All Films

Bloom

2011 • 4 min

Nadine, depressed and alone, has been living her life in the dark. A gift from a friendly neighbor gives Nadine something to live for. With a new life, Nadine has a chance to pay it forward.

Jupiter

2011 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Hand-drawn animation in ink and pencil-crayon of the poem Jupiter by Diana Syder

RSWX Presents: Axe Attack

2011 • 60 min

If you ever wondered how many guitar riffs would fit in an hour, we can tell you it's about 500. Try to guess each artist and title before we reveal them! Full video here: https://vimeo.com/channels/radiosoulwax/26113014

RSWX Presents: Batuta Discos

2011 • 60 min

We show our love for Brazil and all its musical forms over various decades here in this mix. It's a place that has always inspired us musically but also where you can lose yourself record shopping. Which we did, on many different trips, and found the most incredible gems with the help of some of our brazilian friends. Batuta Discos concept came from our love for Brazil and all its musical forms over various decades here in this mix. It's a place that has always inspired us musically but also where you can lose yourself record shopping. Which we did, on many different trips, and found the most incredible gems with the help of some of our Brazilian friends. The name, Batuta Discos, is a way of saying "cool records" but it was the way they said it in the 70s and 80, we are not quite sure of the correct translation but it's a bit of an in joke with the Brazilians.

The Burial

2011 • 13 min • United States of America

Two friends decide to bury a recently deceased third friend.

Vaticano Su Marte

2011 • 43 min

The Vatican is recruiting astronauts to send on Mars for a mission; one of the candidates loses the competition and takes revenge on the winners to please his dead mom.

Mansour Nariman: Iranian Music Radif for Oud

2011 • 10 min • Iran

A film about Mansour Nariman (the most important Iranian Oud player).

Black Rose

2011 • 12 min • United States of America

A sudden break-up and betrayal has some dire consequences late at night on a college campus.

Going

2011 • 17 min • Iran

A young family is about to cross the border from Iran to another country. They have a long and tiring way ahead of them, and the young children must silently and obediently accompany their parents, without having much say in the matter.

Tolagai

2011 • 13 min • Kazakhstan

About a boy who once decided to save his land, where it had not rained for a long time.

Estrelando José Sawlo

2011 • 20 min • Brazil

Documentary about independent filmmaker José Sawlo

Easy Rider II

2011 • 3 min • Argentina

Clip from the song "Callejón de corazones obvios"

O Descarte

2011 • 17 min

The story of Eduardo, who ends up getting involved in a police plot full of violence, sex and smut.

Ritual of Farewell

2011 • 6 min

This videoinstallation by Philipp Gufler is a documentation of losses. Filmed on Super-8.

Foundling

2011 • 58 min • Slovenia

Two sisters discover an abandoned infant in the forest and, unable to find his mother, have him baptized as Aleksander (Leksej) and adopted by their family. Enchanted by the itinerant violinist Jakob, Aleksander becomes his pupil, inherits Jakob’s violin on his deathbed, and despite being bound to hard shepherd duties and facing jealousy, persists in pursuing his musical gift.

Daniil Ivanovich, You Are Free

2011 • 6 min • Croatia

It problematizes love relationships through the institution of marriage, asking the question of how to promise someone eternal love, if it is an emotional transformation day by day, as well as a relationship itself.

Kim

2011 • 24 min

Kim is a young girl (teenager) who lives with her mother. Her passion is dancing, and she hopes for a career in it. Her father has passed away, and her mother struggles to cope, seeking solace in alcohol and boyfriends. Kim herself becomes pregnant after an adventure with an internet date. Something that turns her life upside down. What should she do? Those around her think she should have an abortion. She has doubts. Should she get an abortion and pursue her dream? Or have the child? The choice she makes results in an inner transformation. From an accommodating and somewhat dreamy girl with dance aspirations, she becomes a decisive woman. Even a mother who knows what she wants. She grows from a teenager into an adult woman.

Dans l'atelier de Mondrian

2011 • 52 min

A domentary about artist Piet Mondrian.

We Wanted Workers, We Got People

2011 • 28 min • Croatia

The film "We wanted workers, we got people" tells about the exploitation of Bosnian construction workers in Slovenia.

Abdus Salam: The Dream of Symmetry

2011 • 58 min

From a remote village in Pakistan to the prestigious colleges of Cambridge, from the vibrant atmosphere of London to Trieste. The film tells the gripping story of the life of Abdus Salam, great scientist of the twentieth century and Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979, creator of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste. Through the direct testimonies of the great protagonists of the international science, such as the Nobel Prize for Physics David Gross, Gerard 't Hooft, Steven Weinberg, the film retraces the most significant moments of one of the most creative and exciting periods in the history of physics: the dream of a unified theory of elementary particles and fundamental forces of Nature.

Stray Cats

2011 • 15 min

The day that the male lead broke up with his girlfriend; a stray cat came into his place all of a sudden. But that cat somehow seemed familiar... As he started to look after the cat, it kept reminding him of his ex-girlfriend and the pain of breaking up.

The Man Who Streaked The World

2011 • 47 min • United Kingdom

“The Man Who Streaked The World” follows Mark Roberts on his streaking escapades over the decades. But when you have streaked the world – where else is there left for you to go? He is on the scout out for a place to have his final streak.

My White Balloon

2011 • 18 min • Hong Kong

A 16-year-old girl falls in love with a boy and gets pregnant. The boy wants nothing to do with the baby, and the girl's mother, believing she's doing the right thing, forces her daughter to get an abortion. This story may happen everywhere, and we may read about them everyday in the news. However, what sets The White Balloon apart from those stories is the emotional journey the girl and her mother take as they realize that they have no one in the world but each other.

Trash | Track

2011 • 3 min

Trash | Track is an investigation into understanding the 'removal-chain' in urban areas. TrashTrack uses hundreds of small, smart, location aware tags, which are attached to different types of trash so that these items can be followed through the city's waste management system, revealing the final journey of our everyday objects in a series of real time visualizations.