All Films

Marty: A Wild West Neverland

2016 • 17 min

Marty - A Wild West Neverland is an adventure-fantasy set in a world inhabited by only kids. Marty and Dee cross paths with the ruthless One-Eyed Johnny and the Krimson Kids where they experience the harsh realities of tyranny and violence in the West.

A Few Spaces In Between

2016 • 4 min • Germany, United States of America

Recurring abstract and microscopic structures appear in this film that Padgett compiled from found footage for the exhibition Innocents Abroad—Made for Arolsen in Schloss Bad Arolsen. She used material culled from educational films produced during the ’60s and ’70s from the educational film archive at the University of Paderborn. Padgett worked with such source material as How Does the Wind Come to Be?, How to Lay a Table and Skin: Our Vulnerable Protective Barrier. Scenes of work on an assembly line or experiments in scientific labs reference a technical/scientific modernity. The film images reveal a historical dimension, while introducing layers of referential meaning and placing the film in relationship to our understanding of what we consider to be state of the art.

These C*cksucking Tears

2016 • 15 min • United States of America

Patrick Haggerty, the gritty, fearless voice behind the world's first and only gay-themed country music album, 40 years after its release.

Living in the Past

2016 • 6 min

This film re-animates stereoscopic images of Melbourne from the 1920s. Technically the film makes a statement about how each new iteration of moving image technology reclaims artifacts and gestures from the past. Such an archeology enables the viewer to approach these images in new ways. Further, just as the image has become unstable so have our beliefs. Living in the Past recycles Jethro Tull’s lyrics to indicate that we no longer understand the political situation we live in. This film re-animates stereoscopic images of 1920s Melbourne to create a dynamic Cubist space. Technically the film makes a statement about how each new iteration of moving image technology reclaims past artifacts and gestures. Just as the image has become unstable so have our beliefs.

Jesus: The Cold Case

2016 • 52 min

2000 years ago, Jesus of Nazareth was crucified in Jerusalem. The question is, why? According to the gospels, it was because his fellow Jews found him guilty of blasphemy; they had him executed by the Roman, Pontius Pilate. How true is this story?

Lucy

2016 • 40 min

A documentary about Lucy, who reveals her intimate stories of being a trans woman.

Beatrice Phiri

2016 • 5 min • Zambia

Beatrice is an 18-year-old young reporter with the Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) in Lusaka, Zambia. She is part of the Unite4Climate Radio Initiative, a project which uses the power of radio to challenge mindsets and shift behaviours around environmental protection.

Femme Enfant

2016 • 4 min

The film follows a barren artist who experiences the joys and fears of pregnancy through her surrealistic paintings. It was inspired by the story of Frida Kahlo and the female surrealists of the early 20th Century.

Hera Pheri

2016 • 45 min • India

'Hera Pheri' is the story of a con man Ronnie and a con woman Bonny who cheat people for money. But it's gradually revealed that Bonny wants money to build a mental asylum where mentally unstable people like her mother can be treated. On a fateful night years back criminal named Bhagare Shashthi attacked Bata Krishna's jewelry shop and on their way back they had killed Bonny's father and charged young Ronnie of the murder. After the truth is revealed Bonny and Ronnie start working together for money. One day Bata Krishna receives a ransom call from Sashti meant for Haladhar Manna. Signal, Ronnie's aide decides to pose as kidnappers and call Manna. They demand double the amount demanded by kidnappers. After a lot of complications the child is rescued, Ronnie gets the money and Sashti gets killed.

Earthly (Opposite to the Sky)

2016 • 19 min • Argentina

Terrenal is the portrait of a village in Patagonia where the forms of life of two different social groups are related. These two ways of living in the same place show a crude and hostile environment whose experience is conditioned.

Creating Gender Inclusive Schools

2016 • 21 min

What happens when you bring gender training to an elementary school? In Creating Gender Inclusive Schools the Peralta Elementary School in Oakland, CA demonstrates the power of an open and honest conversation about gender.

Living an American Dream

2016 • 7 min

A beautiful European actress is living the American Dream. Her perfect life can't get any better .... until suddenly her phone starts ringing.

A Proposal to project in 4:3

2016 • 2 min • Austria

Schmid builds her own projection screens ranging from aspect ratios currently in use (in this case 4:3, the format she uses the most often, 16mm being her primary medium) to entirely fictitious ones (the 4:1 Viktoriascope) and if possible she then films them in the exact same aspect ratio. While at the Djerassi Artist in Residency Program in California, the artist constructed a screen with wood and canvas and installed it in the program’s sculpture park. Still standing there, it is an unexpected object on the way to a scenic view of the rolling hills on the Djerassi property. In A proposal to project in 4:3, Schmid shot this site-specific installation over the course of a single day when the screen became projection surface for the subtle interplay of shadow and light from the surrounding trees and shrubs. Cinema without film. (Claudia Slanar)

Silence

2016 • 28 min • China

"Silence" is Beijing Film Academy 2016 Graduation Joint Assignment. A young girl who was injured in her childhood wants to make the "secret" public when she grows up, but it is unanimously opposed by the whole family.

Major Sex Alert

2016 • 3 min

A woman discovers herself, with several figurative illustrations similar to an educational video.

Grabados del Ojo Nocturno

2016 • 7 min • Ecuador, Morocco

A collage of memories turned sensory vision, from the Sahara desert to the waters of South America.

Hunting the Nazi Gold Train

2016 • 46 min

In 2015, a media frenzy broke when 2 amateur researchers found a buried train in Poland. They believed it contained precious treasure left by the Nazis at the close of WW2. Historian Dan Snow investigates.

Hockey I

2016 • 5 min

The debut promotional video from the FA sister brand, featuring John Fitzgerald and Donovan Piscopo.

YOU&i

2016 • 10 min • Canada

YOU&i is a film version of a 'pas de deux for one' choreographed for Toronto Dance Theatre's 'Singular Bodies' program. In collaboration with dancer, Jarrett Siddall, the intent is to translate the various interpretations this image into movement. Some of the movement is determined by the autonomic nervous system response to exertion. It is the system that controls our heart and respiratory rates so the movement is driven both mind and body.

The Constant

2016 • 7 min

Three Phd students attempt to test their theory of time in their garage.

Ghost of Machine

2016 • 25 min • South Korea

An outdated babysitting robot becomes too obsessed with the family.

Three Days

2016 • 12 min

A man attempts to reconnect with a woman from his past; telling the story of how the two were whimsical teen lovers, married for the three days in 1989.

Breakfast

2016 • 10 min

When a young man suffering from anorexia is pressured to eat breakfast by his boyfriend, the couple are thrust into an otherworld where their anxieties and frustrations are made horrifyingly real.

Elton John: Music Man

2016 • 60 min

Sir Elton John is one of the most successful musicians of the past century. His career spans over four decades resulting in him selling more than 300 million albums worldwide. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him number 49 on list of 100 influential musicians of the rock and roll era, and in 2008 Billboard ranked him the most successful male solo artist on 'The Billboard Hot 100 top all-time artists. He's the winner of six grammy awards, five Brit awards, and Academy Awards and Global Globe Award. He's had countless number 1 hits and platinum albums. This is the story of one of the worlds greatest ever musicians... Elton John.