All Films

Aerosmith Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2012

2012 • 34 min

Aerosmith performed at the iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 22, 2012, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Their setlist included songs like "Love in an Elevator," "Cryin'," "Dream On," and "Walk This Way".

Creating Our DNA

2012 • 16 min

A short documentary following Little Mix after winning The X Factor and the release of their first two singles from their debut album ‘DNA’.

Birdmen: The Original Dream of Human Flight

2012 • 52 min

The movie chronicles the history of man’s ancient desire of bird-like flight and explains the how and why of arguably the world’s most dangerous sport today.

SELANDIA: The ship That Changed the World

2012 • 58 min • Denmark

The Ship that Changed the World is a historical drama about the birth of the world's first ocean-going diesel-powered ship Selandia. A groundbreaking invention that changed the world forever. The film shows Selandia and the creators receiving worldwide acclaim. But for two of them success was short-lived. They died under mysterious circumstances shortly after the maiden voyage of Selandia. On the brink of the World War, and with Germany and England showing great interest in this invention, is it too farfetched to believe that these deaths were more than coincidental. - Written by Michael Schmidt-Olsen

Electronic Beats Festival Berlin 2012 - Pet Shop Boys

2012 • 45 min

Electronic Beats presents a very special short performance by Pet Shop Boys live in Berlin. The British pop duo will play a selection of songs from their new album Elysium on 5 September, 2012, the first time songs from the album will have been played live. The 30 minute show is to be held in the small and exclusive environs of Hebbel am Ufer(HAU1), Berlin, Germany. Pet Shop Boys have especially selected the Hebbel am Ufer because of the theatre’s reputation as one of the most innovative event locations in Berlin for young, international and experimental art.

Phantoms of a Libertine

2012 • 10 min

Set in a deserted, silent at, laden with mementoes and artefacts belonging to a now departed inhabitant. The film pieces together an elusive biography of a traveller to far flung destinations. There is a heavy stillness in the deserted space, the inhabitants faded memories are retraced by Rivers, but remain inescapably unresolved; narratives flicker and then disperse in succession; the immateriality of life is reflected in the material left behind.

Meisa Kuroki "THE MAGAZINE SHOW"

2012 • 46 min • Japan

Meisa Kuroki presents her 1st solo tour "THE MAGAZINE SHOW" across Japan.

Nest

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

A little bird decides to build himself a nest, but not in the most ideal location.

Authentic

2012 • 13 min • Australia

'Authentic' is a portrait of a man desperately trying to find meaning - or, perhaps, escape - in the compulsive pursuit of climax. In his quest for satisfaction, he either does not see his real desires or ignores it deliberately; but it all changes when the 'Right One' steps in.

RorScHach

2012 • 5 min

Alain, a nutcase like the rest of us, takes the final assessment that might allow him to leave the asylum.

Goner with the Wind

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote uses wind turbines to activate his latest device to better catch the Road Runner by cooking him like popcorn.

Different Path, Same Way

2012 • 45 min

Under the mentality of Chinese families in a post-colonial society like Hong Kong and through their marriage, how did the couple realize their family members’ hope regarding their union? As the couple got married in a relatively open society like Canada, how are the newlyweds influenced by the western society’s mentality and its marriage regulations? Director Yung Chiman, bypassed the points of view of his own sexual orientation, hence through the objective images of a heterosexual, had captured the marriage process and its meaning to this homosexual couple.

Bending Colours

2012 • 38 min • United States of America

Bending Colours is a moving portrait of Jordy Smith. This is not a biopic. It’s a never-before seen insight into game changing next level surfing. From an average school kid in South Africa, a cocky tour rookie, to the professional world title threat he is today, Bending Colours tells a story. No one does progressive surfing or the hi-fi quite like Kai Neville. The fit is obvious. You know Modern Collective. You know the new breed of surfer, soundtrack and star it’s created. This next collaboration will further redefine and change the game.

5 Second Noir

2012 • 1 min

A femme fatale, a deal gone wrong, the city at night.

Happy-End

2012 • 12 min • Austria

A found footage film about rituals, festive occasions and a married couple in a seeming frenzy of cosy togetherness. We see the pair pouring drinks, cutting cakes, making toast. Finally the exuberant movement of the dancing woman freezes.

KKK, the Cruel Beast

2012 • 45 min

Maggelburg, somewhere in Europe. A young woman investigates into the death of her brother, whose body was found in the border of a forest nicknamed the ‘Forest of Mass Graves’.

Rumpy Pumpy

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

A springboard ballet of private parts, in all their glorious combinations.

400 Miles to Freedom

2012 • 60 min

Co-director Avishai Yeganyahu Mekonen’s incredible story of his family’s exodus from Ethiopia to Israel. He was 10 years old when his family, members of the Beta Israel, a secluded 2500-year old community of observant Jews in northern Ethiopia, began their escape. Kidnapped from a refugee camp in Sudan, Avishai was eventually freed and transported to Israel as part of Operation Moses. As part of a racial minority in Israel, Avishai longed for a place where he wouldn’t be called “falasha” (outsider). Now a U.S. resident, Avishai draws on his experiences and launches an inquiry into other Jewish minority groups, leading him to other African, Asian and Latino Jews in Israel and the United States.

Fracture

2012 • 33 min • Russia

"Fracture" is a psychological drama about a guy named Zhenya, who, after showing cowardice in an extreme situation, tries to return to normal life. This is not an easy task, because the result of his act was a terrible injury. What will be more terrible, a fracture of the body or a fracture of the soul?

Sesame Street: Elmo's Alphabet Challenge

2012 • 51 min • United States of America

Are you up for a challenge? An Alphabet Challenge? Abby is excited to show her friends her new Fairy Fly Pad, a magical tablet loaded with cool games. But with a simple tap they accidentally get trapped inside the video game world of A. B. C-more, a mischievous elf obsessed with the alphabet. In order to get back to Sesame Street, the friends must defeat A. B. C-more in different video game challenges that test their knowledge of the entire alphabet.

Sinister Magamagashi 4: Ghostly Confinement

2012 • 56 min • Japan

The leading staff in the Japanse film industry has once more collected submitted videos and actresses to produce this fourth volume of real horror footage. Videos recorded during the exploration of haunted places like "The Cursed Spirit" and other dramatic reproductions of psychic phenomena.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hard Copy

2012 • 9 min

This is a mock episode of the 80's-90's era tabloid show created as part of the film's Internet promotion.

Aokigahara: Suicide Forest

2012 • 21 min

A short documentary on the famous Aokigahara Forest in Japan. The forest is known to be prone to people looking to commit suicide

Persian Pickles

2012 • 3 min

A swimming study of paisley patterns traces this decorative motif from its origins in Persian weavings to appearances Irish quilting and American Counterculture. Extending on the stroboscopic tradition of anti-animation, this short material study fixates upon discarded materials to examine the decorative and its relationship to the cycles of industry and evolving modes of production. - Jodie Mack