All Films

Salem Witch Trial Conspiracy

2011 • 45 min

In Salem Witch Trial Conspiracy, join author Katherine Howe as she embarks on a historical journey to bring you the truth behind the world's most famous witch-hunt. Of the over one hundred people charged with witchcraft, five died in jail, 19 died on the gallows and one was crushed to death. Each of these deaths was the result of an overwhelming religious hysteria, and even to this date historians are uncovering more about what really occurred.

Angorá

2011 • 10 min

Through the eyes of a cat, the audience meets Bruno, Fabricio, Silvio and Lucio, their fears, guilt, ego and delicacy.

Hitler's Suicide Ship

2011 • 46 min

After battling in late 1939 with British cruisers off the coast of Uruguay, Hitler’s prized “pocket battleship” and high-tech wonder, the Admiral Graf Spee was blown up by its own captain, Hans Langsdorff. Denounced by the Nazi regime, Langsdorff commits suicide shortly thereafter. National Geographic Channel reconstructs the first naval battle of World War II and retraces the events that led to the Graf Spee’s ultimate destruction.

The Pope's Secret Service

2011 • 45 min

National Geographic takes an intimate look at life behind the Vatican walls. For more than a year, filmmakers were allowed extraordinary access to the center of the Catholic Church and members of the popes inner circle. We'll meet a bodyguard, an official photographer, the archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica who is privy to Vatican secrets and an altar boy living in the pre-seminary. Then, cameras enter the vaults under the Vatican museum.

Dirty Orange

2011 • 12 min

Alice is having a hard time getting ready for a funeral. Lucy, her girlfriend, is trying her best to help her, but the atmosphere between them is chilly. Will a trip down memory lane help?

The Fox in the Snow

2011 • 10 min

A women's bible study meeting takes an unexpected turn when the members' true motives are revealed.

Boys Will Be Boys

2011 • 9 min

When a man is abused by his partner, he locks himself in the bathroom. There he begins to imagine what his life would be like if he opened the door.

Coach Tyranny: Tough Love

2011 • 45 min

We know that Coach Tyranny is the most ferocious coach on the high school landscape, but this time, the real battles take place off the playing field. In the second episode of this animated series, unsuspected love interests force Tyranny into a tug-of-war over his heart and, ultimately, his soul. Meanwhile, a family get-together reminds Tyranny that his mother has never stopped teaching him eternal truths. Watch Coach Tyranny discover what it means to honor his mother and father, as well as learn other lessons God wants to teach all of us.

O Diário de Márcia

2011 • 20 min

Marcia, a transsexual from Paraíba, tells a personal and intimate story about the dilemma of living the feminine universe in a man's body, while waiting to remove the last vestige of the sex that torments her existence.

Lados Dados

2011 • 12 min

After the relationship ends, the two boys involved try to understand what really happened between the sides in the various stories they lived together. Between sorrows and resentments the truth given between the sides emerges and there is nothing left but for each one to go their own way.

The Twelve

2011 • 37 min

1270 Boylston Street was Boston's most diverse discotech in its history. Catering primarily to a gay clientele, the bar had 4 stories to move around in: 2 dance floors, a piano bar/pool room, and a rooftop terrace. Every night you could hear disco on one floor, new wave/rock on another, jazz standards in the basement and then chill on the roof overlooking historic Fenway Park Stadium. There was nothing like it before or since and those who were there will never forget the experience.

The Detroit Sound Project: Al Ester

2011 • 4 min

A portrait of Detroit most energetic DJ and fabled dance music curator. This was the first short film produced by the Detroit Sound Project in 2011. The four-minute short film beautifully illustrates Ester's career influences and highlights in Detroit dance music history.

Regional TV: Life Through a Local Lens

2011 • 60 min

Oh! Wonderful Korea!

2011 • 18 min

In a steel manufacturer, an immigrant worker and a teashop girl fall in homosexual love. A camera follows the two women in love and the people around them.

Evil.27: Selma

2011 • 9 min

Video work on the Civil Rights Movement borrowing its core text from “Notes from Selma: On Non-Visibility” by the Alabama collective Our Literal Speed, mixing this text with lyrics and soundtracking by singer and songwriter Morrissey.

Thunder river (Places and Monuments 4)

2011 • 8 min • Canada

An intense exercise of looking at a rockface shot near the waterfalls of Rivière au tonnerre, on the North Shore of the St-Lawrence river. A meditation about opacity, about the fissures that can open up anything, any situation on the infinity of meaning. It is the ontological moment, the moment of pure seeing, amongst the episodes of the Places and Monuments series that is a project of exploration of the fissures that crack any banal scene of daily life, any anonymous crowd, any forgotten monument, and that let seek through, until it explodes, the invisible constellations of history.

The Enchanted Bamboo

2011 • 52 min • France

Bamboo is a sacred tree for Malaysian people who reside in Javi, Thailand. According to their traditions, people use this tree to make water holy. Out of belief in its magic power, they put pieces of bamboo in their mouth to make a smooth voice, or on other occasions, they try hard to persuade the spirits to be on their side and bless them.

Esel mit Schnee

2011 • 4 min

Short film about a donkey standing in the snow

Initiation

2011 • 11 min

High in the mountains of Lesotho, Mosaku is anxiously awaiting the return of his older brother from an initiation ceremony.

Ion

2011 • 2 min

Ionizing radiation can be detected and made visible through an experiment called The Cloud Chamber. The video is a filmed document from a Cloud Chamber positioned near Olkiluoto nuclear power plant on September 11th, 2011, 14:10 – 14:12 p.m. In this case, Alpha particles, Beta particles, Muons and Protons leave traces that can be distinguished by their characteristic shapes.

Dream of a Ray Fish

2011 • 3 min • Portugal

If a ray fish dreams…

Against the Grain

2011 • 6 min

Transforms the canon of documenting gender transformation, breaks the script of the gender binary & the linear racial focus. Against the Grain follows the story of OluSeyi, a cultural organizer, artist, healer, & Queer Nigerian whose spirit is transcending gender. While documenting a gathering of gender non-conforming & transgender People of Color. People discuss what it meant to be “us”, engaging the complexities of our race/class/gender/ sexuality/ gender expression in this white supremacist/ patriarchal/ capitalist society.

Bread, Tea and Bao Game

2011 • 3 min • France, Kenya

Food and drink transformed into unidentified flying objects.

Breaking the Silence: Gay Youth in an American Town

2011 • 24 min

In a conservative American town where the prevailing opinion is that a gay crisis has been 'invented' by the liberal media, gay youth like 17-year-old Julio, an ex-Mormon who has attempted suicide, must face indifferent school officials and their own shame as they begin to break the silence surrounding LGBT issues.