All Films

Filmreise in das alte Köln

2014 • 60 min

A documentary about Cologne through the pre-war years until the 1930s.

Goat

2014 • 24 min

2014 black and white short film about goats

It Will Be Advantageous to Cross the Great Stream

2014 • 6 min

Sometimes, and only sometimes, do things magically fall into place.

The 1960s For Me

2014 • 5 min

Drawing inspiration from the sounds, instruments, style, texture, mixing and record back spinning of 1960s pop music, modern sampling methods is used to re-present, synthesize and “musicify” the content of Ya Si’s poems. It also references the line from Bob Dylan’s 1960s classic Blowin’ In The Wind, “The answer is blowin’ in the wind”, to correspond to the line in Ya Si’s poem that pays tribute to the song. This is recited in a recording by singer-songwriter Jing Wong. 借鑒六十年代流行音樂的聲音、樂器、質感、混音特色、倒播處理等，再嘗試以現今電子音樂拼貼方法重新展現、組合，並「音樂化」也斯在詩中提到的內容，當中亦借用了卜戴倫在六十年代紅極一時的經典歌曲《Blowin’ In The Wind》的一句歌詞「The answer is blowin’ in the wind」回應和延伸也斯詩中的「答案啊，我的朋友是在風中飄動」，由同樣是唱作人的本地創作歌手黃靖錄音朗讀。

Empire

2014 • 11 min

Empire (2014) is a direct reference to Andy Warhol’s eponymous 1964 film, which consists of a single eight-hour-long shot of the Empire State Building. In Bacher’s film, images of the iconic skyscraper—illuminated by twinkling red, white, and blue lights—are fragmented through plexiglass prisms, turning a symbol of American modernism into something unruly, unstable, and fugitive. The images lose integrity each time they are refracted or reflected. Paired with a discordant soundtrack, this work creates a hallucinatory spectacle suggestive of an era of deep uncertainty, marked by climate change and sociopolitical turmoil. [Overview courtesy of MoMA]

A Spell

2014 • 15 min • Spain

A strange, albeit elaborate, and entertaining piece, intimately recounting some mysterious events that took place in Cerbère not long ago, when a young man arrived in the village with the idea of ​​making a few films.

Border

2014 • 2 min

An odd man on a balcony

Bacchanal

2014 • 15 min

A very hot day in the biggest carnival in Toronto. Light blue reflective paper foils. North American largest street Festival, an annual celebration of Caribbean culture in Toronto since 1967

Phoebe's Birthday Cheeseburger

2014 • 4 min

On August 15, 2013, Phoebe turned 10.

Webcam Girls: At Your Service

2014 • 45 min

Discover the bizarre and often hilarious world of women who work in the alternative adult industry, with exclusive access to their online playgrounds. Focusing on the increasingly popular world of webcam erotica, we follow some of the savvy businesswomen finding creative ways of cashing in. With 28,258 people accessing online adult content each second, the world's appetite for saucy screenplay seems to be insatiable. Applications on mobile devices that allow people to fulfil fantasies 'on the go' are currently valued at £80 million in the UK alone. With the UK adult industry worth over £1 billion as a whole, the money making potential is endless. As each webcam conversation clocks up a minimum of £1.60 a minute for these technological temptresses, these women can make over the hourly national minimum wage in less than six minutes.

Baba

2014 • 3 min

An elderly Turkish migrant now living in New Zealand recounts his early days as a refugee in Auckland, as told to his grandson Joel. Memories are animated to echo the colourful, stream of consciousness storytelling and to capture the mindset of an aging man whose memory is starting to fade and sometimes struggles to be understood.

DMD KIU LIDT: Die Manifestation des Kapitalismus in unserem Leben ist die Traurigkeit

2014 • 55 min

DMD KIU LIDT is an anti-music film which follows the Austrian pop-rock band Ja, Panik and their social circle of fellow musicians in Berlin and Vienna. It is a chronicle of a group that centers on the conditions of music-making in a state of prolonged sadness dominated by the shadow of a permanent crisis (of capitalism).

What's on Your Mind?

2014 • 2 min • Norway

Facebook can be depressing because everyone else's lives are better than yours... But are they really?

Picture Particles

2014 • 6 min • Germany

Individual elements from a carrier of visual information have been isolated and used to construct alternative visual reagents. Repetition is administered as a binder to tame the wild particles in motion, achieving a golden ratio in the mind's eye.

Eyes Wide Shut Masks

2014 • 25 min

Rialto, Venice. In a short but remarkable workshop, in 1985 Franco Cecamore has created two original masks for the Venice Carnival. Twelve years later, a man with white coloured men's clothing, came to that shop: the man was Jan Harlan, executive producer of one of the last movies directed by Stanley Kubrick. He visited "Il Canovaccio" in order to buy several masks. One of them would be used by Kubrick in his last masterpiece “Eyes Wide Shut” for the character of Dr. Bill Harford, played by Tom Cruise. This documentary is the incredible and unknown story behind the creation of the most important masks of “Eyes Wide Shut.” The artisans of this typical Italian product say that the origin of the art makes it a unique product. Original documents, photographs and the description of the meeting with the Kubrick's production make this the story we tell in our film.

Living with Jigsaw

2014 • 2 min

Gary thought it would be cool to live with Jigsaw. Boy was he wrong.

Spectrum Reverse Spectrum

2014 • 20 min

Margaret Honda's awesome Spectrum Reverse Spectrum is a silent, camera-less colour-field film created and exhibited on 70mm. A maximalist expression of minimalism reminiscent of James Turrell's light sculptures, Honda's immersive, epically scaled work is both abstract and strangely affecting, especially as a collective viewing experience.

Dog People

2014 • 25 min • Germany

Set in the future, this is the bizarre history of a colonial Admiral and the brutality he inflicted on the mythical Dog People as he searched for South American gold.

The Mission

2014 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A 35mm trailer print of Mission Impossible is cut up, dismantled, refilmed, replayed, reassembled, re-edited with tape and scissors and repeated to abstraction. Printed by torchlight and developed in a bucket.

L3.0

2014 • 5 min • France

Leo, a Hi-Tech ‘pet’ robot, wanders alone in Paris following the mysterious disappearance of nearly all living species.

The White Goddess

2014 • 30 min

In 1958, the polemic Brazilian artist Flávio de Carvalho joined an expedition to the rainforest to shoot his first feature film. Danger, romance and quarrels in the jungle and the production had to be interrupted. The White Goddess employs rare and original archival images to recreate this journey.

The Redeemer

2014 • 13 min • Philippines

"Holy Week, probably the most sacred time of the year, a time where Christ’s sufferings are retold- relieved. Kapampangans are among the ones that manifest their faith by re-enacting the suffering of Christ. However, in the midst of this Holiness, evil still works its way to the people. But in the end, forgiveness and salvation is offered by our redeemer - Jesus Christ."

Aromat

2014 • 7 min • Serbia

This film is shot to point out the flood of commercial messages in television program, on billboards and megaboards, messages that take over our subconscious mind. We Love Belgrade is a log-line that justifies huge investments. This shining out of advertisement messages is just a curtain that hides carelessness towards the environment and human lives. The whole Belgrade became a commercial to sell itself, by constantly sending ads to its citizens. Could a commercial have any influence on a young mother of two whose only source of money comes from trash cans?

No Man's Land

2014 • 12 min • Netherlands

After a series of disasters, nothing is left of human civillisation. All that remains are the people left behind who live in a post-apocalyptic no man's land. When Lil, a young lonely woman, finds a wounded stranger near her shelter, she has to decide if she'll help him or not. Does she remember what it's like to do something good for another human being?