All Films

Canicas de cuento

2012 • 12 min • Ecuador

Francisco, a boy who loves to play marbles, encounters a mysterious adversary who has marbles never seen before. Your obsession with them will take you on a quest to discover where they come from.

Goddamn Godard

2012 • 25 min

An enchanted tale of an artist, a critic, and a leather-clad, tree-dwelling gang who fall in love with a French girl, who takes them on an odyssey of Love, Sex and Dreams.

Fraud

2012 • 3 min

Perhaps a good sex is the only way to overcome the financial crisis affecting Europe aggressively.

Violet, the Courtesan

2012 • 15 min

A prostitute is working at night in her usual spot when suddenly she is surprised by a mysterious woman. After the woman explains to the prostitute her desperate situation, she decides to help her to make her dream come true.

Sailing Across Images

2012 • 15 min

Perception changes ambiguously between moving images and sound. I went on a journey by water. I had been gazing at the calm sea for hours on the back deck. Before my eyes was endless sky, the nearly leaning sea horizon, strong sunlight shining on the surface of the water, and trails on the sea traced by the ship. The sound were of the engine and waves, vibrations propagated through the ship hull, and a pleasant breeze. I’m trying to sense every moment. I am here to watch the sea. Thinking this, I will daydream even before I know it. Occasional whistles make the scene in front of me clear.

Desert

2012 • 4 min

The empty place. Lost childhood. Light trees. Abandoned gardens. Motion without movement. A desert that make us think about where we are. As E. Cioran says, one hand over any landscape can make us return to the landscape of our childhood.

Dark Deception

2012 • 23 min

A female criminal takes advantage of her special powers of hypnotism and takes money from innocent victims.

Gypsy Funeral

2012 • 15 min

Sandro, a gypsy, travels with his group bringing the corpse of his late father.

The Dark Clouds

2012 • 6 min

Still in Calais, daybreak, a raid is coming to an end. Men come out of the ground, life resumes its course. Sovereignty of certain gestures...

Con Brio

2012 • 4 min

Con Brio is a four minute choreography of stop-motion animation featuring flowers in liberty and play. This project began as a challenge to explore the distinctive optical properties of pinhole photography for motion. The images were acquired one frame at a time entirely without a computer or lens, using a 16mm film camera adapted for a variety of pinhole and double-slit techniques and choreographed to a lively ukulele composition by James Hill.

Teacup!!!!!!!!!

2012 • 2 min

TEACUP - whoa......MY HAT!

Um Documentário Bestial

2012 • 35 min • Portugal

A film that sarcastically and ironically addresses the universe of bullfights.

Two Photographs

2012 • 8 min • Turkey

A personal documentary film that is about the immigration of the filmmaker's family from Bulgaria to Turkey.

Gods, Weeds and Revolutions

2012 • 20 min • Canada, Tunisia

A young woman returns to Tunisia and must come to terms with her grandfather's illness and the country's dark past under dictatorship.

The Tent

2012 • 13 min

The Tent extrapolates an eventful fictional narrative from a black-&-white printed booklet and the body of art that it features in its pages. Presenting artworks with reduced economies, the book, a 1972 Arts Council publication entitled Systems, includes drawings, documentation of works, and photographs of the artists in the ‘British Systems group’, along with extended texts written by each of them. The video’s imagery is derived from recording both the object of the book and the images it contains. The videography employs experimental, high contrast exposures that will cause white pages to bleach away almost entirely, and black pages to intensify so that they become suggestive of spaces rather than surfaces; so that the diagrams/images on those pages seem to float in voids.

Jake Seven

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

A few lingering brush flicks, olive drops of color splitting open on the vines, the roulette ball of our random lives dropped into the basket on some universal wheel and the road keeps winding out before him like a wick, excerpts from Steve Gehrke's poem Jackson Pollock Driving.

Lo que nunca pensé decir

2012 • 20 min • Venezuela

One rainy morning of February 14, a train ride, and unconventional discussions, tell us how amazing it can be a simple meeting between two people like Alfredo and Albertina, revealing the magical realism and fantasy that can unleash the mind of a lovesick like him to fight against the desire of loving a girl he just met. Never say I LOVE YOU before knowing the person is one of the supposed and most important rules of love.. so the: When should?, When can express how you feel?.

Natural Farmer JIA

2012 • 39 min • China

The story is about Lao Jia, a farmer on Chongming Island, Shanghai. On this island, he applies natural farming to show his wish and love to the land. Lao Jia calls himself a natural farmer. He left the metropolis Shanghai and his wife LiZi for Chongming Island three year ago. There Lao Jia contracted a farmland of about 25 acres. Without using any fertilizers or chemicals, he believes in his land and tries to plant with an ancient agriculture philosophy of returning the land to nature, which is the so called natural farming. Lao Jia said: “Farming helps people to find back some simple but real things in life, and the farmers’ emotions will in return affect the land and the plants.” Now there are many people who agree with his idea. But the reality is cruel, when Lao Jia described to me his wish to his land, problems keeps cropping up to test his attitude of “re-discovering the love to land”.

A Memorial, a Synagogue, a Bridge and a Church

2012 • 12 min • Germany, Slovakia

A square is turned into a laboratory setting, the artist into a meticulous observer of everyday situations. The location is "Fish Square", Rybné námestie, Bratislava. Here stands the "Holocaust Monument", a bronze statue by Slovakian artist Milan Lukáč.

Black and White Laws in a Colorful World

2012 • 15 min

An experimental, surrealistic film about equality, expressing the importance of equal rights for all. In a world where discrimination is still one of it's largest issues, Black and White Laws in a Colorful World explores how society's support for equality is rapidly growing yet old and discriminative laws and anti-gay government views are not changing at the same rate or are not changing at all.

Muthal Naal Indru

2012 • 16 min • Malaysia

A re-imagination of Spanish short film 'How I Met Your Father' with added stories. A tale about a mother who reflects back at the very first day she met her husband when she was a prostitute and finds it difficult to share her tale of love with her daughter.

The Cure: Eurockéennes 2012

2012 • 60 min

Robert Smith and The Cure perform live at Les Eurockéennes festival 2012.

Body at Large

2012 • 48 min • Taiwan

This experimental documentary explores the boundaries of sexual orientation and body image of four people, each of them dealing with their own anxieties, frustrations and desires.

Twice Over

2012 • 12 min

"In Twice Over Simon Payne, has filmed off the screen, with a hand held camcorder, an original sequence of digitally generated coloured rectangles. The re-filmed layer and an original variation of it are then superimposed on themselves, so that the discrepancies between them generate a third element: differently coloured slender rectangles that judder between the main blocks of colour . In contrast to the many computer-generated works Payne has made over the last eight or so years, the texture and ‘noise’ of the analogue decay generated by re-filming (as opposed to digital copying) plays an important role." (Nicky Hamlyn)