All Films

Thomas Feldman

2014 • 9 min

Thomas Feldmann was a Frankfurt film-maker in his twenties. He was one of the first victims of AIDS in Frankfurt.In Germany he was the 5th person to be infected with the HIV-Virus. Nowadays he is known as one of the most influential film-makers in the German avantgarde and gay/queer film movement.

Straight Faced

2014 • 20 min

Nathan doesn't seem to fit in anywhere. He's just not meant to be a queer boy, so what is he to do? To bro, or not to bro? That is the question. Follow Nathan as he flips the script and plays it straight. Where will he end up? And with who? His life has no direction, and every move he makes is slowly turning into a series of tragic decisions. It won't be too long before someone is going to get hurt.

Square Religion

2014 • 3 min • Spain

The three-dimensional pixel is a complex unit of inert tangible matter with a nucleus and envelope, but which has evolved to grow its code in regularly and fractally repeating structures, spawning technological variety that extends to the edges of infinity.

Vide

2014 • 2 min • Spain

Video created with sunlight, mirrors and cut-outs… analogue lighting effects that convert non-being to all-being, light into image and message.

Green Light

2014 • 7 min

Sehun and Baekhyun, who are lovers, enjoy dating. However, Baekhyun wants sexual intercourse, but Sehun reluctantly promises to do it in 100 days due to repeated demands.

Turquoise Sky

2014 • 18 min

Two men meet at a shabby beer house after two years. Sang-min, who entered into a sham marriage, said that his wife was pregnant and that he would just drink a beer and go.

Popkamikaze

2014 • 16 min

Kami, an androgynous teenager, is persecuted and humiliated on the internet. With a camera in hand, he records the odd day of his birthday. Inspired by the real facts of teenagers who committed suicide for not feeling loved as they are, the short film dialogues in a contemporary way on topics such as homophobia, virtual bullying, transsexuality, and gender vs. sexual orientation.

She4me

2014 • 7 min

A short film where a lesbian marries her partner.

Le volet de ma chambre

2014 • 5 min • France

A film-poem that celebrates the morning sun, filtering through the shutters of my childhood bedroom. An appreciation for light and brightness (and a nod to filmmaker Paul Clipson).

2016 Sound Horizon 10th Anniversary Fan Club Event

2014 • 26 min

2016 Sound Horizon 10th Anniversary Fan Club Event , linked to Nein

Camanchaca, là où les corps crient

2014 • 14 min • Chile

In the north of Chile, Cachamanca is the name we give to the mist, rising up from the Pacific, which stumbles against the hills facing it.

Zauma

2014 • 16 min • Italy

The greek word “zauma” means the angst for the unpredictability of becoming. We often translate it into “wonder”, but this is an improper definition. To assert, like Aristotle did, that every knowledge and every technique come from the wonder is not enough. For Homer, zauma is Polyphemus eating the Odysseus’ comrades, that is to say that it means something more strong and negative than “wonder”. Homeric poems evoke an eerie monstrosity. As it has provoked the whole knowledge and philosophy, zauma is generally intended to be the anguished terror in front of world’s becoming. (E. Severino)

Dust Poetry

2014 • 9 min • Netherlands

Engrossing combination of 16mm frames with house dust collected by Nan Wang and film clips of insects and plants. The beauty of tiny, surplus materials digitally processed and edited into a hallucinogenic trip. Pulsating soundtrack based on insect and wind sounds.

Springhammer

2014 • 49 min • Canada, Japan

Springhammer is about Japanese blacksmiths who dedicate their lives to making culinary knives [it's also the actual mechanical tool used by the blacksmiths]. At the end of WWII, Japan was faced with a burdensome repurposing of many industries, and with military swords no longer in demand despite a tradition carried on since the samurai, the industry turned to the kitchen. Craftsmen, now applying ancient trade skills of the blade making to cookery, go largely unnoticed by their countrymen and have to find a new place in the world for their craft. Thankfully, the world seems to be starting to listen.

Baisers Nocturnes

2014 • 13 min

Probably the first film directed by Malak Mroueh.

Lullabies

2014 • 30 min • Dominican Republic, United States of America

Lullabies is a false autobiography. A game that sometimes is blue or has no color. A story that, as Dominican conversations, won't finish its ideas and finds in onomatopoeias conclusions to its thoughts. A tale about a glance, a space, an action, or a love, but that definitely belongs to the boy that appears and disappears in the abstraction of a childhood memory.

Abel

2014 • 19 min

Abandoned at birth, Abel, travels to a church in search of his real mother. Upon arrival he is taken in by the compassionate pastor, James, who is curious about the young man. As their relationship develops, an unexpected love affair sparks between the two men, much to the dismay of James' associate Silvia, who's beliefs lay in firm Christian traditions, despite the current shift in views on homosexuality. Ultimately it is her who has to deal with acceptance when she learns the truth about Abel.

Stories Houses Tell

2014 • 4 min

Four Winnipeg houses as documented by reporter Lillian Gibbons, with illustrations by Arlene Osen.

Stretch and Pull

2014 • 3 min

End Reel

2014 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Convolves the aberrations found within two image-making technologies; film and video, which here combine to produce a heap of dichotomies and forensic textures of process, like human imprints in sand.

Guilty of Being a Woman

2014 • 49 min

In Brest, Marie is a woman beaten by her husband fisherman Stephan. While embarking on a trawler during 3 months, Marie suddenly finds Solenn. She slowly helps Marie to regain confidence. The complicity that the two women had is reborn and escapes them is a subtle torment.

Measure

2014 • 8 min • Switzerland

"Measure" is part of an emerging body of work, which reflects on concepts of nature in the 21st century. As nature filtered through digital communications channels becomes the new norm, the boundaries start to blur between mediated and physical experience. Hentschläger’s work probes the question whether “nature” and the concept of the “original” can still culturally exist in the Anthropocene, in this age of human influence. What exactly is real, in the sense of the pure and original, and what is to be understood as constructed and artificial? Measure has been commissioned by Audemars Piguet.

HiFi Normal

2014 • 8 min

A telecommunications tower in the centre of Moncton has become almost useless, standing alone in the middle of this otherwise flat city. A looping image of this landmark gradually decays until it is replaced completely with abstraction. Opting for the repurposing of technology instead of declaring its obsolescence, modified VHS decks and a simple handmade DIY video switcher were used to create this work.

Anorexic

2014 • 18 min

Short film by Shi Qing.