All Films

Top Cats

2014 • 50 min

Witness the skill and cunning of the great feline predators. Lions, Tigers, Leopards, and Cheetahs all are the embodiment of feline grace and power. They are spectacular top predators that dominate their world and command our respect and our attention. This visually beautiful film brings together dramatic footage from around the world and shares intimate moments from the private lives of cats.

Piano Pi_no

2014 • 15 min • Italy

Uncle Pino is a hoarder: he lives among bags and clothes, electronic gadgets of dubious functionality, and Hello Kitties that light up. He navigates meanderings dominated by random objects, each with a story, a trace of a conscious, albeit atypical, path.

Where The Breath Has Remained

2014 • 4 min

Under the open sky Cracked A flash where breath has stayed Suspended

Ñam

2014 • 2 min • Spain

Fruits are one of the good things in life. This film is dedicated to their tanginess and sweetness, a jumpy animation of fruits dancing to the rhythm of the song “El mango” by the Venezuelan singer Jesús Sevillano.

Hotel Farrapos

2014 • 12 min • Brazil

"Hotel Farrapos" has the Farroupilha Revolution as a backdrop, not the war itself, but the banal way in which it permeates our day-to-day, giving name to the sandwich, to the avenue, to the park, etc. The film is a walk on the “B side” of Porto Alegre.

Intemerata

2014 • 5 min

Italian video producer Magmart asked me to participate in their F.I.V.E. project - a collection of 25 artists exploring the five senses. This series showed around the world at both traditional venues (museums and galleries) and unusual spaces, like a grocery store in Canada. I was assigned the sense of "touch" and created a sensual piece with dancer Laura Bernasconi. The process was juried based on open submissions. I was pleased that the resulting work called "INTEMERATA" was selected for their world tour.

Mayday!

2014 • 37 min

2014 marks Videograss' 6th release. This year we proudly bring you "MAYDAY!" If this ship is sinking we are going down with it. If not, we will ride it out! Featuring snowboarders Chris Grenier, Danimals, Danny Larsen, Darrell Mathes, Gus Engle, Jake Kuzyk, Jake Olson-Elm, Joe Sexton, Jonah Owen, Justin Bennee, Justin Fronius, Nick Dirks, Zac Marben, and more.

パンチュ 倉持由香

2014 • 60 min • Japan

2014 release

Pretty Maids: Live at Firefest XI - The Final Fling

2014 • 60 min

Recorded live at Firefest XI The Final Fling, at Nottingham's Rock City on October 25th 2014. Setlist: "Mother of All Lies", "Nuclear Boomerang", "Love Games", "My Soul to Take", "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2", "I.N.V.U.", "I See Ghosts", "Sad to See You Suffer", "Rodeo", "Little Drops of Heaven", "Please Don't Leave Me", "Future World"

Pablo The Mexican Reindeer

2014 • 2 min

A reindeer is hunted in the woods.

Le skate moderne

2014 • 6 min

Far from the standard fisheye lens images of skateboarders gliding over perfectly smooth concrete skate parks, The Modern Skateboarding shows us a group of skaters who think nothing of riding through mud in the atypical and unconventional skating ground of the French countryside. Somewhere between fiction and documentary, this contemplative video follows a group of skater-farmers into the remotest parts of the Dordogne region.

Am I Too Big?

2014 • 4 min • Japan

Tomoo connects with Haruko, a beautiful and stylish girl on SNS, and they decide to go on a date. Makoto stops him from going on a date with Haruko, but...

Land of Friends

2014 • 38 min

Land of Friends focuses on seemingly small images and micro moments of everyday life to highlight the tensions and struggles between local fishing and farming communities and the multinational corporations converting the Yuma into hydroelectric power. In the film, Caycedo intersects footage recorded along the river with scenes of her tracing the flow of the river with a brush on paper and, towards the end, with images turned upside down. The choice of everyday gestures and these interventions acknowledge the small scale informal economies along the river and the relationship people develop with bodies of water and their spiritual significance. Through the practice of appropriating for example satellite images and the insistence on developing alternative forms of representation, the film proposes the unlearning of our reductive and commodified perception of rivers.

I Don't Know Why I Hate You

2014 • 55 min • Italy

Homosexuality has been condemned for centuries. But why? What do some people find offensive about the homosexual behavior? Meet a man who was convicted for the murder of an homosexual, along with the president of 'Jurists for life', the spokesperson of 'la Manif pour Tous' as well as the national representative of 'Standing Sentinels' and the spokesperson of 'Forza Nuova'.

ESPN Films: Nixon's National Champs

2014 • 22 min • United States of America

NIXON'S NATIONAL CHAMPS is the story of how the 1969 college football national champion was crowned and the drama that surrounded it. Using rare footage of Nixon and his unexpected antagonist, Joe Paterno of Penn State, this film captures the folly of the President as he waded through the hornet's nest of polls and regional rivalries.

Together Forever

2014 • 9 min

A film about marriage equality, everlasting love, creating the perfect moment and finding the grandiose in the everyday.

The Urgency

2014 • 34 min

One part send up of consumer electronics, one part lamentation of the negative impact of the internet, and one part explosive collage of animation, found footage, and critical self-reflection. The hybrid sound of Extreme Animals intermingle with a hyperactive meditation on Apple products, rugged individualism, and the disturbing power of networked digital connectedness.

Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday?

2014 • 60 min

The asteroid that exploded over Siberia, injuring more than 1,000 and damaging buildings in six cities, was a shocking reminder that Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting range. From the width of a football field to the size of a small city, these space rocks have the potential to be killers. In a collision with Earth, they could set off deadly blast waves, raging fires and colossal tidal waves. But some audacious entrepreneurs look up at asteroids and see payday, not doomsday. Some asteroids are loaded with billions of dollars’ worth of elements like iron, nickel and platinum. NASA is planning an ambitious mission to return samples from a potentially hazardous asteroid, and would-be asteroid miners are dreaming up their own program to scout for potentially profitable asteroids. Will asteroids turn out to be our economic salvation or instruments of extinction?

We Come In Pieces: The Rebirth of the Horror Anthology Film

2014 • 12 min

A Short Doc About the Short Form & Anthologies

Monkaa

2014 • 6 min

Monkaa is a blue furred, pink faced monkey who consumes a crystallized meteorite, making Monkaa invincibly strong and too hot to handle. Exploring his superpower Monkaa zooms into an unexplored universe. Project Monkaa is a 5 minutes short animated movie, entirely made with Blender and GIMP and other Free/Open Software programs. It has been released as an Open Movie, including all production files and tutorials, as CC-BY at cloud.blender.org and as DVD in the blender.org store. Produced by: Weybec Released by Blender Cloud and blender.org e-store

Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies

2014 • 9 min

“I use Super 8 and 16mm film as a vehicle for loose storytelling with history and humor. Simple props and gestures are part of a playful aesthetic. Glimpses into the culture of a place are given while playing with truth and representation. Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies is a Los Angeles street film starring empty signs, radio from passing cars, and human sign spinners, some with a pulse and some without.”—Alee Peoples

Xampy

2014 • 25 min

Xampy is a popular character in São Paulo's gay night life and electronic scene. He decides to tell us all about his rocky past, bullying for being feminine and about his time in a South American prison, as well as the fun and friendships he gained.

Cilla

2014 • 56 min • United States of America

An aspiring artist and college senior is throwing the biggest party of the year. The seniors arrive at the party not knowing that they are all key players in a social experiment that will change everything.

¿Oyes los perros ladrar?

2014 • 10 min • Venezuela

The story of the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, "¿Oyes los perros ladrar?" is a story that came to me and I wanted to produce it. The story is a story of a father who carries his wounded little son on his shoulders, takes him to a town to rescue him, the audiovisual production is based on the unconditional love that the family has for their son, despite the fact that he he was a thief, and not a good son.