All Films

I Like It Like It Was

2011 • 23 min • Sweden

In 1991 three teen girls called Midi, Maxiand Efti became celebrities over night and the suburb Akalla was suddenly known all over Sweden. Fifteen years later two old friends try to make a film about the phenomenon. But Midi, Maxi and Efti no longer have contact, and they are not at all interested in talking about the past. A melancholically journey to the past by two friends who have a hard time letting go. "I like it like it is and I like it like it was but I'm not so sure any more any any more..." From the song "Bad Bad Boys" by Midi, Maxi & Efti.

Solstice

2011 • 4 min

Summer solstice, the shortest night in a year, is celebrated by a jolly bunch of family, who hasn't seen each other for a long time.

Nigiri

2011 • 2 min

Thesis film from School of Visual Arts 2011

Roid Rage

2011 • 14 min

As mutilated hookers begin to surface in a small rural town, two FBI agents discover a terror unlike anything they've ever encountered.

Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Guitar Center Sessions

2011 • 58 min

Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Guitar Center Sessions

Perforación

2011 • 4 min • Argentina

4 min, color, sound, Super 8, double projection

New Media

2011 • 2 min

We've been invaded again, but this time is our own fault: We've created New Media. They've dominated the human race, changing themselves into biomecanical appearance self-sufficient organisms.

This Room Is White

2011 • 4 min

The woman is moving, attending to things, the man watches. Fun products scroll across the screen as a break. We switch lives. The young girl now watches. Actually she has always been watching, bemused. The obvious things go unnoticed but not by her. The title THIS ROOM IS WHITE was mentioned in a conversation with a friend who used it as a new expression of speech, referring to the obvious, the fact, the reality which often gets ignored. This movie was made with hand-drawn animation, 15 drawings per second and stop-motion with the "Wacky Stickers" (which is my collection for when I was a kid in the early 70's). Several scenes were rotoscoped from films from the 70's.

Tropic Pocket

2011 • 12 min

The Choco area in Colombia remains isolated between sea and forest. There, religious missions, military operations, and touristic projects have come and gone. Free of narration, Tropic Pocket captures images to witness these actions. The spectator will decide which amongst these layers of reality and mystification are the most deceitful.

Modern Island

2011 • 5 min

A hand processed film exploring the modernist structures of a popular amusement park on the Toronto Islands.

Adda: Calcutta, Kolkata

2011 • 52 min

A day in the life of the city of Calcutta or Kolkata. A free-flowing, intimate portrait of the city and its people, using the Bengali phenomenon of "adda" -- informal conversations between groups of people that go on for hours at a stretch -- at street corners, cafes, markets and living rooms.

Activated Memory II

2011 • 4 min • Canada

Activated Memory is a journey through a serene landscape where the trees and fields are at once surreal and familiar.Through the use of video feedback, 3d animation and color manipulations, the pictures render a new kind of space, a virtual world where only fragments of "reality" subsist.

9/11: Conspiracy Road Trip

2011 • 56 min

A group of sceptics and believers try and resolve the questions of 9/11.

Lucha

2011 • 16 min

A young Mexican woman, Lucha, awakens to find herself beaten and bloodied. As she tries to gather her bearings and summon what physical strength she has left, she learns her nightmare is just beginning. Two Men, angels of death, arrive to finish the job. With likely her last dawn approaching, she is taken further into the Chihuahuan desert to be left for dead. It is up to Lucha to search within herself and discover what lengths she will go to in order to survive.

Welcome to Pine Point

2011 • 35 min • Canada

Interactive short documentary film from the NFB. The mining town of Pine Point in Canada's northwest territories has been flattened, leaving its former residents with only their memories. Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge explore what memories mean to us in this creative web story which attracted 100,000 viewers in its first two months and has been nominated for a Webby.

Not a Man in Sight

2011 • 48 min

Martine (24) is still developing her identity. She wants to be seen as a masculine individual – not a lesbian. Mette (35) – the film’s director – is dreaming of becoming a mother. She and her wife Stina, face the big question; Is our baby not going to have a father? Marja (78) and Bodil, part of the first openly gay generation, think their new apartment is too masculine and needs “gender reassignment surgery”.

How Are You

2011 • 58 min

HOW ARE YOU is a remarkable documentary about two now famous artists. The film brings us back to when they fell in love with each other and started working together. And even though the two young rebels started out shooting salt water into their veins, they ended up meeting a real queen at the peak of their fame. In an astonishing few years Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have become some of the biggest stars in the international art world. In a sharp, playful and humorous way they pinpoint important themes such as identity, sexuality, welfare and democracy. With simple twists and turns they make us confront ourselves and make us face the conformity and tightness of everyday life and our idiosyncrasies.

Big Drive

2011 • 9 min

In an era before in-car movies and video games, four sisters squeeze into the back of the family car for a long journey. While the parents keep a steady watch on the road ahead, restlessness gradually gives way to mayhem in the car’s close quarters. Just before the ride becomes unbearable, the sisters are inspired to combine their creative energy. Suddenly, the big drive becomes an even bigger adventure.

Mother's Colours

2011 • 8 min

Judith, an artist, moves into a senior's residence, and she feels lonely and alienated. She discovers that she can escape into her painting. Her neighbour, Greg, notices her diving into her landscape and follows after her.

The Century

2011 • 9 min • Brazil

The Century (O Século) is both the documentary of a performance and the documentary of an allegory. Without a human figure in view, scraps, debris, and junk are thrown dramatically from one side of an alley to the other, and then a volley begins from the other side.

The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts

2011 • 15 min

Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Concentrate your attention. What Question will you ask? The Matter Propounded... makes use of an early 20th-century “Tablet of Jupiter” system for attempting to tell one’s future. The film invites viewers to make their own suppositions about the relationship of the questions we ask of the world and the answers we find for ourselves. A "letter-press" 16mm film.

Church of the Dead

2011 • 21 min

A haunting at St Mary the Virgin Church.

Terry Kendall and Orange Green

2011 • 11 min

Young Terry Kendall's life is thrown out of whack when she discovers that she's being followed by the creepy Orange Green.

Slight @ Love More HK

2011 • 8 min

Slight @ Love More HK