All Films

The Empty Room

2009 • 23 min

Kyung-eun and Byung-chul had lost their son 1 year ago. One day, they hear the sound of foot steps in the empty room that is their son's room.

Oral Report

2009 • 4 min • United States of America

A gay redneck falls in love with his Mexican gardener.

Threshold to the Kingdom

2009 • 11 min

Threshold to the Kingdom sees artist Mark Wallinger play with the symbolism signalling a change in being. Slow motion footage of people arriving at London City Airport shows them delivered from the stateless limbo of international airspace to the sovereignty of UK soil and all it represents.

Mellow Magic

2009 • 13 min

The viewer is whisked through a lovely cat-house, which also includes a turtle along with the whiskered pets, and then is suddenly immersed in the painted output of my old (yet still young and vibrant looking) friend, Michelle Joyce. We follow this cheerful personage on a tour of her studio and then get transported to a high-class arts center in midtown Frisco where the work is displayed to a variety of yapping youth in yo-yo mode. The artist's positive outlook, in contrast to my up and down yo-yo swings, makes for a saucy finale of simmering meatballs in this rosy colored stew of our own making.

Acid Redux

2009 • 4 min

George Kuchar’s Acid Redux is a raucous journey into the murky domains of mysticism and liminality. Featuring zombie seductresses, erotic interspecies adventures and an animatronic chimpanzee, Acid Redux creates a strange and uncanny world where the familiar falls apart. Meaning and identity become increasingly unstable as the boundaries are blurred between genders, species and even life and dead itself.

All My Friends Are Dead

2009 • 30 min

The movie “All my friends are dead”, 2010 was originated by the experience the artists went through during their stay in the Bandjoun village, in western Cameroon, while joining the scientific expedition of the anthropologist Ivan Bargna.

Japan's Scariest Story Series "Hospital"

2009 • 60 min • Japan

This is the second installment of the “Hospital” series, which consists of image dramas and real-life dramas based on a selection of horror stories from schools, hospitals, inns, and other places that are most familiar to us. In a hospital, there is a large mirror, and when you shine a light on your face reflected in the mirror...

7 women

2009 • 52 min

"Thirty years after the revolution which caused the departure of many Iranians, including of my family to France, I returned to Iran for a trip across the country, where, through my meetings with the women who remained there, I wished to capture the complexity of the arrangements of this people with the daily reality of their country. During the time of a film, like a colorful Persian carpet weaving made up of words, facts and gestures of women from different backgrounds, take shape the complex patterns of an ancestral art of living which continues to adapt to the realities of its society." -Sara Rastegar

Insect Yakuza Mitsudango Conflict Vol.1

2009 • 30 min

Shinjuku forest at night. In the sap taverns of insects and their neighborhoods, the honey dumplings that drive the body crazy have begun to flow. It seems that Club Swallowtail's "Yuko" is involved with the stag beetle gang leader "Suigyu", who has a crush on him.... Kiri, an informant behind the scenes, and Hitoshi, a silent insect slayer, are on the move. Behind Yuko's back is a bewitching queen bee, and a beautiful butterfly, Ageha, is chasing after her... Money and power, love and hatred turn one midsummer night into a nightmare. The stag beetle, rhinoceros beetle, and wasp families, as well as a group of goldfish, are all caught in the middle of the bloodshed. What will Hitoshi and the others see? Hitoshi's blade shines and roars in the dark night where not even the moonlight can reach!

Avaca

2009 • 12 min • Brazil

Inside a Brazilian slaughterhouse, two skilled men build a cow.

All My Life

2009 • 19 min

“A dramatic weather front led to images that in turn invoked memories of Bruce Baillie’s 1966 film of the same name. The passage of time would seem to be the common theme that both films share.”

One More Kilometre

2009 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Sheets are whittled away one by one from a stack of A4 paper using an electric sander.

Favorite Places

2009 • 18 min • Ukraine

Ivan Melnychuk documents the changes in Kyiv, focusing on the ruins of buildings constructed from the late 60s for workers. As an architect, he observes the ‘improvements’ of public spaces, highlighting small gestures common in Ukraine. These actions, driven by pragmatism, involve occupying spaces without considering broader effects, reflecting a persistent situation where public spaces are subtly manipulated.

Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Big Journeys

2009 • 44 min

When Strawberry takes a journey, there's fun and excitement around every turn! Join Strawberry and her pals as they load up the car and set out for an unforgettable road trip. It's an adventure filled with wonderful discoveries, as the girls make new friends.

All My Personal Belongings Have Been Moved

2009 • 18 min • Iran

The story of two sisters who claim they died thirty years ago and visit a psychiatrist to solve their problem.

Creepy Hitori Kakurenbo - DVD Extras

2009 • 27 min • Japan

Short film included in the DVD extras.

Isenseven: Let's Go Get Lost

2009 • 44 min

Wow! Ten Years.. Who'd a thought. Not us When we started filming each other back in 1999 with our crappy handycams, editing our little films. Ten years and 7 movies later we bring you a movie that is more IsenSeven than you can wave a stick at. We travelled the world and got lost, but experienced loads of fun stuff which we caught with our sexy HD cams. There's also some snowboarding in this box!

Beauty Plus Pity

2009 • 15 min

Presented in seven parts, Beauty Plus Pity considers the potential for goodness amidst the troubled relations between God, humanity, animals, parents and children. While an animated cast of animal “spirit guides” quote Philip Larkin’s poem, This Be the Verse, and implore us to “get out as early as you can” from life and our parents’ grasp, a hunter dreams of a zoo where he might lie next to tranquilized animals calmed of their savagery. A senile and unstable God stumbles, forgets to take his medication, and turns frost into diamonds. Beauty Plus Pity contemplates the shame and beauty of existence; it is part apologia, part call to arms.

Kontroll

2009 • 24 min • Norway

Control is about the emotions we really want to keep for ourselves.

Corde

2009 • 57 min

A quiet man who practices a violent sport and who faces his life difficulties with tenderness and silent tenacity, like a true champion.

Ravex In Tezuka World

2009 • 18 min • Japan

As "another story" set after the end of the original manga, this what-if "Return" plot depicts what happens to the title character after his final act to save Earth. After drifting in space, the robot boy is rescued by the three members of ravex, and he is miraculously revived — not by Tezuka's Black Jack surgeon character, but by "Space Jack." The newly evolved robot boy will be named "Ratom." The Princess Knight and other Tezuka characters will appear in this all-new story. Musical artists BoA, Maki Goto, Anna Tsuchiya, Tohoshinki, and TRF are contributing to the album, and an event is planned at Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation on April 10. The album marks Avex's 20th anniversary and what would have been Tezuka's 80th birthday.

Sonolevitation

2009 • 6 min

Part of the Optofonica #1 series

Counterclockwise

2009 • 2 min

Part of the Optofonica #1 series

Dirt Dauber

2009 • 35 min

A man awakes naked and confused in a isolated mountainous region, and soon encounters a strange local who offers to help him. The helpful stranger tells the man of local folklore that speaks of a murderous religious cult, a train tunnel cut deep into the mountain that leads to nowhere, and an insect-like fertility god that is said to dwell within it. The two men soon go underground in search of the truth, and find themselves in a stygian black temple of horror.