All Films

Abracadabra

2009 • 39 min • United States of America

“Fun” to make and to watch, as well as satisfying to respond to, ABRACADABRA’s realization is a miracle of sorts. Contemporary and very digital, it also celebrates some of the thrills and spirit of early cinema…

The Bedfords

2009 • 19 min • United Kingdom

The Bedfords tells the story of Sir Edwin Landseer, a famed artist and favourite portrait painter of Queen Victoria. The film opens on Landseer as he travels from his studio in London to the Highlands of Scotland to visit The Bedford family whose portrait he has been commissioned to paint. After the long coach journey north Landseer awakes and makes a sleepy entrance to the Highland home of The Bedfords. The domineering Duke of Bedford welcomes Landseer as the family gather in the drawing room to meet this famous London artist, a celebrity of his day.

Touch

2009 • 8 min

Sand animation... Dedicated to his father's memory, who was a painter.

Where We Disappear

2009 • 9 min

A young woman disappears, leaving behind her best friend, who becomes intertwined with her memory, in order to figure out the reasons of her absence.

Living Landscapes: Pacific Coast

2009 • 60 min

Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of Oregon's most spectacular beaches and coves. Experience the many moods of California's Big Sur, and sink into a deeply relaxed state as you enjoy the sun setting into the vast pacific ocean.

26, Best Korean Girl

2009 • 9 min • South Korea

A short that shows the pressure to get married that Korean girls in their late twenties have to go through. Ko Ah Rah, however, has her own way of dealing with her mother's insistent telephone calls.

Lucha

2009 • 15 min

Set in 1982 against the backdrop of the insurgency in El Salvador, Lucha traces the plight of two women in love whose only respite from the battles raging against their oppressive government is the solace found in each other's arms.

Secrets

2009 • 10 min

A young male student is unhappy with the activities he is engaged in after school with a teacher. He does not share this information with his mother or older brother. His brother guesses what is happening and gives him advice.

Vineland

2009 • 10 min

A short experimental documentary is filmed at the last drive-in movie theater in Los Angeles, located in a desolate area called the City of Industry. Floating within a backdrop of smokestacks, beacon towers and passing trains, dislocated Hollywood images filled with apocalyptic angst are re-framed and reflected through car windows and mirrors as the displacement of the radio broadcast soundtrack collides with the projections upon and surrounding the multiple screens. In VINELAND, the nocturnal landscape is seen as a border zone aglow with dreamlike illusions revealing overlapping realities at the intersection of nostalgia and alienation.

Little Pim: Let's Eat! - Arabic for Kids

2009 • 35 min

See Little Pim and friends making and eating food while having fun discovering new tastes. Children will learn more than 60 Arabic words and phrases to use at mealtime.

I Put Out My Hands

2009 • 10 min

2009 --- Digital Video --- 10 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood

Regular Night

2009 • 16 min

Stergios Paschos' third shortfilm.

Henry van Loon: De Henry van Loon Entertainment Show

2009 • 41 min • Netherlands

Kermis - Ode aan de ongedwongenheid van het bestaan

2009 • 11 min

Poetic film about the funfair, which concentrates on human conditions: The enchantment of children. The ease of the youth, full of expectations. Fleeting smiles. Devotion to the moment. Felicity... but also melancholy and vulnerability. The funfair as metaphor of life itself.

Avós

2009 • 12 min • Brazil

Leo celebrates his tenth birthday. From one grandmother, he receives socks, from the other, underwear. From his Grandfather, Leo gets an old Super-8 camera and with it he tells us of his attempts to change the gifts. While doing that, he finds out that Monica Lewinsky is Jewish, that Clinton is the president of America, that the numbers in his grandparents arms are responsible for him being chubby and that this old camera is worthless.

I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head

2009 • 12 min

"The rebellious voice, the split voice. The voice is suture, the voice is seam, the voice is cut, the voice is tear, the voice is my identity, it is not body or spirit, it is not language or image, it is sign, it is a sign of the images, it is a sign of sensuality. It is a sign of symbols, it is boundary. It speaks the ‘split body,’ it is hidden in the clothing of the body, it is always somewhere else. The breath of life is its source." – VALIE EXPORT "That the vocal organs visually rhyme with female genitalia, that when they are in use, they create a fascinating flow of movement and change, makes this work a compelling new iteration by an artist who has given voice to her female body through a myriad of frames." – Maureen Turim

Steaming Around Britain: London and the South East

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Transport documentary following classic steam trains on journeys around London and the South East, including footage from London stations in the 60s, Redhill to Ashford in the 60s, the Bluebell railway, the Kent and East Sussex Railway, the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, the North Norfolk railway, and the Channel Tunnel.

Louis Feuillade: Master of Many Forms

2009 • 11 min • United States of America

This collection of scenes from more than twenty films demonstrates Feuillade’s mastery of (and influence upon) a wide range of cinematic genres.

Georgic for a Forgotten Planet

2009 • 11 min

I began reading Virgil's Georgics, a 1st Century epic agricultural poem, and knew immediately that I needed to create a visual equivalent about my own relationship to the place where I live, New York City. Culled from material I collected at Coney Island, the Lower East Side, Socrates Sculpture Garden in Queens, a Brooklyn community garden and a place on Staten Island that is so dark you can see the three moons of Jupiter. An homage to a place many people affectionately and mysteriously call the Big Apple. - Lynne Sachs

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: History of the Airplane

2009 • 3 min • United States of America

The poet and writer Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an iconic presence in the world of arts and letters. For well over half a century he has helped shape the currents of poetry and literature through his forceful engagement with society. Armed with an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political dogma of his day, Ferlinghetti became the best selling poet of the modern era, a literary mercenary and a rebel at the forefront of a cultural revolution.

Ketch! & HIRO-PON Get It On

2009 • 30 min

Silent comedy, using breakthrough filmmaking techniques, about two outsiders struggling to get by, where chaos is around every corner and love is just out of reach.

Rainbow Party

2009 • 1 min • United States of America

70mm film kissed with lipstick & impressed with teeth marks.

Whistler's Twin Peaks

2009 • 45 min

The Peak to Peak gondola spans Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains, and is quite an impressive feat of engineering. It broke 3 world records – 1. Longest unsupported span of 3.024 kilometres, 2. Highest lift of its kind at 436 metres above the valley floor, and 3. Completes the longest continuous lift system on the globe. Discovery Channel spent two years documenting the massive construction project and has created a riveting story that details many of the challenges that are encountered when building this engineering masterpiece at 6,000 feet.

After the Curve

2009 • 18 min • Brazil

Paulo is a young and beginner driver who, when taking a trip to work, is faced with a series of situations that will make him reevaluate.