All Films

Orphans of Ebola

2016 • 41 min • United States of America

Ben Steele’s ORPHANS OF EBOLA follows Abu, a 12-year-old boy from a Sierra Leone village, who loses eight members of his family and must restart his life elsewhere. Filmed over a period of four months, beginning just after the height of the epidemic in Dec. 2014 through the reopening of the country’s schools in April 2015, Abu’s story illustrates the incredible bravery of the thousands of children who have been orphaned by Ebola as they reconcile with the past and forge new lives.

Otousan wa Ai no Hito

2016 • 3 min • Japan

A Tsutaetai, Kokoro no Tegami (wedding, elderly aid, and funeral company) commissioned work from Tekken showing the love of a father and the complications as he ages.

Einstein 100

2016 • 3 min

Everyone’s favorite Doctor ponders Einstein’s theory of General Relativity

Welcome to Denmark

2016 • 25 min • South Korea

Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

2016 • 16 min

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Electric Man

2016 • 18 min

After the energy crisis caused global warming, a new office in the remote desert town of Domeyko arises. The electric man who lives with his ill mother generates electricity for its neighbors by riding his bicycle.

Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)

2016 • 12 min

Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) presents a dynamic checkerboard of moving image footage featuring African-American actors and singers from across the 20th century: from Jackie “Moms” Mabley to Eartha Kitt, Whoopi Goldberg, Whitney Houston, and several others. The video focuses on their individual voices as they express heartbreaking roles, pointed lyrics, sharp jokes, and strong statements of resistance to the dominant culture. The work is a powerful, and often riotous, reflection on the roles of black women in the United States.

Idol Sex Scandal

2016 • 60 min • South Korea

Three idol trainees who passed the audition They live together with dance and acting lessons and even have sex education. Also, as the president and the head of the office, they are trying to become the best star through sexual payment, such as affiliates and sponsors, as directed. They try to pioneer their destiny in an invisible competition, and they do their best to become a star through sexual entertainment ... Will I be able to become a star by successfully debuting?

Not the End of the World

2016 • 8 min

Joe Connoly is totally unprepared when a note lands in front of him at school.

Boob Slinger

2016 • 4 min • Japan

During the era of Westward expansion. Lin, who abandoned her identity as a woman, chose the path of living as a gunslinger. Riding her beloved horse, she continued her aimless journey, taking down men who bared their fangs the moment they saw her voluptuous chest, using her exceptional gun skills. However, a fierce fate stands in her way.

What Happens Before War?

2016 • 7 min

Short anti-war animation adapting the picture book Sensou no Tsukurikata. It was created by the group NOddIN.

Oracle

2016 • 13 min

A massive collection of antique radios is the frequency through which a man revisits his past and faces the music.

Orchestrating An Upset: The 1996 World Cup of Hockey

2016 • 60 min

Orchestrating an Upset is relatively recent history, but it is one of the United State’s rare international wins in best-on-best play and it hasn’t gotten nearly the same treatment the Miracle has. How did they assemble a team to beat Canada, who had previously won 4/5 Canada Cup tournaments? The documentary itself is a fun look back at a tournament that had a ton of drama despite not getting much in the way of publicity, especially in the United States. The movie covers Team USA’s creation and all of the international background going into the World Cup. The US was 0-7 against Canada in previous Canada Cup tournaments and hadn’t beaten their northern rivals in 20 years. A first shift brawl in a round robin game against Canada foreshadowed how the Americans would play for the rest of the tournament.

Dans la tête d'Emmanuel Macron

2016 • 52 min • France

From the Ministry of Economy to his candidacy in the presidential elections, Emmanuel Macron quickly established himself in the French political landscape with a path full of subtlety. This documentary attempts to dive into the labyrinthine world of the President of the Republic, where he seeks to define his political stance and his strategy of rupture, which further deepened the downfall of the Socialist Party.

Chinese Ink

2016 • 55 min • Lebanon

In Chinese Ink, composed from a series of shots taken with an iPhone, Salhab expands questions of location and the act of filmmaking itself. Some images were captured in the moment ‘without quite knowing why’, and others were filmed at an earlier time ‘with no apparent motive’ or as a result of specific circumstances. Salhab jotted down notes all along, excerpts from books he read or reread, sounds he recorded and preserved. He approached this film essay as a work in progress with no preconceived structure; instead, he let the work gradually reveal itself. All at once, in terms of ‘place’ and his relationship to ‘here’, with all its entanglements, it became clear to him that he needed to invoke the ‘elsewhere’, to start with the first place, his childhood in Senegal, and ‘retrace’ certain steps: his connection to armed struggles, the Palestinian cause, the present moment.

La licorne

2016 • 12 min • Belgium

While walking in the forest of his little kingdom, a little king sees an extraordinary being white as snow, fast as the wind and with a horn on his forehead. Unfortunately, the creature immediately disappears, and despite the help of the knight Petitpas, it remains nowhere to be found. Only the little queen, tender and gentle, will succeed in meeting the mythical animal and bringing it back to the little castle. The little king is delighted, the little queen takes care of her guest but, strangely, the unicorn spends his days and nights at the window.

50 Cent | Rap Star

2016 • 60 min

He’s the winner of 13 Billboard Music Awards, a Grammy Award, and six World Music Awards. His dark and edgy lyrics portray his life as a gangster, a criminal and a survivor of drugs. His music reflects the hardship he went through to become what he is now…an influential figure in Hip Hop culture. With a successful eighth studio album released last December in 2014, 50 Cent’s position at the top of the hip hop game is set to continue. Get the inside story of a Hip Hop legend…50 Cent.

Hunting the Hammerhead

2016 • 46 min • South Africa

Evanescence: Nissan Live Sets

2016 • 28 min

Evanescence promoting their album "The Open Door" on Nissan Live Sets. Track list: 1) Weight of the World 2) The Only One 3) Call Me When You're Sober 4) Imaginary 5) Missing 6) Lithium 7) Good Enough 8) Your Star 9) Understanding

One Killer Punch

2016 • 47 min

This documentary explores the phenomenon of a one punch kill, by examining three different assaults: single hits with dire consequences, often in innocuous locations and circumstances

Lifter

2016 • 14 min • United States of America

A Russian car thief unknowingly steals a car with a kid in the trunk.

Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words

2016 • 7 min

Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles on the occasion of their 2016 Gala event, 'Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words' traces two recurring themes in the artist's 60-year oeuvre.

Blurred Citylights

2016 • 18 min • Japan

The photographer Kikukawa is cursed. He's haunted by the ghost of a bikini beauty who keeps making stupid comments. But what does she really want to tell him? And are ghosts actually photogenic? Kikukawa sets out to find out.

Tricky Memory

2016 • 54 min • France

The lastest neuroscience discoveries show surprising results: false memories, distortion, modification, déjà vus. Our memory is affected in many ways, and deceives us every day. The very fact of recalling souvenirs modifies them. The everyday consequences are manyfold. To what extent can we rely on our souvenirs? How much credit can we give them during trials? Even more shocking, scientists have proved to be able to manipulate our memory: creating artificial souvenirs, deleting, emphasizing or restoring them on demand.