All Films

All Happy Mornings

2012 • 60 min

A personal journey into bisexual being, the film exposes the passionate, wild world found by the filmmaker in documenting his relationship with Chen, a rising rock star. Facing the pressure all around him, the filmmaker tries to find a way to feel complete without having to explain. Alongside the personal dilemma is his singular family-his brother, sister and their grand childless parents, who are longing for continuity. Like the men he talks to confidentially, they present him with the main conflict in his live. As the inevitable crisis looms, a new factor emerges and illuminates things in a new light.

Baboon

2012 • 2 min • Iceland, United States of America

All things considered, it was a bad day to punch a clown in the head.

Construct

2012 • 12 min

17 Monuments

2012 • 60 min • Argentina

Seventeen tripod-bound shots of fixed length observe the diverse and disparate settings in which 17 monuments, each bearing the words 'Memory', 'Truth' and 'Justice', were built by law to mark locations used as detention and torture centres during Argentina's military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

Luc Leccia

2012 • 24 min

Astons presenter

2012 • 9 min • Sweden

Jardin d'été

2012 • 18 min • France

A moment spent in a garden. Bursts of light, flowers trembling, life flies by.

Ernest Atkinson Park

2012 • 23 min

A short shot made in a children’s playground in Windsor, Ontario, is cut into three-frame sections, each of which is looped for ten seconds. Each loop advances by one one frame at a time. The process generates multiple and complex kinetic effects, which vary depending on which part of the screen the spectator fixates upon.

Gaelle Obliegly - le prochain

2012 • 2 min • Austria

The continuation of a portrait of Gaelle Obiegly. The focus of the film is not a portrait, but rather a wide variety of cable cords in a cellar, attached to diverse light sources. A pageboy, a film projector, the person named in the title, and three other women.

Time of the Plums

2012 • 9 min

It's the time of the plums and 10-year-old Yasemin lives in her own world of fantasy. On a day her fantasy world hinders her first encounter with death.

The War of Comics

2012 • 19 min • Brazil

In the 1960s, a creative production of erotic comics emerged in Brazil. But censorship conspired to bring them to an end. Satã, Chico de Ogum, Beto Sonhador, Maria Erótica and other characters join the comic artists in this battle against the dictatorship in this documentary where the worst fiction is reality.

Forsaken

2012 • 5 min

Phillips abstracts images selected from found footage, this time exploring such techniques as contact printing and hand tinting and toning. Muscle men, machinery, and building climbers become foreboding figures in this darkly apocalyptic film.

#43.4

2012 • 1 min

Short piece commissioned for the ‘Modern Times’ project by Stichting Cinema Zuid in collaboration with the One Minutes. Part of a long-running exploration of algorithms that are based on a combination of propagation and local interactions. Originally triggered by an encounter with simulations of how nerve impulses organise themselves into oscillations in tissues like heart muscle, the project has since expanded to include an interest in the more general emergence of patterns in time and space out of homogeneous starting conditions.

Contact Light

2012 • 2 min

Directed by Michael Betancourt

Responsibly Sourced

2012 • 5 min

The near future. Global population has soared and food is in short supply. What will we do?

Céphalie

2012 • 17 min • France

Super 8 Film about the end of time, the rage and despair, and how to live anyway.

Slate

2012 • 15 min

Slate, is a story about a male hustler (Slate) who finds himself under the control of a lazy overbearing pimp (Terrence) who abuses him every chance he gets. Feeling lost, alone, and unloved, Slate's fortune changes when he meets Johnny. The two quickly form a friendship that flourishes into something more. When Terrence finds out of this relationship and goes after Johnny, Slate feels like he has no choice, but to take matters into his own hands.

Injury On A Theme

2012 • 7 min

A short sweet film concerning torture. For Lynda Gudde.

Swamp Man!

2012 • 45 min

Kids of all ages will be spellbound for over 45-minutes as they are taken “on-location” to learn about God’s amazing animals of the everglades. Plus they’ll love the animated story-song “Swamp Man” and the free game included in the bonus features. Children love the grandfatherly explorer/singer Buddy Davis, who leads them through the everglades on an air boat, via all-terrain vehicles, on flat bottom boats, and via hikes that reveal powerful alligators, amazing manatees, intelligent dolphins, cranes, a black bear, snakes, snapping turtles, and more! You probably didn’t know just how big the variety of everglades animals is. This DVD reveals God’s special design in each one!

Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art

2012 • 29 min

In 2004 Checkerboard had the privilege of filming Carrie Mae Weems discussing her body of work, comprised of 17 projects spanning more than two decades (1981-2004). This dynamic presentation was accompanied by slides of the artist's photographs and excerpts from her video art. The result is a chaptered lecture guided by Weems's seductive voice and passionate presence. The viewer is transported into her world as she details what she is trying to uncover, illuminate, investigate and provoke through her lens.

7 Deadly Kisses

2012 • 4 min

From fish kiss to dragon kiss – this is where people of all ages and genders who want to learn how to kiss can find out (almost) everything about the no-no’s of the face fuck. Two willing and able male trainees demonstrate the first seven deadly kisses for any relationship.

Bumming Cigarettes

2012 • 23 min

A short film about a brief and intimate meeting between a young black lesbian woman who is in the process of taking an HIV test and a middle aged black gay HIV positive man.

Continental Drift

2012 • 15 min

Croatia, 1999. Adele, a young Australian woman travels by the sea, staying in an abandoned building, amid echoes of war. She meets Antonija, whose life has been fractured by the conflicts that tore apart the former-Yugoslavia, and together they discover the uncanny intimacy that can develop between strangers.

Jane

2012 • 6 min

Imogen, a young bisexual girl, deals with the difficulties of sexuality and unrequited love.