All Films

Stay With Me

2015 • 29 min • Malaysia

Jie Yu grapples with family issues and his growing feelings for his friend Yan Shiu, torn between friendship, love, and his own emotions.

Cinématon n°2930 : Caroline Deruas

2015 • 4 min

The Time of Good Light

2015 • 15 min

2009 Intermediate Narrative Workshop, Film Dept.

When the Circus Came to Town

2015 • 18 min

A small town guy named Daniel falls in love with Ashish from the circus. Two days before the circus was scheduled to leave the town, Ashish proposes Daniel, asks him to join and travel with him. It was everything Daniel had ever dreamed of; yet, all of his fears and insecurities come rushing to the surface. What will be Daniel's decision? Will he be successful to take a fairy tale decision in this practical life? Finally, life is also a circus jumbling in between reality and dreams.

Instrument

2015 • 6 min

Wolfgang Tillmans performs an absolute bop in this combination of two videos recorded in Tehran and Los Angeles.

Cover Girl: A Gift from God

2015 • 18 min

Dalena is a blond-haired, blue-eyed, all-American white woman who is also a Vietnamese American pop star. A gift from God, she possesses the uncanny ability to sing in perfect Vietnamese. She mimics its beautiful cadences and difficult tones and imbues the songs with her unique melancholy style. Using clips from music videos, concert performances, and actual interviews, Hoang's video resists a simple dismissal of Dalena as yet another instance of cultural appropriation. He rather suggests that within the context of Vietnamese American musical production and consumption, a context marked by a recycling of pre-1975 repertoires, the novelty and innovation of the star-text 'Dalena' allow overseas Vietnamese music fans to negotiate the pressures of assimilation and reflect their desire to preserve a memory of what it means to be Vietnamese while living in America.

May We Sleep Soundly

2015 • 15 min • Canada

An unseen presence traverses a snowy landscape and enters a series of winter homes, in which slumbering occupants go eerily undisturbed.

SANSa SOLEIL

2015 • 7 min • Spain

Behind the reference to Marker in the title, the filmmaker and pho-tographer Roca shows in this hypnotic film- the elusive registration of Galician autumn sun through the reflection of light in the smoke. and the use of a series of solargraphies taken with a pinhole camera.

The Thread

2015 • 59 min

The Thread is a groundbreaking documentary that exposes the undeniable impact amateur internet writers are having on journalism today. Following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, amateur internet sleuths took to Twitter and Reddit, intent on identifying the individuals responsible. The ensuing investigation led to an innocent young man being charged with the crime, thus changing the face of journalism forever. Directed by Greg Barker (Manhunt) and executive produced by Emmy Award-winning producer Jonathan Chinn (American High) and Academy Award-winning producer Simon Chinn (Man on Wire).

Incredible Flying Jet Packs

2015 • 51 min

When the jet pack took its first flight in the 1960s, it was loud, difficult to pilot, and could stay in the air for about 30 seconds. Over 50 years later, not much has changed. But visionary engineers are hard at work to make them quieter, safer, and more practical.

Vivre autrement

2015 • 52 min

The Creators

2015 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Oscar nominee director Nanette Burstein is behind The Creators, a documentary film that charts the rise of a new kind of celebrity, YouTube creators. Starring Zoella amongst others, the film explores the lives of several YouTube vloggers, seen from a different angle by going behind the video camera to see what it takes to succeed on YouTube.

Where the Chocolate Mountains

2015 • 55 min

A tour de force of digital art, Where the Chocolate Mountains (2015, 55 min.) is a major new opus from Pat O’Neill, one of the all-time guiding lights of the Los Angeles avant-garde, whose pioneering use of the optical printer marked a creative breakthrough in composite image-making in cinema. Continuing in the vein of his renowned 35mm epics Water and Power (1989), Trouble in the Image (1996) and Decay of Fiction (2002), the founding CalArts faculty member combines haunting cinematography of the Chocolate Mountains along the border between California and Arizona—long used as a bombing range by the military—with footage shot in L.A., Mexico and Prague, intimate self-portraits, and recurring graphic motifs to create irrepressible, stunningly detailed streams of multilayered sight and sound.

From Russia with Cash

2015 • 49 min

With increasing evidence that London's property boom is being partly fuelled by overseas buyers laundering money, From Russia with Cash uses secret filming and an undercover reporter posing as a Russian government minister to investigate how estate agents react to his plan to use millions of pounds of stolen money to purchase a high end property.

Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes

2015 • 3 min

Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes

Conflict

2015 • 35 min

Six conflict photographers reflect on their experiences capturing the atrocities of war and other manifestations of violence on film.

What I see

2015 • 5 min

What I see is a video made in China in Haining , working city with over eight thousand textile factories. This video shows a working back whose job is to scrutinize kilometers of tissue to detect any defect. The body of the young woman oscillates in an endless coming and going right to left facing the tissue that never stops falling and thereby becomes curtain. A daylight, which grabs hold and both remotely, radiates the face we never see or with so few details that recognition is not possible.

Accompany Me

2015 • 60 min

The story of how different people try to find love and communicate their feelings and wishes.

Five Stories

2015 • 4 min

In this inventive short, celebrated actor and director R.H. Thomson playfully deconstructs narrative, parting the curtain on the five central stories that frame our understanding of the world.

Lo Sum Choe Sum

2015 • 20 min • Bhutan

The traditional ‘3 Year 3 Month Retreat’ or ‘Lo Sum Choe Sum’ is practiced by Buddhist monks, nuns and other devout practitioners. 3 years, 3 months, and 3 days is calculated as the time needed to achieve a higher state of clarity and motivation. By cutting oneself off from the world, and delving into the inner mind, the retreat is supposed to transform the practitioner. Can Lhamo, a young, wounded girl facing the harsh gaze of the world, find her own form of retreat and redemption? Lo Sum Choe Sum was Bhutan’s first entry into the Berlinale Shorts Competition. It was made in 2015 by filmmaker Dechen Roder, who later produced and wrote and directed the well-acclaimed Honeygiver Among the Dogs.

Navigator

2015 • 7 min

In Navigator, Björn Kämmerer films a set of vertical mirrors with beveled edges in monumental close-up, and vigourously edits them in a back-and-forward motion that offers a dizzying array of Cubist perspectives.

It Runs in the Family

2015 • 45 min

From Vancouver to Oakland to Manila, follow gay Filipino Canadian artist Jay Cabalu and his sister Joella, as they meet their other queer relatives and explore what the modern queer family can be in the Filipino diaspora.

Amazon Presents Paul Weller LIVE, at The Great Escape

2015 • 49 min

Live from Brighton, UK, Amazon Front Row presents Paul Weller at Great Escape. The award-winning and Multi-Platinum singer-songwriter performs songs from his new album Saturn's Patter, as well as classics songs.

Season of Wonder

2015 • 9 min

Season of Wonder is a cine-poetic work that situates us amongst the irregular cycles of a destabilized world. It intertwines that which I witness with that which I imagine. A perceptual blur arises, where the freakish quietly morphs into the everyday. I am working in the area of unnatural history in an intervened place. Cycles of time are disrupted, and loss is complicated with the spark of possibilities.