All Films

Felicity Ward - Textbook Idiot

2011 • 60 min • Australia

TEXTBOOK: noun, a book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject IDIOT: noun (informal), a stupid person This is Felicity Ward. Award winning stand up comedian and 1992 Walk-A-Thon Participant, Felicity Ward, shines a floodlight on the thoughts that should have stayed in her diary; about growing up in a small coastal town, having a Mother named Trevalyn and a pan toilet until she was 11; about BETA Videos, cat hatred, sweat moustaches and peri-peri chilli charts… but mostly, it’s a show about Felicity discovering she’s the last person to realise she’s a Textbook Idiot. As seen on The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Thank God You're Here, Good News Week and Spicks and Specks.

My Secret Life

2011 • 14 min • Sweden

The character in the red dress is self-confident but a bit numb. The character in the blue dress is full of feelings but hasn’t found her place in life.

Million Dollars Point

2011 • 5 min

Million Dollars Point is the name of a dive site on Santo Island, in Vanuatu, a lagoon that had become an underwater cemetery for hundreds of tanks and canons abandoned by the U.S. army after World War II. The site was named after the amount offered by the natives to buy this war material out, brand new but already outdated. The film Million Dollars Point juxtaposes the images of this submarine battlefield with footage of a local music video showing a French mustached man dancing and singing on a Pacific beach with Polynesian girls at his side.

Fish

2011 • 22 min • United States of America

My Sexuality Is An Art Creation

2011 • 46 min

Postporn was born in the 90’s with Annie Sprinkle as a response to conventional pornography and its incomplete and utilitarian representation of women sexuality. Postporn is taking an important place in Barcelona from 2000. The documentary “My sexuality is an art creation” talks about persons and collectives who are actually working and creating postporn in this city. Based on 7 interviews the documentary tells the causes, motivations and peculiarities of this scene where the discovery and the search for new forms of sexuality representation go visible in a result: art and politic activism can’t be separated. “My sexuality is an art creation” works as an illustrated cartography of DIY postporn videos, performances documentation and public space interventions.

Victorian Britain

2011 • 55 min

The Victorian era holds a unique place in British history. It was the age of the Industrial Revolution which swept the country along on a tide of invention, innovation and progress. It was the era of the genius of Dickens and Hardy of Stephenson and Brunel. It was the age of the colonial wars when Britain won an empire upon which the sun never set.

Frozen Stories

2011 • 27 min • Poland

Two supermarket workers under the pressure of the boss have to mobilize themselves. They have only two days to find a goal in life. They decide to participate in the TV program "The unhappiest person of the month".

Summer Skirts

2011 • 43 min

The little girl facing her first menstruation met a pretty girl just become a woman. At the junction of women and girl, they are both deeply moved by love. What should they choose? Stay or leave?

Em Trânsito: José Pedro Croft

2011 • 36 min • Portugal

A film about the sculptor José Pedro Croft, while it is a journey to the origins of creativity. José Pedro Croft is a sculptor who constantly crosses borders, from drawing to installation, from painting to sculpture, in a constant and surprising game. It mixes color and form, the banal with the solemn, and transforms space by introducing unusual materials. The theme of the film is this constant passage from one form of expression to another, this constant game, introducing one more element: the look of the filmmaker.

The gleam in the Mountain

2011 • 56 min

Witchcraft: Myths and Legends

2011 • 50 min • United States of America

In the modern world, witchcraft and witches are dismissed as fantasies, but in many cultures, magic is alive and its practitioners admired and feared. Join National Geographic on a quest to find the stories behind the myths and legends of witchcraft. Along the way, we'll meet an anthropologist who became a believer in Mexico and a witch cleanser; in Zimbabwe.

The Ghost of Garganta

2011 • 35 min

Dr. Carole Heisler is dead and buried. But when The Ghost of Garganta rises from the grave she quickly wreaks havoc. With the aid of an alien menace known as Solopticus, Garganta will stop at nothing to take her revenge upon those who put her in the grave.

Night and Fog

2011 • 22 min • Germany

Gal's video recreates the secret offshore burial of Adolf Eichmann.

All I Ever Wanted

2011 • 15 min

California’s ultimate party boy Carter typically spends each day going to the clubs having a good time followed by returning to the apartment he shares with his older sister Rochelle, where he continues the party. Rochelle, having had enough of his endless drunken nights and “sleepovers” with every guy in the city, takes matters into her own hands. Sent to New York to finish college, he finds himself faced with the same temptations he is trying to leave behind. Will Carter fall back into his old tricks or find something more?

I Dig Dinosaurs!

2011 • 25 min

I Dig Dinosaurs overflows with dino-facts that children live to learn and share! Real-life adventurer Buddy Davis inspires kids with fun, creation-based science and an infectious passion for the gospel. Buddy flies an old single-engine airplane to the Badlands of Montana, uncovers a BIG dinosaur bone, and in the process reveals the effects of Noah's Flood. Your kids will see a remote area of the USA where the powerful floodwaters of the Genesis scoured the earth and left a mangled graveyard of dinosaurs, fish, plants, and more—a treasure trove of fossils! Both the Bible and the dinosaur evidence point to a recent, worldwide Flood!

The Buried

2011 • 21 min

In rural Alabama, on July 22, 2004, Scotty Joe Weaver was brutally murdered for being a homosexual by his closest friend. After interviewing family members, and meeting the murderer in an Alabama prison, filmmaker Jonathan Pope Evans created this experimental narrative about the brutal crime, a fractured and startling re-imagining of the violent murder.

I Travel Through Time to Meet You Again

2011 • 6 min

A man encounters, encountered, or will encounter a woman in an elevator of an office building. They are destined to meet each other again, yet both are thrown into the maze constructed by time and space through images and sounds that might be different from one’s daily experience in reality. Possibilities have been created, yet further and further away from reality.

In the Land of Cowboys

2011 • 32 min

A film about cowboys in Sonora, a state in Northern Mexico. It is a world of deep-rooted and rancid traditions, in which, however, there is no shortage of gay and lesbian stories that have tried to move forward and lead a dignified life despite social rejection.

He & Him

2011 • 23 min

Pietro, a young selfish male, is kicked out of home from his girlfriend Laura, tired of being put in second place to football and friends. After an exhausting search for a room to rent, Peter goes to live with Omero, a friendly man whose homosexuality goes unnoticed by Pietro.

Modeled

2011 • 8 min

A close-up look at the work and technique of photographer G. Elliott Simpson, whose haunting portraits of men covered in black paint are known for their strikingly disturbing beauty. Shot in a mixture of high definition video, 16 mm and Super 8, the work looks beyond the gloss of the artist's stylized photography to explore the relationship that homophobia plays in shaping body image as well as the role of sex and art in transcending violence.

Seed Money

2011 • 27 min

Alvin Malone is heavily in debt because of his addictive gambling; he is plagued by self-repressed homosexual tendencies; and he is finding it all very hard to reconcile with his Jewish heritage... not to mention with his wife. Between the crumbling ties of matrimony and threats of violence from his bookie, Alvin finds little time to look for work. Just when things seem their worst, his overbearing mother-in-law makes him an offer: 'Give me a grandchild and have your gambling debts settled for good.'

Strangers

2011 • 25 min

A cold winter night. An endless empty road ahead. A young driver picks up a stranger with car trouble. A big mistake.

The Old Master

2011 • 26 min • Serbia

Uroš Tošković, one of the best draftsmen of all times, a man who merged art and reality, talks about his childhood, growing up and events that influenced him, his way of life and his creative work. He refuses to recognize imposed rules – he is a free man.

Canceled Flight

2011 • 4 min • Spain

When his flight is canceled, Martin returns home and is faced with infidelity. He calmly prepares breakfast for three.