All Films

Dawn

2012 • 29 min • United States of America

Dawn is a psychological drama exploring the bond of triplets, broken at birth, sending surviving siblings Jude and Maddison on an intimate quest to fill their sense of loss, grief and loneliness. On their 36th birthday, the missing link in their trinity lays just around the corner.

Snow-Covered Horseman

2012 • 18 min • Russia

The film is a memory of Alexei Turkus's father, the famous architect Mikhail Turkus. In the film there is not a word about the profession of the father, but only the tenderness and enthusiastic fantasies of the child, who, according to the joking stories of the pope, imagined him either as a commander or a robber.

Karama Has No Walls

2012 • 26 min • Yemen, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

'Karama has no walls' is set amidst Yemen's 2011 uprising. The film illustrates the nature of the Yemeni revolution in stark contrast to the gross violations of human rights that took place on Friday, March 18th 2011. Juma'at El-Karama (Friday of Dignity) marks a turning point in the Yemeni revolution as the tragic events that took place on this day -when pro-government snipers shot dead 53 protestors - shook the nation and propelled hundreds of thousands more to flock to the square in solidarity with their fellow citizens. Through the lenses of two cameramen and the accounts of two fathers, the film retells the story of the people behind the statistics and news reports, encapsulating the tragic events of the day as they unfolded.

Pxxxl

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

Using century old technology, PXXXL creates digital glitch from analog process. It was animated directly on the celluloid without a camera, in a darkroom, using lights, objects, and handmade lenses. There is no digital manipulation involved-- just light, celluloid, and processing.

American Transgender

2012 • 45 min • United States of America

Most of us can answer that question without a second thought, but for some people, the answer isn’t so simple. American Transgender takes us firsthand into the daily lives of three individuals—Clair, Jim, and Eli—who each identify with a different gender from the one in which they were born and raised. We witness their struggles and triumphs, and experience their hopes and fears. How do they manage at work, build careers, maintain friendships, and nurture lasting, intimate partnerships? Each of the characters in the film tells their story in their own words as we follow them through life’s daily battles and victories, both large and small.

Magic Mirror Maze

2012 • 5 min

The famed Hall of Mirrors sequence of Welles' classic noir The Lady from Shanghai is transformed through a succession of four algorithmic progressions of split screen patterns. The result is hypnotic, kaleidoscopic and a bit uncanny.

Toxic

2012 • 16 min

The film Toxic shows two protagonists in an undated time, a punk figure in glitter (Ginger Brooks Takahashi) and a drag queen (Werner Hirsch), both of unclear gender and origin. They linger in an environment of glossy remains, of toxic plants and transformed ethnographic and police photography. While the punk gives a speech on toxicity and a performance referencing early feminist art works, the drag queen reenacts an interview of Jean Genet from the ‘80s and blames the filmmakers for exposing her to the police-like scenario of being filmed. The camera turns and depicts the space-off, the space outside the frame.

Money and Medicine

2012 • 56 min • United States of America

Examines the reasons behind the rising costs of health care in the United States. Looks at the dangers of over-diagnosis and over-treatment and investigates how waste pervades our medical system. Also looks at how some hospitals are working to create less expensive and high quality alternatives to the present system.

Autopsy of Delights

2012 • 17 min • France

Gary, breathless, is about to die. In his last confession, the old man begins a painful journey through the darkness of his cruel and morbid past.

You and I

2012 • 23 min

Different cultural backgrounds and the sterile apartment building in the suburbs are not Linda and Sevilay’s problem. The problem for these two 15-year-old friends is their messed up parents. What the two teenagers really want to do is run away. Things come to a head on Linda’s birthday.

Annie Ross: No One But Me

2012 • 59 min

Annie Ross was the red-headed bombshell at the swinging heart of the post-war jazz scene. Raised in Glasgow, her eight-decade career runs from precocious child star - the 'Scottish Shirley Temple' - to indefatigable living legend. In this intimate and revealing ArtWorks Scotland profile, Annie discusses her many lives: Parisian singer in the 1940s, incomparable vocal gymnast in the 1950s and Covent Garden impresario in the 1960s. Tales of shoplifting with Billie Holiday, shooting up with her lover Lenny Bruce and of her deep abiding affection for her brother Jimmy Logan are underscored by Annie's beguiling and distinctive vocals performing a generous selection of jazz standards and her own compositions.

Top Gear: Supercars Across Italy

2012 • 42 min • United Kingdom, Italy

Top Gear: Supercars Across Italy

Red Bull Hare Scramble

2012 • 48 min

The ultimate Extreme Enduro cult! The undisputed toughest off-road single motorcycle race in the world, a weekend full of rocks, mud and sweat. Get stuck into Red Bull’s Hare Scramble. Follow the world’s toughest riders as they try to conquer the world’s most demanding race. Follow them up every hill, over every boulder and through every trench as they subject their bodies and bikes to some of the hardest terrain we can throw at them.

Leviticus 20:13

2012 • 10 min

A young gay man commits suicide after a shocking argument with his conservative father.

What I Want from You

2012 • 13 min

Dario is obsessed with a guy. Victor is obsessed with all the guys.

Hollywood as Character: The Locations of The Artist

2012 • 5 min

This documentary details the L.A.-area filming locations used throughout the film.

Big Mouth

2012 • 8 min

This animated short tells the story of Trudy, a little girl who is equal parts truthful and rude. A bright-minded and quick-witted child, Trudy has an unfiltered and deeply curious way of looking at the world. Here, events force her to question what it means to speak the truth, and comes to understand how our differences make us unique.

Inquire Within

2012 • 3 min

INQUIRE WITHIN is a hypnotic, apocalyptic examination of false choices, double binds, vulnerability and faith.

La Edwin

2012 • 11 min

Based on the short story by renowned Puerto Rican author Luis Negron, La Edwin tells the story of Johnny, a happy-go-lucky, colorful gay man, who seems to spends his days from gossip to gossip. On this particular afternoon, he recounts through a phone conversation the heartbreak story of Edwin, a mutual friend.

Sexwork & Me

2012 • 55 min • Netherlands, United Kingdom

21st century legal prostitution through the frank stories of Amsterdam red-light district sex workers at a time when tighter regulation threatens their livelihood.

Secrets of Shaolin with Jason Scott Lee

2012 • 50 min • Singapore

Hollywood actor Jason Scott Lee, actor in The Bruce Lee Story and himself an expert developed by Bruce Lee's fighting style "Jeet Kune Do" fulfilled his lifelong dream: In an intensive two-week Kung Fu boot camp, Jason is in the centuries introduced ancient secrets of Shaolin Kung Fu. Bei Shi Yongxin, the highest monk of Chinese Kung Fu Temple, learns Jason how the human body into the ultimate martial arts weapon you transformiert.Erleben highest martial arts, combined with mental abilities, according to the traditional teaching of Zen Buddhism, through which generations of fans around the world were inspired. Using the latest 3D technology combined with high-speed mobile 3D slow motion hand-held cameras for the first time it was possible to capture breathtaking images in Kung Fu and its full dynamic range.

Matches

2012 • 1 min • France

Belfast's suburbs in the 70s, three children are trying to escape from the daily conflicts for a brief moment.

Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree

2012 • 10 min

Pinea Silva: Lost Meanings of the Christmas Tree, a performance-lecture by Carolee Schneemann, was first presented on December 15, 2011 as part of the 40th Anniversary Benefit at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). The live recording, which was edited by Schneemann at EAI, represents an audio-visual collage in which the images used in the artist's lecture intervene in the recording of the lecture itself.

Vampire (Short Film)

2012 • 15 min

When a woman with serious family issues meets a delivery man, she discovers she has an instant attraction to him. Then, things get intense and passionate between the two but the man has a huge secret and it will make her life all the more complicated.