All Films

Tête brûlée

2014 • 38 min

A few days of reunion between Francis, an absent father, and Valentine, his twenty five-year-old daughter, shut in an apartment in which he has been hospitalised for years.

Books

2014 • 6 min

Documentation of a book project by artist Arturo Herrera.

Declassified- Godzilla: A Whole New Level of Destruction

2014 • 55 min

Featurette of Godzilla (2014)

Spring: The Return of Life

2014 • 49 min

A documentary about the most spectacular spring in the last fourty years. Five months of filming in the Iberian Peninsula, great forests, lakes, plains, saltworks, the awakening of the flora and especially of the fauna. We witness unique moments like the mating of the viperine water snake and the long journey into maturity of the natterjack toad.

House Fire

2014 • 5 min

This project began out of a desire to express the grief experienced from the loss of a parent. While attempting to describe this grief through language — visual or otherwise — it became evident that some events are indescribable without losing the very agency one has in having experienced the loss in the first place.

No Caminho com Mário

2014 • 21 min • Brazil

In the village of Koenju, in Rio Grande do Sul, young Mario and his "gang" make fun of the challenges of today's Mbya-Guarani reality.

Lo_eath

2014 • 4 min • France

Collage from 35 mm trailers.

and the image gazes back

2014 • 10 min

The video piece questions the role of images in current and historical events. Even as these events, and their representations, resonate in our own memories from various media, the video is navigating the blurred lines between fiction and reality, the visible and the unseen, audible and mute, imaginable and unimaginable.

Holiday Party

2014 • 59 min

Create a warm, high definition, holiday atmosphere in your home with the sights and sounds of Christmas.

Kayla

2014 • 12 min

Boy meets girl until girl's creepy gay brother stops boy.

Zazel

2014 • 7 min • Taiwan

In an advanced city far into the future, a unique race called “The Human Cannonball Tournament” takes place. Contestants are fired from a series of cannons from a platform, and compete through the circular city hovering high in the sky for the highest honor. Back in the tournament’s maintenance bay, the technician Zazel has a childhood dream of entering the race one day. By an unexpected turn of events, she accidentally gets mistaken for one of the contestants and is thrown into tournament. With no experience and equipment, can she fulfill her dream and reach the finish line?

Chamber Drama

2014 • 11 min

Megan, a stubborn teenage girl with hypersensitive hearing, attempts to prove herself to her supervisor on the last day of her internship in an acoustics laboratory.

tricotMOVIE12月号 '14

2014 • 2 min • Japan

tricot movie december

Public Service Announcement

2014 • 15 min

Public Service Announcement introduces the viewer to the political structure and history of the fictional republic of Azania. Divided into three ‘acts’, the film begins with a monologue by an unidentified narrator and seemingly omnipotent presence. As the Azanian myth unfolds against a visual backdrop of neon and black, the genealogy of its protagonists becomes increasingly complex and the viewer is left with the sense that this matriarchal government is an autocratic state. The rebirth and catharsis represented by the growing procession of human and animal figures in the third act suggest that we have witnessed a revolution and the birth of a new era. Building on previous work, the artist uses this incarnation of Azania as a satirical lens through which to critique the flawed, convoluted political and symbolic rhetoric used in nation-building and the legitimization of ruling elites.

Independencia 86

2014 • 7 min

Experimental short

Olaf's Quest

2014 • 60 min • United States of America

Olaf (Geoffrey Henderson) Is a clumsy dumb looking but yet generous kind childish young man who has a heart for everyone who is in need. In this occasion he has that kind of heart for a little girl who lost her teddy bear, with his promise Olaf gave her, he puts himself on a unusual journey more than he had anticipated on a quest only the purest of heard can accomplish.

forever MINAZUKI

2014 • 4 min • Japan

Short animation by Chinami Tanaguchi

Listed

2014 • 10 min

Seoungho Cho writes: "When I noticed some moments from my studio window in its prosaic reality, I started to make a 'List' of these accumulated moments of lights and colors in time suggesting a flow of unconsciousness. Ironically, throughout the seasons with endless changes of light and shadows, I became to numb to time. I have been in the midst of a meditation, which extended both through my visual and psychological plane."

United States of Drinking

2014 • 46 min

What a civilization imbibes can reveal a lot about who they are and the world that they live in. Those who built the pyramids preferred beer, and ancient Rome loved its wine, but what's the preferred alcoholic beverage in the US and what does it say about America? Join food writer Josh Ozersky on an illuminating journey as he makes moonshine, meets a microbrewery's chemist, visits an award-winning vineyard and samples the infinite possibilities of the cocktail bar, all in the name of science.

100 Million People Adrift The Ripples of China's Urban Upheaval

2014 • 49 min • Japan

In 2014, under the "new type of urbanization" plan, a nationwide urban village renovation program was rolled out, affecting about 100 million people. At the same time, the residency permit policy, which is seen as a transitional means of "household registration reform," began to be fully implemented, claiming that it would give migrant workers benefits almost equal to those enjoyed by the urban household population, but the migrant workers, who are supposed to be the beneficiaries, were not convinced. For them, the massive demolition and relocation have destroyed their only cheap living environment in the city, and the price they need to pay to "become a city dweller" is too high for them to afford, so they prefer to wander without a home.

Boding

2014 • 9 min • Cambodia

Kanitha Tith’s 2014 artist film Boding is an evocative portrait of Phnom Penh’s White Building, Cambodia’s first public housing project built for moderate-income residents during the early 1960s. Originally consisting of 468 apartments, the White Building (like the whole city that surrounds it) was abandoned during the Khmer Rouge regime rule in the 1970s. After their fall in 1979, the building fell into disrepair but was still a home for its original residents, artists, community educators and others who built a vibrant community there. Tith’s film is a patient walkthrough of the “boding” (as it is popularly called by locals) that allows the viewer an unhurried look at its corridors, surfaces and the manifestations of life inside and around it.

The Last Emperor of Mexico

2014 • 45 min • France, Germany, United States of America

In Austria, he was known as an art collector and idealist. In Mexico, he was a colonialist aggressor responsible for thousands of deaths. And in France, he lost an empire. But who was the real Archduke Maximilian? Join us as we examine the brief and contentious reign of the last emperor of Mexico, a complex and conflicted member of the powerful Habsburg family, from his royal childhood in Vienna to his alliance with Napoleon III, who wanted to expand his empire to the Western Hemisphere.

Late

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

Super 8mm film, color, silent 3 min.

Film digitalia, No. 15

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

This work is a study of the durative moment of montage between three bodies: the digital, the filmic and the human. It is a moment of confrontation between these three bodily apparatuses. It is about how they are constantly at odds with each other and yet, also in awe of each other. - looking and looking and trying to feel the others, become the others and destroy the others. How is it that they can be merged and become something beyond their separateness? How can they, together, become a fourth body?