All Films

Come In

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

"Come In" explores how Morse history is entangled with the history of the Spiritualist church. The Spiritualist Church was founded by the Fox sisters in 1850. They claimed that they were mediums who could communicate with the dead and they justified this ability by citing the new ability, through Morse, to speak with someone far away almost instantaneously. After fifty years of practicing Spiritualism, the sisters declared the religion a hoax, and many years later Morse code officially lost its role in the commercial realm. As Spiritualists continue to send messages to the dead in spite of the sisters’ statements, and Morse operators transmit messages into the ether with hope, Johnson asks: How do communication networks and technologies affect our calls and responses and make visible our desire for reciprocity?

Back to Land

2011 • 4 min

A meditation on the sight of a blue whale beached on a California shore. The film observes the onlookers and the nature of their looking.

(k)now (t)here

2011 • 9 min

‘(k)now (t)here’ is a film diary about series of journeys of summer 2009 that was simply to be ‘on the road’. No certain destinations, moving with one-way-tickets, being surrounded by strangers… Continuous packing and unpacking, almost daily check in and out even in the same town to taste different flavors of it… Throbs of excitement and anxiety and unusually wide-open perception in consequence of putting myself in every possible mysterious moment… My anonymity allowed me to immerse myself within the subtle sounds and lights, so often passed by as to fade into nonexistence, that amplified and grew conspicuous in total silence/darkness.

La tête dans les rouages

2011 • 9 min • France

It was while searching the ground of the Darboussier factory that Michel found the parts of his motorbikes. They invade his life and his house, he patiently assembles them to give shape to his dreams.

Februrary

2011 • 9 min • South Korea, United States of America

Ball, wind, and tree. Light, shadow, and surface.

A Day in the Life of Postman Khan Agh

2011 • 28 min • Afghanistan

The postman’s inextricable difficulties as he does his rounds in the streets of Kabul, where addresses are often mysterious and deliveries akin to treasure hunts.

Let the Sunshine Break Up Darkness

2011 • 59 min

gains + losses

2011 • 3 min

Through situational vignettes, gains + losses illustrates Leslie Supnet's thoughts on death and other personal, day-to-day anxieties. Made as a goodbye letter to a deceased beloved, the work touches on internal grief, tempered with a playful sense of humour and lo-fidelity charm.

BIG HITS! Program ID

2011 • 1 min • Japan

A Program ID by Yoriko Mizushiri for Space Shower TV's music video programming block "BIG HITS!".

Fear Me Not

2011 • 4 min

Stages of the 'fear of commitment' in a relationship. The process from its discovery to overcoming the symptoms of it and gain freedom/happiness.

Noroi no Saito

2011 • 60 min • Japan

A haunting real-life horror film based on a terrifying urban legend. There are countless creepy sites scattered all over the Internet. This story follows the terrifying consequences of accessing these sites.

La Salle Hotel

2011 • 2 min • Canada

An abstract account of the 1946 fire at the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, where even the frame itself threatens to collapse. Archival footage broken down digitally and reconstructed via laser printer onto recycled 35mm film, in 2011.

B#o 000002

2011 • 15 min

Early short by Giuseppe Boccassini.

The Devotion Project: More Than Ever

2011 • 10 min • United States of America

The Devotion Project: More Than Ever is the first in a series of short documentary portraits celebrating the love and devotion shared by LGBT couples across the US.

Baby / Sun / Ornament

2011 • 5 min

Short experimental film by Shintaro Kiyonari.

From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration

2011 • 46 min

Beautifully filmed in Canada and China's Guangdong province, From C to C is a moving, cinematic tapestry of Chinese Canadian stories of migration. Contrasting the historical injustices faced by Chinese migrants to Canada and their families over the last century, are the experiences of contemporary Chinese Canadian youth who embody diverse, transnational identities across Canada today

Snowdrop

2011 • 38 min • Russia

About "detachment" and "distancing" as methods that allow a person to see the world as something more than himself.

The abducted

2011 • 12 min • Peru

The micro-world of an isolated Amazonian native community is altered by the visit of an outsider with a camera and mysterious intentions.

Last Laugh

2011 • 18 min

At dinner time, Samantha has a heated argument with her mother. After the argument, her mother sends her to her room for the night. Feeling guilty about the argument, Samantha decides to sleep it off. As she tries to sleep, she begins to hear and see things. Then soon she encounters a demonic clown who calls himself Heckler, who has dark plans for her.

Impact on an Island

2011 • 37 min • United States of America

The elders of Kosrae, a tiny island in Micronesia, are the few people in the world today that remember its history. After World War II, Germany gave Kosrae to Japan and thousands of Japanese civilians immigrated there and developed the island’s resources as a result. During the war, it became an important military base in the Pacific for the Japanese Imperial Army and later became a Japan-US battlefield. From after the war to this day, the island has been under US control. The film also contains the rare archival images of Japanese in Micronesia before and during WWII.

Rotations (Prometheus and Zwitter)

2011 • 7 min

In this work, two rotating sculptures are shown side by side. One is Prometheus (1937) by Arno Breker, a monumental male figure depicting the mythological hero carrying a torch. The other is Woman and Man, or Adam and Eve, also known as "Hermaphrodite" (1920) by Karl Genzel, a small wooden figure depicting a hermaphrodite holding a watch.

The Other Side

2011 • 5 min

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Autumn

2011 • 7 min

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The International Brigaders Among Us

2011 • 26 min

The road to the last great battle of the Spanish Civil War. A documentary film by Jordi Domènech, Toni Orensanz and Manel Vinuesa