All Films

Terroir

2012 • 7 min

Roughly translated terroir can mean a sense of place and coming from a place. This piece is an image/sound portrait of a personal geography as well as formal investigation of digital media. Captured entirely on a cell phone, the camera records a landscape in constant motion and disintegration. This fluctuating image is married to a sound-scape that grasps for connection that reaches over distance. It is generated from the messages left by friends and loved ones on my cellphone over the course of several years. The raw material of both image and sound come from the same place, the cell phone, which I use to record the environment around me as I move across the Canadian landscape. Rarely does one stay where one is born, we move, modern life almost necessitates it. This piece explores notions of communication and distance, technology and intimacy.

The Goddess Has A Thousand Faces

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

Stop Motion Collage Animation.

Birth in The Underworld

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

Stop Motion Collage Animation.

The Whale Story

2012 • 4 min • Netherlands, United States of America

A diver encounters an injured whale. He decides to help the animal and gets a friendly look of thanks. For the space of a few seconds, the border between the two species seems permeable. The whale disappears in the depths of the ocean and leaves the diver wondering whether this was all just a projection of human hopes.

Blue Abstraction

2012 • 6 min • Guatemala

Blue Abstraction 2012 is a single-channel video with sound of a performance by Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa. Shot in a continuous take that lasts just under six and a half minutes, it shows a young man standing motionless by a dirt road in the middle of a landscape. He is approached by the artist who carries with him a can of blue paint and paintbrush. He applies paint in broad brushstrokes across the clothes and body of the man until his entire form is covered. The video ends with the artist walking away and the figure continuing to stand still. Ramírez-Figueroa’s use of blue paint is a reference to the history of early black and white cinema, which utilised the tendency for the film stock to turn blue objects white by covering figures in the colour to create the impression that they had disappeared.

Smilinguido em Histórias de Formiga 3

2012 • 35 min

Two stories that will enchant you! You will be enchanted by the way the two stories are led by the little ants.

Wartime Children

2012 • 26 min • Russia

During the war, children, along with adults, worked in the fields and factories, shouldering household chores on their fragile shoulders. Many of them died from disease and lack of food. There was a severe famine, people were swollen from malnutrition, and in order not to die, they ate grass cakes and porridge with sawdust. "Everything for the front, everything for victory!" it was the slogan of the time. Despite the difficulties, they did not lose heart, worked hard and believed in victory over fascism.

Go! Go! Left!

2012 • 60 min • Russia

Over the past year, Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the Left Front opposition movement, spent more than two months under arrest. In prison, he declared dry hunger strikes in protest against illegal detentions at rallies, on the way to rallies, just on the street. Many times he was hospitalized due to deterioration of health during hunger strikes. But this most controversial leader of the Russian opposition is surrounded by people almost more mysterious than himself. What leads them, following Udaltsov to rallies, under the batons of riot police, venturing on hunger strikes and ready to jump from the Crimean bridge?

Putin, Love Us!

2012 • 25 min • Russia

Director Kirill Serebrennikov puts on the play "Thugs" with his students. But who would have thought that the action of the play would spill over to the Moscow streets and the purely stage events would be enriched with reality? Will reality come out on stage?

Tagikaks - Once Were Hunters

2012 • 56 min • Finland

Kolya and Sasha live in a whale hunter community by the Bering Strait. While their father remembers the good old days, the two brothers try to find their own paths in a rapidly changing world.

Earth

2012 • 30 min • Belarus, Poland

In 1942, the front line passed in the Vitebsk and Novgorod forests, thousands of Soviet soldiers died here. Today, on the Belarusian-Russian border, enthusiasts are looking for human remains that have not yet been buried according to the laws of peacetime, not wartime. According to human laws.

Cursed Supernatural Footage 4

2012 • 56 min • Japan

The definitive collection of psychic images! Unexplained entities on home videos and other media. Have you ever seen psychic phenomena?

The Bitteroot Footage

2012 • 5 min • France

Chad, a New York university student, bought cheap furniture from a Craigslist seller looking to get rid of items in bulk. Among the items, he discovered an old locked wooden box with pictures labeled 'bitterroot.' Inside, he found an 8mm film reel and damaged pictures. With the help of his friend Dario, a film student, Chad acquired a working 8mm projector on eBay. Despite the damaged film, they managed to piece it together and uncovered disturbing content.

Hitchhiking to MIDI Festival

2012 • 27 min

Ceci n'est pas moi.

2012 • 6 min

"Ceci n'es pas moi." (This is not me.) contains strange images of Emmsen Jafari, when he wasn't afraid of knife. This video is made by old footage taken by Majid Jafari at the first birthday of Emmsen Jafari.

True Record! Paranormal Site Investigation Episode 5

2012 • 60 min • Japan

The most terrifying original documentary horror series that examines numerous haunted sites scattered throughout Japan.

True Record! Paranormal Site Investigation Episode 6

2012 • 60 min • Japan

The most terrifying original documentary horror series that examines numerous haunted sites scattered throughout Japan.

Watermarked

2012 • 2 min

"Watermarked" is a video created by artist group Dis Magazine. The video was the result of a commission by Kenzo, Paris, to create an advertisement for it's 2012 Fall/Winter clothing line. Dis used the opportunity to create a video work which operates neither as satire nor valorization of branding, stock video, and fashion advertisements. The work manages to function both as a critique of advertisements and, quite literally, as an advertisement itself.

R. Stevie Moore - Tape To Disc

2012 • 42 min

Documentary about musician and homerecording pioneer R. Stevie Moore

Interfere

2012 • 7 min • South Korea

‘Interfere’, one of the 8 films from 8 directors under the project, ‘Across the Bridges’ had filmed at Seogang bridge. I intended focus my eyes on the river flow and bridge, or the spot that artificial meets nature, and a phenomenon occurred at the spot without any judgement or social discussion rather than shooting the structure of the bridge.

Our silence, their gold

2012 • 19 min

The informational video of the Open Coordination of Thessaloniki against gold mining that was shown at the event on Thursday, April 26 in Aristotelous Square. The doc is freely available for viewing and republishing (creative commons license : attribution, non-commercial, share-alike). Please, wherever you share it, mention that it is about the creation of the Open Coordination of Thessaloniki against gold mining.

Undamageable

2012 • 6 min • Egypt

The Tropfest Arabia 2012 Winner

Arachné

2012 • 11 min

Hontō no Shinrei Dōga 'Noroi' 2

2012 • 57 min • Japan

Suicide, grave robberies, bullying, hospitals, murder scenes... This is the latest in a series of 11 shocking and horrifying ghostly images of everyday scenes.