All Films

Once the Toothpaste Is Out of the Tube - An Art Apart: Charles Gatewood

2015 • 58 min

American photographer Charles Gatewood started out in the 1960s as a young man with dreams of showing the world the radical cultural developments that were going on in his country. He met many of the iconic instigators of change and documented them for posterity. As the decades passed, Gatewood drifted more and more into a personal expression of sexual subcultures, both in America and abroad. His powerful photos of pioneers within the tattooing- and piercing scenes helped pave the way for the movement that was to be called "Modern Primitives". It's a classic example of when art, and in this example, specifically photography, merges with its general environment and takes on new forms that are impossible to stop. Or, as the San Francisco based photographer himself describes it: "Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, you can't put it back".

Can Can Diaries

2015 • 52 min

A behind the scenes look into the avant-garde, burlesque and decadent world of the Moulin Rouge in Paris, the magical mixture of erotic dance and vaudeville acts that has entered its 125th year.

The Five Elements of Adventure

2015 • 26 min

Matt Walker has worked as an international mountain guide for the past two decades, climbing the world’s seven highest peaks and leading expeditions across some of the world's most spectacular and challenging environments. Like so many of us, Matt has struggled to find a balance in life, fighting against the predetermined path carved out by modern work culture. Drawing from the pivotal moments in his own life and the insights gleaned from the hundreds of people he has led on his expeditions, Matt has dedicated his life to exploring the true power of adventure and its potential to positively impact our everyday lives. Joining four fellow adventurers from across Europe on an incredible journey through the foothills of the Himalayas, beautiful cinematography and insightful storytelling provide an inspiring exploration of the ‘Five Elements of Adventure’.

Unhittable: Sidd Finch and the Tibetan Fastball

2015 • 23 min • United States of America

In the spring of 1985, Sports Illustrated profiled the latest prospect of the New York Mets farm system: Sidd Finch, a Harvard dropout who spoke 10 languages, played the French horn, wore one hiking boot … and threw 168 mph. If it sounds too good to be true, that’s because it was. Finch was an elaborate hoax constructed by the late George Plimpton for SI’s April 1 issue. Unhittable brings back all of the people who made this hoax possible, including Joe Berton, the bespectacled middle school teacher who truly brought Sidd to life.

Severance

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

A short film made by the B TEAM

Iron Maiden

2015 • 24 min • France

Sometime after the fall of the Soviet empire, three stories about sex, violence, and boredom.

Keep Going

2015 • 22 min • South Korea

'Yeonhee', whose implanted artificial heart is broken, and 'Margo', a robot, who connected Yeonhee's broken heart to his body. The two in an inseparable destiny head toward the boundary to survive and...

Between Us

2015 • 25 min

A young man discover your affective life meanwhile experience family problems.

Mr Madila

2015 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Mr Madila or The Colour of Nothing documents a series of conversations between the film-maker and a gifted spiritual healer, exploring the inner mind, the fabric of the universe, and the nature of reality itself, through the sacred art of animation.

Notes from the Farm

2015 • 8 min

I shot and hand-processed “live action” scenes on the farm, using organic materials (trees, flowers, plants) as “mattes” for my post-residency work in the optical printer, where I combined these mattes and scenes with handmade “botanicollage” film that I created from plants gathered at the farm.

Little Boy Blue

2015 • 30 min

On an isolated farm, a lonely girl must face a dark secret when she discovers a boy held captive in a neighbouring farm’s barn

Timanfaya

2015 • 25 min

Lanzarote, a volcanic island of the Canary Islands was shaped in the eighteenth century by a series of eruptions. It preserves its memory through semi-desert mineral landscapes. In 2015, I traveled this territory in search of the cataclysm. In this devastated landscape, traces of a return to life were emerging.

I Love New York

2015 • 11 min

In a city where every ones got an angle, how does one survive? After a NY first timer befriends a savvy street girl on the train, she takes him on a fantastical ride through all the cities pitfalls. But nothing's free in this town, so tighten up your hustle or you might just get hustled yourself.

Northern Lights: A Magic Experience

2015 • 27 min

The aurora borealis is a natural moving multicolour light display observed in the high northern latitude. This natural phenomenon is a source of imagination and awe that drives exploration of the world around us. Dr. Brekke shared the science behind the aurora borealis as a visual manifestation on the sun-Earth connection. And how this also can affect our technology based society. He talked about the production of the documentary.

Noisedive

2015 • 4 min

This is what emerges when you recursively feed noise to a artificial neural network trained to recognise places (e.g. you give it an image and the response is something like 90% beach , 20% desert, 2% swimming pool). The familiar shapes you see floating past is abstractions the network has made for the different categories. Some categories feature more prominently because the amount of images used to train them differ. For example the "fountain" category contains 111,496 images compared to only 883 in the "nuclear_power_plant" one. So that's why you see a lot more fountain like shapes than big chimneys.

Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song

2015 • 10 min • United States of America

The video traverses the history and the memory of a place shared by both the Ho-Chunk and the settler. Red Banks, a pre-contact Ho-Chunk village site near present day Green Bay, WI was also the site of Jean Nicolet’s landing, who in 1634 was the first European what is today Wisconsin. Images and text are used to explore this space alongside my grandmother’s recollections. Each serve as representations of personal and shared memory, as well as representations of practices and processes of remembrance.

Cut to the Chase

2015 • 11 min

Cut to the chase was a phrase used by Hollywood studio executives, meaning “don't bore us with the dialogue - get to the interesting scenes without unnecessary delay." Cut to the Chase is a film crafted through images captured from a customised telecine apparatus and combines archival found-footage material with newly generated footage.

Space Next

2015 • 38 min

The journey to reach the stars began with our earliest dreams of flying, and led to landing on the moon and sending a probe to Pluto. But that's only the beginning. Space Next offers a glimpse into tomorrow, and the possibilities of what is to come by way of private space developments and national space programs. The result is an immersive display of interplanetary excellence sure to inspire a generation of explorers, scientists, and dreamers. Come discover what's next.

Fast Hearts

2015 • 13 min

This short film chronicles the impromptu romance between two women over the course of one weekend.

Boy Toys

2015 • 7 min • Canada

Two beautiful but vain men must survive and escape their cheerful hell as they are tormented by their unseen overlord.

Josh

2015 • 13 min

After learning about the LGBT community, Joshua decides to leave home on his Rumspringa. He arrives in the city and sets out to find Austin, the boy that told him about the community.

Santa

2015 • 20 min

One Sunday after Mass, Lourdes’ mother discovers her kissing her friend Agostina in her room. True to her beliefs, she will try to “heal” the homosexuality from her daughter, exposing her to situations that are increasingly difficult to bear. Lourdes must face her violent father, discrimination in her school and the constant reproaches of her mother. Lourdes must choose between the love of Agostina and the love of God, which includes the love of her mother.

Sigma

2015 • 17 min • Slovenia

Marie, HR manager of a small company, is forced to receive Gabriel, his new assistant. She does not like him. Why does he make her life a living hell? What if a secret united them? Did Gabriel know her in the past?

Semiotics of the Camwhore

2015 • 7 min

"... a pleasantly perturbed update of Martha Rosler’s 1975 Semiotics of the Kitchen ..." — Travis Diehl