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Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture

Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture

2011 • 44 min
The sophistication of video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield is undeniable, offering users a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly virtual world of long-distance, push-button warfare. Far less clear, though, is what these games are doing to users, our political culture, and our capacity to empathize with people directly affected by the actual trauma of war. For the culture-jamming activists featured in this film, these uncertainties were a call to action. In three separate vignettes, we see how Anne-Marie Schleiner, Wafaa Bilal, and Joseph Delappe moved dissent from the streets to our screens, infiltrating war games in an attempt to break the hypnotic spell of "militainment." Their work forces all of us -- gamers and non-gamers alike -- to think critically about what it means when the clinical tools of real-world killing become forms of consumer play.
Slow

Slow

2011 • 13 min • United States of America
An online hookup attempt takes a strange turn.
Look Not at the Mountains!

Look Not at the Mountains!

2011 • 18 min • United States of America
A team of hunters are led through the deserts of Africa by a mad Colonial zealot in 1904.
8

8

2011 • 36 min • Spain
Linda is a young psychology student, who wants to help his boyfriend Riku, who has fallen into a state of psychosis by taking him to a mystical cave, where human subconscious and memories start to live their own life. Linda soon realises that she can't help Riku, before she has faced her own most painful traumas.
Good for nothing

Good for nothing

2011 • 14 min • South Korea
A man who is dressed in shabby clothes is eating from a trash heap and walking the streets. He may be deeply wounded and has an uneasy look about him. Then, by chance, he meets up with his old lover.
Mother's House

Mother's House

2011 • 28 min
While emptying his late mother's rural home, Thomas and his wife, Catherine, discover increasingly disturbing secrets until the choice between memory and truth threatens to destroy them both.
The White Nigger

The White Nigger

2011 • 58 min • Norway
A documentary about renowned Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Being one of Norways most-read modern authors, and having written over 30 books of which seven have been made into movies, he visits old places that mean something to him. From his childhood to his older life, many stations in his life are called to and he shares some of his thoughts about them with the audience.
Without a Mom

Without a Mom

2011 • 14 min • United States of America
Two gay dads fumble to provide their straight son with meaningful support after the loss of his first real love.
Underground Lizard People

Underground Lizard People

2011 • 56 min • United States of America
A group of passionate filmmakers venture deep into the mysterious underground Banning Tunnels, where they discover a lost city of cannibalistic, half-human, half-lizards.
Heimweh

Heimweh

2011 • 17 min
A portrait of two teenagers, growing up in a council estate, whose lack of prospects brings them closer to each other.
LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace

LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace

2011 • 22 min • Australia, Denmark, United States of America
Master Yoda must go retrieve secret battle plans. However, things become a little more complicated when a class of younglings join the mission.
O'Say Can You See 1

O'Say Can You See 1

2011 • 15 min • United States of America
As prologue to a trilogy of films about 9/11 America, this is the first channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. The film captures, in haunting slow-motion, the faces of stunned and saddened onlookers gazing at the unseen rubble of the World Trade Center shortly after the 9/11 attacks. The soundtrack is composed of the National Anthem recorded in October 2001 at the Yankees' World Series Game 4 in New York.
Clean

Clean

2011 • 2 min • United States of America
Clean is an experimental short film by NY filmmaker Richard Kern.
O Teu Sapato

O Teu Sapato

2011 • 19 min • Portugal
On its surface, a story about a jealous and insecure man, but it takes us to a reflection about loneliness and despair.
Ghild

Ghild

2011 • 14 min • United States of America
The coming of age tale about a boy who is born a giant.
Praça  Walt Disney

Praça Walt Disney

2011 • 21 min • Brazil
A quasi-musical approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world, this documentary describes at the same time a place, a city and a country. The real place, a neighborhood in Recife, encompasses all of the Brazilian way of life, highlighting a reality that is before us but often goes unnoticed
Black Swan: Metamorphosis

Black Swan: Metamorphosis

2011 • 49 min • United States of America
Documentary chronicling the making of Darren Aronofsky's Academy Award-winning film 'Black Swan (2010)'.
Umshini Wam (Bring Me My Machine Gun)

Umshini Wam (Bring Me My Machine Gun)

2011 • 15 min • United States of America
Big dreams, big blunts, big rims, and big guns. It's time to get gangsta gangsta. Ninja and Yo Landi are wheelchair-bound lovers and real gangstas. They live in the outskirts of civilization, they shoot guns for fun, smoke massive joints, and sleep in the woods. They don't have any bling to show for their gangsta cred, but the world deserves to know who they are. They're tramps, and their wheels are starting to fall off. Ninja become despondent over their vagabond existence, but Yo Landi won't let him give up. What ensues is straight up gangsta mayhem, the realist of the real, true gangsta shit.
The Blackout Village

The Blackout Village

2011 • 30 min
Pizza Quest!

Pizza Quest!

2011 • 3 min • United States of America
Join Scott on his epic quest for the world’s best pizza ingredients.
La Marelle et les Épouvantails

La Marelle et les Épouvantails

2011 • 13 min
This is the story of a double spell. Are scarecrows not the remains of the living dead whose souls are trying to escape to ascend to heaven? The game of hopscotch goes From earth to heaven, Between luck and the well, You come back and it's over. Little, little girl, You're here to have fun. Throw the stone well, Watch where you put your feet.
The End of the Line?

The End of the Line?

2011 • 43 min • United Kingdom
Once the nation's favourite, by its third year Doctor Who was in trouble. With changes afoot in the production office and increasing problems with its lead actor, the programme was heading for the Last Chance Saloon.
In Captivity

In Captivity

2011 • 12 min • United States of America
After spending his entire life on display, Jim discovers that they're about to change the exhibit.
Kaylien

Kaylien

2011 • 18 min
An autistic child's first day in a new school.