All Films

Pour vos yeux bleus

2014 • 12 min • France

A woman meets a man in a Paris hotel room.

13 Submitted Ghost Videos That Cannot be Broadcast

2014 • 55 min • Japan

A collection of the most terrifying videos submitted and collected for over 20 years by 'Million Publishing'.

Winfried

2014 • 3 min • France

This film is a tribute to the last victim of the Berlin Wall. Winfried presents a stream of air filmed through polyethylene, the same material used in March 1989 by Winfried Freudenberg to cross the wall from East to West.

Terebide wa Nagasenai Geinō-kai no Kowai Hanashi

2014 • 51 min • Japan

A horror story at the limit of what can be banned! The book "Horror stories from the entertainment world that can't be played on TV" (published by TO Bunko), which sold over 200,000 copies in total, has finally been made into a movie!

Second Life

2014 • 21 min • Russia

Fascinated by a computer game that simulates the real world with unlimited possibilities, a young family man, an employee of an online store, gradually loses his sense of reality. Unsuited to family life, he makes a choice towards the flat world, creating in it an imaginary image of a man with a capital letter. Having made a bet on the virtual space, he does not notice how “orobotel". One day, coolly pressing “delete” on a folder with family photos, the only one that reminds him of reality, he finally plunges into the digital space and forgets about his loved ones...

Hitori Kakurenbo: Hide-and-Seek

2014 • 7 min • United States of America

Hitori Kakurenbo in Japanese refers to an urban legend ritual that is meant to summon a ghost or other spirit into ones home. As early as July 2007, descriptions of how to play One-Man Hide and Seek were posted on Japanese horror bulletin boards. The instructions tell the reader to fill a bathtub with stuffed animals, turn off all of the lights and chant ritualistic phrases while holding a knife. It asserted that people who had done this found that the toys had moved slightly and the television had turned on, blaring music. This is a story of a young woman playing this game, and the events that happened to her during the night. This chilling account of the supernatural, will keep the audience at the edge or their seats and have them wondering would they dare to play this game.

Sui Generis

2014 • 16 min

Rose, a single woman from the city, wakes up as 'Emily' in a picture-perfect home with a controlling husband and a creepy daughter. Psychologically sinister in the vein of "The Twilight Zone," "Sui Generis" asks whether a confined, medicated housewife has a past, or if her identity has been erased. And who - or what, is our final girl?

Himeko's Rocking Glitched Out "AMV" Thing Yeah!

2014 • 12 min

Experimental art short film

Notes from the Anthropocene

2014 • 14 min

Filmed in vibrant super 16mm color, and black and white film, Notes from the Anthropocene, is a sensory elegy to the dinosaur. The dinosaur icon shifts from narratives of extinction, to human exceptionalism, and power. Its materiality whether fossil or plastic toy has, through popular culture, become entrenched in the imaginary of oil extraction and fossil fuel production. Notes from the Anthropocene is a speculative iconological look at the dinosaur, delivered by an imagined museum guide who ponders our symbolic relationship to an increasing ambivalence towards the natural world. The mythic dinosaurs that emerge resist domestication and seek to transcend fantasies of human dominion.

Onnen Haikyo Vol.4

2014 • 60 min • Japan

The kitchen, dance hall, dressing room, open-air bath, rest room, dining room, and detached workshop, all overlooking the village on a bare cliff, still haunting. To get to the entrance, you have to follow a mountain path as if you were climbing a mountain; such a place still existed in Japan. The amount of yokai that wafts from the screen is so overwhelming that one cannot take one's eyes off the screen.

Onnen Haikyo Vol.2

2014 • 60 min • Japan

A pachinko parlor that went bankrupt after being set on fire by a housewife who frequented the parlor after greedy management, a message that suddenly arrived at a decapitation site in the old days when there was no signal coverage.

Yehu Yaron - The Self Deception Artist

2014 • 49 min

A cabaret -documentary following the unique off-beat Israeli musician Yehu Yaron, On his way to his second album . His songs deal with his Illness, Love and Birth- everything he wouldn't talk about in real life. in the process of making the album his pains and doubts will transform into honest and powerful songs. An intimate portrait of an artist whose personal life invade his musical creation process.

Mario

2014 • 3 min • Netherlands, United States of America

A macabre Italian children’s song tells the story of Mario, a soldier who returns from war and must learn that his girlfriend has left him for another man. Mario decides to kill her. The film picks up on the ambivalent mood of the song and reinforces its vibration in the space between blithe children’s game and brutal murder.

Monster Panic! UMA ZONE: Unidentified Creature Hunter

2014 • 60 min • Japan

An omnibus horror film about urban legend monsters and unidentified UMAs. Included are stories about creepy UMA monsters such as Tsuchinoko, Mr. Mike from the karaoke box, Miami Zombie...

The Monkey's Paw

2014 • 32 min • United States of America

"The Monkey's Paw", a short story by W.W. Jacobs is acted out by local talents in WSKG's studio for this 2013 Expressions Halloween Special. The story tells of a family who didn't realize that their wishes could have unintended consequences. The actors are from Southern Tier Actors Read (S.T.A.R).

自由行

2014 • 34 min

El Coyote

2014 • 7 min

"El Coyote" is a Film based on true a story of a human smuggler also know as a coyote. He describes his process and the mechanics of slipping between the Mexico and U.S. border. He shares the brief moments he’s has with the people he’s trying to cross over seeking for a better life. Director Javier Barboza interviewed a human smuggler, also known as “Coyotes”. The coyote agreed on the interview if he concealed his identity, by using the media of animation and casting actor Jose Callela as the voice over for the narration, from the original testimony. El Coyote code name G-lok smuggled undocumented immigrants from various regions of Latin America between Tijuana, Mexico and San Ysidro to the United States. Within five years, G-lok had crossed over six hundred people.The original interview was done in 2010.

Mountain Lake PBS Celebrates Lake Placid and the Winter Games

2014 • 27 min • United States of America

It's an all-access pass into the winter Olympic spirit of Lake Placid, NY. Rich in history, this little Adirondack village has played host to some of the biggest events and moments in Olympic history.

Knock on the Roof: Drone Strike in Beit Lahiya

2014 • 8 min

In the early hours of 9 January 2009, a missile struck the Salha family’s home in Beit Lahiya, Gaza. Under the direction of Fayez and Noor, we constructed a digital model of their home, helping father and son to reconstruct the events of the night. -FA

Terrifying Mobile Videos - 13 Consecutive Screaming Submissions 2

2014 • 55 min • Japan

The director, Takeshi Kiba and his staff collected these ghost videos from all over the country. Included are 13 videos in total.

2 Yanks Taking the Piss in Tramore, Christmas '92

2014 • 22 min

Mike and I spent 2 months in Tramore, County Waterford, Ireland in the fall/winter of '92. We had been on the road since the summer, and planned to be gone for another year or so. We made a video to send home to our friends and family in the States as a Christmas card. This is the part of the video where we took our friends on a tour of Tramore.

The Indeserian Tablets

2014 • 16 min

"The Indeserian Tablets” is a complex, mesmerizing and beautiful short by Peter Rose. The film is in the form of an archeological treatise on a fictional vanished people, whom Rose imagines living in a remote past, with an advanced technology which is quite unlike our own.With “The Indeserian Tablets,” Peter Rose is digging deep into the origins of language, vision, and creativity, and using his archeological findings to create a film of wit, intelligence, and awe-inspiring beauty.

100 Foot Steps

2014 • 3 min

Set to the recollected soundtrack from the film ‘Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’, 100 Foot Steps is an uneasy walk in the woods. Music and birdsong create a sense of familiarity as the woman takes her steps, leading us to an abrupt end. The juxtaposition of image and sound creates an artificial layer of intertwined narratives without any resolution.

Disconnected

2014 • 2 min • China

A story about a shy girls' imagination and love of electronic music.