All Films

Carnalis

2011 • 4 min • Poland

Look at your hand from really close, choose a spot and stare at it for a moment, until you see a landscape. When the veins become rivers and trees you can watch Carnalis and the film will stay in your mind for a long time.

The Best Is Yet to Come

2011 • 16 min

Set during the much debated and highly public USA Obama presidential election and controversial California State Proposition 8 vote for same sex marriage a young couple privately confront their family, fears and dreams.

Duh Casia

2011 • 21 min

A response to Bill Morrison's film of a similar title and the laziest film I've ever made: A reel of found footage thrown in the trash and left there for a few months. The result, Duh Casia

Container

2011 • 1 min • Germany

Ela Morava na Frente do Cinema

2011 • 29 min • Brazil

Under Current

2011 • 5 min • Japan

2011, sound, color

Irregular Time Signatures

2011 • 3 min • Canada

How does music measure time if time is stretched like a rubber band? Irregular time signatures are ways of describing an uneven beat. The arrhythmic pulse of this film is music lesson, math puzzle, and spot-the-difference game.

20 Hz

2011 • 5 min

20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.

Labyrinth

2011 • 3 min

Labyrinth is about new apocalypse. All the war and peace imageries we've seen on the net, newspapers, Hollywood movies with a new filter. Every character is created on the computer from scratches. Every item has a distortion and variation filter such as gravity variation, speed variation which makes natural and daily elements look like different.

O fim da utopia

2011 • 26 min • Brazil

Mummy King Mystery

2011 • 45 min

Egyptologist Zahi Hawass presents this Discovery Channel documentary exploring the mysterious death of an ancient pharoah. Though Ramesses III, who ruled Egypt between 1186 BC and 1155 BC, would arguably have been the most powerful human being in the world during his lifetime, analysis of his mummified remains revealed that he was killed by a sharp blade. Hawass and a team of helpers set out to solve this ancient murder mystery.

Silos

2011 • 3 min

Shot in super 8mm in Silo # 5 of the old port of Montreal in 2002, this film was achieved in 2011. Music by BJ Nilsen.

Fragments of a Revolution

2011 • 57 min

"FRAGMENTS OF A REVOLUTION goes beyond the headlines and the tweets to tell the story of the protests that swept Iran in the aftermath of the disputed 2009 presidential election. Directed by an anonymous Iranian living in exile, the film brings together clandestinely sent emails, online videos and footage shot by protesters in the midst of demonstrations."

Vovô

2011 • 3 min • United Kingdom

He was bald with some liver spots on his head.

The Wedding

2011 • 5 min

A melancholy boy attends his estranged Father’s wedding to a large Latina woman aboard a small and cramped boat on a shark infested sea.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

2011 • 8 min

An 8 Minute adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'.

Soy JuanA

2011 • 7 min

JuanA is going through some decisive moments in his life. He wonders how he can be what he really is, rather than what other people expect him to be.

Mita'i

2011 • 12 min • Paraguay

Matías is 17 and wants to go back to school. He cannot because he would need to attend a “special” class, and where he lives there is no such thing. In addition, he needs to look after his younger siblings, while his mother and older sister work in the capital.

The Dead Ringer

2011 • 2 min • Canada

Magnetic Energy and Micro Waves create havoc at a game of horsheshoes. Captured in 3DIY.

We Want What's Ours

2011 • 19 min • South Africa, United States of America

Loss, resistance, identity and the elusiveness of justice as experienced by the Ndolila family in their quest to get back their family land stolen by the apartheid government in 1973.

Pride

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

The Gay Pride in Rome has become a tradition over recent years. But does it help to breakdown homophobia or just reinforce the stereotype of homosexuals and homosexuality. Whilst the city of Rome tolerates Gay Pride does Italy as a country tolerate homosexuality and does it respect the rights the gay community expects and demands.

Xupapoynãg

2011 • 16 min

Pilgrimage

2011 • 9 min

A 16mm frame-by-frame nighttime trajectory through Montreal's Parc Lafontaine. With the frenetic movements created through Pelletier’s filming techniques, this public space becomes a sanctuary for a restless and nostalgic mind.

I Accept Me!

2011 • 3 min • Pakistan

A gay boy goes to a typical teahouse in Karachi to take his usual Kashmiri chai.