All Films

Untitled (Horse)

2014 • 4 min • United States of America

A symbiotic collaboration in movie motion. After Muybridge.

Stabbing

2014 • 27 min

Meriläinen’s contribution to this video program is the most metaphoric representation of ideas around the human body as object. It focuses on slabs of tactile geletin, which is repeatedly stabbed with a serrated knife. This slow motion violence is arguably a reinterpretation of ideas around the body in sculpture in for example early surrealist works by Giacometti. The fleshy pink tones of the work emphasise the human aspect of the material. Here the inanimate becomes anthropomorphic.

The Elusive Horizon

2014 • 11 min

The horizons of trembling film landscapes, captured on expired Soviet film, long out of production, developed by hand, break through the closed spaces of the city, reminding of the lost phenomenon of natural borders. For a short time, a person becomes, literally, the bearer of image and sound - he is given power over space, which usually oppresses him. For a while, he can turn it into something new or remind you of something long forgotten, elusive.

Good Bye Charlie

2014 • 4 min

Two best friends run into some trouble that causes a rift in their relationship. Jealousy can come between people and ruin friendships. These two are determined to sort out their issues and stick together, even if the odds are against them.

Tennessee Adventure

2014 • 24 min • United States of America

A diverse group of friends meet up at a cabin in Tennessee to party. Antics ensue.

One Day in June

2014 • 8 min • China

One day in June, a man appeared on the scene. He went on a blind date with a woman and a woman's man, yet for the meal, he used the carrots that his wife asked him to buy in the morning. He had nothing to do, wandering in romance and the opposite of romance, wandering between the authenticity and vanity of life, until, he made a decision: revitalize China.

Homecoming

2014 • 37 min

In a city that worships money, there is a group of people who still insist on living the philosophy of "people are not living on food alone." Instead of choosing to live in seclusion, they choose to actively enter the world, improve their hearts, and influence others through artistic creation. Their innovation has not only driven the art world in Hong Kong but more importantly, through their enthusiasm for creation, they have made us understand that as long as we have a "heart", no matter how difficult the environment is, we can persist in a "love".

I Am the Mouth II

2014 • 6 min

I Am the Mouth II features a pair of disembodied lips that are half-submerged in water, whispering seductively about the mechanisms by which words, in the form of sound waves, make their way through various materials including the viewer’s own body. The steady tone of the voice emanating from the lips hypnotizes the listener, revealing the subliminal influence artists have on their audiences.

Emma má mámu

2014 • 14 min

The Best Halloween Ever

2014 • 5 min

A night of festivities, horror, and murder takes an unexpected turn as two serial killers prepare for the best night of the year.

Free Indeed: The Phil Thatcher Story

2014 • 55 min

Phil Thatcher, one of California's most notorious criminals during the 1920s, returns home to his small town and finds redemption for his crimes.

Midnight of Taxi

2014 • 9 min

Tentenko's Sealed Video: 1

2014 • 29 min • Japan

Short documentary of Tentenko exploring abandoned and haunted places with a few friends.

Genocide in the Ixil Triangle

2014 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala was consumed by conflict between an increasingly militarized state and a widespread rural insurgency. The state's counterinsurgency efforts peaked in the late 1970s, when security forces pursued guerrillas into the country's highlands. According to a 1999 report by Guatemala's Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), a UN-backed body established toward the end of the conflict, more than 200,000 people were killed or disappeared during more than three decades of violence. FA was commissioned by a Guatemalan NGO, the Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH), to support its efforts to gather evidence for the trial of the country's former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, whose brief military regime lasted from March 1982 to August 1983, and senior members of his security apparatus. Montt would eventually be convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Streamline

2014 • 11 min

A man haunted by traumatic memories must confront his past while eluding mysterious pursuers.

La Ripaille

2014 • 12 min • Canada

Happy Fiesta

2014 • 9 min

A Western man in black pays local hospitals nightly visits, carrying an ice bucket. Later revealed as a member of an International organ-trading association, he seduces women into spending nights with him with his ulterior motive. This night, however, he meets a mysterious woman who proves to be his match.

A Step Too Far

2014 • 18 min • United States of America

Michael was planning his day, no differently than any other. As he slowly begins to deviate from his plan, he notices things being to become strange. As he continues down his path, he realizes that he might not be able to turn back, and tries to find a way out.

Blanco

2014 • 60 min • Dominican Republic

The daily life and human side of six albinos at different ages and stages in life, who have more in common than just their physical condition. They are uninformed about the symptoms related to albinism, and as a result these people resume their lives with normalcy despite their appearance, visual impairment and inevitable changes their skin undergoes due to the sun.

Something Sinister

2014 • 35 min

A Sony VX1000 picture by Tommy Zhao.

1989: Last Hero

2014 • 20 min • Italy

Every good story has its hero. And every story doesn't come out from nothing, but from the sparkle of another story.

Le Pharaon à Lyon

2014 • 51 min

Le Pharaon à Lyon is an episode of the Carnets filmés which takes place in France: in the Champ du Feu in the Vosges mountains, in Strasbourg, in Montreuil-sous-Bois, in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris, in Burzet (where I film, for the 22nd time, the Good Friday ceremony), in the snows of the Vivarais and Bugey regions and in Lyon where, with Philippe Djivas, Joseph Morder, Stéphane Collin, Nicolas Cornut, Frank Richard and Kathy Sebbah, I am scouting for the project of a series, entitled Le Pharaon.

Honto ni Atta Noroi no Eizo: Yami

2014 • 52 min • Japan

Second installment in the "Honto ni Atta Noroi no Eizo" series.

One In The Dark

2014 • 11 min • United States of America

A film about loneliness and isolation and how some times the hardest part of life is having the courage to truly live.