All Films

Quest for the Lost Maya

2012 • 56 min

In the past decade, researchers working in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula have made a series of startling discoveries, revealing a gaping hole in our understanding of the Maya… could it be that what we thought we knew has suddenly turned out to be just half the story? Quest for the Lost Maya follows American archaeologists George Bey and Bill Ringle and their Mexico colleague Tomas Gallareta Negron as they find startling evidence of a forgotten Mayan society in the Yucatan. The team discovers a still more ancient royal palace complex buried beneath an ancient pyramid deep in the Yucatan jungle.

Saudade

2012 • 14 min • France

“My eyes are imprisoned/ Weeping with great longing”. Soèdade (saudade) — “longing” or “yearning” — is a Portuguese word that does not have a precise translation in English. It has been described as a “…vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist…”

Beer & Nuts

2012 • 6 min

Over the course of five minutes, two friends in a desolate cabin discuss everything from the origins of everyday sayings to their favorite movie villains. But all is not as it seems...

Departure

2012 • 22 min

From a train trip home, legendary experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr creates a triptych cum structural trajectory in which composition and perception convene into a “phantom ride. Departure sharpens the senses as it penetrates a recognizable yet reframed landscape.

Byun, Objet trouvé

2012 • 7 min

Acclaimed mixed-media artist Chong Gon Byun uses found and discarded objects to create intricate sculptures that explore the clash between post-industrial civilization and the present consumerist culture in his surrealist oeuvre.

Nada Fazi

2012 • 20 min • Portugal

Three researchers embark on a study, "10 Years of Social Reintegration in the Casal of Boba neighborhood". A film camera used for their research is stolen and, as it is passed from hand to hand, records a crime. Nada Fazi (Creole for "It's inevitable") is a shared and fragmented view of the day-to-day life of a neighborhood. An outside view that morphs into an intimate journey through the lives of a group of youths.

Skate Bitches

2012 • 17 min

Skate Bitches is a short DIY film inspired by the 1986 Danny Plotnick film Skate Witches.

Utah Beach - Victory in the Sand

2012 • 14 min

Victory in the Sands, the award-winning official Utah Beach D-Day Museum film, captures the dramatic events of the Allied landing at Utah Beach on June 6, 1944. As part of a top secret operation, brave Allied forces launch a bold assault on Hitler's Atlantic Wall against nearly impossible odds. This highly coordinated land, sea, and air invasion is a turning point of the war and marks the beginning of the liberation of Europe and the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Street Vendor

2012 • 6 min

Jacobs documents a New York street vendor, taking a short interaction between the vendor and a customer and protracting it into a strobing, throbbing, pulsing meditation on movement and light.

Data Daze

2012 • 3 min • Canada

animation by Sabrina Ratté

Gay Champions

2012 • 48 min

A special coverage, by two dutch journalists, of Ukraine’s very first Gay Pride (during the Euro 2012 Championship) that never happened due to extremist threats. The secret route had been leaked and hundreds of members of dangerous anti-gay groups chased gays who were on their way to the Pride. Two of the organizers were hospitalized. With the world’s gaze fixed upon Ukraine, gays – who have no rights there - felt encouraged to stand up for their rights. It might get even worse when a law against ‘gay propaganda’ passes: (positive) media coverage, support and education of homosexuality will be punishable.

Oro Parece

2012 • 6 min

A joke so poorly told and unfunny that the characters within the joke are forced to reveal their spirit through the process of their own destruction.

Eigenheim

2012 • 16 min

In the German Democratic Republic children played with dollhouses made to resemble the type of life they would one day grow up to have. Now many of these houses can be found for sale on eBay or in collectors’ hands. The dollhouses that survive do so as idealized images of a time and place that no longer exists. Through the words of their past and new owners, Eigenheim looks at the people and memories that once dwelled in these spaces to explore the remnants of a lost world.

Naked Love: Ea's Garden

2012 • 7 min

A sensual trip through Ear's sexuality in a surrealistic abstract poetic atmosphere.

blood keys

2012 • 4 min

Soundtrack: American Royalty

The Comeback Kid

2012 • 13 min • Canada

Boniface, or 'Bo' for short, loves airplanes, wrestling and his very best friend in the whole wide world, M the Minotaur - A Luchadore wrestling doll. When Bo is invited to Suzie's Birthday party, he begins to face the challenge that is growing up, and leaving behind his past.

La Rueda

2012 • 10 min • Brazil

La Rueda shows an everyday night in Pucallpa, a city located in the Peruvian Amazon. Colors, noises and lights are projected. Families transport their children to the amusement park. Fears, fantasies, joys and vertigo intertwine. A new world of sensations arises. The film dialogues with the most distant memories and drives of childhood and in the plots of affection between mothers and children.

Yuri's Omen

2012 • 15 min

Konstantin is about to discover the deepest secret of his past.

Hold Your Ground

2012 • 13 min

Triggered by a pamphlet of instructions for pro-democracy demonstrators, called How to Protest Intelligently, Hold Your Ground dissects the semantics of the crowd, and the resulting performative speech act.

An Uncertain Gleam

2012 • 5 min • United States of America

"This film was based on a footage from anonymous cineaste who lived in Donetsk, Ukraina. 5mins, 16mm film, colour, sound, 2012." -IS

Whitney Houston - The Greatest Love Of All

2012 • 59 min

In this film we pay tribute to one of the most gripping rags to riches stories ever told. Whitney Elizabeth Houston first showed the vocal range and star quality that would soon make her a legend in music.

Nocturnum

2012 • 19 min

A compendium of home movies sewn into a fragmented nocturnal narrative on travel

My Life Against Taiwan Sotokufu - 1891-1931

2012 • 54 min • Taiwan

“My Life Against Taiwan Sotofuku – 1891~1931” is Taiwan’s first biographical animated documentary. The film combines animation, archival photos, footage, and sound theater to recreate the heroic epic of CHIANG Wei-shui, the “the Savior of Taiwanese People,” during Japan’s colonial rule of Taiwan. Through first-person flashback narrations, Taiwan’s pioneer revolutionary CHIANG Wei-shui tells the turbulent tale of the rise and fall of Taiwan’s non-violent anti-Japanese movements, as well as a lifetime of remarkable resistance against Taiwan Sotofuku (Japan’s colonial government). Cast

Nostalghia Nostalghia

2012 • 2 min • Japan