All Films

Aktaban

2017 • 2 min

2 minutes of an audio visual assault on the senses with themes of cyberpunk & chaotic cinema meshed into one big huge mess. Filmed and edited within 2 days with zero budget/plan.

Valley of White Birds

2017 • 15 min • China

A fable of fear and rebirth that unfolds through a man’s pursuit of a mysterious white bird, Valley of White Birds utilizes a hypnotic, engrossing style of animation to encounter the magic that exists all around.

Errorist of Seasons

2017 • 27 min • Indonesia

Being fired from his job, Pulung follows his friend's advice to invest his compensatory dismissal to start a new business: inflatable boat rentals.

Body Double 35

2017 • 5 min

For Body Double 35, Dellsperger takes the second scene from Xanadu. Played by choreographer/dancer François Chaignaud, a sprightly group of Muses emerges dancing from a painting on the wall. At an exhibition at the Swiss Institute in 2016 Dellsperger reproduced the wall painting and in a strange switch the creation of the set precedes the idea of the film, even becoming its trigger. The entire equilibrium of things seems to be affected : the shots are reversed and Kira dances backwards until she becomes one with the wall. The loop is closed.

Happiness Guide

2017 • 12 min • Russia

Masha and Valya, vegetarians and abstainers, invite their former friends Natasha and Sergey over. Natasha and Sergey took a mortgage, they are planning a child. Natasha tries to persuade Masha to throw a wedding party, nevertheless she hints at Valya being no good for Masha. Masha in reply tells Natasha that her husband Sergey drinks vodka on the quite. Natasha makes a scene to Sergey. Masha tries to reconcile friends and convince them of their relationship being cracked. The guests are leaving. Valya blames Masha for climbing out of her business. Masha and Valya have a quarrel. Masha remains alone.

My Trip to Miami

2017 • 13 min

My Trip to Miami follows a well-meaning, misguided, tourist as he tries to self-actualize via Trip Advisors algorithmic script. My Trip to Miami is a documentation of a fantasy, a failure in image-based expectations.

Mr Martyr

2017 • 5 min

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything

78.4 Fm

2017 • 15 min • Portugal

In the late 80s, in Portugal, Manuel (18 years) and Alfredo (21 years) have been broadcasters for three years at a little pirate radio on the village they live, in the attic of Manuel’s house – the Pluto Radio. After being told by Alfredo that he was interning at an official radio Manuel, not admitting to Alfredo what he really felt about the news he struggles with the dilemma of continuing alone or not at all with the pirate radio they both had started and grew together.

Demon at the Door: Our Heroin Crisis

2017 • 58 min • United States of America

Shocking, devastating and unflinchingly real. KOMO News' Eric Johnson looks at the heroin crisis in Seattle.

Niara

2017 • 9 min

A lonely child trapped in horrors of African militant group experiences a simple act of humanity from a person she condemned to death.

Mayan Archaeoastronomy: Observers of the Universe

2017 • 20 min

In a feast of colours and sounds, Mayan Archaeoastronomy: Observers of the Universe makes a tour of 6 Mayan temples: San Gervasio, Chichen Itzá, Uxmal, Edzná, Palenque and Bonampak where the spectator dives into a Mayan world of knowledge about the importance of the orientations of its temples in relation to the movement of some stars like the Sun, the Moon and Venus.

From Vincent's House in the Borinage

2017 • 18 min • Portugal, Belgium

The reading of a letter addressed to his brother Theo is the metaphorical starting point of this suggestive immersion in the work and the places that Vincent Van Gogh lived in a key moment of his artistic life, the one in which he abandoned the faith to rediscover himself the world of painting in the Belgian mining town of Borinage. A strange presence enters the house where he lived, recreates his studio, breathes his surroundings and travels the landscape until he merges with his own paintings, pure oil painting that takes the form of a mysterious and unattainable dream like the great Dutch teacher.

The Girl at the Library

2017 • 17 min

A LGBT silence romance film following the story of two teenage girls who unexpectedly fall for one another when they meet at a local library, but one of them is hiding something that may stop them from falling for each other.

He Ate the Chip

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

Two friends go on the camping trip of a lifetime when one strange Mexican wizard tempts them with "the chip". Will this mysterious figure help our amigos, or will he disrupt their humble hacienda?

Stroboscope

2017 • 13 min • Russia

A person runs away from pursuers, and he manages to escape. But that does not mean that he is now safe.

Brunch Queen

2017 • 11 min

A documentary about a musical about the hilarious gay owners of an insult diner.

The Last Days of George Michael

2017 • 45 min

The final days of the late singer, George Michael.

The Party

2017 • 26 min • United States of America

Disillusioned roommates, Andrew and Karlie, decide to throw a party to escape the stress of their everyday lives. The beer is flowing, the music is pumping, and everyone turns to their social media to record the event, but when Andrew's conservative Midwestern parents show up unexpectedly, they must pretend it's an all-night Bible study group. The Party is a heartwarming coming of age comedy.

İki Parça

2017 • 20 min • Turkey

A town on the western border, early morning - Two provincial officers set off deep into the forest in a jeep with an official license plate. Beauty and death will catch them off guard.

Shauna Is a Liar

2017 • 11 min • Canada, United States of America

An imaginative 9 year old perfectionist plots ill-conceived revenge on the thing she hates most: liars.

Laws of the Lizard

2017 • 51 min • United States of America

Few creatures have revealed as many biological secrets about the workings of life on Earth as the backyard lizard known as the anole. Join biologists Neil Losin and Nate Dappen on their yearlong examination of this humble but fascinating creature and its remarkable powers of adaptation. It's a whirlwind journey that takes us from Caribbean rainforests to high-tech labs to the city of Miami, leading to incredible discoveries about the laws of the lizard.

Étude 1a: Release (I)

2017 • 5 min

Exploring the musical concept of "release," this film is a haunting found-footage study in the plurality of visual and auditory meanings of the term. A series of collaborative works pairing artists working in visual and auditory mediums, the Études meditate on individual musical concepts through experiments with sound and film. Étude 1a: Release (I) is the first in this series and is directed by filmmaker Russell Sheaffer and composer Aaron Michael Smith.

The Smiling Man

2017 • 35 min • United States of America

Shiori accidentally angers the Smiling Man, a demon that has been latched onto her soul since birth, who in turn torments her into discovering the mystery behind the origin of the curse.

Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

This short is the unauthorized, heavily abridged, biographical, visual and supersonic moment about the fact that Johnny Allen Hendrix (aka Jimi Hendrix) knew how to skydive. Set in Seattle where Jimi was born and raised, the film wonders aloud about what this skill meant for the life he went on to lead. Why did he retreat to the sky so quickly before all of us were ready for him to go?