All Films

À Velocidade da Inquietação - Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

2012 • 58 min • Portugal

The life of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, his roots, his artistic career and his work.

Erotomania

2012 • 9 min

Ralph returns home and is kidnapped by mysterious assailants: an Asian femme fatale and her Italian henchman. Between gore and unbridled eroticism, they redouble their perversity in torturing their victim. But what do these shady individuals really want ?

The Mexican Mormon War

2012 • 42 min • Mexico, United States of America

"The cartels of Juarez, Mexico, are at war with a group of Mormons, some of whom are related to Mitt Romney. We went there to document the conflict, meet Romney's Mormon family, and find out more about how US policy is impacting the war on drugs" (Vice).

11 Era

2012 • 52 min

Campo de luz

2012 • 12 min

“And don't you also feel a tormenting pain on the skin of time, like a scar that reopens where the sky was cut off at the root? Lie down like me in this miserable eternity of a day...”

Make Haste Slowly

2012 • 24 min • Japan, United States of America

Directed by Lucy Walker, Make Haste Slowly: The Kikkoman Creed explores an almost 400-year-old Japanese company, the impact it had on a small farming community in Middle America and the art of naturally brewing soy sauce. Founded by a woman in feudal Japan, Kikkoman has been guided by a family creed handed down for 19 generations.

X-Buster

2012 • 2 min

A short animation made to promote the album "Rockman Holic ~The 25th Anniversary~".

Society's Space

2012 • 60 min • Canada

It all began with The Society of the Spectacle, the book and the film. Gagnon updates the discourse, juxtaposing Guy Debord’s voice onto contemporary images taken from the internet. Social alienation in the global market era takes shape on screen.

Zombies of Oz: Yellow Brick Road

2012 • 5 min

From Compendium Volume V - Zombies of Oz. Created by Vancouver Film School students Dayana Hernandez, Carolina Mastretta, and Jeet Samra through the VFS Entertainment Business Management program.

Zombies of Oz: Tin

2012 • 8 min

From Compendium Volume V - Zombies of Oz. Created by Vancouver Film School students Tonye Aganaba, Wan Ting Chao, Su Jin Hur, and Jose Alejandro Garcia M. through the VFS Entertainment Business Management program.

lull

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

A Super 8 study on the movement of fabric.

The Tower of Babel

2012 • 15 min

A young psychiatrist faces an unusual phenomenon, while investigating murder in psychiatric clinic.

Because This Is Britain

2012 • 3 min

A visualization of phrases used by Prime Minister David Cameron during his Oxfordshire speech addressing the events of August 2011. Selected phrases emerge from the stream of his speech, punctuated by images of ordinary passersby, teenagers, youths at a job centre, looters, the Bullingdon Club, ‘riot wombles’ and an Occupy sign.

Arcades

2012 • 7 min • France

In this world, the Paris Metro is a teleporter. Branching timelines lead to peculiar spaces that contain only fragments of the original Metro.

Color Vector

2012 • 6 min

An endless line passes through randomly edited color spaces.

Crossroads Crisis

2012 • 20 min • Japan

Video short by Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiro Kawanaka, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2012.

Supervivencias

2012 • 12 min

Supervivencias (Survivals), 2013. -Multichannel Video installation. -6 projections in Syncro -Dolby 5.1 sound

Stremt 89

2012 • 14 min

The road through Stremt ends in a mountain wall. Still, in 1989 people were eagerly awaiting army tanks, terrorists and glory. Today, though partly forgotten, partly imagined, the past is crystal clear.

After Psycho Shower

2012 • 12 min • South Korea

SCREENING VERSION 16mm triple projection, “After Psycho Shower”, which deconstructs the famous shower-murder scene from Hitchcock’s “Psycho”, frame by frame, and concludes in melting and burning of film itself after the obsessive repetition of it, aiming at renewal of the cultural memory of this well-known images into audio-visual ‘experience’. The soundtrack of this expanded ‘horror’ cinema performance consists of noise music, which unconsciously ambushes the audience. “After Psycho Shower” is the piece that (dis)unites the relation between sound and image in horror cinema, previously severed by digitalization of the both, in an indeterminate and contingent way of improvised audio-visual performance.

Paralelos 35 años. Economía y lucha

2012 • 42 min • Argentina

Three and a half decades of economic policy, from 1976 to the present, divided into five stages: the dictatorship, Alfonsín, the 1990s, the alliance, and Kirchnerism. Historical archives, testimonies, and a narrator reconstruct the path of the Mothers in their struggle against neoliberalism.

Bubble Puppy's Fin-tastic Fairytale Adventure

2012 • 45 min

Molly and Gil go up a hill to fetch a pail of water in the enchanted forest. There, a mean witch turns their dog, Bubble Puppy, into a frog. Molly and Gil enlist the help of some famous fairytale friends to undo the witch's spell. They better work fast or else the witch will use her mean green bubble potion to turn everyone in the world into frogs!

Deadline

2012 • 11 min • Ukraine

Every day a young anchorman of TV-news has to come in concessions with an editor, who is sure, that a spectator is interested in information with blood and death only. Consequently violence that already overfilled either on all channels, destructively intrudes in his personal life. Then he operates just like this, as a newsmaker on TV at Florida State almost forty years ago.

Retrocognition

2012 • 18 min

An animated collage of photographs and audio fragments from WWII era radio dramas combine to critique the classic American televisual nuclear family.

The Boy Game

2012 • 16 min

The Boy Game follows the stories of three boys whose lives are intertwined: Reynaldo, who masks his own insecurities by acting tough who targets Noel, too scared of looking weak to tell anyone, and Kenny, the protagonist and bystander, who is increasingly conflicted by his friendship with both. Based on off-the-record interviews with boys nationwide, then fashioned into a hard hitting scenario, it was shot like a doc to capture the intense pressures boys face every day. The video comes with a cutting edge study guide. Written by two Harvard Educators, (designed to be used with co-ed groups or boys alone) it's a resource in itself.