All Films

Movements

2012 • 3 min

Ritournelle

2012 • 4 min • Netherlands

"How do you find what you don't know you're looking for ?"

La Mer (1976-2012)

2012 • 10 min

Leccia shot multiple versions of 1991's La Mer over the period of nearly 40 years. All are presented here.

Collector

2012 • 20 min • China

An experimental short by Tao Zhou.

Reel/Unreel

2012 • 19 min • Afghanistan

The cameras follow a reel of film as it unrolls through the old part of Kabul—pushed by two children, uphill and downhill, like a hoop.

The Model

2012 • 45 min • Spain

Jordi has his arm and leg almost paralyzed, and shows his disability to beg for money on the streets.

Anticipation

2012 • 12 min

Like a nightmare, Anticipation is a film about alienation, paranoia and mental confusion where human being tries to find the strength to resist to an inhuman scenario’s society (genetic manipulation, repressif society).

Memory Film

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

Experimental short created for the 7th annual Memory Marathon at London’s Serpentine Gallery, exploring the theme of memory through image and sound.

Marcel Mazé, les forces de l’ombre et de la lumière

2012 • 16 min • France

It is a fragmented portrait where Marcel embodies different characters, a mischievous dandy immersed in a profusion of shimmers and erotic pictures, a bewitching photographer featuring nonchalant beauties like Sicilian shepherds or a black angel, romantic walker Nosferant performing cyclical rituals that celebrate Eros and Thanatos. Dark or bright masks of his desires echoing. Lyrical images, film editions as secular and sacred celebrations where, in the often frenzied allegories which unveil a bewitching Marcel, entangled beautiful and young shooting stars such as Sarah, Orlan, Baptiste, Patrice, Samuel, Roman, Thomas, Anders, Alex, Christian, Yohan or Elie.

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

2012 • 7 min

Women battle for claim of what they believe is the last good man in this apocalyptic western.

Phantoms

2012 • 14 min

A study of the incongruous and iconic suspended monorail in Wuppertal Germany. Shot on super 8 and finished on 35mm film, Phantoms expertly employs the exaggerated grainy texture of the emulsion to suggest a netherworld out of time, both science fiction and ancient history, while an accompanying text muses on the vanity and folly suggested by the mysterious structure.

The Ballad of Poisonberry Pete

2012 • 6 min

Poisonberry Pete, the baddest pie in the yeast, is in town and he's looking for trouble. With the citizens stricken by fear and the gun toting sheriff itching for a gunfight, can one little tart save the town?

Pasteurized

2012 • 8 min

While conducting experiments on a quiet night, a scientist receives an unexpected visitor - whose arrival will change everything.

Dead Blood

2012 • 11 min

A young couple is caught in the clash between two of the most beloved horror figures: Zombies and Vampires. Will the two unfortunates manage to escape the mortal hunt? Or will the Vampires have to fight more than the usual to earn their bloody meal? A short movie that is just the first bite of an independent long feature set in Italy, an underground project that has great aspirations.

prismatic reflections

2012 • 17 min

From Vibraquatic collab. with Bitchin Bajas.

If the War Continues

2012 • 5 min • United States of America

A film with a hypnotizing sense of diagonal light and movement. The title refers to the 1917 Hermann Hesse short story, part of his collection of fairy tales.

Sexy 8

2012 • 3 min

Shot on super 8 film material.

Pets

2012 • 6 min • Argentina

According to its director Albertina Carri, this is a “porno-terrorist political manifesto.” Made from archival images, mostly pornography dating from the 1920s to the 1970s, 'Pets' is a reflection on images and early pornography. Cinema and pornography could share a basic definition: they generate images that persist in the retina and create their own universes. Abject, clandestine, anonymous; what scenes, what fantasies did the camera obscura—the beginning of cinema, the precondition for porn—record in the early days?

The Great Book Robbery

2012 • 57 min

The Great Book Robbery is a powerful and poignant chronicle of cultural destruction. It tells the story of the 70,000 Palestinian books that were looted by the newly formed State of Israel in 1948. The film weaves together a range of storylines to create a dramatic, engaging, and deeply emotional structure. The interviews in the film focus on first-hand accounts and cultural analyses that contextualize the book theft within a larger historical and cultural framework, shedding new light on the Palestinian tragedy of 1948 and its impact on culture.

Two Furnaces for Udarnik Josip Trojko

2012 • 32 min • Croatia

Two Furnaces for Udarnik Josip Trojko follows the disassembling of the famous Siemens-Martin furnace, which once stood at the heart of the huge Yugoslavian iron industry. As we watch the old making way for the new, we hear off-camera archive recordings of political speeches, full of enthusiasm and ideological optimism, from the period when the old furnace was in operation.

The Amaryllis Musical Box

2012 • 4 min • Japan

Single 8 film by Kayako Oki.

Please Relax Now

2012 • 12 min • Germany

PLEASE RELAX NOW uses the screen as a source of light and darkness drawing attention to the issue of art consumption as individual vs. collective experience and extending it into physical space. Motivational language is interwoven with metaphysical gestures of salvation characteristic of economics as well as of what is considered "Political Art."

Lovebird-Watching

2012 • 2 min • Philippines

A short, hand-processed film by Shireen Seno.

Kendo Monogatari

2012 • 15 min

Lesbia has a hair saloon at her house. Mandy, her best friend, who helps her with the duties of the saloon, wants to leave illegally from the country. In certain moment, she will be forced to make some important decisions.