All Films

Reviving Bionicle 2: The squeakel (Bionicle short film)

2015 • 26 min

Just in time for Lego's release of Bionicle 2015. Since Bionicle came back, I felt like it warranted a sequel to the "reviving bionicle" thing I made almost 2 years ago. So, here it is.

Man in the Cinema House

2015 • 18 min • Philippines

A man is imprisoned in a movie theater for killing Jose Rizal. He attempts to escape.

Edgar

2015 • 10 min • France

A small comedy by Thomas Iturralde and Arthur Guillermin Hazan.

Waste Disposal Part 2 - Bionicle Fan Film

2015 • 6 min

A bionicle film. A stop motion film, using Lego Bionicles

Marbles and Conkers

2015 • 7 min • Ukraine

Yesterday there was a party, and today Roma wakes up in a strange apartment. Everything would be fine, but there are flowers, balloons, and a bride he doesn't remember everywhere. Roma decides to run away from his own wedding.

About the Happiness Store

2015 • 9 min • Ukraine

One of the differences between women and men is the decision-making process. Especially when it comes to choosing a partner.

Amnesia

2015 • 54 min • Poland

The film combines the personal, political, and historical, tracing the horror of a pogrom committed against the Jewish residents of the Polish city of Kielce on the 4th of July 1946. This atrocity was committed by their neighbors, fellow Poles of Kielce. This film seeks to gain some perspective on the Kielce Pogrom, an event that has been all but scrubbed from the history of Poland. The filmmaker searches for answers, even reflecting on his own family's complicity (and perhaps more) in the event. Given the current political climate in 21st century Poland, this film is fiercely relevant today, as we must confront and combat the legacies of anti-Semitism in Europe and around the world.

Stranded

2015 • 3 min

"As gossamer threads hold captive, a hostage appears to tread water mid air. Circling this way then that, the will to live becomes a fight for survival. Never give up I whisper." - Artist's statement

水玉タレントプロモーション　辰巳シーナ

2015 • 60 min • Japan

2015 release

Hearts

2015 • 8 min

Imagine having the ability to see romantic love.

Moving Image

2015 • 7 min

A person rides a bicycle while simultaneously projecting visuals of a distant place

Formales Gewissen

2015 • 20 min

Yves Netzhammer's usually language-free animations offer freaky in-a-nutshell versions of all the disturbing sights and events we (are forced to) witness every day. Befitting an age of indifference, these series of grotesque rituals and absurd cycles are presented in a glacial, uncaring aesthetic. Genuinely disturbing genius.

The Fifth Night

2015 • 10 min

7-channel video installation, 35mm, b&w. Music:Jin Wang. In making the film noir drama The Fifth Night, Yang used different lenses for each camera, but filmed everything at the same moment, creating a labyrinthine, live-feed effect. The work recalls the narrative structure of a traditional Chinese hand-scroll, while its multiple perspectives are suggestive of an M. C. Escher drawing. The synchronous scene was captured in a single take, with the work running for 10 minutes and 37 seconds, the exact length of a reel of film.

An Idiot's Guide to Politics

2015 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Comedian Jolyon Rubinstein is on a mission. He wants to find out why the Facebook generation is so disengaged from politics. With the general election just around the corner, according to a recent survey less than a quarter of under 25s plan to vote. Is this just apathy and ignorance? Or is something else going on? The film is packed with stunts, pranks and some pretty serious interviews in which Jolyon seeks to find the answers. On the way he takes a fire engine armed with fireproof underpants to Conservative Party HQ ('liar, liar, pants on fire'); visits UKIP HQ to use his lie-detecting test to help Nigel Farage root out members hiding a BNP past; takes a union leader a statue of Ed Miliband as Wallace to thank him for getting Ed elected Labour leader - a present from the Conservatives; and tries to raise £50k to have dinner with the PM - it's the going rate for Tory Party donors, he learns.

Preserving Lonesome George

2015 • 24 min

Scientists and a master taxidermist at the American Museum of Natural History face the difficult task of preserving the last Pinta Island tortoise for posterity, with no margin for error.

Himiko the Godslayer vs. The Legion of Azure Dragons from Hell

2015 • 5 min • Japan

Kyoto, Japan. The guardian Gods who protect the four quarters suddenly revolt against human beings! To save the world, a Godslayer, Himiko Kaguraoka, takes action.

Pebbles at Your Door

2015 • 18 min • Denmark

"If we lived in Paradise, we would no longer need hope." Harmonia lives a happy life in North Korea, but her reality cracks as she learns the truths, she never wanted to know. In the end she faces a choice of living in a broken paradise of lies and deception, or treading the unknown, lonely path of the real world outside. Nothing is free, and the struggle to become a whole human being is inhuman. Pebbles at You Door is a film about a woman from the North Korean elite, who faces the reality of her once beloved childhood paradise and the impossible task of healing a life that has been torn from birth.

Ashes to Agassiz

2015 • 21 min

It’s been a journey, you could say. A real barnburner. A man at the top of his professional prowess, his mountain bike a natural extension of him, one of the best riders the sport has ever seen. But like all great heroes, adversity comes a knocking. For Graham Agassiz, a relatively benign descent—one he’s done a hundred times before—reached out with its wicked limb and smacked him down. Shoved a fat slice of humble pie in his kisser. With his neck broken and a career in jeopardy, the road back to the top is now lined with dangers and demons.

Odin's Afterbirth

2015 • 14 min • United States of America

A grotesque fantasy that sees its protagonist ‘Viking Erik’ embark on a relentless quest for vengeance, this 14-minute animated short follows its hero as he battles his way through an army of freaks and monsters and defies the gods that rule his world.

Casualties of Modernity

2015 • 14 min • Canada

A celebrity artist and humanitarian tours a hospital specializing in the treatment of conditions afflicting Modern and Contemporary Art.

Dreaming Against the World

2015 • 35 min • United States of America

Throughout Maoist China's turbulent history, the artist Mu Xin sacrificed everything to create his art. While illegally imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, he risked his life writing and painting while in solitary confinement. It was through his artistic faith that he survived this period, while so many others did not. He has avoided speaking of the horrors he has seen - until now. A documentary portrait by OSCAR® Nominated filmmakers Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello, "DREAMING AGAINST THE WORLD" will expose audiences to one of the most original, yet largely unknown artists of the past century.

Weed 3: The Marijuana Revolution

2015 • 42 min • United States of America

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon and a chief medical correspondent for CNN. If you remember, Dr. Gupta admitted he was all wrong about weed back in 2013. Nowadays he’s changed his mind and he’s ready for a marijuana revolution so that medical patients can receive the medicine they need.

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2015 • 16 min • Malaysia

A girl started a cursed through a ritual written in a book, she seeks help from the author and causes a bigger problem

Anders Stjernholm: Grine eller Græde

2015 • 60 min

Anders Stjernholm's first one-man show! Laugh or Cry is about the feeling of ambivalence that strikes so often: Did I hear right? Did that really happen? Does my boyfriend dance like that? Do you react with laughter or tears? Are you in doubt? It's Anders. One tragicomic brain fart after another as he looks around. It's the backbone of Anders' stand-up and in this show he collects the best bits from the last 10 years.