All Films

The Lost Mariner

2014 • 6 min • Netherlands

What sort of self is left when you've lost the greater part of your past, and your moorings in time?

Le Pont des soupirs

2014 • 8 min

Short film included in the film "Les ponts de Sarajevo"

Disappear

2014 • 4 min • New Zealand

A man must choose to step out of his social and corporate paradigms, to pursue a dream he has kept locked away in his wardrobe for far too long.

The Blueprint: The Story of Adventist Education

2014 • 57 min

The BLUEPRINT is a collection of short features about students and teachers who form an extraordinary network of schools operated by Seventh-day Adventists. From the streets of the Bronx, New York, to an Indian reservation in Arizona – from a riverboat that a century ago dared to teach newly-freed slaves to a modern day oudoor classroom in the Rocky Mountains – each story shows how the “whole child” approach to education – teaching body, mind and spirit – is transforming lives.

Cierre a Blancas

2014 • 52 min • Mexico

The film is the story of Richard and his gambling problem. Addiction is the theme of the film, the compulsion to win and escape from his reality are the key elements of the story. What begins as an innocent game of dominoes has become the worst hand of Ricardo's life! How far can a player go when the addiction for one more game is the only thing in his mind? In one night, Ricardo will have the game of his life. Literally he can win or lose it all! How can a compulsive gambler stop if he is not aware of his passion-addiction? Even when his whole life is seen falling in front of him?

Abject Noise

2014 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Dissolving the usual boundaries of framing and structure, this is an extended format film, asking the viewer to see what isn’t in view and to hear the shape of things.

Ejercicios del primer campos

2014 • 11 min • Argentina

Short film by Martin Emilio Campos

Ant's Songs

2014 • 13 min

Dramatic story of a man and a woman that had a short but passionate love story.

The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help

2014 • 42 min

This inspiring movie introduces the Life of Adele Brise and the History of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, in Northeastern Wisconsin, the first and only Marian shrine in the United States that is on the site of an approved apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Larimar

2014 • 6 min

A young girl explores a luminous beach as a mysterious voice pushes reality deeper into sublime abstraction. The film reveals the simultaneity of stillness and change in the sea, ultimately transforming into a hypnotic search for our lost Edenic origins.

The Invention of the Desert

2014 • 7 min

Humans have been our parents, our shepherds, and finally our obsolete children. Who are we?

Mischa

2014 • 12 min

Mischa is going to be one of the first Russian cosmonauts in space. These are his final moments and these memories are his. Today is the day Mischa will be launched into space, today is the day he finally can make his father proud.

put the goat in the goat boat

2014 • 17 min • United Kingdom

“Let’s think of nature as a big room. Nature is a room you know you’ll have to leave some day, most likely not by choice”. Heather Phillipson’s hallucinatory video put the goat in the goat boat explores endless declinations of nature—natural, naturing, finding a better nature, the nature construction, nature on loan, nature’s lack of nudity...—while revealing humanity’s ambiguous relationship to it.

Melting Rainbow Heart

2014 • 5 min

A feedback driven experimental digital animation by Andrew Benson.

Infect me not

2014 • 6 min

Lovestruck co-workers Whit and Laurel long for human connection in an ultra-sterile, germaphobic society where physical contact is forbidden.

Cannibal Mécanique

2014 • 18 min • United States of America

Cannibal Mécanique is a marriage of analog electronic sound, analog video feedback and signal generation, and choreography. The composition is a synthesis of analog electronic systems, recording processes, choreography, and the unique (energy) exchange between man and machine in an active magnetic field. The controlled room is outfitted with: 9 color surveillance cameras, 9 crt monitors, chroma blue carpeted interior, signal generator, 9 channel switch, micro timer, and video mixer. The performance is recorded live and simultaneously played back on a 9 monitor wall. The performance is being mixed live through 9 camera channels at both aerial and eye level.

The Lindsay Lohan Experience

2014 • 10 min

Composed of images of the actress Lindsay Lohan being photographed by paparazzi, the work builds a visual experience of flashes, lights and pixels.

On The Evening

2014 • 7 min

On The Evening portrays boundaries between the visible and invisible. Sounds and images describe an anxious landscape of historical borders. The sky and sea are riddled with clues, and a text conversation reveals a foggy future through an altered state of consciousness.

Over Fractured Water

2014 • 5 min

Over Fractured Water is a retelling of an industrial narrative through textures, movements and sounds. Legend swells in a hard to identify location. The materials and words mix up the narrative of land extraction, leaving a workforce numb and petrified.

Colorama

2014 • 12 min

Colorama is a love story, where the image and bodies embrace and tell their stories.

Bolero para Surfear en Moravia

2014 • 35 min

A trip to give a serenade: what begins as a memorable gathering of old friends among music and beautiful landscapes, derives into a crossroad where paths can only be taken alone, without company. A bitter comedy in which the spirit of the Caribbean permeates the membranes of Czech Culture.

Banquet of Love

2014 • 7 min • Japan

Insects in their final moments chatter noisily, displaying extravagant colors and patterns – it is their great feast of love. The work celebrates the 100th anniversary of Norman McLaren’s birth. The film was made by scratching and painting directly on overexposed 8mm film. The soundtrack was created using ‘The Octopus’, which allows the film itself acts as a score.

Auto-repair

2014 • 6 min • Japan

Based on a found West German super 8 film, circa the 1970s, this digital trace from the twilight of a more tactile, mechanical era was created using a hand-cranked 8mm projector. Transmitted via this juxtaposition of contemporary and obsolete technology, the mundane events in the film seem more distant in time than the 40 years since they were photographed, inviting reflection on recent tectonic shifts in human technology and culture.

La Main Seule

2014 • 3 min • Germany, Italy

"In a gesture that reminds one of the first forms of painting (...) the possibility of an encounter with time is disclosed. It is a very different kind of knowledge then, that can disclose hidden narratives to us.” (Cecilia Canziani)