All Films

Choking Hazard

2012 • 2 min

Our best intentions can go awry when it comes to recycling plastic.

Kagemono: The Shadow Folk

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

The story of Beopup, a little fox who goes hunting in the woods and uncovers something rather unpleasant.

Adele: VH1 Unplugged

2012 • 23 min

Earlier this month Adele stopped by a studio in Harlem to perform a six-song set for VH1 Unplugged. We have the song known as “The Contradictions Track,” which is “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman,” in advance of the show’s online premiere March 3. It may seem like a dangerous move for any singer to cover Aretha Franklin. Is there a more surefire way to feel inadequate? But Adele smartly introduced the song by saying she wouldn’t attempt to reinterpret it. While we agree with her sentiment (and respect for Aretha), turns out no disclaimer was needed. Listening up-close to Adele’s mellow but true rendition, which required only minimal guitar and keys, it seemed to us there is no one Adele can’t cover with her powerful, nuanced singing.

On the Circuit

2012 • 34 min • United States of America

In the Spring of 2012, four of America's Best Boulderers converged in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado in search of something new. Follow along as Dave Graham, Paul Robinson, Carlo Traversi, and Daniel Woods, establish and repeat some of the world's most difficult boulder problems that surround the now infamous Bear Lake Road. On The Circuit was filmed and produced by the athletes themselves, giving you an exclusive chance to see first hand the culture of development that defines and progresses our sport.

Titanic: Born in Belfast

2012 • 51 min

This thought-provoking program offers a behind-the-scenes look at the construction of the ill-fated Titanic, the lavishly grand White Star liner that infamously sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic in 1912. Shot on location at the Titanic's birthplace in Belfast, Ireland, the film also includes rare interviews with people who actually witnessed the ship being built, as well as those who saw its one and only launch.

Journey To Europa

2012 • 50 min • United States of America

A spacecraft lands on Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, in temperatures of minus 260 degrees and searing radiation. Its mission: to penetrate the surface and send a probe into a watery realm beneath the ice. Meet Bill Stone, a preeminent underwater cave explorer and inventor who is developing robots to carry out that mission one day. Now, he and his team hope to test an autonomous underwater vehicle called Endurance in Antarctica’s icy waters. As we watch Endurance plunge into the depths, CGI animation helps us envision how its descendant would fare on a real mission to Europa. We see it hurtle across the solar system, finally dropping slowly into Europa’s liquid realm, where we follow it through its routines. Getting a robot through the ice and into the oceans of Europa will be an order of magnitude more difficult than anything Stone’s team has done so far.

Last Call

2012 • 24 min • United States of America

A woman must solve a riddle over the phone to save a stranger's life. In the middle of the night, Kristen is awakened by a phone call from a stranger asking for her help. She is given half an hour to solve a riddle that could ultimately save the stranger's life. Skeptical at first, she reluctantly plays along, but as the countdown begins, it becomes dangerously clear that this is not a game...

Last Round

2012 • 22 min • Switzerland

A woman and a man encounter each other at the place of final decisions.

Hooked On Food

2012 • 55 min

Follow Remi, our French American reporter, as he finds the answers to the questions we all ask about fast food: Why do we consume so much processed food and why are we so hooked on it? How does it mold our tastes, influence our cravings and feed our addictions?

Z

2012 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Is hindsight 20:20? Does history reveal or obscure the truth? Can we predict the future? Will history repeat itself? Are we in control?

Portraits rêvés

2012 • 20 min

fingerprint

2012 • 5 min • Japan

Single 8 film by Kayako Oki.

Seeds of Freedom

2012 • 31 min

Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global food system. The film highlights the extent to which the industrial agricultural system, and genetically modified (GM) seeds in particular, has impacted on the enormous agro-biodiversity evolved by farmers and communities around the world, since the beginning of agriculture.

Untitled (I Was Looking Back To See If You Were Looking Back At Me To See Me Looking Back At You)

2012 • 15 min

Michel Auder dedicated himself to capturing the views from his apartment over the course of a year. This three-channel video installation from 2014 is based on that footage.

Win or Lose

2012 • 16 min

When a discriminatory amendment threatens the legitimacy of unconventional families in North Carolina, a photographer takes up his camera to fight for equality.

Missile to Moon

2012 • 56 min • United States of America

Track the evolution of Huntsville, Alabama, from the "Watercress Capital of the World" to "Rocket City, USA," Wernher von Braun's journey from German Rocket Engineer to American Hero, and the role this unlikely combination played in thrusting the United States into the forefront of the Space Age.

Dooppel!

2012 • 2 min • Japan

Independent animation by Hideki Nakagawa. This short film is his graduation project in 2012

Hopfrog

2012 • 6 min • Russia

Non scientific observations of the jumping fellows life.

tricotMOVIE'12 8月号

2012 • 6 min • Japan

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Lalang

2012 • 8 min

A short allegory on the neverending political discourse in Malaysia. it tells the point of view of a third party, the deer that got stucked between two elephants, and a butterfly

The Wolf

2012 • 20 min • United States of America

This story focuses on a conflicted young man (Travis Wolf) who struggles with his freedom after witnessing his girlfriend overdose on drugs she found in his jacket pocket. On the run and desperate to survive, he makes one bad decision after another that leads to his ultimate demise. Director Jay Carver Writer Jay Carver Stars Bill PacerAnna Julise CookPaul McComiskey

Claudio y Adrián (Amores de historia)

2012 • 52 min • Argentina

Claudio inherits a bar from a gay uncle who died, whose family had alienated him. Claudio begins to work on it and meets Horacio, a young poet who falls in love with him. They set up a cultural center in the bar, until one night in the crisis of the 90's some criminals rob them and kill Horacio. Not having a bond justified by law, Claudio cannot save Horacio. Years later Claudio hires Adrián as a waiter at the bar. And a new love story begins again in times of the same-sex marriage law.

Snows of Reduction

2012 • 5 min

Special Day

2012 • 11 min • Greece

Sofia panics during the planning of her wedding. A jumble of thoughts and images triggers an anxiety that Sofia struggles against and trying to overcome.