All Films

Killing Klaus Kinski

2016 • 20 min • Colombia

The hostility of the Amazon and its natural forces reach extremes during the shooting of a film. The overpowering jungle and harsh weather lead the film crew to plot the assassination of the main actor. As in cinema that scrutinizes itself, we revisit in a vertiginous sequence shot a myth of the history of film when in the toughest part of filming FITZCARRALDO, Werner Herzog phantasized about killing actor Klaus Kinski.

Wednesday Prayer Group

2016 • 26 min

Hera is a middle-aged woman who visits and sells cosmetics. Hera, who has escaped from the crisis through a chance to meet Sojung, suggests a part-time job at Wednesday Prayer Group to Sojung who gave a favor to her.

Overwatch Animated Short "Infiltration"

2016 • 6 min

When a Talon operation doesn't go exactly as planned, Sombra steps out of the shadows and takes control.

Le cri de la marmotte

2016 • 16 min

Léo and Madeleine abandon the house they built following a conflict with a groundhog.

New Cops

2016 • 52 min • United States of America

An ordinary man (played by Tim Morton) lives a dull life till his friend Chet (played by Jimmy Kustes) comes over to stay for a few days. His friend ropes him to various schemes and generally makes a bunch of faux pas. His girlfriend (played by Johanna Sims) mostly runs around without alerting him of her whereabouts. He escapes his dull day-to-day existence by watching the TV show New Cops and dreaming various scenarios involving him being the President of the United States and Chet serving as his adviser. Chet recommends they hire detective Flaherty (played by David Maloney) to investigate a book heist at the local library.

Who Flew First: Challenging the Wright Brothers

2016 • 53 min • Austria

Officially, the Wright Brothers flew first in 1903. But the Australian aviation expert John Brown argues that German born Gustave Whitehead flew in Connecticut in 1901. To display the Wright flyer, the Smithsonian Museum agreed that it will never claim that anyone flew before the Wrights. History may not be as certain as we thought.

Return From the Dead

2016 • 50 min • United Kingdom

In this revelatory documentary, world-leading neurologist and doctor, Steven Laureys, conducts an immersive investigation into the phenomena of Return from the Dead, staging a ground-breaking experiment to show that a scientific explanation could replace a supernatural one.

À Vancouver

2016 • 35 min • Canada

À Vancouver is an experimental video essay featuring interviews with my father about our familial and individual sexual histories. Blending documentary and fiction, the video examines and expands upon parallel events in our lives, wherein we each traveled across Canada to Vancouver, and had formative (homo)sexual experiences at separate moments in time: my father as an 18-year-old traveling in the mid-60s and myself as a young teen and then adult in the mid-90s and 2000s. À Vancouver stages these narratives in the genre of the father-son road trip exploring themes of queer temporality, memory, and linguistic, cultural, and sexual inheritance.

The Bachelor's Skull

2016 • 4 min

If only she could keep her memories...

Gridlock

2016 • 20 min

Gridlock is a thriller set during a traffic jam on a country road. When a little girl goes missing from one of the cars, her father forms a desperate search party to find her, and soon everyone is a suspect.

Used Video Shop's Female Shop Clerk X

2016 • 7 min • Japan

An underage boy tries to rent dirty DVDs and a beleaguered video store clerk tries to stop him.

In One Drag

2016 • 3 min • Germany

It's late in the evening. A man leaves a building, lights a cigarette and smokes it in one drag. He casually flicks the stub away – everything as always. Only this time... all the cigarette butts in the city become alive.

Brian Anderson on Being a Gay Professional Skateboarder

2016 • 27 min • United States of America

The skateboarding community worships Brian Anderson as a god, but for many years kept his sexuality a secret from nearly everyone in his life. Our guy Reda sat down with Brian and some of his closest friends to talk about being gay in the professional skateboarding industry and why he chose now to come out.

A Drop of Blood

2016 • 60 min • United Arab Emirates

A young Emirati lady is in desperate need, and asks her estranged father to help her, which causes ripples in the family, especially with her father's new wife. A spell is cast through a mutual party who goes to a shaman, to harm our heroin. She is under a lot of stress and starts going insane. She feels that she is haunted by demons and starts to see them everywhere. Her family puts her in a hospital to help with her condition, but the demons are getting stronger and more pervasive. The rest of her family starts to feel the demons' presence and decides to try to reverse the spell, which works, but is too late for our heroin, she sees them in her dreams and feels as though they are taking over her body.

The Opening

2016 • 30 min • Poland

A gallery owner is opening an unusual exhibition: An artist who is terminally ill wishes to die in front of an audience.

The Last Ring Home

2016 • 27 min • United States of America

The Last Ring Home is a made-for-TV documentary that recounts the story of how a WWII hero's last wish was lost, found, finally fulfilled and then lost again. The discovery of the story by the hero's grandson is as big as the discovery of the ring.

Mazurkas

2016 • 58 min

An elderly piano teacher who lost his wife 35 years ago has yet to go through the grieving process. Because he has not done this, it comes back to affect him in many ways. He finds himself on a road to self destruction that will lead him to the ultimate cost. His dark regret will bring him to the precipice.

A Night at the Movies

2016 • 16 min

A shy movie fan must overcome his confidence issues when he and his crush, the theater concession stand girl, are pulled into a 1930s adventure film by its fiery heroine.

Bleed the Night

2016 • 14 min

After being kidnapped, Audrey awakens and discovers her terrifying post-apocalyptic reality.

Anthropic Principle

2016 • 5 min

arc of the natural world’s evolution from the primeval environment to the Anthropocene and back again premiered in program Death is Green at the Whitney Museum of American Art part of Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016 organized by Chrissie Iles

Examination

2016 • 15 min • Hungary

A school physician whose son is being bullied at school finds that he must conduct a routine medical examination of one of his son's chief tormentors.

Challenger: A Rush to Launch

2016 • 50 min • United States of America

January 28, 1986, was a day that shook America to its core. WJXT marks the 30th anniversary of the disaster with Challenger: A Rush to Launch. The hour long documentary takes an investigative look into what brought the shuttle down through the voices of those directly affected by the tragedy then and now. This documentary produced by WJXT Films crew, aims to answer questions form 30 years ago that still remain on everyone’s mind.

Mocha Dick: La ballena mapuche

2016 • 23 min • Chile

The sea chronicles speak of Mocha Dick, the Mapuche whale that lived on the coasts of southern Chile and that would have served as a source of inspiration for Herman Melville to write "Moby Dick", the character of his most famous novel

The Day I Lost My Shadow

2016 • 38 min • Singapore

A trilogy set in three iconic locations within Singapore's Little India district: Race Course Road, Campbell Lane and Syed Alwi Road. The notion of re-examining history by truth and myth through visual storytelling serves as the inter-connecting thread between the three short films, and the films offer glimpses of Little India through the 19th and 20th centuries.