All Films

We Gay We Gay Dhaau

2012 • 10 min

An experimental short film about the nature of media and its consumption with the example of portrayal of homosexuality.

100 meters

2012 • 1 min

Bending The Lens: 20 Years of the London Lesbian Film Festival

2012 • 33 min

This film documents the inception, growth and impact of the longest running ‘lesbian’ film festival in North America by exploring the challenges and successes of the LLFF through interviews with Reeling Spinsters past and present and film festival attendees.

Kirimajimete, hana wo mumu.

2012 • 10 min • Japan

"Kirimajimete, hana wo mumu." (Kiri first flowering in summer) represents "dahatsu" in the seventy-two weather patterns that divide the seasons in Japan. The sun burns through the skin... Winner of the Grand Prix in the Japan Tomorrow category at the 26th Image Forum Festival.

Goremageddon

2012 • 20 min • Finland

GOREMAGEDDON is the ultimate climax of depravity, a traditional findie splatter and the final return to roots for TR Productions! Witness the downfall of morality, see the milk of a man and the flying bodily fluids, hear the lamentations of the righteous! Gore sprays and sacred cows are butchered, as the blood pissing avenger mutilates his way through the underbelly of Turku, Finland!

Ondée

2012 • 7 min

Linked to the sun's eruptive activity, waves of particles regularly enter Earth's atmosphere. An intense and invisible shower then crosses the earth and our bodies.

Margaret Tait: Film Poet

2012 • 29 min

Margaret Tait died April 16th 1999, aged 80. She was an intensely private person with a unique vision, firmly rooted in her native Orkney. Glasgow Women’s Library, working with filmmakers Marissa Keating and Michael Jones, went on a journey to document the story of this elusive filmmaker and poet through her friends, family, and peers.

Sound from the Valley Floor

2012 • 25 min

Originally conceived as a road movie, Sound from the Valley Floor is at once a film diary and a perverse comedy permeated with a dream logic.

Ultimate Number Ones

2012 • 59 min

From the vaults of the BBC archive comes a selection of hits that attained the toppermost of the poppermost prize and made it to number one in the hit parade. From across the decades, we applaud the most coveted of all chart positions with smash hits and classics from The Bee Gees, T. Rex, Donna Summer, John Lennon, Culture Club, The Spice Girls, James Blunt, Rihanna, Adele and many more. First broadcast to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the first official UK chart in 2012.

Surface II

2012 • 2 min

Surface II is an experimental moving image work focused upon several concepts. In one sense it is a visual experimental journey that discovers and plays with the notions of the celluloid surface, the ways specifically it can be physically manipulated. In another sense it is a study of image and sound, every visual detail is paired with its own unique sound sample which creates an almost hypomanic sensation where even the smallest detail takes on a new sense. The work also questions decay in a literal sense but also beyond the surface, the degradation of a medium and a time.

Fuck My Life

2012 • 4 min

Titled after Ibarra’s full-length performance work of the same name, "Fuck My Life" follows a sordid and fatigued showgirl as she sluggishly awakes to make up with yet another day.

A Distant Horizon

2012 • 6 min

Remote landscapes contain fragments of strata and sediment suggesting an existence marked by time not man. A vibrant sun illuminates the contours of the land providing a natural show of light and shadow play.

films4peace

2012 • 3 min

“For my work for films4peace, I considered certain visual metaphors. Compared with the eternity of the universe, human life is short, very short. Our existence is like a grain of sand in a desert or a speck of stone on the rock that makes the world. Conflict and destruction seems absurd if you consider the insignificance of our time on earth. Let us distance ourselves from oppression and slaughter. The creation of world peace is more important for all humankind. In my film, huge boulders slowly rise up amidst a chaotic noise that drifts in and out. Human life is not always beautiful, more often than not, we are simply trying to survive, allowing our lives to continue and nothing more.” —Yang Fudong

Elephant Died

2012 • 8 min • Japan

Kony 2012 Part II: Beyond Famous

2012 • 20 min

KONY 2012: Part II -- Beyond Famous offers a closer look at the LRA and explores the solutions put forward by leaders of the currently-affected areas of CAR, DRC, and South Sudan, where local communities continue to live under the constant threat of LRA violence. This generation has responded to the call to make Joseph Kony famous. Now we need to dig deeper and turn awareness into informed action.

Ginger Space Waltz

2012 • 1 min

Several animated men walking.

真っ赤なポピー

2012 • 12 min

Yuko, who has no place to stay at home, wanders the streets every day and then dances alone in a nearby park. That day, Yuko wanders aimlessly through the city and bumps into a boy on a pedestrian bridge. And that night, Yuko hears applause as she is dancing in the park. When Yuko tries to run away from the boy, who she finds annoying, he says to her, "You were so nice just now.

Money’s Travels

2012 • 6 min • South Korea

An animated exquisite corpse follows a money bill’s journey while contemplating his worth.

Bulador de Casa

2012 • 6 min • Philippines

A short, animated film about a boy who learns how to enjoy flying a kite while confronting a menacing household figure.

Hunan Gangsters

2012 • 24 min • China

Jie received a letter from Tang at the prison's rehabilitation site, hoping he would find a way to escape for one last job. Jie finds a way to get the keys to the foreman's car, but is targeted by another cellmate. The two set out on the road to rendezvous with Tang, only to discover that there is more to the matter than simply stealing an ambulance.

Stan Brakhage's Liberation

2012 • 35 min

Direct film has lost the material properties, and the original form has dissolved. By finding that form again, and retrieving its original properties, I am to liberate Stan Brakhage, the symbol of Direct Film that is so smeared upon history. This project will be recorded as the first experiment of Direct technique that has ventured into the history of media art with 'Direct File' and 'Direct Video', both of which are offered as new concepts. Commission Work for

Skateboard Nation

2012 • 52 min

Get stoked for a high-flying, adrenaline-fueled adventure. Explore the underground movement that's helping Native American youth throughout the U.S. soar above life's challenges, one half-pipe at a time.

Second Parent

2012 • 3 min

Only eleven states allow second parent adoption for same-sex couples. Single parent adoption is sometimes the only other option for same-sex couples, but in that case only one parent has legal rights to the child they adopt. This film explores one horrible scenario made possible by the laws we currently have in place.

Raccoon Nation

2012 • 53 min

An examination of the raccoon, the largest mammal species to have adapted well to human cities.