All Films

Mark Bunyan: Very Nearly Almost Famous

2012 • 16 min

In the words of a fan, he was 'The First Gay Superstar' but was he too gay for his own good? Co-founder of the Pink Singers and a driving force behind Gay's The Word bookshop, Mark Bunyan has been engaged in almost every pivotal event in UK gay history including fundraising for the defence of the famous blasphemy case Whitehouse v Lemon involving Gay News and a high court battle to prevent the religious funeral of a lover.

The Bottom Rope: Inside The World of Independent Wrestling

2012 • 25 min

In high school gyms and VFW halls in New Jersey, there exists a place where pro-wrestlers are made - and where former stars go to hang on. Over the course of 60 nights a year, National Wrestling Superstars spotlights these die-hard showmen and their unwavering desire to practice their craft. The Bottom Rope goes beyond the ring to look at four wrestlers, their stories, and what keeps them coming back for more.

Rock the Boat

2012 • 54 min • United States of America

In the artificial landscape that is Los Angeles, where even palm trees are imported, nothing epitomizes man's short-sighted efforts to reshape the face of the earth more than the LA River: modified beyond recognition, its flow tapped before it even reached the surface, the river was used, abused and essentially forgotten. But when an unassuming boater insists on seeing it as a river again, a local controversy takes on national dimensions, and the once-derided eyesore turns into a source of hope for the City of Dreams. 'Rock the Boat' is a fun, high-energy and, ultimately, moving film that tells this every-man's adventure and looks at the price nature has to pay for our urban lifestyle.

Spasibo

2012 • 14 min

Clement goes to Saint Petersburg for a film festival. When he gets there, nobody can hear him and see him. He vanished. He meets Andrei, a gay Russian who lives the same thing.

Folaim - School is Next Week

2012 • 3 min • Saudi Arabia

A short film featuring a teenager raging after realizing that school is next week.

protection ritual

2012 • 2 min

[uh-kuhlt, ok-uhlt] transitive verb : to shut off from view or exposure : cover, eclipse

A Life in B Tween

2012 • 4 min

Presents a trio of high schoolers contemplating their reality in relation to the polished scenes of television. Considering the fourth wall of fiction as an ideal lens through which to see life, the cartoon moves between the banality of consumer moroseness and the capitalist fantasy in which aesthetics, music, and fashion determine value and meaning. The scenes unfold like a serialized cartoon, aiming to subtly present an altogether different thesis than this form commonly offers or promotes.

Crazy Calligraphy

2012 • 16 min

In a small town in southern Taiwan, there is an artist who has devoted his whole life to reviving the dying art of Chinese calligraphy. His 'Crazy Calligraphy Class' has been running at the local temple for fifteen year, free of charge.

More Than Just A Dram

2012 • 5 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

Jake Williams performs the song 'More Than Just A Dram' while making tea on an open fire.

Der 90. Geburtstag

2012 • 7 min

Grandpa has birthday and invited all his relations. But they have only eyes for their smart phones and iphones - but then - something happens.

Hannah Henri

2012 • 29 min

Lola is a lovable, neurotic, and womanizing lesbian. After 30 years of playing the field, she meets the incomparable Hannah Henri.

Dangerously Delicious: Paid Advertisement

2012 • 11 min

An infomercial parody for Aziz Ansari Stand-Up Comedy special, "Dangerously Delicious".

The Brave Unseen

2012 • 30 min

A growing number of South African lesbian women are being raped to supposedly 'cure' them of their homosexuality. This short film deals with a young policewoman whose community refuses to accept her way of life.

Corn Mother

2012 • 5 min • United States of America

A single cartridge of Super 8 captures my mothers last visit to her garden. Her body is seen slowly dissolving towards illumination, while her image is forever immortalized in light and silver. Poem borrowed from the Wabanaki creation myth of the first woman, The Corn and Tobacco Mother.

A Very Short Film About Voyeurism

2012 • 8 min

A young woman stalks a homosexual man whom she loves and plots to break up the man's relationship with his partner, presumably so she may attempt win the man over.

Screen Flicker

2012 • 2 min

SCREEN FLICKER re-stages the flatness of the computer screen, in direct opposition to the tunnels of cyberspace. Screens naturally flicker, at a rate too quick for our eyes to perceive but one that can be captured by a camera. This video confuses the medium of the computer screen with that of film, employing the classic avant-garde film strategy of flicker.

Time to Think

2012 • 4 min • Japan

A short rotoscope film by Mika Seike.

Gnome in the Haunted Castle

2012 • 42 min

Short? No doubt. Outpowered? Better believe it. Outnumbered? Don't ask. Big on courage? Absolutely. Lone Gnome is about to join the fate of the rest of Gnomekind, who have all turned into stone, unless within an hour's time, he can find and recover his stolen Life Gem.

Spectrum Hunter

2012 • 31 min

Discover a collection of haunted media, a tribe of new wave witches, a goth teenager with real magic powers, and much more!...When TC's older brother Tyler goes missing, TC and Rotten Robbie set out on an adventure to find him. The trail leads them deep into the core of the uncanny Spectrum Hunter cult where they encounter bizarre rituals, puzzles, illusions, and a pantheon of adversaries. Inhabiting deserted malls, the Spectrum Hunters erect strange sound stages that form a treacherous labyrinth. Surveillance cameras document their unusual habits and the subsequent videos are sold in clandestine locations. But is it just effects? Or are the Spectrum Hunters playing for keeps

Bibo

2012 • 7 min

Bibo is a robot who sells ice cream. The world around him is destroyed. Just a few houses are left in the middle of the desert. Everybody loved Bibo in the past. Children, adults, everybody... He was a star! And now, the only thing that keeps Bibo going is his job. This is his life. Every day he comes to his workplace no matter what. And every day, at the same time, 3 children run towards him to buy ice cream. Again and again... Until that one day, when a girl in a red dress freezes in the middle of the street.

16:30

2012 • 17 min

Postcard from Somova, Romania

2012 • 20 min • Austria

Short documentary scene involving various animals.

Waterloo

2012 • 4 min

Shot in London in the underpass the connects the IMAX theater to Waterloo station, "Waterloo" is part of a series of recent works that explore the limits of digital capture by setting up a series of formal parameters and then letting them play themselves out (almost) automatically in relation to randomizing elements. The capture rate is set at one frame per second, though sound is recorded in real time. Focus, exposure, and effective shutter speed are allowed to float and respond eccentrically to changing light levels, focal distances, and color temperatures in ways that produce a free play between figuration and abstraction. However, despite the abstract, painterly, and conceptual character of these images, the work is meant to be understood as a document responding to specific landscapes, situations, movements, trajectories, and durations.

On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth

2012 • 10 min • United States of America

On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth is a historical remix of the New York Times newspaper printed during the New York City Blackout in 1977. The 1977 Blackout is unofficially credited with the formal birth of hip-hop, a movement that was already well underway but advanced with equipment looted during the riots.