All Films

Vivian Maier Photographer

2012 • 12 min

Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo turns his lens to film a very different portrait of Vivian Maier, the mysterious Chicago photographer whose work was only discovered posthumously.

Favela Fabril

2012 • 50 min • Brazil

An old fabric is occupied by more than 1000 families, but the building will be demolished by the government, that will build new houses for the people.

Nick Lowe: AVO Session

2012 • 40 min • Switzerland

Nick Lowe is a pivotal figure in UK pub rock, punk rock and new wave, Lowe has recorded a string of well-reviewed solo albums. He is best known for his songs "Cruel to Be Kind" (a US Top 40 single), and "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" (a top 10 UK hit), as well as his production work with Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and others. Lowe also wrote "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding", a hit for Costello.

Mother Mameng

2012 • 45 min • Philippines

Mother Mameng delves deep into the character of a woman who has experienced extreme poverty and domestic violence and rose from from it all to become the beloved personality, well-known to the Philippine mass movement.

Palm Down

2012 • 7 min

Two palindromes. One resurrection. No happy ending.

The Secret

2012 • 7 min

Two friends reunite in a diner and discuss their dating lives. But one of them has a secret.

Theatre of Dreams

2012 • 50 min • Portugal

Documentary about the Therapeutic Theatre Group of Julio de Matos' Psychiatric Hospital.

Clear Allegiance

2012 • 36 min

Clear Allegiance features the artist demonstrating by himself in the streets of Harlem with a transparent flag. Guagnini starts in the poorest part of the neighborhood, near a trash processing plant, and walks up to Columbia University, an island of privilege to which he indeed belongs himself as a professor. In keeping with the entwined politics of disenchanted capitulation and sly subversion, repositioning himself as a child of the failed revolutionary promises of 1968, Guagnini waves his flag in non-heroic moments, making the context his content, contingency his ideology. Negation and retreat are not an option, but neither is utopia. Transparency, surveillance, public space, reflection and reflexivity constitute the elements of Guagnini’s critical poetics of his time and space. Source: https://www.kinosued.com/

Blood Sugar

2012 • 5 min

As the title suggests, a bodily metaphor, metabolism, is at play in the continuous cycle and recycle of images. As the models emerge and recede into darkness, images and patterns appear, degrade and reemerge to an uninterrupted beat. The cycle continues, just as we continue to flow and burn.

Seven Windsor Films

2012 • 22 min

Series of films produced during an artist’s residency at the Art Gallery of Windsor Ontario and Media City Festival. All the sequences were shot in and around the gallery on colour negative and Agfa B&W sound recording film.All the B&W sequences were hand processed and printed using a Bolex camera as a printer.

My Father was a Nazi Commandant

2012 • 50 min

The Emmy Award-winning story of a young woman grappling with the terrible legacy left by her Nazi father. Amon Goeth was a prominent Nazi leader and commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp. Utterly ruthless and sadistic, he murdered thousands of Jews and others during WWII. After seeing Ralph Fiennes's portrayal of him in Schindler's List, Goeth's daughter Monika began a quest to come to terms with his evil legacy. Together with Helen Jonas, a survivor of the Holocaust and Goeth's slave, the two women unearth the personal cost of crimes that consumed millions and question whether a parent's actions can ever be truly laid to rest.

21 Years in 7 Minutes

2012 • 7 min

The director's life so far.

Claude Miller, cinéaste de l'intime, ou Claude M le cinéma

2012 • 52 min

Since childhood, Claude Miller was mad about movies. From a cinephile he became a filmmaker, a craftsman of "mainstream auteur cinema " believing in the sensitivity and imagination of the viewer. Suggesting the most, while showing the least possible, his work is of an elegant modesty.

The Son

2012 • 50 min • China

“If there is any chance, I will let him live well No matter where he is.” The old lady cried and said that when I was visited her and her husband one year ago. Her heartfelt wishes are my motivation, I know that I am going to create this documentary work - the son.

Change

2012 • 8 min • Guam

When Jonathan arrives late to the Project: Inspire meeting, the gang decides to scare to him with all the upcoming 2012 apocalyptic prophecies.

Friends

2012 • 25 min • Djibouti

Souad, Oubah and Ayane met at a tender age. Khat is a very sought after leaf, commonly used by Djiboutians, which, when chewed for long periods of time, delivers a sense of euphoria and numbness This omnipresent element is the backdrop which shapes the lives of this group of friends.

Trespass the Salt

2012 • 12 min

Through this intimate and fictionalized dinner, an impossible happening becomes real. The work explores cultural fabrications and similarities in a non-mediated moment outside the Western gaze - even if the space it seeks is invariably conditioned by it. This work was initially a 3-channel video installation

The Greatest Player Ever

2012 • 51 min

Wilt Chamberlain's career starting with the 1954 high school championship at the Philadelphia Palestra against West Catholic High School. Watch the skills of a young player who becomes the most outstanding basketball player in the world. See interviews and visuals with his high school coach. Enjoy his 100 point game against the New York Knickerbockers that stands as the most outstanding achievement of ANY athlete. Listen to opposing players as they describe his amazing talent and athletic abilities that STILL seem unbelievable. A must for all sports fans.

The Left-to-Die Boat

2012 • 18 min

In March 2011, 72 passengers left the Libyan coast heading in the direction of Italy on board a small rubber boat at the time of NATO’s military intervention in Libya. Despite several distress signals relaying their location, as well as repeated interactions with at least one military helicopter and a military ship, they were left to drift for 14 days. As a result of the inaction of all state actors involved, only nine of the passengers survived. By combining their testimonies with wind and sea-current data as well as satellite imagery, Forensic Oceanography reconstructed the liquid traces of this event, producing a report that served as the basis of several legal complaints. -FA

Foreign Names

2012 • 5 min

Foreign Names focuses on the worker displacement in a compilation of video clips from Aroma, a coffee shop chain. Ben-Ner’s video shows counter staff at the coffee shops yelling nonsensical English “names,” fabricated and given to them by the artist. The texts edited together become a lament of the waiters’ disappearance and the state of workers today.

Junji Inagawa: Scream Night Tales - Tales of Terror

2012 • 56 min • Japan

The "Junji Inagawa's Screaming Night Stories" series features the most terrifying ghost stories ever told by Junji Inagawa, a ghost story preacher of all time!

Star Light N°5

2012 • 6 min • France

Series of five versions of the same kaleidoscopical short film "Star Light" which N° 2 is the full screen version. Version 3, 4, 5 and 5 Bis are using layered version of that same short slightly transformed.

Glucose

2012 • 8 min • France

Using 3d technology and live shooting, Glucose reshapes our surrounding domestic environment. It depicts a place where physical distorsions happen. The camera becomes the microscope of a slow mental slideshow and catches precious moments of perception disorder.

Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games

2012 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A journey into the history, pageantry and characters that have shaped a Scottish phenomenon. Acclaimed actor Bill Paterson narrates the astonishing story of the Highland Games. From the battling clans to Queen Victoria's infatuation with her Highland subjects, the games have become a symbol of community and identity in Scotland and all across the world.