All Films

Requiem For Herstory

2011 • 27 min

A young girl; a lover of music, yearns for some sense of peace and identity while suffering under the oppression of mother's demands. with a little help from her dreams and the music she loves the most, she transcends her anguish via an uncanny metamorphosis.

Canal

2011 • 12 min

Video performance, 2004, created in Le Pouget, France.

Crissy Rock: Live

2011 • 54 min • United Kingdom

'Crissy Rock - Live!' was recorded at her sellout performance at Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre in September 2011. Best known as one of the stars of ITV1’s hit series ‘Benidorm’ and a multi award winner including Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival (for her unforgettable performance in ‘Ladybird Ladybird’) Chrissy is better known to her fans as one of the most outstanding and outrageous standup comedians of her generation. From her hilarious routines directed at useless partners (well, men in general) to her journey through the onset of middle age. Crissy’s nonstop blasts of comedy brilliance hit the right note every time.

Making More

2011 • 17 min

Some fascinating insight into the making of Barbet Schroeder's cult classic 'More' (1969)

Children’s Game #9: Saltamontes

2011 • 6 min • Venezuela

Girls and boys, together for once, hunt through lush grass and undergrowth, on the lookout for well-camouflaged grasshoppers. When one is found its hind legs are pulled off, though not its wings. Each child hurls his or her grasshopper up into the air, where it flutters against the sky above the upturned faces of the skipping, wheeling children. Unable to fly far, it will soon free-fall and be captured again. The winner is the player whose grasshopper stays the longest in the air.

Last Beautiful Friend

2011 • 25 min

He is jealous of her future. She is Jealous of his past.

Vivencias de mujer en torno a la mina de Camocha

2011 • 20 min

Testimonies of wives and daughters of workers at the La Camocha Mine.

I'm Always Looking from Here

2011 • 18 min • Chile

A man returns from hunting. His lover is waiting for him in an empty swimming pool in quiet woodland surroundings.

The Spirit Photography: Paranormal Phenomenon

2011 • 50 min • Japan

The 7th installment of a ghost documentary that explores the cursed truth hidden behind a selection of spine-chilling horrifying photographs from among the ghost photographs that exist in the world. Abnormal faces, earthbound spirits at your feet, red hands, golden spiritual paths, ikiryō's feet, and more.

The Oven Sky

2011 • 5 min

The Oven Sky (2011) is set in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood where newcomers pressure a longtime resident to turn her yard filled with lawn ornaments into a dog park. This animation features music by Rachel Mason.

Pending Title

2011 • 2 min

2011 remake of 2009's experimental short Pending Title

Shadow Beyond Time

2011 • 25 min

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's work, Shadow Beyond Time tells the story of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, an Arkham-born prodigy. At age 22, he becomes the youngest associate professor in the history of Miskatonic University. His bright future is disrupted when he falls into a coma, from which he won't seem to recover. That doesn't mean that his body doesn't wake up in the hospital, however, although that being is clearly not Nathaniel. 5 years later, Nathaniel returns to his body and from that moment on he begins an intense search to discover what happened to him. That's when disturbing visions begin to haunt him- visions that uncover things not only from his immediate past, but also from his own bloodline...

Journeys in the Kingdom of Shadows

2011 • 14 min • United States of America

The life and times of master film artist Will Hindle. Featuring his ruined studio in the backwoods of Blountsville, Alabama, and his time as a teacher at the University of South Florida, Tampa.

Sunday Jog

2011 • 3 min

A short animated film about two joggers who set out for a stroll on a beautiful Sunday morning. They are alarmed by what appears to be an earthquake-which quickly reveals itself to be much more.

Burned.

2011 • 14 min

A young man finds himself in a life of crime.

Me, Doug & Meg

2011 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Doug is becoming a woman and his best friend is having trouble coming to terms with it.

Uzushio -Seto Current-

2011 • 10 min

Experimental 16mm short by Naoto Kawamoto.

A Poem

2011 • 25 min • Latvia

The true story about Latvian poet Austra Skujiņa, who spends her days dreaming and writing poems while working in the Ministry of Agriculture. Her accidental late night meeting with a policeman in a park triggers a series of unexpected events. The young poet is forced to face a choice between giving in to the policeman’s blackmail or informing on him to his superior. During these events Austra Skujiņa writes her last published poem.

The Secret Passage

2011 • 2 min • Greece

A boy, along with his companion, explores a secret passage.

Splinters

2011 • 30 min • Belarus

After the collapse of the USSR, several not yet old single men returned to their parents' huts in a small Belarusian village. Not remembering the past, not thinking about the future, men live one day, escaping from loneliness with vodka and conversations. They are fragments of that life that has passed and which they will never return or glue together.

ABCDad

2011 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A young man struggling with a secret gets his life back on track.

Heds

2011 • 1 min • United States of America

Ted and Red Hed are brothers born without bodies. Does that stop them from sybling discord? I think not.

Feeling Nothing

2011 • 8 min • France

The daily life of Eric, a man without emotions who, conscious of his problem, goes to order online a strange bracelet supposed to procure doses of emotions. He feels complete, even if the use of the bracelet often puts him in a lot of embarrassing situations...

A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More’s Daughter

2011 • 60 min

Helen Castor introduces a film about Thomas More's daughter Margaret, showing her revolutionary intellectual spirit and how the ideas that shaped her education changed the cultural life of England forever.