All Films

Wartime Children

2012 • 26 min • Russia

During the war, children, along with adults, worked in the fields and factories, shouldering household chores on their fragile shoulders. Many of them died from disease and lack of food. There was a severe famine, people were swollen from malnutrition, and in order not to die, they ate grass cakes and porridge with sawdust. "Everything for the front, everything for victory!" it was the slogan of the time. Despite the difficulties, they did not lose heart, worked hard and believed in victory over fascism.

Go! Go! Left!

2012 • 60 min • Russia

Over the past year, Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the Left Front opposition movement, spent more than two months under arrest. In prison, he declared dry hunger strikes in protest against illegal detentions at rallies, on the way to rallies, just on the street. Many times he was hospitalized due to deterioration of health during hunger strikes. But this most controversial leader of the Russian opposition is surrounded by people almost more mysterious than himself. What leads them, following Udaltsov to rallies, under the batons of riot police, venturing on hunger strikes and ready to jump from the Crimean bridge?

Putin, Love Us!

2012 • 25 min • Russia

Director Kirill Serebrennikov puts on the play "Thugs" with his students. But who would have thought that the action of the play would spill over to the Moscow streets and the purely stage events would be enriched with reality? Will reality come out on stage?

Tagikaks - Once Were Hunters

2012 • 56 min • Finland

Kolya and Sasha live in a whale hunter community by the Bering Strait. While their father remembers the good old days, the two brothers try to find their own paths in a rapidly changing world.

Earth

2012 • 30 min • Belarus, Poland

In 1942, the front line passed in the Vitebsk and Novgorod forests, thousands of Soviet soldiers died here. Today, on the Belarusian-Russian border, enthusiasts are looking for human remains that have not yet been buried according to the laws of peacetime, not wartime. According to human laws.

Cursed Supernatural Footage 4

2012 • 56 min • Japan

The definitive collection of psychic images! Unexplained entities on home videos and other media. Have you ever seen psychic phenomena?

The Bitteroot Footage

2012 • 5 min • France

Chad, a New York university student, bought cheap furniture from a Craigslist seller looking to get rid of items in bulk. Among the items, he discovered an old locked wooden box with pictures labeled 'bitterroot.' Inside, he found an 8mm film reel and damaged pictures. With the help of his friend Dario, a film student, Chad acquired a working 8mm projector on eBay. Despite the damaged film, they managed to piece it together and uncovered disturbing content.

Hitchhiking to MIDI Festival

2012 • 27 min

Ceci n'est pas moi.

2012 • 6 min

"Ceci n'es pas moi." (This is not me.) contains strange images of Emmsen Jafari, when he wasn't afraid of knife. This video is made by old footage taken by Majid Jafari at the first birthday of Emmsen Jafari.

True Record! Paranormal Site Investigation Episode 5

2012 • 60 min • Japan

The most terrifying original documentary horror series that examines numerous haunted sites scattered throughout Japan.

True Record! Paranormal Site Investigation Episode 6

2012 • 60 min • Japan

The most terrifying original documentary horror series that examines numerous haunted sites scattered throughout Japan.

Watermarked

2012 • 2 min

"Watermarked" is a video created by artist group Dis Magazine. The video was the result of a commission by Kenzo, Paris, to create an advertisement for it's 2012 Fall/Winter clothing line. Dis used the opportunity to create a video work which operates neither as satire nor valorization of branding, stock video, and fashion advertisements. The work manages to function both as a critique of advertisements and, quite literally, as an advertisement itself.

R. Stevie Moore - Tape To Disc

2012 • 42 min

Documentary about musician and homerecording pioneer R. Stevie Moore

Interfere

2012 • 7 min • South Korea

‘Interfere’, one of the 8 films from 8 directors under the project, ‘Across the Bridges’ had filmed at Seogang bridge. I intended focus my eyes on the river flow and bridge, or the spot that artificial meets nature, and a phenomenon occurred at the spot without any judgement or social discussion rather than shooting the structure of the bridge.

Our silence, their gold

2012 • 19 min

The informational video of the Open Coordination of Thessaloniki against gold mining that was shown at the event on Thursday, April 26 in Aristotelous Square. The doc is freely available for viewing and republishing (creative commons license : attribution, non-commercial, share-alike). Please, wherever you share it, mention that it is about the creation of the Open Coordination of Thessaloniki against gold mining.

Undamageable

2012 • 6 min • Egypt

The Tropfest Arabia 2012 Winner

Arachné

2012 • 11 min

Hontō no Shinrei Dōga 'Noroi' 2

2012 • 57 min • Japan

Suicide, grave robberies, bullying, hospitals, murder scenes... This is the latest in a series of 11 shocking and horrifying ghostly images of everyday scenes.

Hontō no Shinrei Dōga 'Kage' 2

2012 • 56 min • Japan

Included are “Those Lurking in the River,” a bizarre group of people on a boat floating on the surface of the river, “Dwellers of the Dark,” a spirit that shakes its head violently and even inside a car, and many other scoop-class ghost videos.

Storming C

2012 • 10 min

"Storming C" video was made with original software that algorithmically transforms the prepared images sampled from a YouTube tourist video recording. Visible throughout the video are fragments of a mariachi performance by an unidentified child. The turbulence of the visuals are presented "storming" the audio track, an excerpt from the composition, "In C" by Terry Riley, performed by Ensemble Percussion Ricerca.

Gaza 36mm

2012 • 47 min

Gaza 36mm is the interpretation of a reality that excels the game of death more than the game of life. It is a small window through which Gaza had the chance to see the outside space, a special cinematographic code that reflects the state of destruction and damage of the cinemas due to ideological and social reasons. It is about a dump that was once a cinema house that attracts visitors.

Hontō ni Atta Kenka no Bideo 4

2012 • 51 min • Japan

Documentary horror-action featuring “real fights” submitted from all over Japan and secretly obtained from people who have experienced them, including one-on-one “tie-ups,” one-on-many “lynchings,” and many-on-many “fights” that are so painful you'll want to cover your eyes.

I Know What It's Like

2012 • 6 min • Ireland

An elderly woman gives a performance of six disrupted statements to camera, exploring social taboos such as breastfeeding, sexuality, ageing and parental coldness.

Depression

2012 • 18 min

In this audiovisual performance, Ed Atkins lyrically explores the subject of depression and the digital age.