All Films

Silenziosa-mente

2011 • 5 min • Italy

Tale of Blood

2011 • 19 min • South Korea

'Tale of Blood' is a 19 minute long paper-cut-puppet theater in the style of early silent cinema. It tells the story about the ambiguous relationship between a mother and her daughter. The story involves a midnight adventure through the dark forest, encounters with monsters and a short trip to an erotic dream land. The film is about suppressed female desires, that uncannily return as monstrous doppelgangers within the patriarchal society.

Posthumous

2011 • 17 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mirsad’s father’s village is evacuated due to dam construction. The village will soon be under water. Mirsad arrives from the city intending to move his father’s remains from the old village cemetery to a grave in the new village’s graveyard.

Paranoia

2011 • 7 min

Paranoia is a story that recounts the events surrounding Matthew's life; an inquisitive student in a high school in Manhattan, who enjoys observing neighboring buildings with his camera. Unfortunately, one day, Matthew witnessed a scene, in the building across the street, that was best kept secret...

Maison sonore

2011 • 5 min • Germany

In a large building full of sounds, people are waiting for a new melody that will change their lives. No one has realised that it has already begun to play.

Dzaomalaza and the Blue Sapphire

2011 • 60 min

Dzaomalaza goes in search of a unique sapphire in Southern Madagascar in order to enrich himself. But three women are in his path: Evah wants to hand over the sapphire, Masy wants wealth and power and Revol wants to improve the fate of the entire community.

Underlife

2011 • 9 min • Poland

The film talks about birth, Coming and going; whether a person can break free from under the influence exerted on One's life by the time and place of birth, and bt the event of turning up in one's own pram. And whether one is aware of the invisible, sometimes destructive, the influence of our ancestors, which might result in one never being able to leave this pram. It is a symbolically metaphorical short story of one such pram, inspired by Lullaby/ Kolysanka by Krzysztof Komeda, among others.

Ctrl-v

2011 • 54 min • Brazil

Documentary-research on the global audiovisual industry and its effects on local cultures. Produced with a homemade digital camera in the best do-it-yourself style, without any production apparatus, director Leonardo Brant uses excerpts from films that discuss the hegemonic condition of the cultural industry and promotes dialogue with great thinkers.

V1k1: A Techno Fairytale

2011 • 28 min • Singapore

Set in a modern-day alternate universe, V1K1 tells the story of Gabriel, a human scientist, and his obsession to prove the existence of fairies. He accidentally captures one of them in his laboratory and gets invited into a dimension beyond his dreams. Produced with the assistance of the staff and students from the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) College West, V1K1 is Tzang Merwyn Tong’s third film that won the Gold Remi Award in the Fantasy/Sci Fi category at the 2011 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.

The Tender March

2011 • 5 min • Japan

Personal animation of planted grass flights.

T is for Tickles

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

Produced for Alamo Drafthouse Films' "The ABCs of Death" short film competition. Took 20th place out of 171 total entries.

Sorry I Missed You

2011 • 26 min • United States of America

Arthur is just trying to get through one night at home alone in peace, but somebody is intent on driving him insane.

Video su carta

2011 • 18 min

Eric Carle, Picture Writer: The Art of the Picture Book

2011 • 32 min

An intimate portrait of Eric Carle, creator of more than 70 books for children including the best-selling "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". At 82, Eric is still at work in his studio making books and creating art. As he methodically layers a tissue paper collage of the caterpillar, he describes the feeling he achieves working in his studio, the sense of being at peace, all alone, when everything grows quiet and it is just himself and his work. The film taps into that deep creative need in each of us, a spirit that started in Eric as a very young child and is unceasing today.

Savage Myths

2011 • 11 min

Savage Myths deals with various concepts concerning nature, individualism, capitalism, and technology, which is presented as an absurd and formalist film.

Mongrel: Prelude to The Wrath of the Ape King

2011 • 7 min • United States of America

Mongrel, the castrated barbarian rogue, meets a mysterious woman beneath the streets of the desert city of Ul'Imir.

Temporal Properties of the World: Order

2011 • 16 min • United States of America

Temporal Properties of the World - Order, is the first in a series of short films that explores human experiences of time. A young woman searches to locate her memories of her childhood and how she came to be who she is in the present.

Sadism

2011 • 4 min

Experimental short by Takuomi Nozawa.

The Slasher Hunter

2011 • 35 min

A parody of slasher movies, including parodies of the five biggest slashers taking on an over the top action hero, The Slasher Hunter.

Leitmotif

2011 • 4 min • Brazil

An empty area is covered, in a few moments, by currents of water coming from all sides, suggesting the beginning of a flood. Gradually, the volume and rhythm of the tides become more aggressive, in a movement that seems to drag everything towards the center.

Jakarta 24

2011 • 5 min • Indonesia

This video is part of Massroom Project (2003) is a documentary video project on Jakarta. The videos consist of nine works that tells nine stories about living experiences in Jakarta. Those experiences pass on various aspects of the city such as: mass transportation, public space, marginalize traditional vendors, voice pollution in the city and survival in Jakarta. These nine works of the Massroom Project has been screened in various film festival and exhibiton in Indonesia and international. Some of the works achieve the nomination for best short filmwork at Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany. Amongst the important festivals which screened the Massroom Project works is 15th Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de Sao Paulo 2004, Brasil; Tales of Two Cities: Jakarta/Canberra 2005, Australia; Seminar and Conference Responsibilities of Criticism 2008, USA.

Sound Seekers

2011 • 28 min • Macedonia

The story of the Macedonian Stradivarius from Veles, Svetozar Bogdanovski, the only violin maker in Macedonia, and his son, Kostadin, who is concert master at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Opera House in Barcelona, Spain.

Tales Before the Rain

2011 • 15 min • Indonesia

This public transport has many story in it. Ukar, the taxi driver told what happen when you drive and meet the strangers. The conversation become really a hero story as Ukar as an actor. And it stop when the rain comes and the wiper cleaning. You can guess which one the truth.

5 Seconds 10 Minutes 24 Hours

2011 • 13 min • Indonesia

This video is part of Massroom Project (2003) is a documentary video project on Jakarta. The videos consist of nine works that tells nine stories about living experiences in Jakarta. Those experiences pass on various aspects of the city such as: mass transportation, public space, marginalize traditional vendors, voice pollution in the city and survival in Jakarta. These nine works of the Massroom Project has been screened in various film festival and exhibiton in Indonesia and international. Some of the works achieve the nomination for best short filmwork at Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany. Amongst the important festivals which screened the Massroom Project works is Indonesia Under Construction, The Netherlands; Seminar and Conference Responsibilities of Criticism 2008, USA; Insomnia 2005 - Institute of Contemporary Arts, England.