All Films

Two Nineteen Forty Four

2018 • 8 min

Complete Time-Lapse of Gobright and Reynolds' Speed Record on the Nose. A time-lapse of the entirety of Gobright and Reynolds' blazing fast sprint up the most famous piece of rock in the world.

Fetish

2018 • 16 min • United States of America

Fetish, a multi-dimensional being, bestrides the streets of New York City. As his strength and vulnerability are exposed, he reveals his power through death and rebirth. As he defies space and time, Fetish becomes the embodiment of the ‘Black Man Who Fell To Earth’. His last moments are a mixture of traffic-stopping masculine power, supernatural presence, and nakedness.

Void

2018 • 29 min • Myanmar

A lonely and failed musician gets to know a young woman who lives in a next-door apartment, a victim of sexual and domestic abuse by her husband. On the anniversary of her mother's death, the woman shares a dish of fish soup with him and they spend some time together. The man knows about her victimhood and he feels sorry for her. One day when her husband is not at home, he comes and comforts her. But their relationships takes a different turn when her husband unexpectedly comes back.

Ale y Yose

2018 • 24 min

Two undocumented friends struggle with the reality of an unknown future, reimagining what it means to be a teenage girl in the U.S.

El Manantial

2018 • 12 min

Two brothers roam a desolate Mountain area. The minor, disregarding his mother's warnings, bathes in a mysterious spring. From that moment, strange events are unleashed that radically change their lives.

Being Privileged

2018 • 10 min

KaLAYAWan, a short documentary about a transwoman who lives her life different from her generation. Despite the cruel world, she remained steadfast amidst all the difficulties.

Rolling Around

2018 • 23 min

On a family holiday in the mountains, Xavier is forced to go hiking with Fred, his big sister's boyfriend, whom he does not seem to like.

Blood Moon

2018 • 45 min

The walls of Tsaranoro are as wild and bold as the country, the rock beautifully carved as if by providential hand, and the story... that of a real adventure of friends taking the risks that come hand in hand with pushing boundaries. Once the free climbing begins disaster strikes, Alan takes a bad fall shattering his lower right leg, an epic ordeal unfolds to get Alan from the remote big wall to safety. From here the mood changes, Robbie and Calum are left with some big questions and bigger fears as they must decide whether to continue with their push or give in to their emotions as they learn the hardest way possible what it takes to open a Big Wall on one of the sheerest vertical faces in Africa.

Sergey's Fortune

2018 • 17 min

A hitman for the Little Odessa mafia gets in trouble with the boss after his mission is compromised by a pair of obnoxious YouTube stars.

Paradigm Now: The Albizia Project

2018 • 5 min • United States of America

Is the Albizia tree a destructive force, disrupting native ecosystems and causing economic damage, or the material that can awaken new paradigms through thoughtful design? PARADIGM NOW dives into the journey undertaken by architect Joey Valenti in pioneering Lika, a prototype that opens the door to sourcing timber locally, restoring native ecosystems, and designing for future island resilience. ​

Twinking

2018 • 24 min

A NSFW web series about the pitfalls of modern gay dating and hook-up apps.

Touching Sound

2018 • 4 min • Switzerland

Picking up on Pierre Schaeffer’s musical theory, this video essay looks at the final scene from Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly as a source of concrete sound. No additional sounds were used. The stroboscopic audio is nothing but the original soundtrack, dissected and interrupted by clicking manually from frame to frame.

Frankenstein (Re)Membered

2018 • 38 min • United Kingdom

Since its publication 200 years ago, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has influenced vast swathes of popular culture. Adaptations have starred cinema legends from Boris Karloff to Robert De Niro – and even Alvin and the Chipmunks. From tales of science gone mad (Jurassic Park) to stories of understanding the other (ET, The Hulk, Arrival), traces of the story and its themes have spread across our media. With Frankenstein Re-membered, video artist and film historian Chris Gerrard collects these diverse fragments from the birth of cinema until the present day and in the tradition of Victor Frankenstein himself, attempts to stitch them back together into an adaptation of the original Shelley novel.

Spoko – The Blind Football Coach

2018 • 10 min • South Africa

Dumisani Ntombela has never seen a football stadium, but coached a women's football team for the Premier League. She has lost her funding and her team, but wants to attract her back on the field.

Cut

2018 • 6 min • United States of America

In order to achieve perfection, Victor must give into the voices in his head to cure his obsession with beauty.

Grateful: The Jenni Berebitsky Story

2018 • 17 min

Married two and half years, with a son 15 months old, and just finishing her residency as a Naturopathic physician, Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky at age 33 was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). In both Jenni's book, ALS Saved My Life and Grateful: The Jenni Berebitsky Story, the short documentary by Studio Nethercott, Jenni boldly shares what her life has been like with ALS and how she chooses to move forward.

Teddy

2018 • 6 min

A desperate father tries his best to wake up his wife who's in a coma.

The Ruin

2018 • 10 min • Iran

Now, in the era we live in, we are surrounded by a variety of ideas, and each of these ideas and thoughts is given to us in many ways. The Art and The Media play an important role as two important tools for forcing and pushing information, but these two important tools go so far as to get something that takes their lives and lose control of humanity and is nothing but The Ruin.

British Graffiti

2018 • 13 min

Stanley Huddersfield has graduated from University, but despite having a Master's degree in Art History he can't find a job. After countless rejections he gives up and starts working at the local supermarket where he is terrorized by his coworkers and a money crazy store manager. Years of putting up with these characters make him reach his boiling point.

Amanda_Test 1

2018 • 13 min

A young woman, Kat, visits her estranged brother in the surreal beauty of Sonoma County. When Kat meets her brother's co-worker Amanda, an odd chemistry unfolds between the three of them. As Kat and Amanda fall for each other, a sense of desperation creeps in and a strange force threatens to upend their reality.

Aproposessexstreetmarket

2018 • 30 min

"The second piece on this program, Aproposessexstreetmarket, is what I consider to be the heart of the trilogy. It offers glimpses to the kind of activities I often encountered inside the old Essex Street Market, and I dedicate this screening to all the people who appear in the work—shoppers as well as vendors" - EG

Wordless

2018 • 7 min

Nan struggles to connect in America because of what he left in China.

Train of Thoughts

2018 • 8 min • United States of America

A telepathic young man spends his days hearing others thoughts and suddenly comes across a troubling one.

The Little Cat

2018 • 13 min

The adventures of a homeless cat as it leaves the big city streets during a storm and tries to find friends and a new life in the desert.