All Films

The Ambulance

2012 • 8 min

An ambulance answers an anonymous call. Is there anything to save? They end up in a matrix between good and evil ... Do they decide their own destiny?

Experiment III

2012 • 2 min • Canada

Video feedback, AZDEN VPC-10, LZX video synthesizer

Experiment V

2012 • 1 min • Canada

Digital images processed through the LZX video synthesizer

The Blessed

2012 • 14 min

María (13) is an intersex girl (hermaphrodite) who is forced by her father to impersonate the Holly Virgin Mary at the procession of their town, because he thinks this is the only way she can "get fixed".

Disordered

2012 • 42 min

A cavalcade of characters in conflict with consciousness is conjured up within the confines of Studio 8 at the San Francisco Art Institute and digitized for analysis.

Louis(e) de Ville, portrait d'une bad girl

2012 • 48 min

Louis(e) de Ville is an actress, sex educator, author, and american burlesque performer. Follow her as she performs in burlesque shows throughout Europe and for the run of her one woman show: Betty Speaks!; from glamour to trash, from on stage to backstage, join her as she explores and explodes the codes of gender and feminism.

Citizen Change

2012 • 48 min

Citizen Change reveals how a dedicated group of East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area) LGBT pioneers blazed the trail for marriage equality by inventing the domestic partnership and attaining its first-ever enactment into law in the city of Berkeley, CA in 1984. In relating their personal stories, these remarkable men and women take us back to the 1970's and 1980's, creating a vivid portrait of how a small, dedicated group tackled the seeming-impossible: the attainment of the world's first law that affirmatively recognized same-sex relationships. In doing so, they changed the very language that is used to describe same-sex relationships and created a template that spread worldwide. Their accomplishment made possible today's efforts to establish marriage equality. Their contribution is revealed in this stirring documentary.

M.I., a Different Kind of Girl

2012 • 51 min

Laine Brown, a title-winning male impersonator, struggles to find acceptance from her family, her community and the male-dominated drag scene.

Nobody's Child

2012 • 24 min

Annie and Paul have been best friends for years. Annie discovers she may have breast cancer and wants Paul, who is gay, to raise her son if anything happens to her, rather than the boy's father. Paul, young and in love with a fast gay lifestyle, is not so sure that's such a great idea.

Afrique, land of trends

2012 • 52 min • France

The Festival international de la mode africaine (Fima), released in 1998 in Niger, is important to the vogue industry in Africa. The documentary explores the dimensions of this scene.

126

2012 • 48 min • Ireland

Brian Maher and Mike Sheridan attempting an arduous 126 mile run from Limerick to Dublin to Raise awareness for Special Olympics Ireland.

K+afka

2012 • 50 min • Brazil

Notes of a trip of a poet to Prague, to see Franz Kafka's grave.

Fur...Sophie

2012 • 5 min

"The mathematical equation of despair, inspired by the bagatelle No25 of Beethoven..!"

All Sides of the Road

2012 • 12 min

All Sides of the Road derives from a twelve-minute 3D video capture of Old Highway 101 entering and departing Dewitt, Iowa. After the title image, the cameras are pointed directly down at the highway, which becomes a rushing microcosm of the world that evokes landscapes both of America and of the mind. The resulting spectacle is both utterly photorealistic and phantasmagoric. In addition to landscape, this digital film also evokes earlier forms of analog film, especially those of the American avant-garde, for the physical properties of the highway are like those of celluloid. In motion, the textures of asphalt and concrete look a lot like film grain, while the lane markers flickering by are easily mistaken for the lines and letterings on film leader rushing through the projector gate.

Division

2012 • 1 min • Netherlands

A piece of paper is divided by hand into an even number of pieces and then reassembled. A photograph of this finished composition is then printed and divided again. This makes the impossible possible, tearing the now included empty spaces that make up the tears in the paper. This feedback division process is repeated while the number of imprecise manual divisions gradually increase. Everything is created by division.

A Rolling Stone

2012 • 54 min • Taiwan

Caring for an autistic adult can be seen as an act of faith. It is unpredictable. A regular interaction can lead to a violent lashing-out. However, due to its lack of exposition and its pure form of observation, the film captures something even more profound: life as a collection of failure, pain, and tragedy as felt by its protagonist, Chen Hung-tung, a father who cares with extraordinary patience for his autistic son Li-fu.

Transforming Family

2012 • 11 min • Canada

Transforming FAMILY jumps directly into an ongoing conversation among trans people about parenting. It's a beautiful snapshot of current issues, struggles and strengths of transexual, transgender and gender fluid parents (and parents-to-be) in North American society today.

Schizofriendia

2012 • 12 min

James is a high school psychology teacher who hears voices in his head telling him to commit suicide. When he ignores these voices, they begin to take physical form and create havoc throughout the course of his day. Can a therapist help James before he succumbs to the voices?

Chuva

2012 • 8 min

The entire film is based on one motionless shot of the sea, behind which rises a hill and in the middle floats a boat. The tension rises with the changing autonomy of the image.

Kay Kay: The Girl from Guangzhou

2012 • 48 min

Filmed over 20 years, Kay Kay's life gives a unique personal narrative to China's recent decades of change. This film was first broadcast in 2012 as part of a bigger project called "Growing Up Global" that has followed ten children, now young adults, from their birth in 1992, mirroring the changes in peoples' lives during this period of globalisation. "The Girl from Guangzhou" followed Kay Kay for her whole life, filming with her and her family at regular intervals since her birth in 1992. It gives a rare, personal narrative to the decades of transformation of China during the first 20 years of her lifetime.

Tim

2012 • 7 min • Canada

Remember Tim Burton’s homage to Vincent Price, "Vincent"? 30 years later, Canadian animator Ken Turner returns the favor in this cute stop motion tribute...

Pearl Vision

2012 • 3 min

"Pearl Vision" is a self-portrait of material and digital obsession in a time when it is becoming more difficult to tell what is and what isn’t real.

Icebreakers

2012 • 15 min • France, Sweden

A ferry makes its way through the ice floating in the wintery Baltic Sea. Yet the ice has long since broken inside the ship thanks to the evening's entertainment: with their presentation, the artists breathe a moment of magic into a world which already seems rather unreal. The film evokes a journey into the unknown, full of nostalgia and hope.

By Halves

2012 • 7 min

By Halves uses appropriated footage from rejected 35mm prints that were cut in half and readjusted to be used as spacers for 16mm to sync sound tracks on film, and not meant to be projected.