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Gnome in the Haunted Castle

Gnome in the Haunted Castle

2012 • 42 min
Short? No doubt. Outpowered? Better believe it. Outnumbered? Don't ask. Big on courage? Absolutely. Lone Gnome is about to join the fate of the rest of Gnomekind, who have all turned into stone, unless within an hour's time, he can find and recover his stolen Life Gem.
Spectrum Hunter

Spectrum Hunter

2012 • 31 min
Discover a collection of haunted media, a tribe of new wave witches, a goth teenager with real magic powers, and much more!...When TC's older brother Tyler goes missing, TC and Rotten Robbie set out on an adventure to find him. The trail leads them deep into the core of the uncanny Spectrum Hunter cult where they encounter bizarre rituals, puzzles, illusions, and a pantheon of adversaries. Inhabiting deserted malls, the Spectrum Hunters erect strange sound stages that form a treacherous labyrinth. Surveillance cameras document their unusual habits and the subsequent videos are sold in clandestine locations. But is it just effects? Or are the Spectrum Hunters playing for keeps
Bibo

Bibo

2012 • 7 min
Bibo is a robot who sells ice cream. The world around him is destroyed. Just a few houses are left in the middle of the desert. Everybody loved Bibo in the past. Children, adults, everybody... He was a star! And now, the only thing that keeps Bibo going is his job. This is his life. Every day he comes to his workplace no matter what. And every day, at the same time, 3 children run towards him to buy ice cream. Again and again... Until that one day, when a girl in a red dress freezes in the middle of the street.
16:30

16:30

2012 • 17 min
Postcard from Somova, Romania

Postcard from Somova, Romania

2012 • 20 min • Austria
Short documentary scene involving various animals.
Waterloo

Waterloo

2012 • 4 min
Shot in London in the underpass the connects the IMAX theater to Waterloo station, "Waterloo" is part of a series of recent works that explore the limits of digital capture by setting up a series of formal parameters and then letting them play themselves out (almost) automatically in relation to randomizing elements. The capture rate is set at one frame per second, though sound is recorded in real time. Focus, exposure, and effective shutter speed are allowed to float and respond eccentrically to changing light levels, focal distances, and color temperatures in ways that produce a free play between figuration and abstraction. However, despite the abstract, painterly, and conceptual character of these images, the work is meant to be understood as a document responding to specific landscapes, situations, movements, trajectories, and durations.
On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth

On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth

2012 • 10 min • United States of America
On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth is a historical remix of the New York Times newspaper printed during the New York City Blackout in 1977. The 1977 Blackout is unofficially credited with the formal birth of hip-hop, a movement that was already well underway but advanced with equipment looted during the riots.
Lexique Dyslexique

Lexique Dyslexique

2012 • 43 min • France
An experimental fiction cut into six distinct parts that present the feeling of love as “precarious” fragments of identity. The ambition of these fragments is to retranscribe the personal affect of the film author as much as the more general one of a collective and common imaginary.
En plats i solen!

En plats i solen!

2012 • 44 min
The utopia of a society in which people do not live in alienation is possible. Solar power in Skellefteå started to meet the patients when the mental hospitals were closed. There are 700 people who work and are needed, even former criminals and addicts are welcome.
Silence

Silence

2012 • 4 min
"Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan under the Shogunate regime (which has isolated itself from all foreign contact) to see how the evangelical mission is going. There they witness the persecution of Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government, which wishes to purge Japan of all western influence. Eventually the priests separate and Rodrigues travels the countryside, wondering why God remains silent while His children suffer.“ I love this movie since i found this text! And i wanted to translate this story to an abstract short avantgarde film. I was inspired by the paintings of Sanchez Cotan, who lived in this time the story is located. I want to show the develpoment of the emotions of the two priests. The drama is, that everything can be excused in the catholoic church. Except the Apostasia - the doubt to the faith in God. You can steel, murder or lie. You go to confession and everything is forgotten. But doubting is unforgivable.
things are different now...

things are different now...

2012 • 4 min • Canada
How do younger queers who have never known a world without AIDS, including the accompanying prevention and treatment strategies that have been popularized over the last two decades, relate to the history of the epidemic and to those that managed to survive its earlier conditions? This is the central question that motivates this project’s focus on the HIV/AIDS epidemic and how its meaning has shifted and changed along generational lines.
Turf

Turf

2012 • 4 min
With the present day prevalence of the internet, it seems all areas of the world are accessible from any location. 'Google Earth' embodies this. The 'Turf' exhibition (05/2012) allowed viewers interactively to zoom and scroll over the films 'map', able to view the events taking place, but unable to affect them.
One Day As Usual

One Day As Usual

2012 • 11 min
As the question goes, this is the daily life of a grass-roots cadre. The day is white and the night is black.
Temper Clay

Temper Clay

2012 • 23 min
Kim’s film reflects on matriarchy, domesticity, and Korean society in poetic form: the footage is interspersed with surreal and dreamlike scenes of choreographed actions, strange gestures, and repetitive daily activities. Voiceover and written text from various sources, such as an interview with the artist’s childhood nanny, weave throughout the film. The soundtrack was developed with Kim’s frequent collaborator, the musician David Michael DiGregorio, known as dogr.
tricot カウントダウン MOVIE ついに当日!!

tricot カウントダウン MOVIE ついに当日!!

2012 • 7 min • Japan
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Teeth

Teeth

2012 • 4 min
"This is what happens when kids see Jaws 2 and want to make their own Super-8 sequel. Shot in Riverside, CT in 1978. Sound added 35 years later." -RH
Pigs & Vampires

Pigs & Vampires

2012 • 10 min
Sister film to Blood and Fire. Final Number Nine was the AOP (arbitrary organizing principle) with this one. Made when Romney was running against Obama.
Provenance

Provenance

2012 • 1 min
An ancient ancestor to the modern Hollywood soundtrack. Laser printed loop; 16mm, optical sound; 2012
Markada

Markada

2012 • 7 min • Chile
This is the story of a man marked by a childhood image. The scene that disturbed him by its violence, and whose meaning he would only manage to understand much later... With these sentences, narrated in voice-over, begins Chris Marker's film La Jetée, and which in this video come to open the question of how does one come to have a memory that one never had? Memory, metonymy, desire, abjection, childhood, belonging and photography appear here as loose pieces of a reconstruction of the scene, where the absence of a body, that of the witness, and the presence of another, a victim, constitute the staging of the way in which individual memory and testimony are complexly intertwined with collective memory. We are not privileged witnesses of the scene, except by the desire for the scene.
In China

In China

2012 • 10 min • China, United States of America
A travel memoir on two projectors: one reel is black and white, the other color. The films are superimposed at the time of projection, and edited together during a live performance in which I use chinese fans as external shutters. By blocking the light of one projector with a fan, the image of the other shines through. The sound is played on a small electronic Buddhist "chant box", which is passed through the audience during the performance.
Backwash

Backwash

2012 • 4 min • Japan
Stop motion animation using 30,000 cards, music Gary Ashiya. Screening at Image Forum Festival 2012.
Wriggle

Wriggle

2012 • 3 min • Japan
This silent 8mm short was filmed in 2012 and hand-developed using Caffenol, a home-made developer based on instant coffee and vitamin C.
Donk: 150 Beats Per Minute, Hardcore, Rave Music

Donk: 150 Beats Per Minute, Hardcore, Rave Music

2012 • 31 min • United Kingdom
Since the advent of acid house in the late 80s, British techno music has been in a long, baffling search for some sort of universal lowest common denominator. Breakbeat, digital hardcore, and gabber all made strong efforts in the race for the bottom, but none of them holds a candle to Donk. Combining the 150bpm madness of happy hardcore with indecipherable North English rap and then overlaying the whole mess with a single, infuriating "donk" sound, Donk may well be the apotheosis of all ridiculous dance music to date. It is also the only local thing going for an entire population of working-class kids with dwindling outside prospects. We meet up with Black Out Crew, commonly referred to as the Beatles of the Donk scene. Their video "Put a Donk On It!" has almost 4 million views on YouTube. So come along for some ecstasy fueled all nighters into the bizarre scene that is Donk.
East Croydon

East Croydon

2012 • 15 min
A short shot made from a train traveling from south to north through East Croydon station is cut into three-frame sections, each of which is looped for ten seconds. Each loop advances by one one frame at a time. The looping process generates complex artifacts and kinetic illusions in the image.