All Films

Forest

2011 • 12 min

Murder is committed in the forest. A young man becomes caught up in the events, and this experience has an increasingly unsettling effect on him.

Dreams from a Petrified Head

2011 • 35 min

Amanda Sage was a dissident whose beliefs and ideas retain the power to disturb a long established mode of living. A restless public is re-awakening long after her death fueled by the recordings of her anti-government speeches. Jeremy's new job entails rewriting her words and her visual image; nullifying and softening the impact of her heartfelt rhetoric. While working to comprehend her lectures, to effectively alter them, he chooses a taboo course of action; he dumps her stored memory into an android body made in her likeness. This brings him dangerously close to her and her message.

Black Doll

2011 • 8 min • Mexico

Prisoners, two sisters share their life in a strange place. The mundane routine, along curiosity, will bring Prita to break the boundaries of the secure place.

God Knows Who...

2011 • 17 min

Can jealousy and a person from the past tear this couple apart?

Mr. Stache

2011 • 10 min • United States of America

Two people prove that it's who you are on the inside that matters more than what you're like on the outside.

Nashville Rises

2011 • 28 min • United States of America

Nashville Rises is the first documentary film about the city of Nashville, Tennessee's response to the 2010 Tennessee floods. It premiered at the 42nd Nashville Film Festival on April 14, 2011 and received the festival's "Ground Zero Tennessee Spirit Award for Best Short Documentary Film". The film was narrated by Billy Bob Thornton and directed by Zac Adams.

Spinning

2011 • 12 min

A woman sits at the beach and thinks over the past year of her life. The camera revolves around the woman ever closer as she remembers until we learn the truth of the events of her life.

The Lighthouse Stevensons

2011 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The story of the remarkable family who tamed the wild Scottish coastline, told 200 years after the building of their first iconic lighthouse, the Bell Rock. For nearly 150 years, Robert Stevenson, his sons and grandsons designed many of the lighthouses around Scotland's coast. His sons Alan, David and Thomas also became lighthouse engineers. His grandsons (David's sons) David Alan Stevenson and Charles Stevenson designed lighthouses too.

You & Me

2011 • 45 min • Japan

Nakamura Aoi stars as a young aspiring manga artist who's able to deal with loneliness and separation from his family through the companionship of an American Shorthair cat named Gin-o-gou.

Dreaming Novelist

2011 • 40 min • Japan

Tatsuo is an aspiring mystery writer with no talent. His new manuscript ends up in a garbage bin. On the same night, a high school girl appears before him claiming she is the protagonist of his novel and that she has come to save it.

Heart of Gold

2011 • 3 min

Heart of Gold is Jack Kyser's fourth film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha.

Alexis Ivanovitch, You're My Hero

2011 • 20 min • France

Alex and Cerise love each other with a happy love. One afternoon, Alex is attacked in front of Cerise and fear prevents him from reacting. While Cerise makes this story a simple anecdote, Alex saw it as a real humiliation.

Shadow of a Midsummer Night

2011 • 17 min • Norway

A gentle and beautifully made story about a boy's grief and acceptance, and finding a way back.

Lonely Dogs

2011 • 7 min

Life on an offshore oil drilling rig is becoming a burden for one of the riggers, who feels lonely and is frequently visited by a lone black dog that appears from nowhere.

Aurora

2011 • 20 min • Brazil

A very old lady waits for her son to arrive so that she can get out of sight.

The Promise

2011 • 9 min • Mexico

Are robots really different from us if they learn our ways? The Promise is a short film that looks at the future reality of a world in which those things created by man are a step to be confused with us.

Bermula dari A

2011 • 15 min • Indonesia

The girl lends her lips to the boy who lends her a pair of eyes. Her lips become his voice as his eyes become her sight.

I Could Live in Hope

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

A looped video installation shot in Seattle in fall 2010. A disembodied and seemingly innocuous conversation between a man and a woman acts as an exploration into the themes of ennui versus action, family versus individual, and how much your environment—both landscapes and people, both tangible and intangible—can affect the choices you make.

8:46

2011 • 50 min • United States of America

A glimpse into the lives of an ensemble of characters leading up to the moment the world changed forever - 8:46 a.m. Tuesday September 11, 2001.

Treasure Hunting

2011 • 9 min • Japan

The film is an adaptation of a picture book by Rieko Nakagawa and Yuriko Yamawaki, with illustrations by Yuriko Omura. In the story, a boy named Yuuji and a rabbit named Gikku find a stick at the same time, and decide to compete in games to decide who can keep the stick. However, whether it is a foot race, long jump, or sumo wrestling, they always end up in a tie.

Charlie Louvin: Still Rattlin' the Devil's Cage

2011 • 48 min • United States of America

Fifty years later, and he's still rattlin' the Devil's cage. Charlie Louvin can walk through a crowded mall and not attract attention. But it shouldn't be that way; the humble 83-year-old musician in the cowboy hat and jeans is a true American hero. To start, 50 years ago he and his brother recorded "Satan is Real," an album that shook up the music business. And the life he lived thereafter was pretty radical, too, from his military service to his country to his 61-year marriage to his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry. On Friday, December 3, 2010 at the fooBAR in Nashville, we caught Charlie Louvin on stage, making music for his fans, celebrating the anniversary of that famous album. And we filmed the night for history's sake. This is the tribute he so richly deserves.

Stay With Me

2011 • 13 min

She thinks he is cheating. In reality he is not, he is in love with his partner. She suffers from sleepwalking... he tries to create a comfortable atmosphere, tries to protect her and prevent harm. She does not remember anything from the night. During the day they are like two strangers, they argue and avoid each other. In the last scene, she reacts annoyed at the touch of his hand... but he remains there still, unmoved, saying nothing and accepting.

Caught

2011 • 14 min • United States of America

Short drama based on the true police crackdown on homosexual behavior in a public park restroom in 1962, utilizing hidden 8mm cameras.

Henge

2011 • 54 min • Japan

A young couple's lives take a turn for the worse after a mysterious attack on the husband leaves him suffering from some bizarre after effects.