All Films

Pets

2012 • 6 min • Argentina

According to its director Albertina Carri, this is a “porno-terrorist political manifesto.” Made from archival images, mostly pornography dating from the 1920s to the 1970s, 'Pets' is a reflection on images and early pornography. Cinema and pornography could share a basic definition: they generate images that persist in the retina and create their own universes. Abject, clandestine, anonymous; what scenes, what fantasies did the camera obscura—the beginning of cinema, the precondition for porn—record in the early days?

The Great Book Robbery

2012 • 57 min

The Great Book Robbery is a powerful and poignant chronicle of cultural destruction. It tells the story of the 70,000 Palestinian books that were looted by the newly formed State of Israel in 1948. The film weaves together a range of storylines to create a dramatic, engaging, and deeply emotional structure. The interviews in the film focus on first-hand accounts and cultural analyses that contextualize the book theft within a larger historical and cultural framework, shedding new light on the Palestinian tragedy of 1948 and its impact on culture.

Two Furnaces for Udarnik Josip Trojko

2012 • 32 min • Croatia

Two Furnaces for Udarnik Josip Trojko follows the disassembling of the famous Siemens-Martin furnace, which once stood at the heart of the huge Yugoslavian iron industry. As we watch the old making way for the new, we hear off-camera archive recordings of political speeches, full of enthusiasm and ideological optimism, from the period when the old furnace was in operation.

The Amaryllis Musical Box

2012 • 4 min • Japan

Single 8 film by Kayako Oki.

Please Relax Now

2012 • 12 min • Germany

PLEASE RELAX NOW uses the screen as a source of light and darkness drawing attention to the issue of art consumption as individual vs. collective experience and extending it into physical space. Motivational language is interwoven with metaphysical gestures of salvation characteristic of economics as well as of what is considered "Political Art."

Lovebird-Watching

2012 • 2 min • Philippines

A short, hand-processed film by Shireen Seno.

Kendo Monogatari

2012 • 15 min

Lesbia has a hair saloon at her house. Mandy, her best friend, who helps her with the duties of the saloon, wants to leave illegally from the country. In certain moment, she will be forced to make some important decisions.

Torchlighters: The Samuel Morris Story

2012 • 30 min

Young Prince Kaboo knows his fate is sealed. Since his father can no longer meet his captors' ransom demands, Kaboo is to be tortured until death. But a bigger plan is about to unfold! A blinding light appears and the ropes that bind him fall away. Renewed strength floods his bruised body, and a heavenly voice urges him, "Run, Kaboo, Run!" The dramatic events that follow lead the boy prince to take the new name, "Samuel Morris." Nothing will stop Samuel Morris from sharing his growing faith with all who will listen.

Cryptex: Live at De Bosuil

2012 • 43 min • Germany

The full live-show at De Bosuil (Netherlands), recorded during the "Over Hills And Stones Tour 2012" released November 23, 2012. Recorded at Muziekcentrum De Bosuil, March 10th 2012, Weert (Netherlands). Live-Mix by Martin „Barni“ Johansson / Mastered by Kai Stahlenberg (Kohlekeller Studios) / Produced by Cryptex and Special Events Productions. 1. Hicksville, Habitus And Itchy Feet (Live) 03:12 2. Freeride (Live) 02:14 3. Dutch dialogue / Announcement 01:02 4. Dance Of The Strange Folk + Camden Town (Live) 07:25 5. Alois (Live) 03:54 6. It´s Mine (Live) 04:39 7. Gypsy´s Lullaby (Live) 04:15 8. Most Lovable Monster (Live) 05:01 9. Grief And Despair (Live) 05:38 10. Leviathan (Live) 03:21

RULEBOOK of the END

2012 • 7 min • Japan

Rouge

2012 • 13 min • France

Story of an interior upheaval leading inside the body. The body is not a site separate from the world, and at this point violently focus some of the redoubtable questions facing humans today.

Cheshire Smile

2012 • 5 min

with Adnan Ibrahim "Stand up and use your ears like a man" - Charles Ives

Three Minute Hells

2012 • 14 min

with Arwa Ibrahim 1 - Detention 2 - Hollywood Hills 3 - Reptile 4 - Bestiary 5 - Abstract and Concrete 6 - Doorway Occupation 7 - Sideways

1000 Reasons for Marrying Luo-Hu

2012 • 31 min • China

A wedding couple learns that love can mean a clash between traditions and modern society.

I Am The Antichrist To You

2012 • 3 min

A short animated feature accompanying the song of the same name by Kishi Bashi.

Those Two

2012 • 24 min • Spain

Men. A shabby brothel. A chance meeting. Passion, guilt and redemption.

La nuit de l'ours

2012 • 22 min • Switzerland

In a city of disconcerting nature, homeless animals are looking for shelter for the night. They take refuge in the Bear's house, creating an ephemeral community that will dissolve with the first rays of sun. A tale of exclusion as recounted by crossed destinies out of sync.

Hunting Luka Magnotta

2012 • 42 min

In 2011 virtually no one knew anything about a young man named Luka Magnotta. Then came the horrifying discovery of the body of Jun Lin in Montreal, followed by a feverish international manhunt and then the arrest in Berlin. Luka Magnotta now stands charged with the murder of the young Concordia University student from China.

Absence of Love

2012 • 20 min

An intimate and taut portrait of three lives: James and Michael, on the far side of a once passionate romance, and James and Samuel, estranged brothers, coming to terms with their father's death, a Baptist minister in the deep south.

Stories from Our Land 1.5: Inngiruti: The Thing That Sings!

2012 • 6 min • Canada

This short documentary filmed in Pangnirtung features 2 elders reminiscing about the dances held in their community 50 years ago. One of the elders is master accordion player Simeonie Keenainak, and soon he's making toe-tapping music with his instrument. In this celebration of the pleasures of music and dance, Keenainak plays for the enjoyment of friends, family, and the community at large.

Gods Prefer Men

2012 • 12 min • France

In Greek mythology, Hyacinth is a young man of great beauty, beloved of Apollo and Zephyr. He is killed in a terrible accident and from his blood a flower blooms.

Rad Queers: Payasos

2012 • 9 min

Smashing taboos and redefining philanthropy, Payasos L.A. is a group of gay Latino men who wear clown make-up, go-go dance at leather bars, and try to make the world a better place. 'Rad Queers: Payasos L.A.' offers an intimate glimpse into the Payasos' world, their wild fund-raising parties, and the lives of its members, including the Mr. Los Angeles Leather title-winner for 2011, Leonardo Iriarte.

Neighbors

2012 • 20 min

When a quirky shut-in gets a feisty new neighbor -- a transgender woman in an abusive relationship -- the two begin a strange friendship that allows them both to break free.

Dissonance and Disturbance

2012 • 26 min

‘Dissonance and Disturbance, a two-screen installation, brings together Cold Draft (1988) and two films partly shot amid recent protests in London.The narration to the largely abstract Cold Draft is a poetic critique of Eighties economics, which gains a new potency through being shown alongside Rhodes’s video-camera shots from within police kettles as protests raged against the causes and effects of the economic crisis. She also tells the story of a flour mill in Gaza bombed by the Israeli military. Over the years, Rhodes has shifted from abstraction to near-documentary as her anger at governments becomes palpable. Her work is all the more compelling because her eloquence with film matches her political convictions.’ – Ben Luke