All Films

Martyrs: Air

2014 • 7 min

Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) consists of four plasma screens, each showing a single figure who is progressively overwhelmed by the onslaught of a natural force. The experiences of the four individuals are orchestrated together to form a coherent whole. The overriding theme is martyrdom for deep-seated beliefs, with the physical suffering of the body made dramatically evident through the cardinal elements

Afripedia - Ghana

2014 • 29 min

Whether facing environmental issues head-on or inspiring people to reach for the power within themselves, art and music in Ghana are used as catalysts to move people to action and to show the world what it means to be African.

Static IV

2014 • 35 min

The Static series grand finale brings an overwhelming amount of talent from NYC to SF, Florida to London, and Paris to LA and wraps it all up with a series of cameos and surprises that will satisfy any fan of underground skateboarding. With a line-up including Aaron Herrington, Quim Cardona, Jake Johnson, Yonnie Cruz, Vivien Feil, Ben Gore, Jimmy Lannon, Kevin Tierney, Steve Brandi, Jahmal Willams and many more it is a perfect combination of styles and personalities that we're proud to have together under one project. And proud to offer as the final piece from the Static saga.

A nós dois, Babilônia!

2014 • 17 min • Brazil

Film-study about cities based on the free association of ideas, with two interpreters who wander through the center of Curitiba.

The Next Morning

2014 • 24 min • Iran

A woman wakes up to find that no one recognizes her, through the course of her day she starts to come to some shocking realizations

Métamorphoses du Papillon

2014 • 5 min

"Concluding with a citation of French cinematic pioneer Gaston Velle’s 1904 film of the same name, Ginard’s darkly celebratory film presents an impressionist vision of rebirth and transformation" (sfcinemateque.org)

Minoule

2014 • 4 min • France

Minoule is a mischievous cat. He lazily relaxes on the edge of the window, under the roof. In the distance, the song of a little canary in its cage opens his appetite. But the path that leads up to the prey turns out full of pitfalls.

Gypsy

2014 • 15 min

A young gay man named Jacob is fed up with this world. After meeting a gypsy on her way named Saraghina, she will decide to explore a new life free from bondage and will meet many people who will take her to explore twists and turns never imagined.

The Berlin Wall

2014 • 47 min

Documentary about the construction of the Berlin Wall. From 12 to 13 August 1961, West-East Berlin was secretly separated. We follow the course of this historical event hour by hour.

The Breeze

2014 • 16 min • Spain

During a normal summer afternoon, Júlia will meet a new group that will wake up in her the first teenage desire.

Summer '91

2014 • 20 min

A young woman and man each give their versions of a story together at a seaside resort on the Lebanese coast.

Un salut à Henri Langlois

2014 • 2 min • France

On the occasion of the Henri Langlois Centenary (2014), Agnès Varda recounts a memory.

Rapháború

2014 • 44 min • Hungary

A legendary hungarian documentary about the hungarian rap scene of the early 2010's

Bitcoin In Uganda - Empowering People

2014 • 5 min

This is a story about Ronald, from Kampala, Uganda. He receives Bitcoin from his family in the United States to support his education. One of the ways that people have adopted Bitcoin use is to send money to loved ones and family members overseas. Money that is sent or transferred to someone else is called a remittance. When remittances are sent via Bitcoin, this often saves both parties from high bank transfer costs or high fees from traditional money transfer services. Please watch this short documentary featuring Ronald and his family to see how remittances were sent through Bitcoin.

Aline Barros e Cia - Tim-Tim por Tim-Tim

2014 • 51 min

"Tim-Tim Por Tim-Tim" is the sixth children's studio album by singer Aline Barros, being the fourth released by the label MK Music, in 2014. It had musical production and arrangements by Ruben di Souza. The DVD version was released in October 2015.

Cathedral

2014 • 21 min • United States of America

The space around us. And sleeps again along the shoreline of day.

Magic Miles

2014 • 16 min

Let's go to the edge of town to catch our breaths.

El Niño

2014 • 19 min

One day in the Universe of the Child and Celia, his mother. How the decision to undertake a trip would transform their lives. Leaving their home, abandoning the person that they used to be or they could become. They are just 2 human beings in the immensity of creation. The future's uncertain and the complicity and sadness will transform into hope and melancholy.

Chirinos Decimas Animadas

2014 • 19 min • Venezuela

Chirinos Decimas Animadas is inspired by the life of José Leonardo Chirino, a free mestizo who led an insurrection in colonial Venezuela to establish a Republic and end slavery.

Fidelity

2014 • 12 min • Germany

Fidelity is a short film that follows the story of Charlie and Hugh, lovers who inevitably face the realities of HIV in the 1980s.

Return of the Black Death

2014 • 50 min

The black death had devastating effects in centuries past, but what actually caused it and how many lives did it take? The world has not seen a disease outbreak like it before or since. This film tells the story of skeletons recently unearthed in a long-lost plague cemetery beneath the streets of London. Was it the Bubonic Plague, or as scientists now suspect, an Ebola-like virus?

Mined Soil

2014 • 34 min • Germany, Portugal

The film-essay Mined Soil revisits the work of the Guinean agronomist Amílcar Cabral, who studied soil erosion in the Alentejo region of Portugal through the lens of his political engagement as a leader of the African Liberation Movement of the 1950s. This line of thought intertwines with documentation of an experimental gold mining site, now operated by a Canadian company located in the same Portuguese region once studied by Cabral. In Mined Soil, the voiceover dialouge explores the space, surface, and textures of the images presented, proposing past and present definitions of soil as a repository of memory, exploitation, crisis, and treasure.

O Ídolo Caído

2014 • 9 min

F.L.I.R. (Forward Looking Infra-Red)

2014 • 16 min

F.L.I.R. deals mainly with military imagery captured by AC-130s, BlackHawks and war drones during ordered missions on Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi territory. The sound material comes from the sensations and feelings of the soldiers responsible for carrying out these objectives. In this project, the aim is to poetically destroy this military aesthetic in such a way as to paradoxically place the viewer in a combat space so that he can feel its sensory depths.