All Films

Olaf's Quest

2014 • 60 min • United States of America

Olaf (Geoffrey Henderson) Is a clumsy dumb looking but yet generous kind childish young man who has a heart for everyone who is in need. In this occasion he has that kind of heart for a little girl who lost her teddy bear, with his promise Olaf gave her, he puts himself on a unusual journey more than he had anticipated on a quest only the purest of heard can accomplish.

forever MINAZUKI

2014 • 4 min • Japan

Short animation by Chinami Tanaguchi

Listed

2014 • 10 min

Seoungho Cho writes: "When I noticed some moments from my studio window in its prosaic reality, I started to make a 'List' of these accumulated moments of lights and colors in time suggesting a flow of unconsciousness. Ironically, throughout the seasons with endless changes of light and shadows, I became to numb to time. I have been in the midst of a meditation, which extended both through my visual and psychological plane."

United States of Drinking

2014 • 46 min

What a civilization imbibes can reveal a lot about who they are and the world that they live in. Those who built the pyramids preferred beer, and ancient Rome loved its wine, but what's the preferred alcoholic beverage in the US and what does it say about America? Join food writer Josh Ozersky on an illuminating journey as he makes moonshine, meets a microbrewery's chemist, visits an award-winning vineyard and samples the infinite possibilities of the cocktail bar, all in the name of science.

100 Million People Adrift The Ripples of China's Urban Upheaval

2014 • 49 min • Japan

In 2014, under the "new type of urbanization" plan, a nationwide urban village renovation program was rolled out, affecting about 100 million people. At the same time, the residency permit policy, which is seen as a transitional means of "household registration reform," began to be fully implemented, claiming that it would give migrant workers benefits almost equal to those enjoyed by the urban household population, but the migrant workers, who are supposed to be the beneficiaries, were not convinced. For them, the massive demolition and relocation have destroyed their only cheap living environment in the city, and the price they need to pay to "become a city dweller" is too high for them to afford, so they prefer to wander without a home.

Boding

2014 • 9 min • Cambodia

Kanitha Tith’s 2014 artist film Boding is an evocative portrait of Phnom Penh’s White Building, Cambodia’s first public housing project built for moderate-income residents during the early 1960s. Originally consisting of 468 apartments, the White Building (like the whole city that surrounds it) was abandoned during the Khmer Rouge regime rule in the 1970s. After their fall in 1979, the building fell into disrepair but was still a home for its original residents, artists, community educators and others who built a vibrant community there. Tith’s film is a patient walkthrough of the “boding” (as it is popularly called by locals) that allows the viewer an unhurried look at its corridors, surfaces and the manifestations of life inside and around it.

The Last Emperor of Mexico

2014 • 45 min • France, Germany, United States of America

In Austria, he was known as an art collector and idealist. In Mexico, he was a colonialist aggressor responsible for thousands of deaths. And in France, he lost an empire. But who was the real Archduke Maximilian? Join us as we examine the brief and contentious reign of the last emperor of Mexico, a complex and conflicted member of the powerful Habsburg family, from his royal childhood in Vienna to his alliance with Napoleon III, who wanted to expand his empire to the Western Hemisphere.

Late

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

Super 8mm film, color, silent 3 min.

Film digitalia, No. 15

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

This work is a study of the durative moment of montage between three bodies: the digital, the filmic and the human. It is a moment of confrontation between these three bodily apparatuses. It is about how they are constantly at odds with each other and yet, also in awe of each other. - looking and looking and trying to feel the others, become the others and destroy the others. How is it that they can be merged and become something beyond their separateness? How can they, together, become a fourth body?

Thomas Feldman

2014 • 9 min

Thomas Feldmann was a Frankfurt film-maker in his twenties. He was one of the first victims of AIDS in Frankfurt.In Germany he was the 5th person to be infected with the HIV-Virus. Nowadays he is known as one of the most influential film-makers in the German avantgarde and gay/queer film movement.

Straight Faced

2014 • 20 min

Nathan doesn't seem to fit in anywhere. He's just not meant to be a queer boy, so what is he to do? To bro, or not to bro? That is the question. Follow Nathan as he flips the script and plays it straight. Where will he end up? And with who? His life has no direction, and every move he makes is slowly turning into a series of tragic decisions. It won't be too long before someone is going to get hurt.

Square Religion

2014 • 3 min • Spain

The three-dimensional pixel is a complex unit of inert tangible matter with a nucleus and envelope, but which has evolved to grow its code in regularly and fractally repeating structures, spawning technological variety that extends to the edges of infinity.

Vide

2014 • 2 min • Spain

Video created with sunlight, mirrors and cut-outs… analogue lighting effects that convert non-being to all-being, light into image and message.

Green Light

2014 • 7 min

Sehun and Baekhyun, who are lovers, enjoy dating. However, Baekhyun wants sexual intercourse, but Sehun reluctantly promises to do it in 100 days due to repeated demands.

Turquoise Sky

2014 • 18 min

Two men meet at a shabby beer house after two years. Sang-min, who entered into a sham marriage, said that his wife was pregnant and that he would just drink a beer and go.

Popkamikaze

2014 • 16 min

Kami, an androgynous teenager, is persecuted and humiliated on the internet. With a camera in hand, he records the odd day of his birthday. Inspired by the real facts of teenagers who committed suicide for not feeling loved as they are, the short film dialogues in a contemporary way on topics such as homophobia, virtual bullying, transsexuality, and gender vs. sexual orientation.

She4me

2014 • 7 min

A short film where a lesbian marries her partner.

Le volet de ma chambre

2014 • 5 min • France

A film-poem that celebrates the morning sun, filtering through the shutters of my childhood bedroom. An appreciation for light and brightness (and a nod to filmmaker Paul Clipson).

2016 Sound Horizon 10th Anniversary Fan Club Event

2014 • 26 min

2016 Sound Horizon 10th Anniversary Fan Club Event , linked to Nein

Camanchaca, là où les corps crient

2014 • 14 min • Chile

In the north of Chile, Cachamanca is the name we give to the mist, rising up from the Pacific, which stumbles against the hills facing it.

Zauma

2014 • 16 min • Italy

The greek word “zauma” means the angst for the unpredictability of becoming. We often translate it into “wonder”, but this is an improper definition. To assert, like Aristotle did, that every knowledge and every technique come from the wonder is not enough. For Homer, zauma is Polyphemus eating the Odysseus’ comrades, that is to say that it means something more strong and negative than “wonder”. Homeric poems evoke an eerie monstrosity. As it has provoked the whole knowledge and philosophy, zauma is generally intended to be the anguished terror in front of world’s becoming. (E. Severino)

Dust Poetry

2014 • 9 min • Netherlands

Engrossing combination of 16mm frames with house dust collected by Nan Wang and film clips of insects and plants. The beauty of tiny, surplus materials digitally processed and edited into a hallucinogenic trip. Pulsating soundtrack based on insect and wind sounds.

Springhammer

2014 • 49 min • Canada, Japan

Springhammer is about Japanese blacksmiths who dedicate their lives to making culinary knives [it's also the actual mechanical tool used by the blacksmiths]. At the end of WWII, Japan was faced with a burdensome repurposing of many industries, and with military swords no longer in demand despite a tradition carried on since the samurai, the industry turned to the kitchen. Craftsmen, now applying ancient trade skills of the blade making to cookery, go largely unnoticed by their countrymen and have to find a new place in the world for their craft. Thankfully, the world seems to be starting to listen.

Baisers Nocturnes

2014 • 13 min

Probably the first film directed by Malak Mroueh.