All Films

Parrilla

2012 • 11 min • Peru

Observational short film made during a barbecue

African Herbsmen: Healing and Religion along the Bight of Benin

2012 • 36 min

This film explores the integration of religion and plant-based medicine in an Ewe vodu community in southern Togo. A village priest healer, local ethnobotanists, and a religious marketeer guide us through the medicinal and religious uses of many local plants and herbs. Here in West Africa, plant-based medicines permeate spirituality and illness, and help protect the social order of the community.

Curtains

2012 • 7 min

The story of a young man who is coming to terms of being gay.

Xmas Story

2012 • 5 min

Defining actual meaning of the word 'Couple'. A proud gay boy is educating his younger brother about homosexuality by using toys.

Spiralized

2012 • 34 min • Germany

An eerie signal casts a spell over all the women and turns them into will-less puppets of evil. A psychedelic horror trip begins...

From East to West

2012 • 15 min • Greece

The camera follows from sunrise to sunset a migrant, from the hundreds who live in the port of Patras. A documentary film by Lara Kristen

Jaws: Changing The Game

2012 • 42 min

As surfers pray for waves on Maui during the winter, a select few ask for the gut-wrenching 30-plus foot walls of water that only Jaws on the North shore can provide. You may have seen surfers towed into the massive breaks behind a jet ski, but there is a group of riders who will only paddle into them, taking the sport to an even more extreme level that only a few years ago was thought impossible.

Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Spring

2012 • 17 min

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

Grim Reaper

2012 • 6 min

Experimental 8mm short.

Cem

2012 • 4 min

Filmed on Super-8 during a demonstration of Kurds in Paris, Cem joins the idea of ​​a collective body. The "cem" or "jam" in Persian and Kurdish means being together, united; the term also refers to Sufi gatherings, always manifested through dance.

Florence Loiret-Caille, Cinématon n°2013

2012 • 30 min

Florence Loiret-Caille, Cinématon n°2013 shows the aftermath and the filming of actress Florence Loiret-Caille's Cinématon on the site of her birth (where she had never returned!).

Lucia Sanchez, "Cinématon" n° 2014

2012 • 24 min

Lucia Sanchez, "Cinématon" n° 2014 shows the behind-the-scenes and filming of actress Lucia Sanchez's Cinematon.

Les Gazolines

2012 • 52 min

Founded in 1972, this loose Parisian movement is known for having given radical visibility to homosexuals during the 1970s in the wake of student and proletarian uprisings of 1968, which had given little space to the liberation of women and homosexuals.

One Day Project

2012 • 5 min

"Film is difficult. Film is expensive. Film requires a lot of steps. Film takes a lot of time. Film is dead." disagreeing is the beginning of this project. Three filmmakers, three stories, are improvised or sequential relay shots through a single 16mm Volex camera.

Berdansa bersama Shaggydog

2012 • 58 min • Indonesia

Shaggydog started producing beautiful songs and music from a small town in Yogyakarta called Sayidan. Through ups and down, they managed to get themselves to perform and explored foreign countries. In Sayidan, they formed a family; in Yogyakarta they created their mind pieces. When they are on the stage, they will invite you to dance –and raise your glass once again.

Summer Nights at the Dollar Tree

2012 • 6 min

Alec Soth encountered Robert Adams’s 1985 monograph Summer Nights as a young photographer, and the book was, in his words, a “gateway drug” to the “harder stuff” in Adams’s body of work. When asked to participate in Aperture Remix, an exhibition for which artists were commissioned to create new work in response to Aperture publications that were influential in their artistic development, Soth chose Summer Nights. This video is Soth’s response to Adams, and was featured in the 2012 Aperture Remix exhibition at Aperture Gallery.

1,2,3... 5,6,7

2012 • 58 min

Meets the small community of Tunisian Salsa dancers in the spotlight. They tell their Salsa experience and their addiction to this dance. For some of them, like Faten, 26, Salsa was even a catharsis during a painful divorce trial.

Actual Record! Real Horror Posted Video 3

2012 • 59 min • Japan

Tunnels that disappeared from maps that are not reflected on GPS. What lies beyond? It is said that an eerie image was captured while exploring the ruins of the "factory site". This factory is more than just an abandoned building, it's also famous for being the site of a murder...

For Karen Holmes

2012 • 11 min

An exquisite corpse film dedicated to Karen Holmes, filmmaker, artist, and teacher. In May 2012 she retired from SFSU Cinema department and has influenced numerous people as they have gone on to be filmmakers, artists and teachers.

The Richter Garden

2012 • 2 min • Italy

A video by Emanuele Centazzo

Salah’s Cafe, open Even During Works

2012 • 53 min • France

Once an industrial centre at the junction of Roubaix and Tourcoing, the Union area is undergoing radical change as a result of an ambitious urban renewal project. Everything has been demolished, with the exception of "Chez Salah", a café that opened in 1965 and is the ultimate relic of a district inhabited mainly by workers. Its owner, Salah Oudjane, refuses to sell the worn-out two-storey building where he has spent most of his life. In spite of himself, he has become a symbol of resistance to gentrification (the renovation of a working-class neighbourhood for the benefit of wealthier social classes), and is the unlikely hero of this chronicle in which, as the seasons go by, we see bulldozers clearing the area around his café, which stands like a beacon whose glow seems to attract former residents of the district.

Lone Pine: Where the Real West Becomes the Reel West

2012 • 15 min

A documentary covering the city of Lone Pine and its involvement in films especially westerns.

来し方行く末

2012 • 4 min

2012, sound, color

Golan

2012 • 2 min

A short film by Viktoria Schmid