All Films

Les empreintes douloureuses

2015 • 18 min

Nathalie is a young and beautiful French woman native from Cameroun. Despite a good education, she is in bad straits.

Universal Orlando: Behind the Scenes

2015 • 43 min

Celebrating 25 years of innovation at the resort including "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter."

Bionte

2015 • 6 min • Spain

Fragmented moving representation of the invading lichen. The projection of their shapes, textures and colors is related to the microorganic decomposition of the photographic emulsion.

El Juicio Adelantado

2015 • 22 min • Spain

Víctor Mozo, a poet, tells his experiences about his poetry in an autobiographical reflection with a touch of videopoetry, showing the flora and landscape of Sanabria. Land related to the family life and history of the poet of Zamora.

Com Rade Zhi Ni Hao

2015 • 8 min

Com and Rade, who meet by chance, immediately have a series of conflicts. Can they settle their differences?

CrocADyke Dundee

2015 • 56 min • Australia

Dawn O’Donnell was a convent girl who became a professional ice skater, travelled the world and then landed up in 1950s Australia, a penniless lesbian. By the time of her death in 2007, she had stormed through Sydney’s gay underworld and built herself an empire of bars, clubs, steam rooms, sex shops and drag shows, inspiring The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. This fascinating documentary explores the mythology (was she a mobster? an arsonist? a murderer?) and life of this shrewd, silver-haired, butch businesswoman.

Behind the Trees

2015 • 3 min

so there we were. i hired avi, i dumped my basic ideas and vibe out in an email, sent him a bunch of reference clips and animations i liked, and we talked ideas and concepts on the phone and over email for a month or two. then he and his team got to work. they sent along their progress and every clip was like getting a little christmas present in my email, watching it take shape and grow…. I love what we ended up with. I hope you love it too.

M Seeking W

2015 • 11 min • France

A love story in the world of revived paintings.

Starboard Light

2015 • 57 min • United States of America

A family's decision to sell its 210-year-old Cape Cod summer home, which has seen five generations of the family pass through its doors, spurs one of its members, filmmaker Nick Fitzhugh, to preserve the memories it holds for future generations; and, too, to ask whether a family makes a house or if the house makes the family.

The Colors of Boulder in the Summer

2015 • 6 min

"in the summer of 1997 I went to Boulder Colorado for a holiday. During this time we attended some poetry things at Naropa and and some cinematic things at the University of Colorado. I had my bolex with me the whole time and I shot little bursts of images along the way. The film sat in its can on a shelf in my studio until the early part of 2014 when I began to experiment with the images on my optical printer."

Inadaptados

2015 • 41 min • Spain

Following his previous film "Las más macabras de las vidas", Kikol Grau now fixes his scalpel in the band Cicatriz to build a new audiovisual Molotov that proposes a rereading of the complacient history of this country in the eighties.

The Game of Life

2015 • 17 min

The Game of Life presents four episodes taking place over a stormy night at the annual party of a Sports Center. Each vignette presents characters playing and chatting, waiting for something to happen and trying to reflect on “What does it mean to be a winner at the game of life?”.

One Day A Letter Arrives from the Dog Kingdom

2015 • 11 min

The original novel and manga adaptation focus on letters sent from deceased dogs to their former owners. The anime adaptation stars P-chan, a dog whose owner abandoned him.

Plantation Memories: Part I

2015 • 6 min

An exploration of everyday racism reveals how much this places the black subject in a colonial setting where they once again are reduced to the subordinate, exotic 'Other'. Racism allows the past to suddenly line up with the present, and the present is experienced as if one were being catapulted back into that painful past.

The Human Robot

2015 • 50 min

The Human Robot explores the boundary between biological and mechanical intelligence through interviews with sociologists, roboticists, ethicists, and philosophers. Asking "how human is too human?" in regards to robot design, the film focuses primarily on Japanese culture and their positive attitude towards technology in contrast to Western culture's tendency towards fearing intelligent machines. The filmmakers showcase a wide variety of intelligent robot designs, from the flashy and entertaining automatons of Tokyo's Robot Restaurant and the dog-like Aibo robotic pet, to the hyper-real Geminoid designs that mimic their human counterparts with great accuracy. Androids are shown to already be quite prevalent in Japanese society where they hold positions as receptionists, retail sales clerks, and even news bulletin reporters.

Kamakshi

2015 • 25 min • India

We follow an old woman digging for water on a barren piece of land. She digs and digs, and the furrows in the dry earth are reflected in the folds of her face. She almost disappears into the pit, at the edge of which a girl appears. The two exchange glances. The old woman shares coins from a boat that has run aground with water. The water vendors carry torches through the night. Associative and hallucinatory images alternate with narrative moments. In the end, the hope for water comes at a high price.

Midnight Dance

2015 • 26 min • Taiwan

After being fired from her previous job, Qin-Qin, a 30-year-old beer girl, feels lost and tries to get drunk. Wandering through the darkened lanes of a fish market, she ponders the meaning of life. There she discovers a late night seafood stand, where she finds what she has been longed for…

Some Smallness Coming From Land

2015 • 25 min

The story flowing under this film has certain parallels to the theory of bird's hibernation and transformation advocated by Aristotle which is already dated today. In the land, ash snow is falling. The land's flag is fluttering in the blowing wind. And the quail slowly transforms into some other species. When listening to the voice of soil, there is no border in the land.

Biennale di Venezia 56° - Sigla

2015 • 1 min

Sinfonía del viaje a la Luna

2015 • 12 min

Nicolás is a little kid who thinks that when his grandmother dies, she goes to the moon. Therefore, he begins to create a lot of artifacts, to travel to the moon to see her again. However, he fails in all his inventions and his father tries to make his dream come true.

Homegirls

2015 • 21 min

Homeboy Industries, the world's largest gang intervention and re-entry organization, offers an unparalleled 18-month job-training program for recovering drug addicts and ex-gang members. The short documentary HOMEGIRLS intimately follows the lives of two of the programs' female participants, Maria and Joselyn, over four months as they attempt to leave the past behind and start anew.

Norma's Story

2015 • 5 min

This animated short film is a stylistic and lively story of the profound effect of climate change on the people and wildlife of the Arctic. Northern communities provide authenticity to the story of climate change because they are experiencing its impacts now, not in some distant future. Temperature changes, unrivalled anywhere else on the planet, have significantly impacted the wildlife sustaining the Gwich’in First Nation and other northern communities. This film tells the true story of Norma, a Gwich’in woman who has experience dramatic changes in her way of life in just a few decades.

The Color Remains the Same

2015 • 13 min

The artist calls into question his experiences in Beirut by using a cell phone camera as a possible, yet unreliable witness. A diasporic figure at home, he negotiates the overlapping aesthetics of celebration and mourning following a FIFA soccer game and a car explosion that took place simultaneously in the summer of 2014. The piece is an extension of a text-based work published under the title.

My Body My Rules

2015 • 3 min

My Body My Rules is a 2015 three-minute animated film aimed at raising awareness of female genital mutilation (FGM) amongst primary school aged children in the UK. The film has been developed as a visual aid resource to help facilitate sessions on FGM in primary schools in the UK and for use by professionals and non-governmental organizations working with younger children who could be at risk of being forced to undergo FGM.