All Films

Nou Nen feat. Utae

2017 • 3 min • Japan

A couple makes love. Associations on painful feelings, contraception, the ideal situation and reality.

Per Anders Fogelström

2017 • 55 min

A film about Sweden's most read author Per Anders Fogelström. And it follows his life from his turbulent childhood, the successes with the novels about the City of My Dreams and his lifelong riddle about his father's sudden disappearance.

Catherine

2017 • 12 min • France, Belgium

A tragic comedy of a sweet little girl, who grows up to be a crazy old cat lady.

#67

2017 • 16 min

#67 is a tribute to Reminiscence and Telc, two video works that Steina and Woody Vasulka made in 1974.

Silently Steal Away

2017 • 20 min

The Jack Raymond Show is a radio program that's been broadcast every day for 49 years from a small, family-operated radio station in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. The host of the show is a mysterious figure who has a loyal local following, and still gets fan mail, but he's been dead for over 40 years. This film is the story of Jack Raymond and the eccentric radio station that has unwittingly influenced a generation of local musicians and artists. Featuring Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver) and narration by Mark Borchardt (American Movie).

Overlook

2017 • 6 min • Finland

Impossible architecture, an ancient burial ground and a lure for psychotic janitors were the building blocks of Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. In this story vignette, chaos animators Pink Twins add zero gravity and a rupture in space-time continuum to the mix and serve a taster of subtle cosmic horror.

Harvest

2017 • 11 min

Jenni has an ordinary life of simple patterns revolving around family and work. Her daily routine is seemingly unremarkable yet is of great interest to someone she doesn’t know—but who knows everything about her. Harvest is a thrilling and inventive depiction of the hidden value in mundane routines.

Absolutely Trans Is Beautiful!

2017 • 52 min

What does it mean to be transgender? How did the trans rights movement come about? What progress has there been made, and what is there still to be done? Absolutely Trans gives us a detailed history...

Dead Friends

2017 • 2 min

Decades after a mysterious incurable zombie virus spreads throughout the world mankind is in danger of going extinct. Among the infected there is an old zombie and a dog that remains loyal to his master and hopes he will become human again one day.

Water Warriors

2017 • 22 min • Canada, United States of America

Natives and activists prevent an energy company from destroying the environment in search of natural gas in New Brunswick, Canada.

Recover

2017 • 8 min

Dirk de Bruyn explores the history of Australian storytelling; the unknown, the forgotten and the lies we tell ourselves.

The Exploding Digital Inevitable

2017 • 48 min

THE EXPLODING DIGITAL INEVITABLE is a live documentary essay integrating an array of movie and audio clips, still photographs, and rare archival documents that tells the story of CROSSROADS' unique production, as well as the massive cultural spectacle of the original Bikini Atoll tests themselves--the singlemost recorded event in human history.

Dot Matrix

2017 • 4 min

Dot Matrix is a sound and image composition of two 16mm film tracks, made by hand in a darkroom, without digital intervention. The projectors become instruments that read the images as waveforms. Colorful and fun circles are menacing when played back as sound.

Utflykten

2017 • 3 min • Sweden, Greece

A three minute summary of a guided charter trip by bus to the mountains of Crete.

Oh Brother Octopus

2017 • 27 min • Germany

The sea nomads of Indonesia believe that with every newborn there is a twin brother in the form of an octopus. Rituals are carried out to appease the brother in the water and prevent misfortunes. When dishonor occurs, Jakarta is portrayed as the apocalyptic revenge of the brother octopus.

Arrábida

2017 • 16 min • Denmark, Portugal

A film centered on the production of landscape and concrete in the Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal. Covering a vast area of coast, caves, mountains and forest, the park is inhabited by a massive concrete factory that branches through the landscape. Documenting the various layers of the sourced material, the factory body and the constructed landscape, the film looks at how time is physically embedded in the matter and how the molecular particles act in a circular re-shaping of the whole. The film merges 16mm footage shot in the area of Arrábida with 3D animation of the topographic landscape as an equal analogue layer. Há só uma terra. There is only one earth.

The Streets Are Ours: Two Lives Cross in Karachi

2017 • 16 min

This documentary short tells the inspiring story of two Pakistani women: Sabeen Mahmud, founder of Karachi performance space T2F, who paved the way for American actress/writer Fawzia Mirza to perform her one-woman show across Pakistan, one month before Mahmud's tragic murder.

Petrichor

2017 • 15 min • United States of America

On one level, the film is the narrative of a mid-western thunderstorm…with images of gathering cumulonimbus clouds, downpours, windswept landscapes…and a sense of progression. But there is also a willful subversion of this order, with a play of color fields, film grain, and flashes from a wandering mind’s eye. Finally, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, we arrive at a locale that might exist only in dreams.

Strange Meetings

2017 • 11 min

Strange Meetings

The Oven

2017 • 1 min

What's more horrifying than being cooked alive?

An Elder Man

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

An elder man's date with a younger woman doesn't go exactly as he planned as she turns the tables on their romantic night out.

Trek of the Mutants: Ultimate War

2017 • 52 min • China

In this martial arts action-adventure epic, a group of brave warriors, the Mutants, march into a final battle against evil. Can the Mutants unlock the true powers of the the ancient Pangu?

Les légendaires

2017 • 16 min

Somewhere in Brittany, on a hill men and women have taken to sculpting the effigies of saints in blocks of granite three to five meters high. In the end, a thousand statues are supposed to reign over this site for eternity. The film sketches the portrait of this strange stone population and of this crazy project.

Possessive Pronouns

2017 • 8 min • Slovenia

The story of Mia and Luka develops from their first morning-after to watching movies and travelling together, until they move to another place, in a series of events, memories, movies, scenes and frames.