All Films

Machine

2012 • 3 min

A brief encounter between a mechanical flower, an oil pump on Saturn, outdated picture books, and a bird.

Plurality

2012 • 14 min • United States of America

In the near future, instant DNA identification has created an information grid that makes crime extremely difficult, and anonymity impossible. But, suddenly, the same IDs start to appear in different locations. A pro-level and intelligent sci-fi piece about the genesis of a big brother state.

Moon Cakes

2012 • 13 min • China

A lonely boy takes a chance on a wish to try and make his dream into a reality.

Atanasoff: The Father of the Computer

2012 • 47 min

The story of the lone inventor who fought all his life to be recognized as the originator of one of mankind’s most significant inventions. John Atanasoff, a physics professor at Iowa State College, needed a better calculator that could quickly solve advanced equations and when he tried to find such a machine, realized none existed. So Atanasoff decided he must build his own calculator. Through archive material, reenactments, interviews with experts and first hand witnesses this documentary shines a light to controversy over who was the actual inventor of the computer and an unknown part of our history.

Guards

2012 • 20 min

A film about museum guards with a background as law enforcement officers or military personnel.

Markings 1-3

2012 • 7 min • Canada

A tactile journey in three parts, Markings 1-3 explores nature through the surface of celluloid, using such techniques as tinting, toning, painting and scratching. This film was shot and hand processed at the Independent Imaging Retreat (The Film Farm) in Mount Forest Ontario.

Haircut Mouse

2012 • 3 min

Respira Até o Fim

2012 • 9 min • Brazil

Partnership between the rock band Madame Saatan and the music video director P.R. Brown.

Unprecedented Longing

2012 • 40 min

Unprecedented Longing is an honest coming of age film about two boys searching for their identity and love, in which making music plays a central role. An ode to nonverbal communication and unspoken longing and affection.

Crashing Skies

2012 • 6 min • Canada

An ordinary rural landscape is transformed into an enigmatic dreamscape. A farmhouse stands in a copper field of scratched emulsion as solarized flares illuminate the sky. Split toned horses amble dreamlike across the frame into inky underexposed blackness. Copper thistles sway in the wind, looming and strangely monumental. The hand-processed 16mm imagery creates an elliptical inner world of memory and dreams.

Dumb Ways to Die

2012 • 3 min • Australia

Cheerfully-animated short music video, part of Melbourne's Metro Trains public service campaign that promotes rail safety, depicts various common and less common ways of getting killed as a lighthearted tongue-in-cheek song lists them.

Magma

2012 • 17 min • France

While walking, try to express something of an inner rage.

Vexed

2012 • 28 min

As physicists are closing in on the particle described as the fundamental building block in our understanding of the Universe, Telcosystems show a far less conclusive particle theory; one that describes a digital world that is unstable and multimodal by nature, only revealing itself through bits and pieces traveling at superluminal velocity. At these speeds even the slightest fluctuation or disturbance unleashes a cascade of shapeshifting sono-optical movements, constantly challenging and redefining the rules by which this pattern-defying universe is pulled from stasis into turbulent chaos.

The Last Train

2012 • 1 min • Ireland

Short animation about a monster haunting a train in the night.

The Waves

2012 • 21 min • Portugal

The connection between the Portuguese coast line and the memories of someone's past.

Tenpin Arpeggio

2012 • 10 min

2012, digital video, color/sound, Cinemascope, 10 mins. Movements of bowlers in an American bowling alley form an arpeggio of sound and image against backgrounds of abstraction and calls for civic engagement. The hypnotic cutting threatens to break apart the frame, as if the bowlers were attempting to free themselves from the restraints of their physical environment.

Spring of Anbar

2012 • 52 min

Al-Qaida propaganda shows their fighters training in the Iraqi desert, carrying out attacks on convoys and barracks U.S. and Iraqi troops and patrolling the streets of the Al-Anbar towns and villages.

Parokya ni Edgar : Inuman Sessions Vol. 2

2012 • 59 min

In 2012, the band released their 2nd live album Inuman Sessions Vol. 2 which is a follow up their Inuman Sessions Vol. 1 released in 2004. This album mostly contains live versions of their second batch of singles. Tatlong Araw, Your Song and Alumni Homecoming were performed although this tracks were released from albums proir to Vol. 1. Mr. Suave is performed as well in this album which also appears in the first live album. Artists featured on this were Yeng Constantino, Kamikazee, Gloc 9, Miggy Chavez of the band Chicosci, and the son of the late Francis M., Frank Magalona.

Within Temptation: Main Square Festival

2012 • 51 min

Live recording of Within Temptation on the 'Main square festival' in Arras, France. 1) Mother Maiden (Short Movie) 2) Shot in the Dark 3) In the Middle of the Night 4) Faster 5) What Have You Done 6) Fire and Ice 7) Ice Queen 8) Where Is the Edge 9) Iron 10) Stand My Ground 11) Sinéad (Short Movie) 12) Sinéad 13) Mother Earth

Just as I Remember

2012 • 18 min • Canada

When Andrew was four years old his father learned he had ALS, a fatal and incurable illness. Seventeen years later and now a filmmaker, Andrew documents the experience of Brad, a father with three young boys who also has ALS. What emerges is a portrait of two families documenting the struggles and hopes that they share.

Sunday Morning

2012 • 25 min

On Sunday morning a nine year old girl is getting up to all sorts around her palatial home. After a scary experience in the swimming pool, Kiva has an encounter with a visiting window cleaner. But can he be trusted? And where are her parents?

Battle at Shiloh: The Devil's Own Two Days

2012 • 53 min

Our Emmy award-winning production team takes you on a cinematic adventure into the legendary Battle of Shiloh. Seven characters, based on real-life accounts, weave a narrative thread of their own personal experiences during the Battle of Shiloh s vicious two-day brawl, while our objective narrator unfolds one of the bloodiest fights of the American Civil War. These stories reveal the dramatic and haunting effects of Shiloh, which resulted in almost 24,000 maimed, missing or dead...in just two days. The 1862 Battle of Shiloh marked a turning point in our nation s history, opening our nation s eyes, North and South, to the true cost of Civil War. Shot in breath-taking 1080p High Definition and with immersive animated maps, and dazzling visual effects, this film is unparalleled in the Wide Awake Films collection.

Orpheus (Outtakes)

2012 • 6 min • United States of America

“Using footage from Cocteau’s Orphée, Clark optically prints an interstitial space where the ghosts of cinema lurk beyond and within the frames.” – Andrea Picard

Bienaventurados

2012 • 14 min

José and Serafo, two children from the islands of the Paraná delta, decide to make a long trip of faith and hope: a pilgrimage on foot to Lujan to pray before the Blessed Virgin Mary for the healing of their mother.