All Films

Space Oddity

2013 • 11 min • Norway

February 15th 2013. A meteor has burned its way through the atmosphere over the Ural region in Russia, its dazzling light brighter than the sun. In Kabelvåg, a small town in the north of Norway, the three close friends Ruby, Sebastian and Daniel celebrate their graduation. They have made plans for a future together, but much like the meteor, their destination and journey remains unclear.

2012

2013 • 30 min • Japan

Everything I saw during 2012. This work will show you the dynamic moment of changing from film image to digital image. —Takashi Makino

Ali: The Mission

2013 • 13 min • United States of America

The feats of Muhammad Ali's remarkable life. In 1990, the boxing legend traveled to Iraq to press a plea for peace and negotiate with Saddam Hussein for the release of U.S. civilians taken hostage after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Ali risked his reputation, health and safety for the freedom of prisoners held by Hussein as "human shields" to deter U.S. military strikes. Only six weeks after Ali brought 15 hostages back home to their relieved families, Operation Desert Storm bombarded Iraq.

The Field

2013 • 13 min

A romantic picnic in a strangely idyllic field goes awry when a couple find themselves trapped and unable to leave. Forced to confront the cracks in their relationship they slowly descend into a bitter web of jealousy, petty recriminations and violence. Starring Alice Lowe (of 'Sightseers' and 'Sherlock' fame) and picked to premiere at the 2013 London Film Festival, The Field is written and directed by Andy Orr & Matt Jones. It is a blackly comic look at the kind of long term relationships that seem to exist in a strange limbo of break up and make up, of domesticated desire and unfulfilled promise. In short - an unromantic comedy.

Director on the Edge of Reality

2013 • 15 min

A biography of the late filmmaker, Maroun Bagdadi, portraying the stages of his life, excerpts from his interviews and films until the very last moments of his life.

Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Pietro Marcello

2013 • 2 min

A short film made for "Venice 70 - Future Reloaded". Exhibition of various types of footage, including period films and views of Venice.

On a River in Ireland

2013 • 53 min • Ireland

From PBS - The Shannon is Ireland's greatest geographical landmark and the longest river. It is both a barrier and highway - a silver ribbon holding back the rugged landscapes of the west from the gentler plains to the east. On its journey south, the Shannon passes through a huge palette of rural landscapes; where on little-known backwaters, Ireland's wild animals and plants still thrive as almost nowhere else. For a year, wildlife cameraman Colin Stafford-Johnson lives on the river - camping on its banks, exploring its countless tributaries in a traditional canoe, following the river from dawn to dusk through the four seasons, on a quest to film the natural history of the Shannon as it has never been seen or heard or experienced before.

Rolling with Dad

2013 • 21 min • United States of America

8 1/2 mm de terror

2013 • 10 min • Brazil

Strange events begin to terrorize a young man and his bully brother after they find an old Super 8 camera.

Blow Your Mind

2013 • 45 min • Australia, United Kingdom

Alabama native, Destin, is driven to reveal the extraordinary science behind the jobs, missions, and obsessions of ordinary people.

Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Krzysztof Zanussi

2013 • 2 min

A short film made for "Venice 70 - Future Reloaded". Two children discover that something has been left behind in the rubbish dumped by the garbage collectors.

Here Comes the Night Time

2013 • 22 min • Canada, United States of America

All Vows

2013 • 10 min

An English translation of ‘Kol Nidre’, the incantation that begins the Yom Kippur service and which pre-emptively nullifies any future vows made unintentionally. The film uses ancient archival films to depict an unknowable future, reflected through a dissolving historic document.

Red Lights

2013 • 13 min

A young Dutch boy goes on a boy's night out with his friends in Amsterdam for a night of sex,drugs and rock and roll. But an expected encounter with a sex worker shows him something he could have never imagined.

The Cut

2013 • 15 min • Iran

A boy tries to cut off his finger with a woodcutting machine.

Playmobil: Guardians of the Dragon Fires

2013 • 11 min

For many years, the Dragon Guardians have been watching over the sacred fires of the ancient dragons Remur and Raganur. Then, the greedy warrior, Dragon, steals the fire of Remur and captures one of the guardians. An exciting rescue begins...

Teagan

2013 • 3 min

Three animators tell a story of transition - from male to female, and from despondency to happiness.

SCP-173 Containment Breach

2013 • 4 min

An unlucky D-Class Personnel is on cleaning duty in the containment cell of SCP-173, also known as, The Sculpture. Item SCP173 is to be kept in a locked container at all times. When personnel must enter SCP-173's container, no fewer than 3 may enter at any time and the door is to be relocked behind them. At all times, two persons must maintain direct eye contact with SCP 173 until all personnel have vacated and relocked the container.

Planes: Meet the Stars

2013 • 6 min • United States of America

A collection of character profiles of the racers from Planes, including: Dusty Crophopper, El Chupacabra, Ishani, and Ripslinger.

Saving Otter 501

2013 • 53 min • United States of America

From PBS and NATURE - On a typical late summer day a baby sea otter washes up on the beach in Monterey, California - hungry, lost, injured. It's a tragic event, but not surprising. California sea otters are struggling. For decades marine biologist Karl Mayer and his small staff have worked unceasingly - one otter at a time - to bring this "keystone" species back from the brink of extinction so it can play its important role in the local marine environment. But the effort has stalled, and no one knows why. This is the story of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's 501st attempt to save an orphan otter. From her discovery as a stranded newborn pup crying on the beach through her rehabilitation in secret roof tanks atop the Aquarium, we follow as Otter 501 learns how to dive, hunt, eat, and fend for herself in the wild, where survival is a long shot at best.

The Glass Hedgehog

2013 • 10 min • France

Summer 1955. The sun shines brightly on a bucolic landscape sprinkled with poppies. A young beautiful and mysterious woman lays in this sparkling field of blood-red. The sunbeams caress her smiling face. A moment of happiness that nothing seems to be disturbing.

Sleepiness

2013 • 36 min

Sleepiness is the synesthetic result of two different times, the image belongs to the present tense and audio to a reconstruction of what the sound of that space would be in a past tense, in a time when that space did not seem to stand still in time, but in a time in progress. that was lived and worked. It is these visible marks in space, this silence, the birds and echoes in the Douro, the naked architecture but with the marks of their experience that made me hear and want to hear the sounds of other times. Filmed in 2012 and 2013 in Couto Mineiro do Pejão, inactive anthracite mines since 1994 due to the end of all ore.

Metamorfoza

2013 • 7 min • Netherlands

Short by Martha Colburn.

Little Che

2013 • 32 min

Having become pregnant during a one-night-stand, 22-year-old left-wing activist Mira discovers that the child's father, Mathis, is actually in a relationship with a man, Bernd! After the initial shock, however, the three decide to raise "little Che" together. But then Mira's feelings for Mathis get in the way.