All Films

In May 2003, around 30 women and children were murdered in the Ecuadorian jungle. The victims belonged to the Taromenani clan, an uncontacted indigenous group in Ecuador. The massacre was left in impunity and oblivion. This documentary explores the history of contact with the Huaorani decades ago, the death of Alejandro Labaka in 1987 and recent attacks on loggers in the area, to discover that these events are linked to the history of uncontacted peoples in Ecuador.

A short documentary about the veiled lives of balloon fetishists.

We knew in which direction to go and more or less where to arrive, although our itinerary would have undoubtedly had to vary according to the conditions at the time of the trip. We knew what time to leave. We knew that on this line, by definition of infinite dimension, there was a meaning to be found. We knew who to call on in case of need (Etienne-Jules Marey, Marcel Duchamp, Loïe Füller). The rest did not yet exist. A line serves as the basis for weaving a complex and unexpected relationship between film and dance, or between film and skin; between the body of the film, the essence of the movement and the sound environment it creates or which creates it; between magnetic field, sweat and ether technology. In search of today's magic, these trajectories are presented as tests between the chemical and the chimerical, full of abstraction but above all concretely present in the moment of their construction.

Continuing his performance-based documentary work, Michael V. Smith has created a confessional nude dance video. Invitation chronicles the artist’s relationship to his body, welcoming the audience to celebrate and bear witness.

What does it take to make the perfect trans lesbian interfaith Jewish wedding?

"Today, I Become a Man" is a 9-minute documentary about a man who tries to pass as a "real" drag king by pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man.

A goat with an appetite for life realises that time is dangerously delicious.

Fireflies and water in North Carolina. Music by Asher.

"Hello, My Name Is Herman" poignantly and humorously describes the relationship between a 91-year-old Jewish man, his lesbian granddaughter and her girlfriend. This ten-minute documentary explores intergenerational and interracial relationships, coming out, aging, and the process of accepting difference and love.

Russian puppet cartoon 2007, created at the studio "Pilot". Director Elena Chernova created it based on a Tatar folk tale. A similar story is found in the folklore of the Greeks, Kazakhs, Crimean Tatars, and Turkmens (among the Turkmens and Kazakhs, it is included in the cycle of jokes and fairy tales about Aldarkos, and among the Crimean Tatars, the main protagonist of the fairy tale in Mikhail Bulatov's retelling is Khoja Nasreddin.)

Short animation by Ryoji Yamada

We are all in a hurry to fulfil our dreams and reach our destination ahead of time. Then suddenly we find, that time has outpaced us leaving us behind stranded and clueless about the future. Is there a destination in life? Is there life beyond a destination?

Interviews were conducted over a seven year period with 670 people who were deported to Siberia as children in 1941. Fragments of their memories form a mosaic revealing their past experiences of losing fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters. Time heals, but nothing is forgotten and the stories must be told.

"What’s My Mother Fuckng Name" is a short video poem that explores the puzzling and often hazardous task of being human. The narrator moves through issues of sex work, queer and feminine identity, class, immigration, consumerism, global health and quality of life. The dense narration is juxtaposed against a voyeuristic, bird’s eye view of a female bondage model struggling to be free from the ropes that bind her. Originally shot on black and white Super 8 film, this four and a half minute video invites its audience to question ourselves and the world we live in.

A woman walks through a dangerous street at night. Is she able to identify where are the dangers or will her mind deceive her?

This documentary focuses on a little-known episode in the recent history of Uruguay: how hundreds of Uruguayan citizens took refuge in the Mexican embassy at the time of the military dictatorship. Between 1975 and 1976, Mexico was the only country whose embassy gave shelter to people persecuted by the regime, and this sparked off a difficult period in the relations between the two nations. We learn about conditions at the embassy at that time and how the fugitives lived. Sixteen of the men and women involved talk about what that period was like and the events that led up to this confrontation between the two countries. The documentary is also a homage to the Mexican ambassador, don Vicente Muñoz Arroyo.

Two uruguayan lawmakers Zelmar Michelini and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, were looking for a democratic outcame for Uruguay, governed by militars. Those lawmakers were part of an important movement that worked against the uruguayan dictatorship. Michelini and Guitérrez were tortured and ejecuted with Rosario Barredo and William Whitelaw, two members of the Tupamaros guerrilla. The crime was one of the first examples of the Condor Plan, that the dictatorships of South America coordinated to elminate all kind of political opponents.

We meet a group of rural worker and their families in the north of Uruguay, people who are struggling to continue their lives working on the land. Mandiyú is a group of small milk producers who are landless. In 2007 they finally ran out of patience waiting for an official ruling about a plot of land, and as there was no response from the Institute of Colonisation they occupied an unproductive space belonging to the Uruguayan state. This documentary tells the story of these workers and their families.

A frog daydreams of flying like a bird and starts trying different ways to achieve his goal.

A teenager pours over the obsessive notes he documented during his childhood. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Dallas International Film Festivals in 2007.

A Stranger Comes to Town reworks animations from the Department of Homeland Security, combining them with stories from the border, impressions from the online game, World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange.

The spirit of humanity is stronger than cultural differences when a little girl mistakes a Hasidic Jew for Santa Claus.

Lakshmi is a professional singer and dancer at funerals. Krishnaveni makes her living by burying and cremating unclaimed dead bodies from the rivers and streets. Sethuraku never went to school and instead took to the sea at an early age.

Concert film recorded from YUI's "Can't Buy My Love" national tour. This specific film is from YUI's last day of her national tour.