All Films

Elemental

2015 • 3 min • United States of America

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.

Lost in Expression

2015 • 21 min • United States of America

After discovering his boyfriend’s infidelity, a stoic fraternity president attempts to suppress his emotions by getting wild at his fraternity’s party. As the night goes on, unexpected events and repressed childhood memories force him to face his erupting emotions and the decision between saving his collapsed relationship or letting it disintegrate into nothing.

Of Roads

2015 • 19 min

What happens if one has to make a quick decision that proves wrong? What are the consequences, if one does not meet the requirements one sets for oneself when something unexpected happens? And what if after all this, one finds new qualities in one’s character that force one to reconsider one’s entire self-image?

Cry of the Loon

2015 • 4 min

Set in the lake country of Northern Minnesota, Cry of the Loon is a lyrical mediation on life, death, and the beauty of the natural world.

Today

2015 • 13 min • Netherlands

When Kees (42) and his two children, Roos (12) and Willem (6), stop at a gas station for a quick toilet break, they all shortly separate and go their own way. In this short period of time, each of them witnesses something which makes them think about themselves. The young Willem accidently witnesses a couple making love in the bushes and doesn't know how to deal with this. Roos, a real 'tomboy', starts thinking about who she wants to be, after another girl confuses her for being a boy. Kees, a divorced man, thinks he has a flirt with a younger woman. When he finds out she wasn't flirting at all, he realizes that he has entered a new period of his life where he has to find his place. The three characters separately all experience a small tilt in their lives.

The Invisible Man

2015 • 4 min

A leader from organized crime is targeted by an invisible man.

Nurse Kennedy

2015 • 3 min • United States of America

Tom Rodgers is making his video diary entry for his Doctor Sherman about his experiences with his nosy neighbor Mrs. Kennedy, when he gets knocked back to reality in a disturbing turn of events.

400 Ways to Kill a Vampire

2015 • 22 min

A vampire hunter snares what he believes to be a low level vampire but it turns out this ones got connections.

Reminiscence

2015 • 4 min

During a dance audition, Roxanne falls prey to a sudden malaise and gets into her memories and trauma exhibited by a being who symbolizes her conscience.

The Birthday Present

2015 • 15 min • Sweden

The atmosphere in the car is strained when Jimmy's dad drives him and a woman to execute this year's birthday present. A wish that suddenly has the opportunity to become a reality on completely wrong premises.

Street Cuts

2015 • 22 min • United States of America

Mark Bustos is a hair stylist to the stars, but it's what he does on his day off that truly sets him apart. Every Sunday, Mark sets out on the streets in search of anyone in need who'd appreciate a free haircut, using his talent to make people feel good.

Psychic Darkness Video 8

2015 • 59 min • Japan

8th installment in the "Shinrei Yami Douga" series, the successor to "Yami Douga".

Modern Love: A Man Too Good to Be True

2015 • 3 min • United States of America

While battling Alzheimer’s disease, Deenie Hartzog-Mislock’s grandmother invents a wild story and the family learns to love an imaginary man named Nick Stephanopoulos.

Purple

2015 • 6 min

A young girl, after sneaking into her older sister's bedroom, hides to avoid being caught and witnesses an event that forces both sisters to confront their vulnerability.

The Swap

2015 • 16 min • Germany

On the surface "The Swap" appears to parody a scene from a classic gangster film of covert dodgy dealings, yet Rosefeldt's manipulation thrusts it into contemporary reality. Set at a deserted container terminal, two rival mobs pull up in cars, about to perform the familiar briefcase exchange of concealed goods. Clad in leather, guns poised; Rosefeldt plays once again with our stereotypical expectations, luring the viewer into a sense of familiarity until an unpredictable turn challenges our perception and exacerbates seemingly subtle aspects of their behaviour.

Romantic Ballad

2015 • 6 min • Lithuania

What is the essence of romance? Romantic Ballad explores the days of the cat Micius. Are his days romantic? He believes that they are.

Parallel Lines

2015 • 6 min

A curious traveler wanders around stumbling upon other people's problems.

Mutilator from the Grave

2015 • 20 min • Russia

Vengeance lives on, even in death for one man brought back to avenge his lover's murder.

Just A Child

2015 • 26 min • Latvia

Two young women, Lidija and Esmeralda, have become mothers at a tender age. At the moment, they’re at a point where neither their families nor the fathers of their children can help them. They live in a safe house that proves to be a place where they can receive the love, goodwill and peace they could not find before. This visceral film contrasts youthful naivety with hard-to-face facts in a story of longing, hope for love and difficult choices.

The Witching Hour

2015 • 9 min • Australia

When the clock strikes midnight, all manner of ghouls and monsters are unleashed onto the world.

3 Minutes in America

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

3 Minutes in America is an experimental narrative criss-crossing the continental US. The film presents a romance unfolding amid an array of contemporary phenomena including vaccine production, basketball games, a fracking well explosion and illicit communications on a government server.

Hypochondria (I Told You I Was Sick)

2015 • 1 min

A short cartoon I made at NYU's summer session. - WW.

Bloody Wasteland: The Making of Turbo Kid

2015 • 23 min • Canada

Making of the modern cult classic film Turbo Kid.

My Senior Moment

2015 • 16 min

An unmotivated man on the brink of being fired is sent to run an errand, which leads to more than he expected.