All Films

State of Emergence

2014 • 55 min

State of Emergence is a zombie movie without zombies. Society asks: Who is the enemy? From where does he attack? How do we distinguish him from one of our own, and how do we immunize ourselves against him? But it's too late for these questions. The illness that society feels victimized by has metastasized to an irreversible degree. It can't be cured with surgery, heavy medication, or even wholesale amputation. "Stability at all costs! No life-support machine is too expensive!" But the virus is becoming stronger than its host, and its hostility is irrepressible. Something's happening. Prepare yourselves. Call the Police! Call the Army! Stock up and wait for this whole thing to blow over. But soon it's inescapable - it's everywhere. "You are stronger than us, but soon I think, they'll be stronger than you." Maybe it's time to see how the other half lives.

She Left Before I Was Ready

2014 • 5 min

A film by Dani Restack

Ink

2014 • 20 min

A man takes the path of least resistance (and cost) in an attempt to turn his body into a work of art.

Art Basel: A Portrait

2014 • 27 min

This documentary charts the history of an annual art fair in Switzerland that has evolved into the world's most influential gathering of its kind.

MiMO

2014 • 2 min • Singapore

A wondrous, utterly engaging ballet of shapes, incredible creatures and pure, joyous animated movement.

D Is for Deloused

2014 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A segment from the feature film – ABC’s of Death 2. A condemned man attempts to win a second chance at life.

Pigs

2014 • 8 min • Malaysia, Singapore, United States of America

Iseng, a little boy with Down's syndrome, occupies himself by wandering about the pig-sty. His mother has lost her baby and is so wrapped up in grief she barely takes any notice of her son. A sick piglet gives Iseng an idea: in an attempt to comfort his mother and gain her attention he places the animal in the empty cradle. But when his mother discovers the piglet, it is already dead. Revolted by the sight, she initially rejects her son. But then she recognises Iseng’s need for love. Concentrating on looks and gestures rather than words and music – both of which are absent – this short film makes a silent appeal not to dwell on what is lost but to recognise and cherish life’s gifts.

Why Banana Snarls

2014 • 10 min • Russia

It is not much fun having to spend the whole day in a banana costume. But things take a turn for the worse for this poor chap when one day he wakes up to discover he has grown a long tail. At first he tries to get rid of it. But no matter what he tries – doctors, saws, healers – nothing seems to help. He cannot hide it either. It is just too long and it is always poking out. And so he just tries to live with his tail. But before long the poor guy hast lost his job, his friends, everything. Nobody wants him. But would it not be a pity if there were no place in this world for such a kind person who is just a little bit different? An inventively quirky animation laced with black humour that pokes fun at narrow-mindedness and intolerance.

Ed's Smulpaleis

2014 • 15 min

Ed is the owner of a supermarket on wheels. Ed is indispensable for many residents of Amsterdam North, not only because they buy their daily pack of shag or ice cream, but mainly because of the social aspects.

Emperor's Ghost Army

2014 • 54 min • United States of America

In central China, a vast underground mausoleum conceals a life-size terracotta army of cavalry, infantry, horses, chariots, weapons, administrators, acrobats, and musicians, all built to serve China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di, in the afterlife. Lost and forgotten for over 2,200 years, this clay army, 8,000-strong, stands poised to help the First Emperor rule again beyond the grave. NOVA tests the power of these weapons with high-action experiments and reports on revolutionary 3D computer modeling techniques that are revealing new insights into how the clay figures were made. The program reveals the secrets of one of archaeology's greatest discoveries and brings to life the startlingly sophisticated world of Qin's legendary empire.

Gan-Gan

2014 • 2 min • United Kingdom

My grandmother Elizabeth (or Gan-Gan as I called her) was a force of nature; she was wonderful. As a child she seemed to me like a visitor from another time or place. Her tiny terraced house in Bideford was full of treasures; hundreds of books, a medusa's head, Peter the Great's ivory letter opener, the caul of her mother tied up in blue ribbon, a tile stolen from the Alhambra, a silk blouse embroidered by nuns, deadly poison, beautiful Pre-Raphaelite artworks, a knife carved from the wood of HMS Victory, Granny Green's pince-nez, and diaries full of stories from a hard life well-lived. After her death in 2010, I helped my father and uncle sort through some of her possessions. I inherited some of her clothes to wear, books to read, a bicycle to ride. But how do you make sense of all the other things that someone leaves behind, the things nobody sees, boxes full of photographs, and bits of string?

Jandek: Kooken

2014 • 29 min • United States of America

From an episode of Hardly Sound, this is a documentary focuses on enigmatic underground Texas musician, Jandek as he weaves through a one-act play called "Kooken".

Reflexiones

2014 • 4 min

A Short film by J. F.

Speculum

2014 • 17 min

Speculum is a moving image sigil, an attempt at a rehabilitation of the present through the prism of the past. The work explores ancient theories of matter in which luminous emanation gives rise to physical form. Taking the form of seven stages or seven failed experiments, the film draws upon the works of early light philosophers Roger Bacon (1214-1292), Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) and John Dee (1527-1609).

Japanese Confusion

2014 • 34 min

Japanese Confusion contains 2 films.”Bloody Diapers”: a pregnant woman receives a giant candy cane in the mail and uses it for an abortion. “Cancer Sticks”: a bum builds his version of the statue of liberty.

Cross

2014 • 5 min • France

"Cross" is a course through the city. It is also an evocation of the crossroads of the city center of Le Havre, rebuilt in an orthogonal frame by Auguste Perret after the carpet bombing in September 1944.

Hunger for Sale

2014 • 55 min • France

Traveling from the US to India, France, Belgium, Niger and Ethiopia, Hunger for Sale looks at some of the key challenges in producing food for the future—and in feeding the planet's current population. As corporations rush in to stake their claims in the coming food "gold rush", this film asks whether depending on private industry, increasingly technological solutions and market forces to feed the world is really the most effective approach.

How Unexpected

2014 • 2 min

Every day the girl at the bus stop is somehow more prepared for the day then you.

Blue Line Chicago

2014 • 10 min • Australia

Architectural distortions of the second city.

Haunted House

2014 • 7 min

The re-animation via rotoscope of parts of Bud Fischers SLICK SLEUTHS (1928) into a loopform.

La Nuit Drouot

2014 • 15 min

Gazonto

2014 • 5 min

Gazonto, the fun new online video game -- bringing the Gaza war home to Hogtown! You can recreate the 2014 Israeli assault, bomb by bomb -- but hey, it's been remapped onto Toronto neighbourhoods! Blow up Kensington Market, Shaw-Givens School, Scarborough General Rehab Centre... and 5000 other T-dot targets.

Mother is God

2014 • 30 min

"Mother is God is a fragmented and personal film on different visions of reality. The film is built on conversations between me (the director) and God (my psychotic mum), whose face we never see in the film. We talk about her worlds; We encounter her flower language, we meet the devil’s birds and we learn how to marry the wind. The film turns into a declaration of love - to the crooked mind as well as to my mother." - Maria Bäck

1997 Forever

2014 • 43 min • Norway

1997 Forever is a snowboard odysse which has been 20 years in the making with music written specially for the 43 minutes of pure snowboard magic on screen.