All Films

Larimar

2014 • 6 min

A young girl explores a luminous beach as a mysterious voice pushes reality deeper into sublime abstraction. The film reveals the simultaneity of stillness and change in the sea, ultimately transforming into a hypnotic search for our lost Edenic origins.

The Invention of the Desert

2014 • 7 min

Humans have been our parents, our shepherds, and finally our obsolete children. Who are we?

Mischa

2014 • 12 min

Mischa is going to be one of the first Russian cosmonauts in space. These are his final moments and these memories are his. Today is the day Mischa will be launched into space, today is the day he finally can make his father proud.

put the goat in the goat boat

2014 • 17 min • United Kingdom

“Let’s think of nature as a big room. Nature is a room you know you’ll have to leave some day, most likely not by choice”. Heather Phillipson’s hallucinatory video put the goat in the goat boat explores endless declinations of nature—natural, naturing, finding a better nature, the nature construction, nature on loan, nature’s lack of nudity...—while revealing humanity’s ambiguous relationship to it.

Melting Rainbow Heart

2014 • 5 min

A feedback driven experimental digital animation by Andrew Benson.

Infect me not

2014 • 6 min

Lovestruck co-workers Whit and Laurel long for human connection in an ultra-sterile, germaphobic society where physical contact is forbidden.

Cannibal Mécanique

2014 • 18 min • United States of America

Cannibal Mécanique is a marriage of analog electronic sound, analog video feedback and signal generation, and choreography. The composition is a synthesis of analog electronic systems, recording processes, choreography, and the unique (energy) exchange between man and machine in an active magnetic field. The controlled room is outfitted with: 9 color surveillance cameras, 9 crt monitors, chroma blue carpeted interior, signal generator, 9 channel switch, micro timer, and video mixer. The performance is recorded live and simultaneously played back on a 9 monitor wall. The performance is being mixed live through 9 camera channels at both aerial and eye level.

The Lindsay Lohan Experience

2014 • 10 min

Composed of images of the actress Lindsay Lohan being photographed by paparazzi, the work builds a visual experience of flashes, lights and pixels.

On The Evening

2014 • 7 min

On The Evening portrays boundaries between the visible and invisible. Sounds and images describe an anxious landscape of historical borders. The sky and sea are riddled with clues, and a text conversation reveals a foggy future through an altered state of consciousness.

Over Fractured Water

2014 • 5 min

Over Fractured Water is a retelling of an industrial narrative through textures, movements and sounds. Legend swells in a hard to identify location. The materials and words mix up the narrative of land extraction, leaving a workforce numb and petrified.

Colorama

2014 • 12 min

Colorama is a love story, where the image and bodies embrace and tell their stories.

Bolero para Surfear en Moravia

2014 • 35 min

A trip to give a serenade: what begins as a memorable gathering of old friends among music and beautiful landscapes, derives into a crossroad where paths can only be taken alone, without company. A bitter comedy in which the spirit of the Caribbean permeates the membranes of Czech Culture.

Banquet of Love

2014 • 7 min • Japan

Insects in their final moments chatter noisily, displaying extravagant colors and patterns – it is their great feast of love. The work celebrates the 100th anniversary of Norman McLaren’s birth. The film was made by scratching and painting directly on overexposed 8mm film. The soundtrack was created using ‘The Octopus’, which allows the film itself acts as a score.

Auto-repair

2014 • 6 min • Japan

Based on a found West German super 8 film, circa the 1970s, this digital trace from the twilight of a more tactile, mechanical era was created using a hand-cranked 8mm projector. Transmitted via this juxtaposition of contemporary and obsolete technology, the mundane events in the film seem more distant in time than the 40 years since they were photographed, inviting reflection on recent tectonic shifts in human technology and culture.

La Main Seule

2014 • 3 min • Germany, Italy

"In a gesture that reminds one of the first forms of painting (...) the possibility of an encounter with time is disclosed. It is a very different kind of knowledge then, that can disclose hidden narratives to us.” (Cecilia Canziani)

Innocence

2014 • 9 min

Through online dating, Varun meets a guy from a different city, but things get bad when he discovers his psychopathic behavior.

Dos chicos

2014 • 17 min

Racing To Zero

2014 • 55 min

Three years ago the mayor of San Francisco pledged to achieve zero waste by 2020. Racing to Zero tracks San Francisco’s waste stream diversion tactics and presents innovative new solutions to waste. This film documents a surprising, engaging and inspiring race to zero.

Nog 10 minuten

2014 • 7 min

It's ten minutes before closing time in a gay bar, and Rodrigo hasn't scored..

The Light That I Feel

2014 • 14 min

8 channel-video installation, sound, 8- 14 mins. Music by: Jin Wang. "The light that I feel" series refers to an eponymous film shot during the summer 2014 on the island of Sandhornøy in Norway where Yang Fudong directed local actors and dancers. The Light That I Feel was first shown in situ on eight screens arranged within an architectural structure purposely built for the occasion on a beach on the island, and editing it at the Nordland College of Art and Film, Kabelvag. Influenced by Ingmar Bergman’s work, this project enabled Yang Fudong to direct European actors for the first time in a magnificent Scandinavian landscape. The artist seeks to show how the wind and trees can express a narrative. As in many of his films landscapes play a paramount role equivalent to that of the protagonists.

L'Entre deux

2014 • 5 min • Canada

Experimental work detailing the movements of crowds in an urban context, where the movement is both charged and fluid. Result of a series of long exposure experiments carried out on 16mm film with the director of photography.

La Chair de ma Chère

2014 • 12 min

After a tragic event, a child takes refuge in an alternative reality, where his mother is still present.

Journey Into Womanhood

2014 • 1 min

Lewis Carroll's Alice falls through multiple Freudian metaphors as she develops from girl to woman.

The Divide

2014 • 3 min

Man and nature try to coexist, but their boundaries are falling apart at the seams