All Films

Sitting in Darkness

2015 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Out of the darkness a sound emerges. It echoes and drones. Terrified people take to the streets in search of its source. They get their cameras out and document the sky, searching for an author. We watch on, sitting in darkness, our muscles contract and our pupils dilate.“I hope the camera picks this up.” Sitting in Darkness explores the circulation, spectatorship and undeclared politics of contemporary images.

Ten Buildings Away

2015 • 25 min

A four-story building in the midst of a city. A bridge runs above it, busy with heavy traffic and passing trucks. Behind the leftmost window on the fourth floor is the residence of two brothers, a mother and a father. A family who perhaps have never had the right to exist.

Travel by Feet

2015 • 15 min • Spain

A wagon-full of passengers in a night train and an annoying companion in your compartment. What would you be willing to do in order to have a peaceful journey?

Keshinomi

2015 • 15 min

An old man and a grandson are walking in snow. A pregnant woman and a midwife are talking in the hospital.

Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #1: Constituting an Outside (Utopian Plagiarism)

2015 • 6 min

This video begins with the familiar interface of the Macintosh OS X desktop, with only one folder shown, labeled "contra-internet." The user clicks over to iTunes, plays the song "Get Off the Internet" by Le Tigre, and then opens a series of PDFs of theoretical and political treatises, copying and pasting selected passages into a new text document and then using the find and replace feature to rewrite their meaning. Texts by J.K. Gibson-Graham, Fredric Jameson, Paul B. Preciado, and Subcomandante Marcos that originally opposed economic and sexual hegemony are repurposed as part of a manifesto against the internet itself, critiquing its logic and suggesting possible alternatives. This is the third work presented as part of Real Live Online, curated by Lucas G. Pinheiro and Devin Kenny. It follows IDPW's Internet Bedroom, and João Enxuto and Erica Love's Waiting for the Internet.

Simorgh

2015 • 23 min

In 1979, acclaimed Iranian actor Manouchehr Farid fled his country, turning his back on the stage. Inside an Australian detention center, he finds new purpose.

Everything and More

2015 • 12 min

NASA astronaut David Wolf spent 128 days aboard the Mir Space Station. That's just the start of this swirling short film.

Outside Voices

2015 • 45 min

It's time to get to know Jenn Shelton, one of the most outspoken voices in running. Known for her shenanigans featured in the bestselling book Born to Run, Shelton is both a runner and an author in her own right; far more complicated than appears at a casual glance. She makes her home in a small van, known originally as Hi-C (for its initial inclination to high center), owning only what it can carry. She travels around the Mountain West spreading her unique approach to the wilderness. This is an insider's view in black & white. Filmed towards the end of summer in the great American West. Featuring Jenn Shelton with a cameo by Anton Krupicka. This is the second production from The Wolpertinger which, in 2013, produced In the High Country, vimeo.com/ondemand/inthehighcountry

Secrets of the Hive

2015 • 46 min • United States of America

Honeybees are in crisis – but there is hope. Biologists are studying the estimated 20.000 bee species in the world to look for viable pollinators of our crops. In their quest they discover the marvellous world of bees: bees that live in flowers, invade other hives, produce perfumes – and pollinate our crops without us even realizing.

Harbour City

2015 • 13 min • Hong Kong

A view through cracks between fish markets and high-rise buildings; urban imagery of Hong Kong and the indulgence of domestic life. Hong Kong's hyperactive fish market in overwhelming colors.

The Man from Hong Kong

2015 • 7 min

An internalized collage film which started with the found vacation film someone gave to me many years ago. The script I recorded for the film was resistant but the photographs of Man Ray, Paul Outerbridge and the soundtracks from Bruce Lee films attached themselves. Everyone wants to touch someone. (KY)

Input/Output

2015 • 4 min

Plays with everyday scenes, adding and completely changing the visual elements to shift the expected "output" reaction of an "input" action.

Roast

2015 • 9 min

Fifteen-year-old Nia has caught the attention of an attractive senior. Though she knows he's in a group that casually spit-roasts girls at parties, she is eager to be alone with him. As the night progresses and two other boys join them, Nia finds herself in a situation that is more than she anticipated.

The Diver

2015 • 16 min • Mexico

An insight into the world of Julio César Cu Cámara, the chief diver for Mexico City's sewerage system, whose job it is to perform repairs and remove rubbish blocking the flow of water.

What we did before we drank cocoa together

2015 • 33 min

What is the value of energy invested into friendship? How can you defend yourself when there is no one to stick up for you? Our heroines find a way out of a complicated situation by continuing poetic life and by avoiding objective reasoning, proofs of innocence, condemnation and the need to win.

Meandering

2015 • 6 min

"Kirsten McCory is the mending woman who is meandering through this hand painted and optically printed film."

Ich bin eine Tata

2015 • 8 min • France

Arthur Percier, school teacher, has a double life. One night, he meets an old student with whom he will have a moment of complicity.

Albert

2015 • 7 min

A hypnotic exercise in sound and texture

Glass Half

2015 • 4 min

Two amateur art critics meet in a gallery and argue passionately about the pieces they see, until finally they find a piece on which they can agree...

I'm in Pittsburgh and it's Raining

2015 • 14 min • United States of America

Anecdotally, Andy Warhol once asked the Velvet Underground that the record bearing his name be inscribed with a purposeful skip during the song “I’ll be Your Mirror.” Listeners, faced with the endless repetition of that particular lyric, would be forced to rouse themselves and manually drive the needle onward. The group declined this request. I’m in Pittsburgh and It’s Raining honors the concept: both the act and the idea of being caught in a reflexive moment. This video is an experimental portrait of a lighting stand-in/body double whose work and corporal self appears in films even if her name does not. Through a purposeful masking of the (sometimes subtle) differentiations between performance and acting, famous Hollywood actress and her double, character, actual person, audience expectation, and cinema magic this video offers a look behind the silver screen.

The Great Canadian Tax Dodge

2015 • 60 min

Canada loses $80 billion annually in tax revenue to corporations legally, and aggressively, exploiting tax loopholes. Were this money taxed, instead of flowing into offshore tax havens, the Canadian government would garner $20 billion annually. Facing deficits and lay-offs, this film explores both sides: those who believe this is good for Canada, and those who believe it endangers democracy itself.

The Mountain

2015 • 60 min • Taiwan

For hundreds of years, Taiwan has been under different colonial rules. From the Dutch, the Spanish, the Japanese, and nowadays Republic of China, each regime left their footprints on this island. Only the indigenous people of this island experienced of the process. They were given different names during different periods of colonisation and their cultures have been changed. Through the life of a Truku elder, we see the history of aboriginal recertification movement.

Notes on Blue

2015 • 28 min

Moyra Davey's new 28-minute video is a lyrical film essay that interweaves various biographies-including those of Derek Jarman, poet Anne Sexton, writer Jorge Luis Borges, and the artist herself-to explore blindness, color, and identity.

The Silence of Ani

2015 • 13 min

Once upon a time Ani was one of the most important cities of the Middle Ages. People started abandoning the city until all life left and silence fell into Ani. Yet, can't we do better than silence?