All Films

Okinawan Horror Stories 2014

2014 • 50 min • Japan

2014 special edition of the Okinawan Horror Stories series.

Halloween 1990

2014 • 5 min • United States of America

Jonas Mekas films the Halloween festivities at Anthology Film Archives in 1990.

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America

2014 • 56 min • United States of America

To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted’s efforts to preserve nature created an “environmental ethic” decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics. With gorgeous cinematography, and compelling commentary this film presents the biography of a man whose parks and preservation are an essential part of American life.

A Dream of Snow

2014 • 5 min • Latvia

Exactly 60 filmmakers were selected and asked to carry out a task that seems simple at first glance; to make a short film that is approximately 3 minutes long. However, how to capture the future within the merciless limit of three minutes? Whose future – the personal one, the national one, the global one, or perhaps the future of film? Here is Laila Pakalnina´s answer.

Reflection

2014 • 23 min • Japan

Eerie images of landscapes after the Fukushima nuclear disaster shot on black and white 8mm.

Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Scary Woman Kyō

2014 • 47 min • Japan

The monster medium who appeared in the previous film is back again! Cunning and greedy, is this woman a rare impostor or a real medium?

Naked

2014 • 9 min • France

When Jimmy uncovers a naked picture of himself on his roommate Luke's tablet, things get truly awkward. Their friendship is instantly strained, but working through it may just reveal a deeper issue.

Boss I Love You!

2014 • 30 min • China

This short film explores same-sex attraction within the context of power relationships in contemporary China where oppression stems from the socio-economic inequality that leaves the disenfranchised pining for what they cannot have, as a young chauffeur finds himself attracted to his contemptuous and callous boss – without a single word being exchanged between the two men.

By Mutual Agreement

2014 • 11 min • France

In the darkness of their living room Guillaume and Caroline are fighting for their common goods, splitting them with a dice game. All their goods... Including their ultimate one: their"flesh and blood". That’s precisely when they realise that the birth of their son is the reason why their relationship is broken. So they decide to fix it...

Jump Off or Live On

2014 • 17 min • Taiwan

On the rooftop a girl plans to jump from a building but bumps into a gangster cook who tries to persuade her not to commit suicide. Nevertheless, the two are not really on the same page.

Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game

2014 • 56 min • United States of America, United Kingdom

A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.

Cariocas

2014 • 10 min • Brazil

A voyeuristic hunt during a trip to Rio de Janeiro with lots of sea, sun, sweat and personal encounters. Brazilian men care about their physique and they freely allow admiration of their sculpted bodies. The sensuality of those men creates blurry sexual identities. An outdoors gym in the Arpoador area unveiled to me the vibrancy of the country and the diversity of men.

Checking in at 20

2014 • 20 min

Brian Chippendale is the drummer in Lightning Bolt. Greg Saunier is the drummer in Deerhoof. They've teamed up for a self-titled drum duo album—a limited edition LP featuring two side-long improvisations. Checking in at 20 was directed by Matt Conboy of Death by Audio films featuring interviews with members of the Flaming Lips, Les Savy Fav, Thee Oh Sees, and Oneida.

Flinch

2014 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Paula, her son Carl, and his estranged partner Emily, join family members to mark the birthday of their missing son. As Carl fights to convince Emily to come home, new information comes to light about the missing boy, the implications of which are worse than anyone could have imagined.

Louis Riel for Dinner

2014 • 4 min • Canada

Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.

Tolkien's Road

2014 • 35 min • United States of America

The magical journey that lead J.R.R. Tolkien through the trauma of WWI and helped him to recapture his own voice so he could write his first novel, The Hobbit. Director Nye Green Writer Nye Green Stars Casey E. LewisPeter Donald Badalamenti IIAlexander Rupert Green

Jakarta Traveller's Journal

2014 • 14 min • Japan

So schön wie du

2014 • 30 min

Tina and Marlene. A friendship between two girls in the middle of nowhere in Brandenburg, East Germany. Alcohol filled weekends between suburban disco and football fields, Berlin far away. Relentless they head for the night, to fulfill their longing for intimacy and recognition.

Occult Holocaust

2014 • 60 min

These are not actors. What happened is true. In 2013 a documentary crew in Lincoln, Nebraska set out to expose the truth behind the supernatural and the occult. What they discovered remains unexplained. In the tradition of Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages and from the director of The Legacy of Boggy Creek comes a new rural shockumentary experience.

Barnacles and Stripes

2014 • 31 min

This classic surf experience sees Western Australia's best surfers tackle the state's most exciting waves.. It offers non-surfers a sneak peek in to the surf culture and is guaranteed to get surfers of all ages pumped for their next session.

Monguis

2014 • 10 min • Spain

Short film by Isaac Berrocal, a tribute to the horror/comedy genre of previous shorts such as La Casa Brown or Stuffed Guts.

Dreams Come True

2014 • 18 min • South Korea

Susie, a Filipino worker working in a sewing factory, is working underpaid. Then one day, Susie acts as the boss's mother and solves all of this.

The Taste of an Affair

2014 • 60 min

Yong-min was a playboy who was loved by every woman. He had a woman named Tae-yeon whom he loved. However she breaks up with him due to his playboy habits and there is a rough quarrel in the process which leaves Yong-min blind. He meets and marries a woman named Soo-ae but he's lost all sexual desires along with his sight so it's hard to maintain a good marriage with her. Then one day Ho-yeong and Soo-jeong move in next to them and Soo-ae feels a kind of adoration for Ho-yeong...

Pasolini, la passion de Rome

2014 • 54 min • France

For Pasolini, Rome is neither just a simple setting or a place to live. Rome had a physical, carnal and passionate existence for the man and the poet.