All Films

Debut

2011 • 5 min • Philippines

a short film by Pamela L. Reyes.

Revived

2011 • 47 min • Canada

After trespassing at an abandoned house a pair of friends become increasingly tormented by a restless spirit.

The Nightman Cometh

2011 • 20 min • China

Yejiang / The Nightman Cometh features a cast of strange figures who slip between historical eras. Strewn with symbols of past and future, civilisation and wilderness, dream and reality, the work is laden with filmic, artistic and literary meanings but surrenders to none. An ancient warrior is seen wounded and forlorn after battle, in conflict about his path in life. Yang dramatises the clash between the hero's social role or 'mask', and the more authentic face of his instincts and aspirations. For Yang, the visible world presented in this work is not an objective one but rather the externalisation of internal sentiments.

Black Mirror at the National Gallery

2011 • 6 min • United Kingdom, Canada

Black Mirror at The National Gallery is a single uninterrupted shot of a black circular mirror (designed by Martin Szekely) as it travels through the Dutch Landscape and Genre Scenes painting rooms at London’s National Gallery.

Eternal Champion

2011 • 16 min • Mexico

Eternal Champion is a tribute to the hard work that accounted for a woman of humble extract to become the best wrestler in the history of wrestling in Mexico. Made with extracts of videos available on line, is a digital impressionistic portrait of moments of pain, glory and triumph of Lola Dinamita Gonzalez.

Six Strands

2011 • 15 min • India

Partially based on true stories, 'Six Strands' is a character study inspired by the world famous Darjeeling tea industry and its undisclosed secrets.

A to A

2011 • 5 min • Austria

Hilarious overview of architectural failures. A road movie that provides new insights, but goes nowhere. Johann Lurf once again reveals his striking talent and his sense of humor. A to A is an extensive catalogue of mediocre architectural objects on roundabouts, competing for attention in the few seconds as they are passed. A unique artist's impression, shot from a spluttering Vespa.

Single Serving Friends

2011 • 6 min • Hong Kong

Just about dawn every day, the young shopkeeper meets her “friend”, the magazine delivery boy, the one she can only talk to all night long. Tonight is going to be their last night to meet. Nothing really happens, as usual.

Saturnus

2011 • 30 min • Germany

An animated science-fiction short directed by Bruno Sukrow.

My father is still a communist, intimate secrets to be published

2011 • 35 min

Ghossein searches for traces of his father's biography.

Turret

2011 • 10 min

Experimental film about window frames.

Reversal of the Heart

2011 • 13 min • United States of America

A dragon queen and her chick are living peacefully on a mountaintop. While the queen is hunting, her chick is killed by a knight who takes the jewel from the chick's heart and makes it into a necklace which he gives to his princess. The princess is turned into a dragon and forced to flee from the knight, meeting a young wizard and his familiar on the way. The wizard decides that the dragon princess needs to go to the mountain at the heart of the dragon kingdom, and they begin a long journey across the continent. The knight, who has trailed the princess to the mountain, severely injures her. In the process, the dragon necklace is severed, and the princess turns human again. The knight, consumed by guilt, offers his life to the dragon queen, and is turned into a blue-eyed dragon chick to replace the one he had killed.

9/11: Intercepted

2011 • 42 min • United States of America

War Games, Simulated radar tracks, aircraft exceeding their max operating limits by more than 130-150 knots, inaccurate aircraft position reports, false aircraft target reports, aircraft converging -- flying virtually in formation with -- and then diverging from reported 9/11 aircraft, fighters launched in the wrong direction, aircraft seemingly still airborne after the alleged attack, poor communications, phones not working.... What happened in the skies on the morning of September 11, 2001? Why were our defenses ineffective? Pilots For 9/11 Truth analyze NORAD response, audio recordings as well as Radar data provided by government agencies.

Jessika

2011 • 20 min • Puerto Rico

Mei-Lin, a young university student is having boyfriend troubles. One night while talking on the phone with him; she hears a knock on the door. Mei-Lin opens the door to find herself face to face to a 10 year old girl. Without saying much, the girl asks her for a glass of water. Mei-Lin goes to get the glass of water, comes to the door but finds that the girl is gone. The following night, the girl returns to her door, and asks for a glass of water. Mei-Lin decides to speak with the owner of the building and discovers a shocking truth.

Work on Me

2011 • 3 min

A love that transports through time and place. Inspired by iconic NYC love scenes from the 1970's, and an ode to Maya Deren's MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON. This meticulous craft of cutting-on-action proposes a dance as if it were literally occurring in front of you, like a live performance.

Tintin's Adventure with Frank Gardner

2011 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Journalist Frank Gardner sets out to trace the first adventure of Tintin, the childhood hero that inspired him to travel and report from the world's hot spots. Frank follows Tintin to Moscow and discovers the influences that created the successful cartoon strip.

Neal

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

A murdering swimming pool cleaning machine.

I Don't Like The Boys

2011 • 18 min • Brazil

I Don't Like The Boys is a project inspired by the international campaign "It Gets Better" that brought together people from all different backgrounds and life stories to shine a light on same-sex relationships. It is a brilliant initiative that represents a growing effort in Brazilian cinema to demystify and de-stigmatize homosexuality in that country.

Two Friendly Ghosts

2011 • 11 min • United States of America

James Dean and Donald Turnupseed, the man whose car killed Dean, meet again for the first time... at the very same intersection where the accident occurred.

Don't Look at Me

2011 • 7 min • United States of America

A romantic ode to the joys of grocery-bought vegetables, a tub of Vaseline and Facebook stalking.

Guang

2011 • 14 min • Malaysia

Guang is a story about two brothers. The elder brother, Wen Guang is autistic. Wen Guang is often misunderstood. Above all, he lives with attention deficiency disorder, struggles with social interaction, and has difficulty performing day to day obligations. He also has a secret passion. To make ends meet, Wen Guang is coerced by his younger brother into looking for a job to share his burden on meeting their monthly expenses. Throughout the film, we see Wen Guang searching for a job, his daily routines and his secret passion as he searches for the final glass that will bring him a simple, pure, hard earned, fleeting moment of joy.

ExamiNation

2011 • 22 min • South Korea, United States of America

A short documentary about a Korean high school student preparing for the most important exam she will ever take, an eight hour long college entrance exam.

The Dead Child Legend

2011 • 8 min • Norway

Eahpáraš is about a paranormal phenomenon in Sápmi, the land of the Sámi people. An eahpáraš is a dangerous spirit of a dead newborn child that haunts people.

Vanishing Exercises

2011 • 50 min • Belgium, France

Does mourning have a use-by date... like yogurts? And what exactly does the term "mourning" mean?