All Films

YembiYembi: Unto The Nations

2014 • 31 min

This 30-minute documentary tells the story of an American family's journey from a comfortable life in San Diego into groundbreaking missionary work with an isolated tribal group in Papua New Guinea. See how God used ordinary people to bring the Bible to the Yembi people.

Chosen Family

2014 • 21 min

Even with the increased visibility of LGBTQ+ struggles and individuals, many public spaces remain inherently unsafe for Queer People of Color (QPOC). For many people who experience oppression at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality, recent gains in legal rights do little to ensure that they are safe in the public sphere. The creation and maintenance of separate and private spaces for LGBTQ+ identified people is often a necessary tactic for survival. Chosen Family, highlights the story of 5 women identified people of color who create an intentional safe space in an attempt to foster community and build their 'Chosen Family'.

For a Young Filmmaker

2014 • 5 min

Sandra Davis' short film is an ode to a "reverence of moment and passion of place." Overlapping layers of voices (in French and English) accompany Davis' mesmerizing cinematographic technique, emphasizing light-infused qualities of the photographic frame. Reminiscence of her time spent in Paris as an au paire and her youth in Salinas join a chorus, mingling with an outdated record of French instructions and Catherine Denueve reading Rainer Maria Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet." - Stela Jelincic

White Morning

2014 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A beautiful yet brutal exploration of the power of childhood memory brought to life through animation and mixed media

Dad in Mum

2014 • 6 min

The middle of the night. Moans are heard behind the parents' door. Two young sisters are asking questions...

Sparrows and Snorkels

2014 • 15 min

Ivan meets Paolo, little Jonas meets Ida, another Jonas meets Sandra and Annina meets Jonas - in July, at a campsite by a river.

Stick It

2014 • 5 min

The single channel video STICK IT combines television footage of women's gymnastics with recordings of the artist attempting the same routines. Merging himself and the young gymnasts of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta into one composite character, he enters an ambivalent position between envy, identification, rejection and critique of these highly controlled bodies and their restricted performative roles. The video follows the preparation and execution of a floor routine, suspending the marginal moment right before the action, encapsulating ambition, the pressure to succeed and the looming possibility of failure.

The Tin Hat

2014 • 16 min

In every battle it is the eyes that are the first to be subjugated. Tacitus , Germania.

The Road to War (The End of an Empire)

2014 • 52 min

"The Road to War" uses elaborate and fascinating computer-generated recreations and archives never seen before to examine how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was used by the Austro-Hungarian Empire to start a war against Serbia. The film investigates how this regional conflict involving the Central Powers and the Triple Entente escalated to become "World War I", a war with more than 17 million dead and More than 20 million injured.

Honto ni Atta: Toko Yami Eizo 7

2014 • 60 min • Japan

Seventh entry in the "Honto ni Atta: Toko Yami Eizo" series.

The Golden Tooth Boy

2014 • 15 min • Brazil

Wesley, 12, gets involved in a dangerous and profitable story. Addressing a child’s innocence and awakening threshold for youth, the short film features the shortcuts and opportunities of the life of a kid from the boondocks.

I’m Afraid

2014 • 4 min • Spain

The artist brings her skill in illustration and collage to this feminist music video for singer Maria Rodés.

The Obvious Child

2014 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Somebody broke the girl's parents. The rabbit was there when it happened. It was an awful mess.

Martyrs

2014 • 7 min

Created by Bill Viola and Kira Perov and opened in May 2014, Martyrs shows four individuals, across four colour vertical plasma screens, being martyred by the four classical elements. The work has no sound. It lasts for seven minutes. Martyrs was joined in 2016 by a second piece entitled Mary. The installations have been gifted to Tate, and are on long-term loan to St Paul’s Cathedral. Bill Viola's commission for St Paul’s Cathedral follows the great historical tradition of commissions for spiritual centres that has resulted in a priceless heritage of art around the world. The result of this commission sees St Paul’s Cathedral, which has always spearheaded the engagement of great artists, house a resonant work of art for our times. Martyrs (and later Mary), will play an important role in connecting contemporary issues with the timeless themes embodied in the cathedral.

The Polygon

2014 • 54 min • Kazakhstan, United States of America

The Polygon shines a light on the village of Sarzhal in East Kazakhstan, situated only 18kms from the perimeter of the former Semipalatinsk Test Site, that was home to over 600 nuclear detonations. Between 1949 and 1991 the Soviet Union detonated 116 above ground bombs, whose massive radioactive mushroom clouds were witnessed by thousands of innocent and unsuspecting Kazakh villagers. They gazed openmouthed at the spectacle, completely unaware that nuclear fallout was raining down on them, their children, livestock and homes. 20 years after the closure of The Polygon they are still suffering high rates of cancer, cancer related diseases and mental illness. The Polygon takes us on a journey from the twisted Cold War experiments to those victims who remain today, still suffering despite the emergence of Kazakhstan as a major economic player on the global stage.

Like Shadows Growing as the Sun Goes Down

2014 • 11 min • France, Colombia

Medellin. Tireless car traffic. In the margins of a society launched at top speed, some lurking engines shutdown to make a living; Jugglers at intersections, employees on breaks, whose precise and repetitive work mark the flow of time which is always repeated.

The Girls of the Taliban

2014 • 48 min

An insight into a girls' school in Afghanistan which imposes an even stricter interpretation of Islam than the Taliban.

Guilda: Elle est bien dans ma peau

2014 • 52 min

A portrait of Guilda, the timeless beauty from the golden age of Montreal cabaret culture.

D-Day: Hidden Traces

2014 • 54 min

D-Day - June 6th 1944 : Uncovered by recent archeological digs, traces left behind by soldiers and civilians on the battle ground such as helmets, badges, bullets, weapons, and cans plus findings of underground passages and secret blockhouses provide new insights into WW2 history.

Polka Dot Superstar: The Amazing World of Yayoi Kusama

2014 • 59 min

This film follows Yayoi Kusama during the preparations for Tate Modern's 2012 retrospective of her work, when she undertook the mammoth physical and mental challenge of creating 100 new works for the largest-ever exhibition of her art.

Moonlight Serenade

2014 • 9 min

Juliet reads in her horoscope that a childhood sweetheart could reappear.

A Willing Suspension of Disbelief + Photography and Fetish

2014 • 17 min

A three-channel video installation and a split-screen video installation in response to an 1850 daguerrotype of a young American-born enslaved woman named Delia, who was photographed stripped bare as visual evidence in support of an ethnographic study by the Swiss-born naturalist professor Louis Agassiz, who held that racial characteristics are a result of differing human origins.

Natalia Nikolaevna

2014 • 30 min • Spain

Natalia Nikolaevna lives 400 km from Havana, in the city where the first nuclear power plant would be built in Cuba. He arrived 20 years ago from the USSR, to be reunited with her husband and work as an opera singer. In 1992, he began the great crisis, known as the Special Period. Natalia divorced, and rooted in the place gradually discovered him as the most hostile of spaces. Single mother without job opportunities, invented their own stage-a park-, their own -the spectators tourists- and their own livelihood: what gave him for his arias.

Roosevelt's Operative

2014 • 10 min

A Navy recruiter (Nathaniel Grant) recalls the enlistment of sailors during the Navy Sex Scandal in Newport, RI, during 1919.