All Films

Capital

2009 • 17 min • Argentina

In Das Kapital – Version 0.7, Marcello Mercado merges the logic of industrial production with digital computation, transforming Marx’s critique into an audiovisual algorithm. Command lines, programming syntax, and economic diagrams generate microbial and geometric architectures—vegetable loops and centrifugal forms that pulsate like living data. The film exposes the illusion of control within the technological age, where the viewer becomes both operator and captive of code. Juxtaposing synthetic imagery with the traces of real violence, Mercado reveals a capitalism that regenerates itself through chaos, automation, and abstraction. Visually rich and conceptually precise, Das Kapital – Version 0.7 expands across short and feature versions, tracing the transition from industrial matter to digital biology—a cinema where theory breathes, multiplies, and consumes itself.

Red Shoes

2009 • 1 min • Japan

'Red Shoes' is a modern gritty cinematic adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale. Starring Anne Plamondon with choreography by Plamondon and Victor Quijada, 'Red Shoes' uses the old Gothic tale as the basis to explore the themes of psychological possession and self-deception. When we are first possessed, we are often not aware of our own possession. It is only after we have been deceived by that which once offered us empowerment, that we come to realize we are not in control of ourselves.

Think of Me

2009 • 15 min

Moving from east to west and back, the windows of a bus frame fleeting sections of urban landscape. Throughout the day, images of riders, textures of light and fragments of bodies in space come together to weave a portrait in motion; a contemplative meditation on public transport in the city of Los Angeles. Isolation, routine and everyday splendor, create the backdrop of this journey, while the intermittent sounds of cars construct the soundscape.

A Grammar for Listening (Part 1)

2009 • 22 min

How to create a meaningful dialogue between looking and listening? Luke Fowlers film cycle A Grammar for Listening (parts 1-3) attempts to address this question through the possibilities afforded by 16mm film and digital sound recording devices. In part 1, Fowler furthers his on-going dialogues with the sound artist Lee Patterson (Manchester, England).

Poznan Billygoats

2009 • 13 min • Poland

A Countess from Poznań returns from a foreign trip and brings with her two billygoats as live mascots. The next day she goes to the Mayor and demands that the clocks on the Town Hall’s tower play a tune at the top of every hour – and that she play the tune herself. Since the Mayor refuses her demand, the Countess decides to destroy the clocks. Film from the ‘Polish Fairy Tales’ series.

Hotel Ground Zero

2009 • 50 min

The story of the 14 guests and staff trapped in the Marriott World Trade Center a hotel beneath the Twin Towers on September 11, and their narrow escape.

Va, Regarde - 2

2009 • 27 min

At the origin of these departures, is the research of lights, spaces, instants to renew my cinema, to be closer to the poetic documentary: being there and watching, recording length, not trying to force things to come...

Ēskos

2009 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A tale of how two "disgrega workers" react to the presence of a wild animal in their workshop.

My Third Painting

2009 • 3 min

Here’s the literal definition of “art cinema”: Usama Alshaibi’s short piece ‘My Third Painting,’ which plays like a cross between Jackson Pollock, traditional glass plane animation, and a phone call from your drug dealer. You know, part horror movie, part abstract expressionism

Brouillard #1

2009 • 5 min

A colour reversal film shot on s8mm.

Buckingham Palace

2009 • 30 min

Buckingham Palace, the official London residence of The Queen and the administrative headquarters of the monarchy, is a working building with the offices and back up that manage the day to day activities of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh and their immediate family. The Palace is not a museum nor is it a gallery, although it is furnished and decorated with priceless works of art that from a part of the Royal Collection.

Der Erlkönig

2009 • 8 min

Directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Keratin Reserve

2009 • 3 min

A film diary. 673 finger/toe nails saved, a large mess of 16mm rescued from darkroom garbage bins. The former adhered with nail polish topcoat to the latter, optically printed, and finished as a print.

Counter

2009 • 3 min

2009, 3:27 min, color, sound, three-channel installation

REHEARSAL of WIZARD

2009 • 15 min • Japan

Burnt

2009 • 14 min

A monochromatic recount of childhood memories through the lover's voice. A film based on a real life experience.

Deer Census

2009 • 8 min

Deer Census is composed entirely of digital still images. The images were recorded and given to me by Nathan Bridgeman, whose is the voice you hear speaking about tax code in Texas as it relates to deer hunting and deer leases.

Shall We Take a Walk?

2009 • 9 min • South Korea

Yong-gwang, a boy who lost his sight, made a tactile map for his sister, who is staying at the hospital. He wants to go for a walk with his sister, so he takes her hand, and make her close her eyes. Now, his sister will take a walk on the tactile map through Yong-gwang’s way of looking at the world.

Calder: Sculptor of Air

2009 • 51 min

Alexander Calder revolutionized the art of sculpture with his distinctive modernism, freeing sculpture from its stand and adding movement to the art itself. He rose to fame in the 1930s with his renowned Miniature Circus but his modernist creativity skyrocketed with his wire sculptures, an invention he dubbed "drawing in space."

Stains

2009 • 4 min

Two army pals meet together again at a Laundromat. One learns something he didn't know about the other. Will his new-found discovery stain their friendship?

Innocence Remains

2009 • 15 min

Deborah and Lucie enjoy their lives together, everything seems quite magical. Until an unforgettable past comes back to the present. Will they be able to accept the pain and move on? Is love enough to go beyond? Let's see...

Mobile Suit Gundam Battlefield Record: Avant-Title

2009 • 7 min • Japan

A short animation serving as a prequel to the events depicted in the PlayStation 3 game, Mobile Suit Gundam: Battlefield Record U.C. 0081.

The Art of Belcanto

2009 • 54 min

Edita Gruberova, prima donna assoluta of the bel canto community. But what is the nature of bel canto? What is the secret of her vocal gift? These are a couple of the questions the film addresses.

INDRA's Net

2009 • 12 min

Ask your heart, listen to your heart, and open your heart.