All Films

Low Tide

2012 • 14 min • Portugal

What the ocean bringeth, the ocean taketh away

Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?

2012 • 25 min • Slovenia

1944. Somewhere in the occupied Central Europe. A multicultural triangle between a little shepherd and two officers from the opposite sides in a sensual and emotional Alpine story of two tunes and one whistle.

Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco

2012 • 52 min • France

Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away in February 2016, unveils the secrets behind his undertakings and novels.

Rod Stewart – Christmas Live at Stirling Castle

2012 • 50 min

Rod Stewart – Christmas Special Live at Stirling Castle 21 nov 2012 full broadcast With Michael Bublé, Kylie Minogue and Nicola Benedetti

The Broken Flute

2012 • 5 min

An inconsolable father mourns his sons' disinterest in family tradition but nepotism proves to be thicker than blood.

Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity

2012 • 58 min • United States of America

"Marking Infinity", Lee Ufan's recent retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim charts the artist's creation of a visual, conceptual, and theoretical language that has radically expanded the possibilities for sculpture and painting over the past forty years. Deeply versed in modern philosophy, Lee is also an influential writer and is recognized as the key theorist of Mono-ha, an anti-formalist, materials-based art movement that developed in Tokyo in the late 1960s. Active internationally over the last four decades, Lee is acclaimed for an innovative body of Post-Minimalist work that promotes process and the experiential engagement of viewer and site.

Schrodinger's Cat

2012 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Animated version of Schrodinger's infamous thought experiment

The Big Crunch

2012 • 14 min • Finland

The Big Crunch is a video installation that presents images to the viewer that communicate the presence of humans on earth, evolution and human intelligence. All images are carefully composited according to the divine proportions. We see images poetically and metaphorically representing the beginning of mathematical innovations to the projected end of the world, the big crunch. Our observations and our learning shape the universe into being, time is a creation of our minds, laws are generated by our thoughts and conclusions.

43,000 Feet

2012 • 9 min • New Zealand

When statistician John Wilkins is sucked out of a plane at 43,000 feet, he calculates that he has exactly 3 minutes and 48 seconds before he hits the ground.

Soubresauts

2012 • 22 min • Tunisia, France

In these huge houses of the petty Tunisian bourgeoisie, when a tragedy occurs, everything is done to hide it.

9 Meter

2012 • 17 min • Denmark

The 16-year-old Daniel is a huge long jumping talent who constantly breaks his own records. For Daniel, breaking records is a way for him to keep his dying mother alive. She is in a coma, but Daniel discovers that every time he tells the mother about a new record, she reacts by moving a finger. Unfortunately, Daniel stops being able to beat his own record and at the same time his mother's condition gets worse. Daniel feels that he has part of the blame because he is convinced that the records helps the mother to stay alive. In a desperate attempt to avoid the doctors shutting off his mother's life support, Daniel starts to jump between rooftops. He is convinced that the adrenaline he will get by jumping at great altitude is the extra kick he needs to push his body to new records and hopefully keep his mother alive.

The Startup Kids

2012 • 55 min

The Startup Kids is a documentary about young web entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe. It contains interviews with founders of Vimeo, Dropbox, Soundcloud and more who talk about how they started their company and their lives as an entrepreneur. Along with that people from the tech scene speaks about the startup environment including the venture capitalist Tim Draper and MG Siegler, tech blogger at Techcrunch.

Death of a Shadow

2012 • 20 min • Belgium, France

Soldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shadows. It is love that guides him, as his purpose is to meet Sarah again, the woman he fell in love with before he died. But then he discovers that she's already in love with someone else, jealousy clouds his mind and pushes him towards a bitter decision, not without consequences.

Shooting Star Lens

2012 • 18 min • Japan

The story follows Risa, a girl with zero experience in romance. Meanwhile, a boy named Yuugure is the most popular student in Risa's school year. Even though the two have had no contact with each other in the past, they find themselves at school at the same time one night.

The Boy and the Bard

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

The Boy and the Bard is simply a amazing short film creation. A short film that you most definitely can't stop watching even though it's 3 min you can watch it again and again. The short film tells a story of a boy and his imaginary friend. This one is a must watch even if you're a fan of Halloween Movies, Halloween Short Films etc. if you're in a mood for something good to watch for short period of time. Click play on The Boy and the Bard you will be amazed. A great performance by Trevor Standish he was incredible. Also a great performance and great work by Dave Campbell, Will Morris, and the entire crew.

Out of Time

2012 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Two time-traveling tourists from the future visit present day London.

The Secret Taste

2012 • 13 min • Hong Kong

In May 2011, Ming Chow, at her 27 years old, having studied the barista certificate course for only two months, defeated many experienced baristas from the locals and the overseas at the Grand Barista Championship, Hong Kong region. What made Ming Chow's coffee hit the cord of the jury who were international coffee experts?

Well, Just You Wait! A New Year Special

2012 • 3 min • Russia

The final "canonical" episode of the series is a New Year Special.

The Back of Beyond

2012 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Petesy feels trapped in his dead-end job until smart-talking Gabriel arrives and offers him a way out.

The Very Secluded Street

2012 • 42 min

Akvarium

2012 • 8 min • Denmark

Sten is an old man who lives isolated from society. His life is uneventful, days indistinguishable from one another, only punctuated by his few daily habits and the feeding of his fish. Fish, however, do not live forever and their demise means breaking the spell of isolation and inviting reality inside his home.

In Bed with the Arab Spring

2012 • 54 min • France

The Arab revolutions swept away the old regimes and were led by young modern people, invested with a global culture, internet, huge frustration, and a need for freedom and emancipation. Women played a major role in the revolutions. Some even became icons. Women are becoming the front line in a clash between secularism and traditionalism. Frenzy and sexual violence; taboos and prohibitions; constant stimulation on internet and TV... How will the Islamists handle this explosive cocktail?

The Nail

2012 • 28 min • Germany

The film is set in Berlin in 1965. Τhe old woman welcomes the Commissioner at her doorstep with the words “I have been waiting for you for 30 years”. She has been maintaining for years the grave, where now by accident, this skull was found. The skull, has a rusty nail in it. In a long monologue, the woman confesses for the first time, her tragic life story.

Too Much Cendi

2012 • 1 min • United States of America

Second "track" from the Open City Mixtape series.