All Films

Gypsy Funeral

2012 • 15 min

Sandro, a gypsy, travels with his group bringing the corpse of his late father.

The Dark Clouds

2012 • 6 min

Still in Calais, daybreak, a raid is coming to an end. Men come out of the ground, life resumes its course. Sovereignty of certain gestures...

Con Brio

2012 • 4 min

Con Brio is a four minute choreography of stop-motion animation featuring flowers in liberty and play. This project began as a challenge to explore the distinctive optical properties of pinhole photography for motion. The images were acquired one frame at a time entirely without a computer or lens, using a 16mm film camera adapted for a variety of pinhole and double-slit techniques and choreographed to a lively ukulele composition by James Hill.

Teacup!!!!!!!!!

2012 • 2 min

TEACUP - whoa......MY HAT!

Um Documentário Bestial

2012 • 35 min • Portugal

A film that sarcastically and ironically addresses the universe of bullfights.

Two Photographs

2012 • 8 min • Turkey

A personal documentary film that is about the immigration of the filmmaker's family from Bulgaria to Turkey.

Gods, Weeds and Revolutions

2012 • 20 min • Canada, Tunisia

A young woman returns to Tunisia and must come to terms with her grandfather's illness and the country's dark past under dictatorship.

The Tent

2012 • 13 min

The Tent extrapolates an eventful fictional narrative from a black-&-white printed booklet and the body of art that it features in its pages. Presenting artworks with reduced economies, the book, a 1972 Arts Council publication entitled Systems, includes drawings, documentation of works, and photographs of the artists in the ‘British Systems group’, along with extended texts written by each of them. The video’s imagery is derived from recording both the object of the book and the images it contains. The videography employs experimental, high contrast exposures that will cause white pages to bleach away almost entirely, and black pages to intensify so that they become suggestive of spaces rather than surfaces; so that the diagrams/images on those pages seem to float in voids.

Jake Seven

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

A few lingering brush flicks, olive drops of color splitting open on the vines, the roulette ball of our random lives dropped into the basket on some universal wheel and the road keeps winding out before him like a wick, excerpts from Steve Gehrke's poem Jackson Pollock Driving.

Lo que nunca pensé decir

2012 • 20 min • Venezuela

One rainy morning of February 14, a train ride, and unconventional discussions, tell us how amazing it can be a simple meeting between two people like Alfredo and Albertina, revealing the magical realism and fantasy that can unleash the mind of a lovesick like him to fight against the desire of loving a girl he just met. Never say I LOVE YOU before knowing the person is one of the supposed and most important rules of love.. so the: When should?, When can express how you feel?.

Natural Farmer JIA

2012 • 39 min • China

The story is about Lao Jia, a farmer on Chongming Island, Shanghai. On this island, he applies natural farming to show his wish and love to the land. Lao Jia calls himself a natural farmer. He left the metropolis Shanghai and his wife LiZi for Chongming Island three year ago. There Lao Jia contracted a farmland of about 25 acres. Without using any fertilizers or chemicals, he believes in his land and tries to plant with an ancient agriculture philosophy of returning the land to nature, which is the so called natural farming. Lao Jia said: “Farming helps people to find back some simple but real things in life, and the farmers’ emotions will in return affect the land and the plants.” Now there are many people who agree with his idea. But the reality is cruel, when Lao Jia described to me his wish to his land, problems keeps cropping up to test his attitude of “re-discovering the love to land”.

A Memorial, a Synagogue, a Bridge and a Church

2012 • 12 min • Germany, Slovakia

A square is turned into a laboratory setting, the artist into a meticulous observer of everyday situations. The location is "Fish Square", Rybné námestie, Bratislava. Here stands the "Holocaust Monument", a bronze statue by Slovakian artist Milan Lukáč.

Black and White Laws in a Colorful World

2012 • 15 min

An experimental, surrealistic film about equality, expressing the importance of equal rights for all. In a world where discrimination is still one of it's largest issues, Black and White Laws in a Colorful World explores how society's support for equality is rapidly growing yet old and discriminative laws and anti-gay government views are not changing at the same rate or are not changing at all.

Muthal Naal Indru

2012 • 16 min • Malaysia

A re-imagination of Spanish short film 'How I Met Your Father' with added stories. A tale about a mother who reflects back at the very first day she met her husband when she was a prostitute and finds it difficult to share her tale of love with her daughter.

The Cure: Eurockéennes 2012

2012 • 60 min

Robert Smith and The Cure perform live at Les Eurockéennes festival 2012.

Body at Large

2012 • 48 min • Taiwan

This experimental documentary explores the boundaries of sexual orientation and body image of four people, each of them dealing with their own anxieties, frustrations and desires.

Twice Over

2012 • 12 min

"In Twice Over Simon Payne, has filmed off the screen, with a hand held camcorder, an original sequence of digitally generated coloured rectangles. The re-filmed layer and an original variation of it are then superimposed on themselves, so that the discrepancies between them generate a third element: differently coloured slender rectangles that judder between the main blocks of colour . In contrast to the many computer-generated works Payne has made over the last eight or so years, the texture and ‘noise’ of the analogue decay generated by re-filming (as opposed to digital copying) plays an important role." (Nicky Hamlyn)

Whatever Happened to My Future?

2012 • 11 min • United States of America

In 2012, Ilene Segalove talks to herself from 1972.

El Último Consejo

2012 • 12 min • Mexico

During the ceremony to change the authorities in an indigenous town, where a council of elders passes leadership to a new council made up of younger men, all the money of the town is counted publicly. The next day, the treasury is empty: Who stole the money?

A Song Of Despair

2012 • 5 min

The film is about modern, young Asian people arriving in America for school, who grew up in a very traditional society, but have very non-traditional ways of thinking. Despite moving to America, they find it difficult to break free from their traditional way of thinking even with their newfound freedoms.

Walking with Dogs: A Wonderland Special

2012 • 40 min • United Kingdom

This film, by acclaimed director Vanessa Engle, explores our remarkable relationship with dogs. Over a number of months in north London's Hampstead Heath, Engle approached people who were walking their dogs to discover why they have a dog and the role their dog plays in their emotional lives. The people she meets tell their stories, many of which are moving, surprising and profound.

Narcissi

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

"Shiloh Cinquemani works wonders simply by framing flowers in “Narcissi” and “Rose.” Her delirious flux of glances electrifies the old-fashioned still life." -Bill Stamets, The Chicago Sun-Times

I Need a Hero

2012 • 14 min

A brief look at the evolution of LGBT representation in comic books over the past 30 years.

In Landscape's Movement

2012 • 10 min • Spain