All Films

Do

2014 • 12 min

"Dominique ? Oh yeah, you mean Do. Great guy. Works with the homeless. Energy to burn. Don't know what he does with himself during the day, but . . . who cares, right? Do's a good guy. A good guy."

Stradivarius: Mysteries Of The Supreme Violin

2014 • 49 min

Around 600 Stradivarius-made violins still exist, but the secret of its unrivaled sound remains veiled in mystery. Join Karen Gomyo, a New York-based Stradivarius player, and performers, artisans, and scientists on a 300-year journey tracing the saga of this sublime instrument.

If Not,

2014 • 16 min

If Not is a meditation on love, inspired by If Not, Winter by Sappho, translated by Anne Carson. Filmed in Ephesus and Brooklyn.

La libertad de Hugo

2014 • 11 min • Mexico

Hugo needs to pee, but his family is fighting against each other. He tries to hold it, but chaos and stridency around won't let him. There, Hugo embarks on a journey in order to find his freedom, in which he'll realize that it isn't what he expected.

Botanicollage

2014 • 4 min

A collaborative film produced in a botanicollage workshop hosted by filmmaker Caryn Cline at Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM, on April 18, 2014. Susan Caffrey, Megan Tucker, Bill Basquin, Mary Broemel, Bart Hood, Leslie Chamberlin, Antoni Pinent, River Quane, and Shawn White.

In the Doghouse

2014 • 19 min

Leo is a loser and her life is chaos. Everyone knows it although she tries to hide it. So, when her mother has no other option but to leave her dog Jana under her charge, Leo sees the opportunity to demonstrate she can be responsible.

Things I Should Stop Thinking About Thinking

2014 • 1 min

A film about boobs, sex and boys being happy - or not.

Twirlinx

2014 • 3 min

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

Love to See

2014 • 4 min

A story of two people meeting and splitting up.

Blue and Red

2014 • 26 min

Blue and Red takes place in two different cities, weaving together sequences of night-time spectacles in the public spaces of Guangzhou (where Zhou lives) with footage of the 2013–14 Occupy Bangkok protests that took place while he was visiting the city. In both cities, Zhou concentrates on public spaces as collective experience, highlighting the areas and their occupants in washes of color, particularly the electric blue of LED light, which he contrasts with the surface of a third space, the toxic red run-off of a heavy metal mine in northern Guangdong province.

Gojira: Les Enfants Sauvages

2014 • 57 min • France

The French death metal band Gojira performes live with their album L'Enfant Sauvage in highlight.

Fruitcake

2014 • 33 min

Fruitcake is the story of an eccentric, lonely, mid 30s man, and his unorthodox search for relationships.

Dream Catchers

2014 • 6 min

Alice is having some reoccurring nightmare-problems. Nothing that a well placed Dream Catcher won't solve... or so she thinks! Created by the talented Gabriel Freire. For more information, please see the details and links below:

Boy

2014 • 2 min • Denmark

A story about two boys and a man who has to do something he doesn't want to.

Janaína Colorida Feito o Céu

2014 • 15 min • Brazil

The Showreel

2014 • 16 min

Nasreen is a cleaner, with dreams of movie stardom. Lacking the contacts to realize her ambition, she creates extravagant characters to play - zombie hunters, punk clubbers, high-powered corporate financiers - and imagines film crews are on every street corner and real people are just extras, and that all of life is just a film set. So equipped, she heads off on an adventure, with the most extraordinary results.

Abecedario / B

2014 • 5 min

A cinema shot. The relationship that a shoot-out has with the image becomes somewhat different; the celluloid no longer supports, at 24 frames per second, the representation of a shooting, either acted or documented, but the celluloid has now become the direct carrier, the affected, in the shot in each frame.

I've Just Had a Dream

2014 • 8 min

Two little girls from different backgrounds have a seemingly similar dream. However, one is a nightmare and the other is a beautiful dream. It all depends on your point of view.

Hitori

2014 • 12 min

In a universe made entirely of puppeteers, the puppet is always alone. Hitori is the story of a boy who is just trying to get back to where he came from. This new film from Heather Henson and Ninja Puppet Productions uses live action table top puppetry, computer compositing and body movement artist to bring a world composed entirely of human puppeteers to life.

Decommissioning Fukushima: The Battle to Contain Radioactivity

2014 • 43 min • Japan

TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is the site of one of history's worst nuclear disasters: the meltdown of three nuclear reactors. The decommissioning program in Japan learns from the Three Mile Island decommissioning in the US after the nuclear plant accident in 1976 in Pennsylvania.

The TE:RM - Opposing Putin (English subtitles)

2014 • 51 min

Recent history repeats itself as both tragedy and farce in this fly-on-the-Kremlin-wall documentary about the rising opposition movement in 2012 against Vladimir Putin’s rule in Russia.

Jutra

2014 • 13 min • Canada

Through the magic of editing and animation, Claude Jutra is seen in dialogue with himself at various stages of his life – becoming the spirited narrator of his own biography. Excerpts from family films, interviews, and clips from some of Jutra's well-known works are seamlessly intertwined with these sequences, forming a portrait of a man whose life was devoted to creativity. Jutra is simultaneously a homage, a love letter to cinema, and the dramatic story of a brilliant artist whose life was all-too-short.

I Can't Breathe

2014 • 4 min • Sweden

A woman takes a light bulb on a romantic dinner, a certain skeleton has family issues, and one girl has a very peculiar appetite.

Aquí nuestro presente parece suspendido

2014 • 4 min

During a tour of one of the rooms of the Museo Casa de la Memoria Indómita (Museum of Indomitable Memory), which displays documents, photographs, and objects related to forced disappearances during the dirty war in Mexico, we attend the audiovisual enunciation of a phrase, perhaps diffuse, that becomes less and less circumstantial. The dirty war never ended. Our present is closed, contracted by a plane-sequence in the middle of a Memory that we desire more and more untamed.