All Films

Ozuland: David Bordwell on Good Morning

2017 • 19 min

Film scholar David Bordwell discusses Ozu's 1959 color film Ohayo (Good Morning). He analyzes Ozu's use of color, composition, and his characteristic transitional shots. While some see this film as a remake of Ozu's 1932 silent I Was Born, But..., Bordwell believes the connection is not that simple, and contrasts elements of the two films, outlining Ozu's growth over his decades of work, and the variations he worked within his chosen limits.

Light Lick: Amen

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

A stark portrait of my father at daily morning prayers to which I respond, AMEN. Light Licks are a series of films I began in 1999. The films are made frame by frame, often by flooding the camera with enough light to spill beyond the gate into the frame left unexposed. Light Licks are ecstatic flicker films inspired by jazz and mystic visionary practice, and extend my interest in the ways film can be a medium of visual improvisation.

Pangea

2017 • 15 min

A wound between old friends re-opens after a laughter, forcing them to face the past and understand that their friendship is meant to drift apart.

Chris Packham: Asperger's and Me

2017 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Chris Packham invites us inside his autistic world to find out what it is like being him.

The Somnambulist

2017 • 8 min

Dreams of the past become tangible as a man revisits the passions of his youth.

Dust Cycles

2017 • 13 min

Dust Cycles investigates the past and present of the Bluffs, from the rock and clay strata that reveal the last Ice Age to the present day properties on the brink of destruction due to erosion.

Empire State

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

As an Elder goes about preparing wild onions and corn, the outside world infiltrates through the TV: the fall of the Twin Towers, the hit on Baghdad, and the first death of a Native American soldier overseas. A subtly poignant film that simply told gives strength to the old man and to those who bear witness.

Das Gestell

2017 • 30 min

A Japanese philosopher writes a letter to a famous German colleague. He asks the German to advise the Japanese people how to deal with the permeation of modern life by technology. More than 50 years later, the same issues are being discussed among academics and aspiring engineers. It is hard to grasp how humans and technology continue to coexist. Resorting to biographical trivia, mythological histories and the recounting of dreams is not helping them to see these issues any clearer. In the grainy images of the film, landscapes from an uncertain time appear, occasionally flooded by water and a cacophony of brass players. The uncontrollable finds its ways into a world that tries to minimise risks and thus creates new dangers.

Slay Bells Ring: The Story of Silent Night, Deadly Night

2017 • 45 min

Documentary on the cult Christmas horror classic Silent Night, Deadly Night.

The Room

2017 • 9 min • France

A young pickpocket works in the streets of Lyon. Every night he brings his booty to a strange man with a masked face. Then, hé starts asking for more than money ...

The Mob

2017 • 11 min

When a young, promising medical doctor returns to his village to help at the local clinic, he develops an unusual relationship with a young boy who volunteers at the local clinic. Things go awry when their unusual bond draws the negative attention of the village folk and hospital nurses.

Finding the Graf Zeppelin

2017 • 48 min

While exploring the Baltic Sea in 2006, a Polish oil firm stumbled upon the remains of Germany’s first – and last – aircraft carrier at 80 meters depth off the coast near Gdansk. It was a discovery that solved an enduring maritime mystery that had baffled experts for over half a century. The Graf Zeppelin has finally been found! This film tells the incredible story of the lead ship of the German "Kriegsmarine", from its construction to its sinking and its amazing discovery over five decades later. The Graf Zeppelin was a war ship of massive proportions that was never used for its intended purpose and eventually fell into the hands of the Russians, who used it for target practice off the coast of Poland. The program features rare access to private Graf Zeppelin archives, state-of-the-art animation, dramatic reconstructions and a high-tech underwater shoot at the mysterious site of the sunken wreck.

Love You Less

2017 • 4 min • Thailand

After dating her best friend Gun for a while, Fern made a video of them for his birthday present. Prior to giving it to him, he breaks up with her. The first of three short films made for Matung Radapdao's music video series.

The Art of Street Fighting

2017 • 50 min • United States of America

Their names are Daigo, Xiao Hai, Tokido or Luffy, and they're among the best Street Fighter players in the world. Whether they hail from Tokyo, Paris or Guangzhou, these sportsmen and women of a new genre cross the planet every weekend, in search of tournaments and high financial rewards. Their daily routine? Intensive training, sleepless nights and fighting to the point of exhaustion, to the point of sacrificing everything on the altar of competition. Their status is fragile, and they know it: in the six months between Capcom Cup 2016 and Red Bull Kumite 2017, all the cards are going to be reshuffled.

Makin' Moves

2017 • 2 min

Behold the latest video from art director Kouhei Nakama who uses a variety of generative and particle-based animation techniques to bring 3D figures to life in this motion graphics short aptly titled MAKIN’ MOVES.

Makenzy

2017 • 20 min • Belgium

In this short documentary, the director follows the return to the village of a young boy who had left for boarding school.

Poor People Relax Me

2017 • 42 min • Germany, Mexico

Clara wakes up in Mexico determined to turn the aesthetic abuse of the fewly privileged against the privileged few. Still, there’s something undeniably seductive about the euro-to-peso exchange rate and the promise of an easier life. But as life is growing easier, Clara realises her project is growing more complicated. Torn between self-reflection and self-mockery, her idea of the role of the artist begins to slip, and it becomes unclear whether her characters are willing participants or unknowing victims… To make things worse, her camera man starts to have his own opinions.

Aria

2017 • 60 min • France

Aria, a film about queer parents, identity and family constructions. It is through a series of portraits, of people leaning their faces over her belly that the artist proposes a diversity of stories and reflections on motherhood, parenthood, the desire or not to have a child, descent, and childhood. Entirely shot using smartphones, the film proposes an intimate journey, told via sensitive, fun or moving words, a contemporary family album.

Mic Drop

2017 • 12 min • United Kingdom

When Obama dropped the microphone, he knew what he was doing: this gesture remains a powerful way of underlining some final words. Derived from the 1980s rap scene, it signals the point when words reach their ultimate impact and full attention needs to be paid to what was just said. A single-screen video work featuring poet Panya Banjoko.

Delft dans le lointain

2017 • 1 min

Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau

The Green Bird

2017 • 7 min • France

A green bird lays its first egg. It will do everything to make it hatch.

Impressio in-urbe (#1 Bologna)

2017 • 17 min

“Impressio in-urbe” goes through the textures of the urban space: the materiality of architectures, corners and prospectives, the drawings of pavings, the squares, the bricks; it’s a detailed decomposition of the city’s “cloak” from which the broken matter emerges, seemingly immovable but in a continuous connection, in the centuries, inhabited by its moltitude.”Impressio” is the print, the mark which all things and every gesture leave of itself, the “identikit” (and vivisection) of the city’s space and time, which gives back to us its view.

Bill's leaving

2017 • 13 min

On the eve of his going away party, disgraced executive Bill goes into the men's room to kill him self, but before he can do the deed, a stream of his subordinates file in exchanging stories about Bill, each worse than the next.

I Can Fly

2017 • 7 min • Netherlands

The 22-year-old Lisa is approached on the street by the 23-year-old Sven, after a flirt and a joke, Sven asks Lisa the question: Do you believe that I can fly?