All Films

Margaret Tait: Film Poet

2012 • 29 min

Margaret Tait died April 16th 1999, aged 80. She was an intensely private person with a unique vision, firmly rooted in her native Orkney. Glasgow Women’s Library, working with filmmakers Marissa Keating and Michael Jones, went on a journey to document the story of this elusive filmmaker and poet through her friends, family, and peers.

Sound from the Valley Floor

2012 • 25 min

Originally conceived as a road movie, Sound from the Valley Floor is at once a film diary and a perverse comedy permeated with a dream logic.

Ultimate Number Ones

2012 • 59 min

From the vaults of the BBC archive comes a selection of hits that attained the toppermost of the poppermost prize and made it to number one in the hit parade. From across the decades, we applaud the most coveted of all chart positions with smash hits and classics from The Bee Gees, T. Rex, Donna Summer, John Lennon, Culture Club, The Spice Girls, James Blunt, Rihanna, Adele and many more. First broadcast to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the first official UK chart in 2012.

Surface II

2012 • 2 min

Surface II is an experimental moving image work focused upon several concepts. In one sense it is a visual experimental journey that discovers and plays with the notions of the celluloid surface, the ways specifically it can be physically manipulated. In another sense it is a study of image and sound, every visual detail is paired with its own unique sound sample which creates an almost hypomanic sensation where even the smallest detail takes on a new sense. The work also questions decay in a literal sense but also beyond the surface, the degradation of a medium and a time.

Fuck My Life

2012 • 4 min

Titled after Ibarra’s full-length performance work of the same name, "Fuck My Life" follows a sordid and fatigued showgirl as she sluggishly awakes to make up with yet another day.

A Distant Horizon

2012 • 6 min

Remote landscapes contain fragments of strata and sediment suggesting an existence marked by time not man. A vibrant sun illuminates the contours of the land providing a natural show of light and shadow play.

films4peace

2012 • 3 min

“For my work for films4peace, I considered certain visual metaphors. Compared with the eternity of the universe, human life is short, very short. Our existence is like a grain of sand in a desert or a speck of stone on the rock that makes the world. Conflict and destruction seems absurd if you consider the insignificance of our time on earth. Let us distance ourselves from oppression and slaughter. The creation of world peace is more important for all humankind. In my film, huge boulders slowly rise up amidst a chaotic noise that drifts in and out. Human life is not always beautiful, more often than not, we are simply trying to survive, allowing our lives to continue and nothing more.” —Yang Fudong

Elephant Died

2012 • 8 min • Japan

Kony 2012 Part II: Beyond Famous

2012 • 20 min

KONY 2012: Part II -- Beyond Famous offers a closer look at the LRA and explores the solutions put forward by leaders of the currently-affected areas of CAR, DRC, and South Sudan, where local communities continue to live under the constant threat of LRA violence. This generation has responded to the call to make Joseph Kony famous. Now we need to dig deeper and turn awareness into informed action.

Ginger Space Waltz

2012 • 1 min

Several animated men walking.

真っ赤なポピー

2012 • 12 min

Yuko, who has no place to stay at home, wanders the streets every day and then dances alone in a nearby park. That day, Yuko wanders aimlessly through the city and bumps into a boy on a pedestrian bridge. And that night, Yuko hears applause as she is dancing in the park. When Yuko tries to run away from the boy, who she finds annoying, he says to her, "You were so nice just now.

Money’s Travels

2012 • 6 min • South Korea

An animated exquisite corpse follows a money bill’s journey while contemplating his worth.

Bulador de Casa

2012 • 6 min • Philippines

A short, animated film about a boy who learns how to enjoy flying a kite while confronting a menacing household figure.

Hunan Gangsters

2012 • 24 min • China

Jie received a letter from Tang at the prison's rehabilitation site, hoping he would find a way to escape for one last job. Jie finds a way to get the keys to the foreman's car, but is targeted by another cellmate. The two set out on the road to rendezvous with Tang, only to discover that there is more to the matter than simply stealing an ambulance.

Stan Brakhage's Liberation

2012 • 35 min

Direct film has lost the material properties, and the original form has dissolved. By finding that form again, and retrieving its original properties, I am to liberate Stan Brakhage, the symbol of Direct Film that is so smeared upon history. This project will be recorded as the first experiment of Direct technique that has ventured into the history of media art with 'Direct File' and 'Direct Video', both of which are offered as new concepts. Commission Work for

Skateboard Nation

2012 • 52 min

Get stoked for a high-flying, adrenaline-fueled adventure. Explore the underground movement that's helping Native American youth throughout the U.S. soar above life's challenges, one half-pipe at a time.

Second Parent

2012 • 3 min

Only eleven states allow second parent adoption for same-sex couples. Single parent adoption is sometimes the only other option for same-sex couples, but in that case only one parent has legal rights to the child they adopt. This film explores one horrible scenario made possible by the laws we currently have in place.

Raccoon Nation

2012 • 53 min

An examination of the raccoon, the largest mammal species to have adapted well to human cities.

We Butter The Bread With Butter - Live at Wacken Open Air 2012

2012 • 38 min

Berlin weirdos We Butter the Bread with Butter performing metalcore nursery rhymes, cover versions and their very own compositions live at Wacken #23! Songs: 01:12 Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging 05:15 Alle meine Entchen 08:19 Schlaf Kindlein, schlaf 11:10 Breekachu 13:51 Superföhn Bananendate 17:12 Remmidemmi (Deichkind Cover) 20:10 Wünsche 25:10 Der kleine Vampir 29:24 Backe backe Kuchen 32:04 World of Warcraft 34:34 Extrem

Suspension

2012 • 10 min

The film layers a toned and black and white reel creating subtle shifts of hue and tone of abstracted seascape.

Dracula: The Restoration

2012 • 8 min

Documentary about the restoration of Tod Browning's 1931 Dracula Adaptation

ナゴヤ県 春日井のハイスクール用のロック企画の応援動画

2012 • 3 min • Japan

Short film made in support of Rock the Kasumin.

My Great Uncle Was Here Before

2012 • 18 min

"I interview my great-uncle Jose Elias Awad about his Berlin years (late 50's to late 60's), when he was finishing his doctorate in Economics at the Humboldt University in East Berlin. General Secretary of the Colombian Communist Party at the time, Jose Elias married Esther Bloss and on the day of their wedding in the Sudeten he left to help build the Berlin Wall. He told off Che for not having read Marx, hung out with Tamara Bunke and advised against the rise up in arms of the newly founded guerrilla group ELN (National Liberation Army) in Colombia. In 1968 he returned to Colombia after being expelled from the Party, and grew apart from his children, because of geographical distance and political ideology." - Juana Awad

Fireworks

2012 • 7 min

July 2012, Tokyo