All Films

The Lesson

2011 • 15 min

When an English-challenged student seeks guidance about affairs of the heart, his romantically jaded instructor must teach him the words she never learned how to say.

Letter from Lorca

2011 • 12 min

It's August 18, 1936, Civil War has broken out in Spain. Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest poet and dramatist is hiding out in the Granada home of friend and Falange member, Luis Ortiz Rosales. Lorca wanted for his outspoken liberal views, homosexuality, and artistic convictions awaits the arrival of the Nationalist soldiers to arrest him. As the world falls apart, Lorca's final voice is heard through a letter.

Liquid Sun

2011 • 11 min

In the past twenty years, the Irish economy has grown rapidly, but in the current economic crisis it is about to collapse. The consequences are evident in this short film about a man taking his Polish friend, an immigrant, back to the ferry.

Salas S.A.L.

2011 • 9 min

Arranged in mirrored halves, Salas S.A.L is a lesbian Godard-ian tale of a boss and her secretary. Through well-composed, largely static shots, Rojo eeks the human out of her characters’ sexless business-speak and bland office settings.

Simply Rob

2011 • 15 min

Simply Rob is a portrait of New York based poet and activist Rob Vassilarakis. This film follows Rob as he tells his turbulent life story through his poetry.

Sarah's Shout

2011 • 7 min

The Table with the Dogs

2011 • 40 min

The moon is shining upon a luxuriant garden. Percussion beats interrupt the eerie silence of the night. Bare-chested with crossed-legs, six actors are sitting on mats facing their teachers. It is 4am in Kottakkal, South India.

Your Warmth

2011 • 14 min

Jonathan cruises the park for the first time looking for love. But will he find what he truly wants: to be held?

Dayglo (You Know, You Know)

2011 • 3 min

“Made in memory of Poly Styrene singer & songwriter, once of the punk band X Ray Spex. Poly’s music has always inspired us for its spirit of feminism & liberation; we’re particularly fond of ‘Oh Bondage Up Yours!’ The film’s soundtrack features her biggest hit, and uses an abstract array of vivid colours, some of which are made by painting food dyes on to the film emulsion.”

Bodysnatcher

2011 • 29 min

Umberto lives alone, healing his body and going to prostitutes, but this is not enough to ease his discomfort. To make some money, he accepts to go to the home of a ex-convict homosexual to repair plumbing. The proximity to the man and his allusions creep slowly into Umberto's mind...

The Big Girl 3

2011 • 14 min • China

The princess ends up in a chase against the prince and the Devil.

We Refuse To Be Cold

2011 • 7 min

We Refuse To Be Cold" is Alexander Carson's poetic and lyrical portrait of a young couple spending a Montreal winter together.

Armoire (4 Parts)

2011 • 9 min

A four-part study of motion, shape and colour inspired by a robin's flight. Consists of: "Armoire Prologue" (2:40, 2007), "Coda" (2:30, 2009) and two new episodes (2011).

O Homem que Gostava de Zombies

2011 • 23 min • Portugal

The story of Eurico Bernardes Catatau, the precursor of Portuguese zombie films.

Making the 9/11 Memorial

2011 • 43 min

The only structure at Ground Zero that will be completed by the tenth anniversary of the attacks is the National September 11 Memorial, a modern marvel that pays tribute to the thousands who lost their lives on 9/11. Led by architect Michael Arad and contractor Chris Powers, this special tour documents history in the making.

Bewegung

2011 • 40 min • Germany

11 sequences, 11 panoramas 360°. The cityscape is scanned slowly and while it turns there are strange phenomena happening inside.

Encore

2011 • 28 min

The soon-to-graduate son is busy on preparing his graduation play. The mother memorizes the staging old days. The son's gay orientation becomes the mother's concern. Reality and fiction inside and outside the play reflect the emotions that every family faces.

Mando Diao Rock am Ring 2011

2011 • 60 min

Mando Diao play to a packed German crowd on June 3, 2011. Set list : God Knows, Sheepdog, The Band, Song For Aberdeen, Down in the Past, You Can't Steal My Love, Losing My Mind, Mean Street, Long Before Rock 'n' Roll, No More Tears, Gloria, If I Don't Live Today, Then I Might Be Here Tomorrow, Leave Me Be and Dance With Somebody.

The Art of Yodeling

2011 • 52 min

We follow the philosophy student and yodeler Polkabjørn on his way to the ultimate yodel experiences, and to success. He and his musical companion "Kleine Heine" take their yodel act from the narrow fjords of Norway to huge stadium concerts, the world's leading throat expert, the Faroe Islands, Texas and Germany. We meet their enthusiastic manager, a male stripper and one of the biggest yodel fans in the world.

One Half of August

2011 • 15 min

8-channel video installation. One half of August is an eight-screen, black-and-white, HD video installation in which Yang Fudong aims to create distortion and a change of reality in some of his selected video works by projecting them onto various structures and objects. Yang Fudong refers to this new technique as "multiple view film", which emphasizes the character's subtle expressions and simplest actions. What the viewer could perceive as separate instances, are actually simultaneously tied together into one scene, expanding and multiplying the spectator's usual vision and perception. As with most of Yang Fudong's works, here again the artist uses images metaphorically.

Donizetti: Rita

2011 • 60 min

Donizetti’s rare comic opera, whose title translates as “Rita, or The Battered Husband,” is presented here in a live performance recorded at the Teatro Bellini in Adrano (Catania) in September 2010.

An Old Dance for Autumn

2011 • 14 min

Omarama

2011 • 11 min

Anathema

2011 • 37 min

Anathema is a contemporary Fantasia on the notion of the network and its inherent instability, where the organic networks of human relations and the crystalline lattices of silicon-based technologies intertwine, and often tangle. From the artists’ statement: Anathema re-imagines the microscopic behavior of liquid crystals undergoing turbulence as a sentient entity that possesses the fingertips and the eyes enthralled by the LCD touch-screens of communicative capitalism. Anathema can be understood as an object-oriented video that isolates and recombines the magical gestures of dream factory capitalism. By bringing the telecommunicating couplings of mother-father-daughter-son-machines and boyfriend-girlfriend-units into contact with the conductive imagery of liquid crystallization, Anathema proposes itself as a prototype for a counter-spell assembled from the possible worlds of capitalist sorcery.