All Films

Lullabies

2014 • 30 min • Dominican Republic, United States of America

Lullabies is a false autobiography. A game that sometimes is blue or has no color. A story that, as Dominican conversations, won't finish its ideas and finds in onomatopoeias conclusions to its thoughts. A tale about a glance, a space, an action, or a love, but that definitely belongs to the boy that appears and disappears in the abstraction of a childhood memory.

Abel

2014 • 19 min

Abandoned at birth, Abel, travels to a church in search of his real mother. Upon arrival he is taken in by the compassionate pastor, James, who is curious about the young man. As their relationship develops, an unexpected love affair sparks between the two men, much to the dismay of James' associate Silvia, who's beliefs lay in firm Christian traditions, despite the current shift in views on homosexuality. Ultimately it is her who has to deal with acceptance when she learns the truth about Abel.

Stories Houses Tell

2014 • 4 min

Four Winnipeg houses as documented by reporter Lillian Gibbons, with illustrations by Arlene Osen.

Stretch and Pull

2014 • 3 min

End Reel

2014 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Convolves the aberrations found within two image-making technologies; film and video, which here combine to produce a heap of dichotomies and forensic textures of process, like human imprints in sand.

Guilty of Being a Woman

2014 • 49 min

In Brest, Marie is a woman beaten by her husband fisherman Stephan. While embarking on a trawler during 3 months, Marie suddenly finds Solenn. She slowly helps Marie to regain confidence. The complicity that the two women had is reborn and escapes them is a subtle torment.

Measure

2014 • 8 min • Switzerland

"Measure" is part of an emerging body of work, which reflects on concepts of nature in the 21st century. As nature filtered through digital communications channels becomes the new norm, the boundaries start to blur between mediated and physical experience. Hentschläger’s work probes the question whether “nature” and the concept of the “original” can still culturally exist in the Anthropocene, in this age of human influence. What exactly is real, in the sense of the pure and original, and what is to be understood as constructed and artificial? Measure has been commissioned by Audemars Piguet.

HiFi Normal

2014 • 8 min

A telecommunications tower in the centre of Moncton has become almost useless, standing alone in the middle of this otherwise flat city. A looping image of this landmark gradually decays until it is replaced completely with abstraction. Opting for the repurposing of technology instead of declaring its obsolescence, modified VHS decks and a simple handmade DIY video switcher were used to create this work.

Anorexic

2014 • 18 min

Short film by Shi Qing.

Unfortunate Brothers: Korea's Reunification Dilemma

2014 • 46 min

One people, worlds apart: can the two Koreas ever be reunified?

Thokozani Football Club: Team Spirit

2014 • 22 min • South Africa

The story of a women's football team, the Thokozani Football Club, which isn't quite like the others. The film follows the players on the clay grounds of Umlazi township, during matches in Durban, and in their daily lives. As a team, they have chosen to fight lesbophobia and to share, on the field, the joy of being visible.

We don’t go home

2014 • 43 min • Japan

“The Earth with be obliterated in 2012”. “That sucks”. A man carrying a black lump. A screaming male high-school student. A prophet. A throng of children. Sound that sticks out of the shot, sound that comes in, sequencing and cutting off of images, and editing that undermines the independence of the shot make explicit the uncertainty of “now/here”.

Paych

2014 • 24 min

Johnny Wilson's video

Black Star Riders - Live at Wacken Open Air 2014

2014 • 40 min • Germany

Black Star Riders, founded by members of the legendary Thin Lizzy, played Wacken after having released their debut album "All Hell Breaks Loose". Be sure, the boys are back in town!

The Hidden God

2014 • 6 min

A reworking of the BBC television programme The Hidden God: Alain Robbe-Grillet using methods appropriated from Pasolini’s trailer for his 1969 film Medea. Made as part of the Artists' Moving Image at the BBC series.

Crazy Paving

2014 • 17 min

Crazy Paving is a philosophical journey into human understanding, exploring how we derive and construct meaning from objects, belief systems and the culture that surrounds us. It attempts to find meaning though connecting such diverse phenomena as art, the placebo effect and spoon bending. As part of the Artists' Moving Image at the BBC series.

Montañita

2014 • 15 min

This room which no longer exists, was the one i share with my girl cousins...

America's Secret D-Day Disaster

2014 • 52 min • United States of America

6 weeks before D-Day, British, American, and Canadian soldiers took part in a dangerous rehearsal for the Normandy invasion which claimed more American lives than the attack on Utah Beach. So what happened? How many Americans died? And who is to blame?

Silent River

2014 • 25 min • Mexico, United States of America

Since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement 20 years ago, international companies have used the Santiago River as their own “waste canal.” This documentary follows a young woman and her family as they try to save one of the most polluted rivers in Mexico.

Quiet, Please

2014 • 27 min

Join us for a beyond-epic journey through the full spectrum that is the current state of wakeboarding. With the most diverse and talented cast of riders ever put together in a feature film, Quiet, Please will be a feast for the eyes. A culmination of creativity, raw talent and general ridiculousness, this film will showcase the technical and stylish aspects of the sport alongside the pure enjoyment that goes with riding a wakeboard on the water. With an all-star cast of wake’s hottest commodities, this film will knock your socks off, blow your mind and melt your face.

Maelstrom

2014 • 2 min

Cinematic memories of long-forgotten arrivals and departures ‘projected’ onto mysterious upwellings and whirlpools to conjure the confluence of histories at Devil’s Point, the rocky promontory on the westernmost edge of Plymouth, where the swirling waters of the River Tamar pour through the narrow gap between Devon and Cornwall to meet the salty tides of Plymouth Sound, its topography producing riptides, strange turbulent waters and unique meteorological conditions.

Billy

2014 • 13 min • South Korea

Se-jin attends an audition to take part in a go-go-boys show. He needs money to pay for his studies and it is just business as usual for him. But Billy does not know that he has to change, to become another person to attract a lot of clients. For every initiation there is a price to pay, which everyone considers normal.

Parable About the Lame Sheep

2014 • 40 min • Russia

A paradoxical personality, former police captain Magomed Shamilov is a hero, a sage and a devout Muslim. 16 years ago, he created an Independent trade union of Police and Prosecutor's Office workers in Dagestan to fight cronyism, terrorism, corruption in the "hottest" region of Russia, and he is surprised that he is still alive. Don Quixote is immortal.

Badfotomix

2014 • 1 min

Experimental short film consisting of only still images.