All Films

Salman the Persian

2012 • 30 min

From Badr International comes the long-awaited series, Animated Stories of Islam, relating some of the great stories that took place before, during and after the Prophet Muhammad. Salman the Persian, the third and final part of the 3-part series, tells the story of the life of Prophet Salman. Included in this film are his wise tales of justice, his ability to control jinn and speak to animals, as well as his rise to Kingship.

2 Days: Adrien Broner (HBO Sports)

2012 • 10 min • United States of America

A behind-the-scenes portrait of the undefeated rising star and Cincinnati's own sensation Adrien "The Problem" Broner before and during his bouts with Eloy Perez and Vincente Escobedo. “2 Days” is a revealing and intimate look at a 48-hour span in the life of a boxer in the lead-up to one of his fights focusing on junior lightweight title-holder Adrien Broner. HBO cameras followed the engaging and free spirited fighter prior to his showdown against Eloy Perez.

Bob the Builder: Adventures by the Sea

2012 • 56 min • United States of America

Bob the Builder and his machine team "sea" lots of new ways to work together to get jobs done in and around Fixham Harbor in five exciting stories.

Cheryl

2012 • 17 min

2011/2012, 16mm, Optical Sound, B&W, 17 min

Decision

2012 • 56 min • India

The film's director Pushpa Rawat brings her scrutiny to bear upon her closest female friends, her ex-boyfriend, his parents and her own family through interview/conversations. She asks, and reflects herself, on uncomfortable questions about jati, choice, personal freedom, happiness and compromise. Rawat made Nirnay in collaboration with Anupama Srinivasan, a documentary filmmaker and director of the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival.

The Seven Pillars of Catholic Spirituality

2012 • 60 min

We all need our spirituality re-energized from time to time. Matthew Kelly has been inspiring Catholics to explore the genius of Catholicism for twenty years. If you are not quite sure where Catholicism fits into your life, have questions about the faith, or just need your spiritual life reinvigorated... this one hour presentation is perfect for you.

The Ambulance

2012 • 8 min

An ambulance answers an anonymous call. Is there anything to save? They end up in a matrix between good and evil ... Do they decide their own destiny?

Experiment III

2012 • 2 min • Canada

Video feedback, AZDEN VPC-10, LZX video synthesizer

Experiment V

2012 • 1 min • Canada

Digital images processed through the LZX video synthesizer

The Blessed

2012 • 14 min

María (13) is an intersex girl (hermaphrodite) who is forced by her father to impersonate the Holly Virgin Mary at the procession of their town, because he thinks this is the only way she can "get fixed".

Disordered

2012 • 42 min

A cavalcade of characters in conflict with consciousness is conjured up within the confines of Studio 8 at the San Francisco Art Institute and digitized for analysis.

Louis(e) de Ville, portrait d'une bad girl

2012 • 48 min

Louis(e) de Ville is an actress, sex educator, author, and american burlesque performer. Follow her as she performs in burlesque shows throughout Europe and for the run of her one woman show: Betty Speaks!; from glamour to trash, from on stage to backstage, join her as she explores and explodes the codes of gender and feminism.

Citizen Change

2012 • 48 min

Citizen Change reveals how a dedicated group of East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area) LGBT pioneers blazed the trail for marriage equality by inventing the domestic partnership and attaining its first-ever enactment into law in the city of Berkeley, CA in 1984. In relating their personal stories, these remarkable men and women take us back to the 1970's and 1980's, creating a vivid portrait of how a small, dedicated group tackled the seeming-impossible: the attainment of the world's first law that affirmatively recognized same-sex relationships. In doing so, they changed the very language that is used to describe same-sex relationships and created a template that spread worldwide. Their accomplishment made possible today's efforts to establish marriage equality. Their contribution is revealed in this stirring documentary.

M.I., a Different Kind of Girl

2012 • 51 min

Laine Brown, a title-winning male impersonator, struggles to find acceptance from her family, her community and the male-dominated drag scene.

Nobody's Child

2012 • 24 min

Annie and Paul have been best friends for years. Annie discovers she may have breast cancer and wants Paul, who is gay, to raise her son if anything happens to her, rather than the boy's father. Paul, young and in love with a fast gay lifestyle, is not so sure that's such a great idea.

Afrique, land of trends

2012 • 52 min • France

The Festival international de la mode africaine (Fima), released in 1998 in Niger, is important to the vogue industry in Africa. The documentary explores the dimensions of this scene.

126

2012 • 48 min • Ireland

Brian Maher and Mike Sheridan attempting an arduous 126 mile run from Limerick to Dublin to Raise awareness for Special Olympics Ireland.

K+afka

2012 • 50 min • Brazil

Notes of a trip of a poet to Prague, to see Franz Kafka's grave.

Fur...Sophie

2012 • 5 min

"The mathematical equation of despair, inspired by the bagatelle No25 of Beethoven..!"

All Sides of the Road

2012 • 12 min

All Sides of the Road derives from a twelve-minute 3D video capture of Old Highway 101 entering and departing Dewitt, Iowa. After the title image, the cameras are pointed directly down at the highway, which becomes a rushing microcosm of the world that evokes landscapes both of America and of the mind. The resulting spectacle is both utterly photorealistic and phantasmagoric. In addition to landscape, this digital film also evokes earlier forms of analog film, especially those of the American avant-garde, for the physical properties of the highway are like those of celluloid. In motion, the textures of asphalt and concrete look a lot like film grain, while the lane markers flickering by are easily mistaken for the lines and letterings on film leader rushing through the projector gate.

Division

2012 • 1 min • Netherlands

A piece of paper is divided by hand into an even number of pieces and then reassembled. A photograph of this finished composition is then printed and divided again. This makes the impossible possible, tearing the now included empty spaces that make up the tears in the paper. This feedback division process is repeated while the number of imprecise manual divisions gradually increase. Everything is created by division.

A Rolling Stone

2012 • 54 min • Taiwan

Caring for an autistic adult can be seen as an act of faith. It is unpredictable. A regular interaction can lead to a violent lashing-out. However, due to its lack of exposition and its pure form of observation, the film captures something even more profound: life as a collection of failure, pain, and tragedy as felt by its protagonist, Chen Hung-tung, a father who cares with extraordinary patience for his autistic son Li-fu.

Transforming Family

2012 • 11 min • Canada

Transforming FAMILY jumps directly into an ongoing conversation among trans people about parenting. It's a beautiful snapshot of current issues, struggles and strengths of transexual, transgender and gender fluid parents (and parents-to-be) in North American society today.

Schizofriendia

2012 • 12 min

James is a high school psychology teacher who hears voices in his head telling him to commit suicide. When he ignores these voices, they begin to take physical form and create havoc throughout the course of his day. Can a therapist help James before he succumbs to the voices?