All Films

Una Vida Triste

2017 • 9 min

A police inspector questions a woman in a bar.

In the Waves

2017 • 60 min • Canada

Canada. The peaceful life of an old lady, in a village on the seaside, is disturbed by a sudden confrontation with the fragility of life. This moment sends her back into her past to seek out the meaning of existence. But the arrival of her niece and her children will all of a sudden fill this gap. The filmmaker says: “My film is an intergenerational love letter between niece and grandmother, an ebb and flow between dreams and reality, between past and present, between the magic of childhood and the encounter with death.” Old age, time that flies by. Youth, time that remains slow.

Jenna

2017 • 26 min

After twelve years, Jenna decides to come back to her hometown for her sister's funeral.

Savagely, silence

2017 • 20 min

December 21, 2015. The image of a fox was captured by a camera inside the unit 2 building at Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant... A film-essay about contemporary Japan in the aftermath of March 2011 earthquake.

Transformation

2017 • 8 min • Kuwait

During an ongoing devastating war, a disabled young orphan tries to put an end to his pain. All of a sudden, paranormal activity shakes the world he lives in.

A Million Waves

2017 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A portrait piece about 19 year old Kadiatu Kamara, the only female surfer in Sierra Leone.

Turning Point

2017 • 30 min

A teen begins to rebel against his over protective father and friend after being pushed to his turning point.

Inurn

2017 • 10 min • Japan

Ryuichi Sakamoto | async | International short film competition. This film is about the tomato ketchup manufacturing process.

Who Is Y.K. Kim?

2017 • 3 min

Grandmaster Y.K. Kim is a modern philosopher, great public speaker, respected author, successful entrepreneur and founder of the modern martial arts.

A bús tanító panaszai

2017 • 1 min

An short animated version of Márta Békés's poem.

Preparations for the Forest: A Portrait of David Footer

2017 • 10 min

Wildlife artist and taxidermist David Footer looks back at his time on planet earth considering his place in the cosmos and ruminating on the shallow threshold between life and death.

Crystal Clear

2017 • 3 min

An erotic narration of a lesbian date unfolds packed with fantasy, expectations and unnecessary emotional baggage, whilst we watch from a face-sitting, boob smothering point-of-view.

The Story of Easter

2017 • 40 min

The story of Jesus' death and resurrection comes alive for children in this animated video. Based on the award-winning Spark Story Bible, The Story of Easter uses spirited animation to help children marvel at God's love for the world through the death and resurrection of Jesus. For ages three to ten. Spark Story Bible Adventures bring the stories of the beloved print story Bible to life with colorful animation and with Squiggles, an expressive little caterpillar whose reactions put children right in the middle of the story.

Ting

2017 • 48 min

Things is an attempt to approach the world without filling it up with preconceived ideas and purposes. An attempt to film things, without reducing them into mere means to build a story or statement. Things is on one hand a series of seemingly objective recordings without subject or superstructure, on the other hand it is Østbye’s most intimate and personal work, with no official theme or story to hide behind.

Tin Soldier

2017 • 28 min

A brutal kidnapping sends a man on a violent quest to get his girlfriend back.

Bed Bugs

2017 • 6 min • Canada

A woman reflects on a past relationship as she disposes of an infected mattress

601 Revir Drive

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

A series of spatial limits are defined while a maker imbibes. Interdependence is inherited after a substance cannot be shook. An animal carefully guards an outlined space as a river runs backwards.

Nach Osten schauen

2017 • 2 min

Reflections on the joy of being able to use a large studio to paint & to be able to film as well for a short time. Filmed in Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Paper Love

2017 • 20 min

Two friends, Gabi and Amanda meet Adri, a boy recently arrived in Madrid. Between them will be created a sentimental bond that will unleash a series of emotions and misunderstandings that will test their relationship.

Black River

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

An observational documentary, shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, about a largely undeveloped river in southeastern North Carolina that is home to the oldest trees east of the Rocky Mountains.

Furio Jesi - Man from Utopia

2017 • 60 min • Italy

This documentary explores the life and intellectual works of Italian long forgotten mythologist Furio Jesi. His extraordinary life-journey as an infant prodigy, a young archaeologist who dropped out of high school at 16 to travel around the Mediterranean, studying the myths of ancient cultures. During the ’60s he was involved in the communist uprisings in Italy while working as a freelance encyclopedist. He accepted a job at the University of Palermo, and he was the last professor appointed without any degree. His short life left a legacy of wonder in all those who met him. The movie explores also some of his outstanding philosophical concepts such as the “mythological machine” or the “wordless ideas”.

The Eternal/Spring 特報

2017 • 15 min • Japan

Moosic Lab 2017 short film

TreatsforBeasts

2017 • 34 min • United States of America

This short film begins with the character Chauncey (a puppet made of sex toys resembling a mouth and hands with a sock for a body) rolling around in a babies’ rolling chair and watching obscure cartoons and shows on TV. They have satirical, comedic, religious, and disturbing overtones... but to Chauncey and his Dad, this is normal. After a while of the cartoons and Chauncey eating a sausage and then throwing it up, the cartoons inspire Chauncey to ask a series of philosophical questions to his Dad. The questions involve what happens after death, the meaning of life, and Chances asking about his identity and why he’s different.

Shouting at the Ground

2017 • 21 min

In a peat bog in North West England a Spanish woman was murdered, her body buried and subsumed into the treacherously dense ecological matter. A matter which labours have extracted for centuries, selling this fertile material as fuel worldwide; a material which upon burning releases timeless carbon deposits into our increasingly precarious and damaged ecosphere.