All Films

Masks | Friend or Foe

2017 • 4 min • Kuwait

A Kuwaiti short film on Youtube by Aziz Bader. It features a guy fighting with his inner-self to overcome a dark side of himself that he despises, engaging in a philosophical dialogue explaining the necessity of the existence of that part.

Shark: A 4D Experience

2017 • 13 min

Come face to face with some of the world’s most strange and mysterious shark species. These extraordinarily intelligent underwater giants each exhibit unique behaviors to navigate their ever-changing environment. Essential to the fragile balance of our ocean’s health, Shark: A 4-D Experience® explores the complex nature of these majestic creatures’ survival instincts.

Room No. 18

2017 • 4 min

A group of men who apparently have nothing in common is dealing with the same little problem, but the group is struggling to find the solution.

Gelosia

2017 • 32 min • Italy

Thomas is a sex-obsessed alcoholic. On the way back from a family celebration an accident happens in which his wife HEIDI burns the side of her face. Thomas dumps his wife out due to the lack of attractiveness and he experiences erotic role-play fantasies with other women while being permanently drunk. How long can Thomas keep everything under control?

F

2017 • 4 min • Italy

A film made for LIVE, a workshop held by Bianco-Valente. Curated by Giusy Caroppo as a part of the InContemporanea exhibition.

Himinn Opinn

2017 • 19 min • Iceland, Belgium

A fallen community struggles to survive on a remote island. A young woman seems to bear a strange disease that makes the vegetation and the animals perish. A lonely shepherd volunteers to escort her in the deserted lowlands to prevent her from contaminating the rest of the village.

Breakfast In Bed

2017 • 4 min • Australia

It’s Mother’s Day - what to do? Breakfast in bed sounds like the perfect plan. What could possibly go wrong!

Funeral

2017 • 10 min

A trans woman must confront her demons as she prepares for her estranged father's funeral.

Highway to Hell: The Battle of Mosul

2017 • 42 min

Across three trips to the front-line beginning last October, and under the echoes of snipers and shells, two film-makers tell the story of the Iraqi assault on Mosul: 'the biggest battle anywhere on the planet this century.' At the centre of IS power, the battle's result will have a huge impact on the future of IS and terrorism across the globe.

The Lantern and the Music of Light

2017 • 19 min • United Kingdom

The Magic Lantern was an projector of information and stories than preceded the cinema. How did its visual style translate into the moving image? This film traces the aesthetic narrative from the 19th century up until the 21st, calling in at the Victorians, Melies, Welles, Godard, Spielberg and Carly Rae Jepsen. It also shows how these techniques can inspire your own creativity.

Rambling in NY

2017 • 15 min

A short film by Jun Geng.

Folaim - My Friend Satan

2017 • 15 min • Saudi Arabia

The relationship between a Saudi student living in LA California, and Satan.

The Crucible: 40 Golden Snooker Years

2017 • 60 min

Steve Davis goes back to the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield to celebrate 40 years of the world snooker championship, talking to some of the players forever ingrained in the sport's history. The venue has become the home of snooker since the championships moved there in 1977, helping to create memorable moments and scenes of drama that live on to this day. Featuring interviews with former champions Stephen Hendry and Dennis Taylor, six-time runner-up and fans' favourite Jimmy White, and celebrity snooker addicts Richard Osman and Stephen Fry.

Animal Cinema

2017 • 13 min • Italy, United States of America

Animal Cinema is a film composed of fragments of videos of animals operating cameras. All cameras were stolen by animals who acted autonomously. These video materials, downloaded from YouTube between 2012 and 2017, have been reorganized in Animal Cinema as a constant unfolding of non-human modes of being.

Missing Episode

2017 • 30 min

A one-take audio-visual poem in which artist Ross Sutherland revisits a twenty-year-old episode of the popular English soap opera EastEnders as a form of self-reckoning.

The Outer Boroughs

2017 • 30 min

Two friends, Dan and Pete, move to New York City to discover that the Outer Boroughs, while more affordable than Manhattan, are vastly haunted by all sorts of ghouls, ghosts and goblins. How can Dan and Pete handle power demons and the undead when they can barely pay the rent? Tune in to witness all the horrors that await this supernatural odd couple in...The Outer Boroughs.

It's Not Your Fault

2017 • 20 min

Eva returns to pick up her things after Julia, her former lover, abruptly decided to take her own life. Filled with rage and frustration, Eva goes through the place where she once was happy but once there she will find the real reasons behind Julias death.

Traces On My Skin

2017 • 17 min

Shanghai, 2016. Four Chinese college graduates are brought together through an art project: Xi Roulan, an artist who invites strangers to her home. Qian Kecheng, a freelance illustrator who thrives on the freedom the megacity has to offer. Jiang Bo, a graphic designer, looking for steady employment. Cheng Minxian, a young woman working at one of the city’s most renown event agencies, while living with her parents.While eager for life experience they yearn to lift their careers off the ground. Unified by their passion for life and self-determination, they long for an escape from anonymity.

Lenno & de Maanvis

2017 • 17 min

See the world through the eyes of Lenno, a lively boy with a behavioral disorder who can be both irritating and really sweet.

The Loneliest Boy Band

2017 • 7 min

Dusty Jacobson is as excited about finally having a date as he is about boy bands but will HungBrad show up?

Eggs, Zombies, and Bacon

2017 • 14 min

A character-driven comedy about Rachel who — struggling to accept the complexity of her sexuality — tries to run away from her latest mistake — a one-night-stand with a girl named Lena — only to find herself trapped in the house by a looming horde of zombies outside. Now, forced to stare at nothing but Lena's eyes, Rachel tries everything and anything to steer the conversation away from breakfast, and even worse, her sexuality.

We Are Two

2017 • 13 min

This short film tells the story of a young homosexual man, lost in his love life, who will be confronted with "Love".

9 to 5

2017 • 12 min

A dystopian dark comedy about a young man returning home from work; as he is pulled over by the authorities his life will change dramatically.

The Romantic Movement

2017 • 20 min • United States of America

A poetic drama about a writer who falls in love with a character he creates.