All Films

Chuva

2012 • 8 min

The entire film is based on one motionless shot of the sea, behind which rises a hill and in the middle floats a boat. The tension rises with the changing autonomy of the image.

Kay Kay: The Girl from Guangzhou

2012 • 48 min

Filmed over 20 years, Kay Kay's life gives a unique personal narrative to China's recent decades of change. This film was first broadcast in 2012 as part of a bigger project called "Growing Up Global" that has followed ten children, now young adults, from their birth in 1992, mirroring the changes in peoples' lives during this period of globalisation. "The Girl from Guangzhou" followed Kay Kay for her whole life, filming with her and her family at regular intervals since her birth in 1992. It gives a rare, personal narrative to the decades of transformation of China during the first 20 years of her lifetime.

Tim

2012 • 7 min • Canada

Remember Tim Burton’s homage to Vincent Price, "Vincent"? 30 years later, Canadian animator Ken Turner returns the favor in this cute stop motion tribute...

Pearl Vision

2012 • 3 min

"Pearl Vision" is a self-portrait of material and digital obsession in a time when it is becoming more difficult to tell what is and what isn’t real.

Icebreakers

2012 • 15 min • France, Sweden

A ferry makes its way through the ice floating in the wintery Baltic Sea. Yet the ice has long since broken inside the ship thanks to the evening's entertainment: with their presentation, the artists breathe a moment of magic into a world which already seems rather unreal. The film evokes a journey into the unknown, full of nostalgia and hope.

By Halves

2012 • 7 min

By Halves uses appropriated footage from rejected 35mm prints that were cut in half and readjusted to be used as spacers for 16mm to sync sound tracks on film, and not meant to be projected.

Silent Passengers

2012 • 14 min • Japan

A man catches hermit crabs which live only on a certain island in Japan. The man releases all the hermit crabs in his hotel. Large numbers of hermit crabs are spread in the room. They move freely; on the bed, on the desk, sometimes they fall into the floor, and some of them get into the refrigerator. They seem like nothing was happened, and they don't even care about taking video by the man. It is a silent happening, but also paranormal.

The Quest

2012 • 3 min

„The Quest“ is about longing for a transcendental meaning. It seems trivial for a mouse to be a totem animal. It ought to be at least an eagle or a cheetah, in which spiritual kinship is disclosed. On the one hand animals are perceived as profane and secondary, on the other hand the experience of having observed an animal is often reported. A prophecy is understood as such, but no one can explain it anymore. The doubt whether spiritual kinship could be just a poetical fantasy, undermines the power of faith. Nevertheless, the yearning, even the „need to believe“ still exists. The desecrated everyday, which the Enlightenment has left behind, produces the feeling of being lost, in which the individual and the remains of mythical ideas flit around ambiguously.

Me too, too, me too

2012 • 2 min

Past the newsstand, the hairdressers, by the dry cleaners. A door opens into a sick room. A very old woman lies there in her bed. Her body is lusterless and haggard. But her gaze is firm, withstanding that of the camera.

SunderLight

2012 • 6 min

A Caixa

2012 • 5 min • Brazil

Short movie about a guy walking on the street holding a box.

Don't Be Tight

2012 • 22 min • France

Yassine, a passionate young film lover, wants to shoot a film in his neighborhood. He wants to include his childhood friends in his project. But friendship sometimes has its faults.

Little Pim: At Home - Chinese for Kids

2012 • 33 min

See Little Pim and friends play with their toys and explore the different rooms and items around the home. Children will learn more than 60 Chinese words and phrases to use around the home! Little Pim is a fun, award-winning series designed to introduce foreign languages to toddlers and preschoolers. "At Home" features Little Pim, a lovable, animated panda who teaches Chinese to children through a combination of animation, and live action of real kids doing everyday activities

A Love Story

2012 • 5 min

A Love Story is a miniature narrative in four acts where time becomes fluid as the image is distilled to its inner self. The film lies at the fringe of the expanding Indian city, a world of continuous migration and therefore of continuous separations. It is in this terrain of separation that A Love Story is located. This film can also be seen as an offering to mainstream cinema, a space where we often lose ourselves in the repetitive spectacle of grand love stories.

Their Bird

2012 • 13 min • Japan

The film about human who visits a forest. Observing the existence of human who has to go back to their home, through the experience of the pretend game of being a bird.

Splinter Bike

2012 • 52 min

With the immortal words "If you build, I will ride it", joiner and sustainable buildings consultant Michael "Thomo" Thompson and Royal Mail Distributions Manager James Tully, friends and former neighbours for over 20 years, embark on a journey to set the first official world land-speed record on bicycle constructed 100% solely from wood. Inspired when the 2010 Tour of Britain passed by Tommo's workshop in the heart of the Norfolk Broads, this documentary follows the trials and tribulations of the duo over a 12 month period, from design, prototyping and testing, being the centre of a global media storm, the record attempt itself, through to the installation of their unique creation at The Victoria & Albert museum in London.

Entropy

2012 • 4 min

Entropy - a measure of irreversible dispersion of energy, a measure of a deviation of the actual process from the ideal.

Buck Fever

2012 • 6 min

Made by a collective of German and French artists involved in the defense of animals, "Buck Fever" uses a collage of YouTube videos with hunting footage to document the tension felt before and after the hunt.

A New Park

2012 • 37 min

The government of Kaohsiung City re-create the 8th Plant Project which located in Yengchen and there’s an electronic-mechanical street played as a very important role to support economic development of Kaohsiung City after World War II. But now, it is dispersion and decline. Finally, there’s a park. Through this documentary, the TKHEMS* group tries again to appeal the municipal government with helplessness. They wish that the procedure of urban development to be cautious and prudent. T.K.H.E.M.S. = Takou Association for Preservation and Development of Historically Electronic-mechanical Street.

Coldplay: Time's Arrow

2012 • 52 min

Coldplay's career trajectory to date could barely have been more perfect. And while, for a manufactured act or the latest pop idol, such a feat may be the result of a marketing mastermind who will move onto the next pretty young thing once the initial hoo-ha of his current project has subsided, Coldplay's success has been built on a wholly different kind of genius - one otherwise known as pure, unadulterated talent. This DVD celebrates this extraordinary group's first decade in the music business, a period after which they remain right at the top of their game and with a future looking as bright as the sun and as assured as death and taxes for all.

Snowfall and After

2012 • 2 min

90 seconds silent film edited from 2 rolls of 100 feet reversible in black and white, filmed in my house, in my garden on the occasion of an unusually intense snowstorm.

Towards a Vanishing Point

2012 • 8 min • Canada

Footage shot in Coba, Mexico and the Siwa Oasis in Egypt and a found film from California serve as inspiration for a series of sketches on the notion of the vanishing point.

Cab Calloway: Sketches

2012 • 55 min

A singer, dancer, and bandleader, Cab led one of the most popular African American big bands during the jazz and swing eras of the 1930s-40s, with Harlem’s famous Cotton Club as his home stage. Best known for his “Hi de hi de hi de ho” refrain from signature song “Minnie the Moocher,” portrayal of Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess (1952), and role in The Blues Brothers (1980), Cab influenced countless performers, including Michael and Janet Jackson, and many of today’s hip-hop artists.

My Castle

2012 • 26 min

A woman travels to Germany to find out if she has inherited a castle, while discovering things about her family.