All Films

Market shoppers use all of their senses when trying to ascertain whether the groceries are local or imported. The privileging of local produce over imported goods is ever present regardless of whether or not the groceries actually are better, this follows to lines of argument – that by buying Croatian produce they are supporting Croatian agriculture and that domestic produce is familiar and tastier, although it is not the origin of the goods but the method of its production that counts. They rather chose to buy local goods simply because it is "our" , Croatian, local produce, and not some foreign, unfamiliar and alien foodstuff which is therefore deemed of lesser quality.

What happens when a port crane and a cute giraffe fell in love with each other?

Set in the flooded ruins of a dystopian East London, POLLY II: PLAN FOR A REVOLUTION IN DOCKLANDS draws on references to soap opera, science fiction, satire and Brechtian ‘Lehrstueck’. It alludes to Polly, 1728, John Gay’s censored sequel to the popular Beggar’s Opera, 1727, which resurrected the character of the robber Macheath in the disguise of the African pirate captain Morano, scheming to take revenge on a colony in the West Indies, and is populated by many of the characters made popular by Gay and Brecht. The film features the naïve and incorruptible Polly, the vengeful whore Jenny Diver, and the treacherous and greedy Peachum – fencer, thief-taker and king of the beggars – and portrays them surviving in a lawless zone, set to be redeveloped into luxury waterside living, as a comment on the social struggles against gentrification and privatisation.

Clear Blue Sky is the study of movements, colors, shapes and their relation to sound. Visual effects are created through, not a lens, but an adjustable slit, which was attached in front of the image sensor chip of a DV camcorder, while shooting at Washington Square, San Francisco.

A circular short film on violence, using long takes and dead time.

Zacarias poisons his friends while inviting them for dinner. He is willing to give them an antidote if they tell him their most intimate secrets. All the while two cameramen are filming the whole thing as a "Reality Show".

The current situation of the organ grinders in Mexico who have lost their former splendor. They have to adapt to an indifferent and noisy city.

A short film by Sky Hirschkron featuring Japanese exchange students in New York.

The life and work of painter Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923-2006), one of the most important artists of the portuguese surrealist movement, both in literature and the visual arts. Includes statements from the artist, his friends, and scholars of his artistic oeuvre. A documentary originally exhibited on the day of his death at the age of 83.

In November 2001, the fire of the war forced thousands of Afghan people to leave their homes and move up to the islands of the Panj River, which border Afghanistan and Tajikistan. This film is a beautifully pictured short story about these Afghan refugees who belong to different nationalities and social groups. They are all trying to keep their humanity in an inhumane situation by doing the best they can do.

A little girl's marbles lead to a fascinating journey and opens up lots of new perspectives on the everyday surroundings.

A man returns home after a long journey. The curtains in the open windows flutter in the breeze. His wife sleeps. And he recognises nothing of what was once so familiar. Stretching the boundaries of poetry, science-fiction and documentary film, and with Chris Marker and Andrei Tarkovsky firmed lodged in his mind, he wanders through the remains of an Aral Sea in the throes of draught, metaphor for a landscape, a world and a country which no longer exist.

Across China, the filmmaker searches and finds survivors of Bound Feet - China's 1000 year old tradition of erotic beauty and female survival. Through the exclusive portrayal of 12 women of a bygone era,film reveals the dark secret of the Chinese civilization and women's changing destiny in a society once, and perhaps still, dominated by men.

A waitress has just written a novel and decides that she will get it published, but it may be easier said than done.

Alvas parkett is a short film tale with a real touch. Alva lives with her mom and little brother. Grandmother is often on visit. Mom and grandmother have their own well-worked jargon. They just can't understand Alva's way of living.

A film based on an autobiographical prose of the famous Russian poet - Marina Cvetaeva.

The documentary about Zhu Xiaoguang, a man came to Beijing with the dream of being a director, he used his DV to record all these happiness and sadness in Beijing...

The documentary deals with the injustice and negligence of the Mexican authority. All this is shown through the people who have been victims of this situation. The film shows CIDE statistics that will leave the viewer impacted and give a broader view of the reality surrounding the Mexican justice system. Also, you can see different points of view of experts who comment on the subject, and even provide a solution. Most agree that the system is retrograde and needs to be updated, as was the case in Chile, which is currently governed by a different justice system and applies oral trial.

Experimental animation short from Poland.

The rule of the universe: the tree should be planted for to be grown; the snow should be cleaned for the spring to come; for finding something new, the old one is to be lost. Sarah, a 6-year-old girl, thinks so. It seems to be true.

This motion portrait of P.R. Miller is a journey into the mind of an eccentric, outcast scavenger, known around Akron, Ohio as "the junkyard artist." Hailing from a little place called Mars, he was raised on a scrap yard where they used to burn autos. According to Miller, Mars, PA had one of the highest rates of brain disorders in the country. Miller, himself, was once thought to have been retarded, but it turned out to be ADHD. He has been inundated with toxicity his whole life, not unlike Mother Earth herself. Miller is convinced that the Earth will one day rid herself of the human vermin that is destroying her. When put on trial, P.R. Miller stood up for his right to make art on his own property. All this "visual bubblegum" is a backdrop for Miller to rant and rave about how the American value system is based on the worship of money, and how the culture of consumerism and waste will lead to the final demise of humans.

Rosa is an alcoholic who is left alone with her shattered lonely life.

This DVD contains at 45 minute performance during which Cinemechanica plays the entire soundtrack to Mega Man II while the game is beaten by a player.

Imagine that you are many years ahead in the future. In a world where games are indistinguishable from reality.