All Films

Tiles

2009 • 2 min • Netherlands

Tiles is an animation made of a large photographic collection of street tiles. By viewing this collection of photographs as a sequence, different movements and processes become visible within the frame of the tiles. Both music and animation are trying to find a balance between a thought-out arrangement and an arrangement of ‘chance’ deriving directly from the tiles.

Rosarot

2009 • 1 min • Germany

A short animation about the aberrations and confusions of love.

Self Torture

2009 • 8 min • Sweden

The film is a story about the self destructive behavior. It is a narrative about a divided self, someone that exposes herself, drives herself hard, and at the other end someone who is being exposed and tormented.

Hit & Run

2009 • 6 min • South Korea

Opening Movie of Seoul Independent Film Festival 2009

Envío 8

2009 • 2 min • Chile, Switzerland

(01:50, 16 mm, color, silent) ENVÍO 8 (2009) for Helga Fanderl. Filmed in Paris.

The Visit

2009 • 4 min

The story of a Cree family's strange encounter one winter night, which results in a conversation beyond words.

The Cold Shoulder

2009 • 15 min

A relationship involving two university comes to an end due to unique circumstances concerning one of them. An asexual guy talks about his falling out with a girlfriend over his asexuality spliced in with reinactment scenes.

Anamnesis

2009 • 3 min

Anamnesis is a handmade diary film exploring home, memory, and history through heavily processed painterly sequences.

Delphine de Oliveira

2009 • 3 min

The film by photographer and filmmaker Friedl vom Gröller is the short portrait of a woman full of secrets. The viewer can observe her but is not given any information about who she might be: a perfect mirror for our own projections.

Visions of Excess

2009 • 57 min

Visions of Excess was a non-stop, 12 hour voyage into the heart of darkness, a communion with the ragged spirit of Georges Bataille, exploring the philosophers key themes of death, eroticism and the forbidden.

Nightwish: Made in Hong Kong

2009 • 37 min

Nightwish Made In Hong Kong 2009.

The Salariat in Parts

2009 • 11 min

"But beware, if morality should penetrate beneath the skin, and the pink be not quite moral enough to prevent the eruption of desires!" - Siegfried Kracauer, The Salaried Masses

Sat Around for Peace

2009 • 5 min

Directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Language Virus

2009 • 10 min

Directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Envío 21

2009 • 3 min • Chile, Switzerland

For Barbara Figueroa

Cailloux, rocher, algues

2009 • 6 min

In this film David Dudouit reworks some Super8 images filmed on the île de Sein. Using an optical printer he compose three paintings in black and white of a blazing beauty.

Baby Sign Language Basics

2009 • 37 min

Learn to communicate with your child during the preverbal stage with this instructional program. Featuring real families who sign, the show explains how to integrate sign language into your daily family interactions. A video dictionary containing more than 300 American Sign Language signs, with clips that demonstrate each, is also included. Monta Briant, author of the best-seller Sign, Sing, and Play! hosts.

Pin-up in 3D

2009 • 5 min

Film/video hybrid in Chromadepth 3D.

The Window of Desire

2009 • 13 min

When does a woman begin to understand her body? Does she ever understand it? Does it happen when she is a child, can she tell a girl from a boy? What is so mysterious about our sexuality? A ballet student unintentionally discovers the beauty of the female body. Two teenage girls have their first intimate experience. The reflections of the past liberate an adult’s thinking on her sexual being.

Envio 15

2009 • 3 min

for Varinia Canto Vila, Bruxelles

Envío 13

2009 • 2 min • Chile, Switzerland

for Claudia Muñoz, Chile

Swing

2009 • 5 min

A film by Bilal Cakay.

National Archives Microfilm Publication M999 Roll 34: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands: Six Miles from Springfield on the Franklin Road

2009 • 13 min

This film by Kara Walker takes its title and narrative from documents in the Freedman Bureau’s archive and uses her trademark cut-paper silhouettes to animate the disturbing story of an African American family. Controlled by the sticks and strings of their human operators, including the artist herself, the figures moving within a shadow puppet-like theater space remind us of the manipulation of historical oppression and the powerlessness of the oppressed while also emphasizing the theatricality of the film itself. Themes of race, gender, sexuality, and violence intersect and unfold on Kara Walker’s multi-colored stage.

A Coluna de Colombo

2009 • 3 min

João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva have produced a series of silent films in 16 mm and 35 mm that, scientifically yet with a touch of irony, present small physical actions and particular optical phenomena. Their inventories of nature and their perspective respond to a physical world that is visible and yet invisible, where the concrete is always presented as something concealed. Something that the filmmakers call “abyssology, a transitory science of the indiscernible”. The simple compositions and the tricks they adopt, such as the use of slow motion or superimposed images, are reminiscent of the silent films of the early days of cinema and the chronophotography of Étienne-Jules Marey.