All Films

Forward Home: The Power of the Caribbean Diaspora

2011 • 50 min • Trinidad and Tobago

Documentary on diasporic tourism in the Caribbean

A Boy Inside the Boy

2011 • 30 min • Italy, Japan

The story is told through the eyes of a boy, how he wanders between reality and dream. His daily life is transformed to a surreal world through the unique sensitivity of boyhood.

Take It/Break It

2011 • 20 min • Slovenia

The film comprises of a series of animations that questions notions of gender, sexuality and identity. Battling with stereotypes, the film is able to touch on some very pertinent ideas and urges us to rethink of what we understand about homosexuality and life.

Nazi Goreng

2011 • 6 min • Germany

Young neo-Nazi Jan's world is somewhat limited, but stable. At least until he ends up in an Asian strip club while on the run from the police and experiences a moment there that rocks his world.

Plug, the new world

2011 • 14 min • Japan

This is a story of PLUG and his friends, who live in the Zero Emission world, sharing energy each other, harmoniously.

The Furfangs 2

2011 • 2 min • Italy

Tells the continuing story of a 2nd wave of mysterious and aggressive creatures who came from the space. The Furfangs are back!

RSWX Presents: Librarian Girl

2011 • 59 min

"If you're not familiar with library music, it's basically instrumental records that were (and still are) sold to provide television- and filmmakers with appropriate soundbeds for their images. A lot of it (read most of it) can be boring, but fortunately many the old records were played and recorded by some of the best session musicians during their downtime, so there are some incredible gems to be found. Library records have since become very sought after by producers and we were lucky enough to have found a big lot of them, about 10 years ago. Instead of animating the sleeves, we have filmed our librarian here at RSWX while she goes about her working day."

RSWX Presents: Introversy

2011 • 58 min

A quick-fire mix of 420 song intros, accompanied by animated versions of the record sleeves.

Baboon Bandits: Monkey Alert in South Africa

2011 • 52 min • Germany

Jimmy is a burglar and a loner, Long-Fingered Fred excels in breaking into cars, while Merlin prefers to target restaurants. Meet the alpha males of the infamous Smits Baboon Gang.

Mantis in Black Lace

2011 • 10 min • Canada

A short film detailing the shocking and awkward coming of age tale concerning Lars and Lila's "first time".

Fig Leaf: The Biggest Cover-Up in History

2011 • 59 min

Stephen Smith uncovers the secret history of the humble fig leaf, opening a window onto 2,000 years of Western art and ethics. He tells how the work of Michelangelo, known to his contemporaries as 'the maker of pork things', fuelled the infamous 'fig leaf campaign', the greatest cover-up in art history; how Bernini turned censorship into a new form of erotica by replacing the fig leaf with the slipping gauze; and how the ingenious machinations of Rodin brought nudity back to the public eye. In telling this story, Smith turns many of our deepest prejudices upside down, showing how the Victorians had a far more sophisticated and mature attitude to sexuality than we do today. He ends with an impassioned plea for the widespread return of the fig leaf to redeem modern art from cheap sensation and innuendo.

The River

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

After a few months of travel we returned to Addis Ababa to the house were I grew up. I wanted to hear a story from my grandmother, Tafesech Zeleke, who raised me. She told us the story, Wenzu, in her kitchen. When she passed away I decided to make this piece.

After 35 Years

2011 • 41 min • Afghanistan

Afghanistan has one of the world’s worst ratings in terms of domestic violence. All of this stems out of a lack of family law in our judicial system. Those working on reform, work very hard to find solutions for this problem but face severe opposition by the conservatives. Meanwhile, the cries of women committing self-immolation and street-children in the dynamics of a society make one face with the stories of bitter realities and inspiring struggles.

The Rake

2011 • 50 min • United States of America

In the summer of 2010 three high school graduates went on a trip into the forests of Washington. After their departure they were never heard from again. One year later mine excavators recovered a camera that held possible answers to their disappearance. This is the uncut footage found on the camera.

KJV: The Making of the King James Bible

2011 • 46 min

Award-winning director Jerry Griffith brings to life the fascinating history of this great work, along with its impact for us today.

Whale Bird

2011 • 7 min • France

An unlikely encounter between a strange bird who lives in deep water and Lena, a little urban girl.

The Most Beautiful Woman in Latvia

2011 • 27 min • Latvia

An ironic take on the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs set in the modern day.

Toys

2011 • 52 min • Poland

“Stalin seemed cool to kids from my year, it was this amazing facade.” Andrzej Wolski looks at the experience of childhood in socialist Poland and at the propaganda that reached the youngest and about how, through play, attempts were made to develop specific social attitudes. The toys given to tgem prepared them for adulthood and suggested to them who they were to become in the future.

Chromaphilia

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

Abstract light film

Chute

2011 • 2 min • France

Graduation film at Emile Cohl school about a skydive moment.

Digital Man/Digital World

2011 • 57 min

A documentary film, created with a grant from Gordon College, telling the story of Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation in 1957. Olsen revolutionized the electronics industry by making computers smaller and more accessible to both businesses and individuals. In 1986, Fortune magazine selected Olsen as “America’s Most Successful Entrepreneur” and featured him on its cover.

Aleksander Laime: Diamonds of Angel Falls

2011 • 52 min • Latvia

Aleksander Laime, romanticist and dreamer at heart, went deep into the jungle of Venezuela in search of Jimmy Angel’s famed ‘Diamond River’. While it was never publicized if he succeeded in his search, residents of Canaima still refer to him as their ancestors once named him – ‘The King of Diamonds’. Through gaining trust, Laime was to see something no other man had ever seen, but was forbidden from entering the place ever again.

Super M Adventures

2011 • 7 min • Lithuania

A short superman spoof film. Inspired by Turkish trash movies of the 70s.

It Is Something Invisible

2011 • 20 min • United States of America

The work for this video began by using an hd camera to collect images of trees using a method involving spinning a camera around in the woods for as long as the body could tolerate (60-90 seconds), and then layering and extending the raw footage in the editing suite. One way to think about the film is of a camera gathering small fragments of time from a forest that exists in larger periods of time, and stretching these moments into something more appropriate to what the trees would experience.