All Films

God Will Fall

2014 • 37 min

Horror short

If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat

2014 • 10 min • United States of America

"If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat" is an intimate meditation on the subversive nature of goats and their effect on the people who spend time with them. Centered on the story of the legendary Goat Man - a nomadic figure who spent most of his life walking the roads of Georgia with a wagon pulled by a herd of goats - this experimental documentary weaves together an interview with a goat farmer, footage of the daily rituals Johnson enacted with her own herd, and a poem about the Goat Man’s experimental and spectacular life.

Sailor Fight!

2014 • 57 min

Sailor Fight! picks up several years later after the disappearance of the original Sailor Fighter and takes a bit more dramatic tone, following two new Sailor Fighters with clashing ideologies about the new wave of kaiju.

Soon Jo

2014 • 5 min

I would like to see the past and the present overlapping. What will the outcome be?

Elena

2014 • 17 min

Elena, a Polish teenage girl living in Belgium, has to go with her parents to the family planning center, so that she can translate for them. But what she thought to be a simple formality soon confronts her to the harsh side of adulthood.

Hai presente?

2014 • 1 min • Italy

Laura's face, in a moment of fleeting and eternal complicity.

The Wife outside the Barred Window

2014 • 6 min

After Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, his wife, Liu Xia, was placed under house arrest by the Chinese authorities. The film documents Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia's friends' repeated attempts to contact her by various means, as well as the friend's attempts to contact Liu Xia by hitting her outside her window with a red laser pointer.

On Noise: Aaron Dilloway

2014 • 3 min

A short documentary about the experimental musician behind Hanson Records. Aaron Dilloway (born 1976) is an American experimental musician. He is an improvisor and composer originally from Brighton, Michigan, who works with the manipulation of 8-track tape loops in combination with voice, tape delays and various organic and electronic sound sources. A founding member of the industrial noise group Wolf Eyes (1998 - 2005), Dilloway now resides in Oberlin, Ohio, where he runs Hanson Records and Mailorder.

Adam et Eve

2014 • 22 min

Adam had long been looking for his Eve. Eve, too, had long been looking for her Adam. Then they found each other. It's a beautiful story. Who can do without crazy love? On the second day of their honeymoon aboard a tall ship in the Mediterranean, tragedy struck. Adam and Eve obeyed only their own desires, against all reason.

Pour vos yeux bleus

2014 • 12 min • France

A woman meets a man in a Paris hotel room.

13 Submitted Ghost Videos That Cannot be Broadcast

2014 • 55 min • Japan

A collection of the most terrifying videos submitted and collected for over 20 years by 'Million Publishing'.

Winfried

2014 • 3 min • France

This film is a tribute to the last victim of the Berlin Wall. Winfried presents a stream of air filmed through polyethylene, the same material used in March 1989 by Winfried Freudenberg to cross the wall from East to West.

Terebide wa Nagasenai Geinō-kai no Kowai Hanashi

2014 • 51 min • Japan

A horror story at the limit of what can be banned! The book "Horror stories from the entertainment world that can't be played on TV" (published by TO Bunko), which sold over 200,000 copies in total, has finally been made into a movie!

Second Life

2014 • 21 min • Russia

Fascinated by a computer game that simulates the real world with unlimited possibilities, a young family man, an employee of an online store, gradually loses his sense of reality. Unsuited to family life, he makes a choice towards the flat world, creating in it an imaginary image of a man with a capital letter. Having made a bet on the virtual space, he does not notice how “orobotel". One day, coolly pressing “delete” on a folder with family photos, the only one that reminds him of reality, he finally plunges into the digital space and forgets about his loved ones...

Hitori Kakurenbo: Hide-and-Seek

2014 • 7 min • United States of America

Hitori Kakurenbo in Japanese refers to an urban legend ritual that is meant to summon a ghost or other spirit into ones home. As early as July 2007, descriptions of how to play One-Man Hide and Seek were posted on Japanese horror bulletin boards. The instructions tell the reader to fill a bathtub with stuffed animals, turn off all of the lights and chant ritualistic phrases while holding a knife. It asserted that people who had done this found that the toys had moved slightly and the television had turned on, blaring music. This is a story of a young woman playing this game, and the events that happened to her during the night. This chilling account of the supernatural, will keep the audience at the edge or their seats and have them wondering would they dare to play this game.

Sui Generis

2014 • 16 min

Rose, a single woman from the city, wakes up as 'Emily' in a picture-perfect home with a controlling husband and a creepy daughter. Psychologically sinister in the vein of "The Twilight Zone," "Sui Generis" asks whether a confined, medicated housewife has a past, or if her identity has been erased. And who - or what, is our final girl?

Himeko's Rocking Glitched Out "AMV" Thing Yeah!

2014 • 12 min

Experimental art short film

Notes from the Anthropocene

2014 • 14 min

Filmed in vibrant super 16mm color, and black and white film, Notes from the Anthropocene, is a sensory elegy to the dinosaur. The dinosaur icon shifts from narratives of extinction, to human exceptionalism, and power. Its materiality whether fossil or plastic toy has, through popular culture, become entrenched in the imaginary of oil extraction and fossil fuel production. Notes from the Anthropocene is a speculative iconological look at the dinosaur, delivered by an imagined museum guide who ponders our symbolic relationship to an increasing ambivalence towards the natural world. The mythic dinosaurs that emerge resist domestication and seek to transcend fantasies of human dominion.

Onnen Haikyo Vol.4

2014 • 60 min • Japan

The kitchen, dance hall, dressing room, open-air bath, rest room, dining room, and detached workshop, all overlooking the village on a bare cliff, still haunting. To get to the entrance, you have to follow a mountain path as if you were climbing a mountain; such a place still existed in Japan. The amount of yokai that wafts from the screen is so overwhelming that one cannot take one's eyes off the screen.

Onnen Haikyo Vol.2

2014 • 60 min • Japan

A pachinko parlor that went bankrupt after being set on fire by a housewife who frequented the parlor after greedy management, a message that suddenly arrived at a decapitation site in the old days when there was no signal coverage.

Yehu Yaron - The Self Deception Artist

2014 • 49 min

A cabaret -documentary following the unique off-beat Israeli musician Yehu Yaron, On his way to his second album . His songs deal with his Illness, Love and Birth- everything he wouldn't talk about in real life. in the process of making the album his pains and doubts will transform into honest and powerful songs. An intimate portrait of an artist whose personal life invade his musical creation process.

Mario

2014 • 3 min • Netherlands, United States of America

A macabre Italian children’s song tells the story of Mario, a soldier who returns from war and must learn that his girlfriend has left him for another man. Mario decides to kill her. The film picks up on the ambivalent mood of the song and reinforces its vibration in the space between blithe children’s game and brutal murder.

Monster Panic! UMA ZONE: Unidentified Creature Hunter

2014 • 60 min • Japan

An omnibus horror film about urban legend monsters and unidentified UMAs. Included are stories about creepy UMA monsters such as Tsuchinoko, Mr. Mike from the karaoke box, Miami Zombie...

The Monkey's Paw

2014 • 32 min • United States of America

"The Monkey's Paw", a short story by W.W. Jacobs is acted out by local talents in WSKG's studio for this 2013 Expressions Halloween Special. The story tells of a family who didn't realize that their wishes could have unintended consequences. The actors are from Southern Tier Actors Read (S.T.A.R).