried. What they don't know is that Alize isn't far away: she has hidden herself across from the house and is observing her worried parents from a distance.

L'expérience Intello

2012 • 16 min • France

An unruly group of students are subjected to an experiment by a chemistry teacher.

Americans

2012 • 11 min • United States of America

"Americans" is a short 'public service' film starring Sean Penn and Kid Rock. The goal of the film is to tear down the one-dimensional political stereotypes portrayed by the media by confronting them head on. It reminds us that what really matters is that we're all Americans, with diverse thoughts, opinions and stances on issues. We are millions of unique, individual parts, the sum of which comprise a whole that is the shining beacon of freedom throughout the world. The film reminds us to be proud of our differences, and to never forget that we're all in this together as Americans.

Raptor

2012 • 43 min • United States of America

A musical odyssey that takes place in an uncertain time, RAPTOR is a short film from writer/director Marc Dickerson, with songs composed by Owen Byrne. It is a surreal journey into a comedic tragedy brought on by delusions of grandeur; and a story about the passion to create something new without knowing how.

Deus et Machina

2012 • 9 min • Spain

The employee comes to the factory every day. He is the only person who is qualified to do his particular job. It is precise, mundane, and repetitive work. Every morning he goes through the same drill, starting up each machine. Today, though, he has made a decision...

Burial at Sea

2012 • 15 min • Germany

SEEBESTATTUNG (Burial at Sea) is the story about the development of a forbidden love between the teenage siblings Larissa and Fabian. After the death of their father, the two are left with an inseparable mixture of love, guilt, and loss. The film is to show the emotional turmoil of naive teenagers and, in a erotic-romantic way, sheds light on one of the last taboos in our society: incest.

The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023

2012 • 7 min • United States of America

Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic system by the end of the decade. Whether challenging the ethical boundaries of medicine with nanotechnology or going toe to toe with the Vatican itself on the issue of gene-therapy sterilization, Sir Peter prides himself on his motto, “If we can, we must.” After a three year media blackout, Weyland has finally emerged to reveal where he’s heading next. Wherever that may be, we will most certainly want to follow.

A Performance

2012 • 53 min

Marcelo, a disillusioned intellectual who is unable to publish his book, and Paulo, a failed cultural producer, decide to apply a blow to the plastic arts market, inventing a young and brilliant artist.

London: A Tale of Two Cities

2012 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The 17th century saw London plunge into a series of devastating disasters. The Civil War, a murderous plague, and the destruction of the great fire should have all but destroyed the small medieval city, but somehow it not only survived - it thrived. Dan Cruickshank explores how London survived the travails of the 17th century.

Aqua

2012 • 8 min • Latvia

A cat wakes up surrounded by water and must learn to survive.

Driving Lesson

2012 • 14 min • Belgium

A 17-year-old girl who has just discovered that she is pregnant is obliged to take her outspoken grandmother along on a driving lesson.

Clarisa

2012 • 16 min • Mexico

Clarisa is a young woman with family problems. The sudden appearance of a mysterious man immerses her in a new world - that of pornography- where she tries to look for fame to realize her dream of becoming an actress. The disappointment that the experience brings triggers a cathartic process in her, and within her family.

Stitches

2012 • 15 min

Sam and his grandfather are best friends. When his grandfather passes away suddenly, Sam must come to terms with the loss, doing so through their mutual love of baseball.

Diamond Sutra

2012 • 20 min • Taiwan

In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create moving visuals for their exhibit at the Venise Architecture Biennale. Using the space at their preview exhibition in Taiwan, Tsai Ming-Liang made two short films, "Sleepwalk" and "Diamond Sutra", using the "Walker" concept. "Diamond Sutra" was later selected to be the opening short film for the Venise Film Festival. Tsai-Ming Liang said that gazing at the steam rising from a rice cooker reminded him of his mother's face as she laid dying, exhaling her final breath.

In-Between

2012 • 3 min • France

A young woman tries to overcome her anxiety, which is personified by a crocodile.

The Magic Hockey Skates

2012 • 21 min • Canada

A boy begrudgingly buys second hand skates which turn out to make him the best hockey player ever - via three wishes.

On Sleepless Roads, the Sleepless Goes

2012 • 21 min • Hong Kong

The textbook definition of a good citizen is a person who works hard, helps others and respects the law. A night minivan driver witnesses a crime and chases the robber down an alley and confronts him. A bloody fistfight ensues. But when the shot cuts to his close-up in the confined space of the interrogation room, we find him looking ragged and unkempt, trying hard to give a coherent account of what had happened to a hostile plain clothes cop, wondering if it pays to be a good citizen when one becomes punished for one’s own good intentions.

Sealed Video 9: Uniform Grudge

2012 • 54 min • Japan

Dashboard camera: On the scene of a late-night hit-and-run accident, the camera of a taxi is running when the driver discovers a bloodied woman by the side of the road. Behind the Drapes: Posted by a voyeur, spying on a woman living on the second floor of an apartment building, until one day the appearance of police man in uniform is caught on tape. Cursed Uniform: Seized footage of documentary program covering "schoolgirl peeping room". However the program was shelved for certain reasons. Monkey Hand: Video of a Halloween party held by some young people. When they perform a ceremony, something strange was placed on the tray. Strange Shadow: -

The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness

2012 • 12 min • Mexico

The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.

No Cave

2012 • 47 min • South Korea

Won-seok, who used to live in a PC room or in a war without doing anything after graduation, starts a delivery part-time job at Jisung's chicken store, which will soon be his brother-in-law at the recommendation of his sister. My sister even buys expensive Gore-Tex jumpers and hopes the gemstones will pull themselves together. Contrary to such sister's expectations and wishes, it is not easy to adapt to a new life. When a small delivery accident occurred, the gemstone scolded by Jisung took off his jumper and went back to his cave-like PC room.

Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas

2012 • 52 min • France

The many references in contemporary film to Edward Hopper's works, as well as the widespread reproduction of some of his paintings have made his universe familiar to many. His unclassifiable figurations weave a dialogue between appearances and light, between the unmistakeable and enigma. Focusing on the artist's personal life in the context of 20th century America, "Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas" bears witness to a fiercely independent painter, who was aware of the issues of his era, and who was hostile to the imprisonment that a modern American art opposing realism and abstraction could lead him to. This film brings the artist to life, transposing his realist and metaphysical poetry. It is a subtile and passionate work, which at last unveils one of the most important painters of American modernity.