All Films

À discrétion

2017 • 50 min

Some years ago in Paris, a man frequented a strange place, a kind of secret club where "you watched people". A film producer senses that this experience could make interesting material for a film.

From Head Toes

2017 • 6 min

An evening. A room. Here or everywhere. A young man, anonymous. awkwardly, He undresses. His thoughts are expressed, intimate and confused. By undressing, he exposes himself.

Hike

2017 • 10 min

Abigal and Hailey's hike in the pacific north west takes unexpected turn when Abigal hears someone call her name.

Hutterite

2017 • 26 min

A rare peek behind the curtain of an Anabaptist commune in the 1960's and 1970's. This painful and challenging story is told through the eyes of Marigold, a tenacious young Hutterite woman with the impossible dream of getting an education. The film explores Marigold's oppression and heartache being trapped in a Patriarchal system, her brother's budding and controversial sexuality, and the bourgeoning wave of feminism that was calling her into the outside world.

Lesson #6

2017 • 4 min

A casual conversation in the dressing room of the night club turns into an inspired rant by one of the girls.

Like the First Time

2017 • 25 min • Colombia

The days of Rosa pass in tranquility together with her husband and her son. But something in her is not good. One day Rosa decides to get her nails done in her neighbor Dalia's beauty salon, and a friendship flourishes between them. One night both women end up sleeping together. After this experience Rosa gives her everyday life a new meaning.

Missed Connections

2017 • 15 min

Two twenty somethings meet at Burning Man, but forget to exchange contact info. They both post to a “missed connections” type board to find one another. As they search, they navigate their careers, lives, and society’s expectations of them.

Seahorse

2017 • 7 min

A woman in a fertility clinic is asked to give up her seat for a pregnant man.

Smokers Die Slowly Together

2017 • 12 min

A film about three wanderers of love in a cold night of an early summer day; lonely young foreigners finding companionship in a big city like LA. It's about our darkest secret, in mind or in reality. A story about the third wheel.

This Is Me

2017 • 9 min

An estranged father returns home to attend his son's wedding in an attempt to make amends.

Tuesday Night

2017 • 15 min

Tuesday Night is a comedy about the sensationalised media representation of trans people, and the burdens of local planning regulation.

The Pea Shooter

2017 • 60 min

A dramatic comedy that follows the day in the life of two kids, Taylor and Rae, who in spite of their differences in religion and their economic social status are still able to form a friendship.

Richard and Jaco: Life with Autism

2017 • 59 min

A documentary exploring autism through the eyes of Welsh actor Richard Mylan and his 11 year old son, who is on the autism spectrum.

The Third Wheel

2017 • 15 min

When it comes to your lover and your best friend, who's really the third wheel?

Foul Play

2017 • 55 min • Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Malaysia

Foul Play takes us into the shady world of football match fixing across Asia, where government officials and corporate club owners conspire to ensure that the outcome of the game is determined long before the whistle blows.

Tricolor

2017 • 20 min

New Balance Numeric presents "Tricolor" featuring the NB Numeric team with main parts from PJ Ladd, Franky Villani, Flo Mirtain and introducing Brandon Westgate

Maregrave

2017 • 25 min

The sea takes along everything that comes on its path, slowly changing into a graveyard of sunken souls and a collection of human objects. Future generations will not be spared: several experts predict the rise of the sea level. More and more human territory is threatened to become part of the sea's increasing collection. This impressionistic documentary investigates signs of past human decay in order to understand the potential threat of a rising sea.

Refining the Senses

2017 • 12 min

The artist sits spinning wool at a site of memory as image and reminiscence fluctuate between the personal and the general, the pictorial and the material. Bodies wander, landscapes echo each other, and time is unwound through a carefully wrought approach to 8mm celluloid. Between the persistence and fragility of the moving image, the senses are refined.

Image is an Orphan

2017 • 18 min

Nashat's screen installation focuses our attention on the body's relationship with technologies that filter, fragment and distance intimacy yet also generate desire and a sense of mortality. The difference between humans and machines is compared at a cellular level, as the voice reminds us 'I am water and cells', 'I am zeros and ones.' The soundtrack establishes acoustic longing and melancholy as the images loop through YouTube footage of casual and comic violence, followed by models of an unmade bed and an electric chair by artistic precursors Felix Gonzalez Torres and Andy Warhol. Nashat challenges our attention and empathy in a deliberate and affecting manner.

Elevator Love Story

2017 • 3 min

When Simon holds the elevator door for Luke, he can’t help but notice how attractive he is. Little does he know, Luke feels the same way about him. Told almost entirely in voice over, Elevator Love Story is an almost romantic comedy about attraction at first sight, and the inner dialogue we create with ourselves.

Downfall

2017 • 30 min • Denmark, Lithuania

Yanggang-myeon becomes an abandoned area after a nuclear accident. Ki-young manages to survive by selling radioactive soil.

200 Nam Nam

2017 • 12 min

Experimental remake of the 1999 Robin Williams feature film comedy “Bicentennial Man”, starring Marcelline as “Nam Nam,” a robot who wanders the earth for 200 years trying to become human so they can die.

Empty Nightclub

2017 • 8 min • Canada

Drawing on footage from Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, "Empty Nightclub" is a maze of urban streets, dark corridors and dance floors. The video weaves scenes from Orlando, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Toronto to take the viewer on a mysterious journey. Are we looking for the party or are we desperately searching for the exit?

Sacre 2: HEX

2017 • 28 min

Sacre 2: HEX is the second part of The Sacre Trilogy by Anni Puolakka and Jaakko Pallasvuo. The solemn cybergoth dance enthusiast introduced in the first part of the trilogy (Sacre, 2015) has graduated into a smug Wiccan vlogger. Her formerly know-it-all brother has fallen on hard times and now needs her help. Family relations entangle with work anxiety. Virtual and material survival tactics get tested. Spiritual, financial and social layers mesh in money-burning rituals. A damaged sibling dynamic is further destabilized by a seductive alien.