All Films

Michael Workman: Mercy

2012 • 49 min

After taking home the 2011 Sydney Fringe Award for Excellence, Michael Workman presents his highly acclaimed show Mercy. Set in Cuba in the 1960s, Mercy is a comedy about family, love and strength. 2012 Madman Production Company

On Pause

2012 • 6 min • Russia

Once I met a man, who lived in the airport, because he had no where to fly.

It's A Swimsuit!!

2012 • 58 min • Japan

Gravure Idold DVD released in 2012.

Family Tradition

2012 • 11 min • Italy

Short film by Daniele Zanelli released as part of the '4 Nightmares' anthology.

A Total Jizzfest

2012 • 4 min

The Hottest, Sexiest Men On The Internet ~ The Hottest Sexiest Men On The Internet ~

Tonya Larson Power Stretch and Sculpt

2012 • 56 min • United States of America

Stretching is an excellent way for exercisers of all fitness levels to relieve stress and back pain, strengthen and condition abdominals, lengthen muscles, increase circulation and improve posture and flexibility.

Jenny’s House

2012 • 36 min • United States of America

Three young ghost-hunters enter a home where the recent murder of a young girl took place. But as the night goes on, things become more terrifying as they realize there may be no escape from Jenny's House.

Still Falls The Rain

2012 • 8 min

Still Falls the Rain is a graduation project from Visual Effects student Miguel Santana. The short film is an action drama set in digitally reconstructed WW2 war-torn London, about a homeless boy who gets caught stealing food from a bombed house - a crime that could then warrant the death penalty.

Sleep Talk

2012 • 2 min

The work "Sleep Talk" captures the moment when the unconscious is uttered through accidentally recorded sleep talk. It repeats perception and sleep, moves, and slides rhythmically toward any point that is impossible to reach.

Creatures of the Lagoon

2012 • 51 min

Immerse yourself in a world of mud dwellers, algae-eaters and expert predators all fighting for survival in Florida's Indian River Lagoon.

On the Trails of Glaciers: Mission to Caucasus

2012 • 52 min • Italy

A photographer visits the Georgian Caucasus with a team of experts to study the effects of climate change on the world’s largest glaciers.

Le Conte de Noël des Panthères Roses

2012 • 1 min

Da Alegria, do Mar e de Outras Coisas

2012 • 13 min

Based on true events, it tells the story of Nem Glamour, a transvestite who performs night shows and witnessed the death of her best friend, Joy, also a transvestite, in a hate crime. For denouncing her tormentors, she is forced to flee the country - but not before saying goodbye.

Born behind the stones

2012 • 7 min

At the age of twenty, José and Teresa leave Portugal for Switzerland. The result was a happy home and a modest life as immigrant workers, in the shadow of other people's wealth. Today, their daughter - the director - is seeing a young Swiss man from a good family... The meeting of two worlds that everything separates, told with humor and brilliance in the form of a photo novel.

Phase

2012 • 20 min

Abstract images of a plaster cast model, newsreels covering historical incidents, and rampant slogans. Phase is a film scattered over tracks divided into words and images, text, and sound. The activity of visual images that mutate according to method of expression rather than political implications.

Manman Kréyol

2012 • 16 min • France, Guadaloupe

Mamie had her first daughter when she was 16. She raised her 10 children on her own, by sheer strength, as her hands are "neither cut nor bound" and without the help of any of their fathers. Today, she has 27 grandchildren, or 28, she doesn't really know.

LA VIERGE VOILEE (VERSION 35mm)

2012 • 1 min

Experimental short film by Olivier Fouchard.

A 240 Second Analysis of Failure and Hopefulness (with Coke, Vinegar and other Tear Gas Remedies)

2012 • 8 min • Egypt

A double slide projection illustrates the necessary destruction that takes place on sites of construction. Using teargas remedies used by revolutionaries in the Middle East, the photographic processing smears the slides in a mixture of hues to depict a familiar site in an otherworldly place.

Actual Record! Real Horror Posted Video 2

2012 • 56 min • Japan

Contains all 10 episodes of shivering horror footage!! Is it the spirit of a worker who was tragically cut off in the past due to a work accident? When I watched the video later, I noticed that there was one more person, but it seems that no one noticed that on the day of the event. [Attacks my dog] I took a picture of a dog that recently joined the family. Something approaching the frolicking dog... [Restaurant on the Cliff] A seafood restaurant that I stopped by on my way home from surfing. What was witnessed there... [Visitor] I was supposed to be watching the scenery, but I was the one being watched...

They Told Me "Apikaan" Means Braid

2012 • 3 min

Originally an 8mm installation conceived as a loop, They Told Me "Apikaan" Means Braid serves as a reminder of the cyclical nature of language and tradition.

Them Oracles

2012 • 7 min

Half-essay, half-stand-up routine on the questions we ask, the answers we seek, and the oracles throughout history who've either affirmed (or exploited) our insecure wonders or merely lent us an ear.

Ocho construcciones imaginadas por ocho obreros de construcción

2012 • 5 min • Peru

Stop motion based on drawings made by construction workers, approached at the exit of their workplace, they answered in several ways to the question: What would you build if you could build anything you wanted?

The Story of Xiao Nong

2012 • 17 min • China

Xiao Nong is a young farmer who has worshiped his ancestors from the time he was a child. When he prays to his ancestral spirits and his mother is not healed, he gets disillusioned. As a friend tells him the the good news, an animated Zhuang-style cartoon tells the gospel story from creation to Christ. He believes in Jesus, his life is changed, and he begins to tell his friends and family about his new faith.

Chicken

2012 • 50 min

The parents leave the little boy at home alone and at that time the spirit of the child comes to him to play. The film is based on Yakut mythology