All Films

The 8-Bit Philosophy 2 – The Good and the Bad Guys

2017 • 32 min • Germany

A film documentary about the Commodore 64 (and Amiga) cracking scene in the 1980s and 1990s. In the early years of the commodore 64 cracker feed the masses with their cracked versions of computer games. In this sequel to The 8-Bit Philosophy we dive deep into the minds of famous C64 cracker like Bacchus of Fairlight or Injun of Triad. Witness their story, why they cracked protected computer games, were hated by the software industry, and hunted by the police.

Marian

2017 • 15 min • Philippines

There's a haunting in the house. However, things are not what they seem. Marian soon finds out that the haunting in the household is more familiar than she thinks.

Andrew Sleighter: Breakfast Stealer

2017 • 41 min

Andrew Sleighter started in comedy looking for the perfect funny line to open a biography. Since then, Andrew’s laid-back style and clever writing has won him appreciation from fans and respect from his peers.

Sell Your Body

2017 • 11 min • United States of America

A horror-comedy about a med school dropout who is clawing her way out of crippling debt by luring a couple seeking a threesome on a dating app.

Nina's Melody

2017 • 16 min

A faded musician is forced to revisit the scarring memories of his past when he hears his melody being played for the first time since his muse left him

Bad Friday

2017 • 8 min • United Kingdom

During a Good Friday outing from a care home, Frankie Abbott cons a giant Easter egg from a little girl in the park, and is pursued by a knife-wielding giant rabbit. He also succeeds in upsetting everyone on the outing, including Topaz, an ageing ex-stripper, who threatens to put Frankie over her knee and spank him.

Ophira Eisenberg: Inside Joke

2017 • 49 min

Stand-up comedy set by comedian Ophira Eisenberg about her surprise pregnancy at an advanced age despite never wanting to give birth or raise a child.

Hippocampus

2017 • 10 min

A couple that was never separated, during its three most important moments of their lives: when they met, at the peak of their love and when one of them dies.

Song of the Waves

2017 • 13 min

This is a love story adapted from JM Sali’s tale of an Indian man who meets and falls in love with a Chinese woman in Singapore by chance, but she discovers that he is actually married back home in India. Told from the perspective of the writer—who is played by more than one actor, and who also plays the character—the film blurs the lines between roles, reality, time and space. The words and text of the writer also interplay with the sound of silence and the actions of the actors and characters.

From HK to MK

2017 • 10 min

What does it mean to be British? Gabriel, a dentist originally from Hong Kong, has lived in Milton Keynes for nearly 50 years. His mixed race son Michael couldn't wait to leave. Now a film-maker, he returns to the city to discover how his father feels about the place he has made home.

Chowder

2017 • 12 min

Before opening his new restaurant, a desperate chef seeks constructive criticism from his friends.

Dan xiao bie kan

2017 • 59 min

Look and Learn

2017 • 11 min

Look and Learn explores the juxtaposition of two material image forms: visual instructions (assembly guides, photography manuals, diagrams) and photographs––mainly set of several 1950's era elementary school group photographs.

Utopia Now

2017 • 5 min • Austria

A dialogue between two utopian thinkers sharing visions and recipes for a “better” tomorrow and contemplating the complexity of our universe.

Unholy Three

2017 • 9 min • South Korea

Stacking three different Trios extracted from modern dance history on the screen. Staring back a certain archiving process within movements as ‘ruins of illusion’.

Think Different

2017 • 10 min

Think Different is an experimental piece that plays parody on college life and its eclectic nature. Featuring seven very different depictions of the minutia of college life in montages, Think Different takes a closer look at the peculiar, and accentuates the different.

Silvia in the Waves

2017 • 13 min

The mourning period takes Silvia, a 40-year-old woman, and her family by waves of memory, death, and survival.

London Grammar Live Concert At BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend 2017

2017 • 29 min

Over the weekend of 27th May 2017, BBC Radio 1 threw a massive party in the city of Hull including superstar names London Grammar.

Tom Hiddleston: The Intrepid Traveler

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson discuss Kong: Skull Island.

Keep That Dream Burning

2017 • 8 min • Germany, Austria

Rainer Kohlberger applied various algorithms to extract the noise from a vast number of action films and used this to reduce the dramaturgy of the narrative to its essence. keep that dream burning oscillates between maximum abstraction and pure blur. Within the blurriness, objects form and disappear. The surface allows the space to be conceived.

K. Trevor Wilson: Bigger in Person

2017 • 30 min • Canada

K. Trevor Wilson delivers clever, laid-back storytelling comedy in this one-man special with topics ranging from his awkward adolescence to being drunk in church.

26 rue Saint-Fargeau

2017 • 30 min • France

A vertical journey through a Parisian social housing estate. From dawn till dusk, floor by floor, different cultures and atmospheres talk to each other in a tender way.

Cradle

2017 • 15 min • United States of America

Returning to the USA after losing both arms overseas, a young veteran battles phantom pains, prosthetics, and memories of his pre-war life while reaching for a sense of normalcy.

The Call

2017 • 57 min • Italy

A courtroom in Milan is filled with people brought together by random selection. Long interviews lie ahead. Based on the interviews, some of them will be chosen for jury duty. However, The Call doesn’t focus on judicial proceedings, but rather considers people’s sense of justice through the conversations in the waiting room.