All Films

Injury On A Theme

2012 • 7 min

A short sweet film concerning torture. For Lynda Gudde.

Swamp Man!

2012 • 45 min

Kids of all ages will be spellbound for over 45-minutes as they are taken “on-location” to learn about God’s amazing animals of the everglades. Plus they’ll love the animated story-song “Swamp Man” and the free game included in the bonus features. Children love the grandfatherly explorer/singer Buddy Davis, who leads them through the everglades on an air boat, via all-terrain vehicles, on flat bottom boats, and via hikes that reveal powerful alligators, amazing manatees, intelligent dolphins, cranes, a black bear, snakes, snapping turtles, and more! You probably didn’t know just how big the variety of everglades animals is. This DVD reveals God’s special design in each one!

Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art

2012 • 29 min

In 2004 Checkerboard had the privilege of filming Carrie Mae Weems discussing her body of work, comprised of 17 projects spanning more than two decades (1981-2004). This dynamic presentation was accompanied by slides of the artist's photographs and excerpts from her video art. The result is a chaptered lecture guided by Weems's seductive voice and passionate presence. The viewer is transported into her world as she details what she is trying to uncover, illuminate, investigate and provoke through her lens.

7 Deadly Kisses

2012 • 4 min

From fish kiss to dragon kiss – this is where people of all ages and genders who want to learn how to kiss can find out (almost) everything about the no-no’s of the face fuck. Two willing and able male trainees demonstrate the first seven deadly kisses for any relationship.

Bumming Cigarettes

2012 • 23 min

A short film about a brief and intimate meeting between a young black lesbian woman who is in the process of taking an HIV test and a middle aged black gay HIV positive man.

Continental Drift

2012 • 15 min

Croatia, 1999. Adele, a young Australian woman travels by the sea, staying in an abandoned building, amid echoes of war. She meets Antonija, whose life has been fractured by the conflicts that tore apart the former-Yugoslavia, and together they discover the uncanny intimacy that can develop between strangers.

Jane

2012 • 6 min

Imogen, a young bisexual girl, deals with the difficulties of sexuality and unrequited love.

LifeLine

2012 • 22 min

This short film tells one story with a thousand faces - of a lonely teenager's journey through the dangerous landscape of isolation, rejection and threat. It's the story of some who took drastic measures in their loneliness, and of others who survived and are reaching back to make sure that more aren't lost.

One Night

2012 • 23 min

Two young people both longing to be close to somebody. In the darkness of the nightclub they meet one night in December.

Promise Me a Lie

2012 • 5 min

The plot of this short film centers on a Mexican high school student who defies his culture by falling for a Salvadorian student, who is experiencing love for the first time.

Uncle & Son

2012 • 15 min

Hung's parents abandoned him long time ago. He has lived with his uncle Ba since he was a child. Uncle Ba is a clever tailor and he's always kind to others. However, he is discriminated on the grounds of sex because he's gay. People they always tease him and speak against him and the Hung family behind his back. Hung feels so lonely.

The Bicycle

2012 • 17 min

Little Mohammad enjoys going to the beach with his uncle to learn how to ride a bicycle. When another uncle has an accident, he is concerned about Mohammad and prevents him from going out on his bicycle.

Traces Two

2012 • 12 min • Brazil

Two friends move to Rio de Janeiro and begin to perceive each other better through daily and close coexistence, which shows signs of new possibilities for affection and rapprochement.

Leopard

2012 • 3 min • Germany

HF419 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

No Comment

2012 • 4 min

Female prejudices towards men are explored in this humorous short about a young woman has two unexpected meetings in the Jardin de Luxembourg.

Beijing Silvermine

2012 • 12 min

A documentary about the French collector and artist Thomas Sauvin, who since 2009 has salvaged discarded negatives from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, negatives that were destined to destruction. His Beijing Silvermine archive, one of the largest archival projects in China, now encompasses over 850,000 anonymous photographs spanning the period from 1985 to 2005.

Planet Hunters

2012 • 44 min

A fascinating look at the research by two inventive planet hunters who are searching for thousands of extra-solar planets that may be Earth’s twin.

Silences

2012 • 11 min

The silence of the boat, the silence of the river, the silence of the crossed cities, the silence of the abandoned factories, the silence after the crash of bombs, the silence of death, the silence before the disaster. The silence at the approach of the frontier, the passage silencer of the warriors and migrants. The infinite between two shores.

Frisky and Mannish: 27 Club

2012 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Frisky & Mannish's cult experimental show played three sold-out performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012. This footage is taken from the tech desk.

Le Paris Foot Gay: Un Seul But à Atteindre

2012 • 52 min

A gay amateur soccer team operates in Paris under the name Paris Foot Gay. The club's highest profile supporter from within the profession has been former France national soccer player Vikash Dhorasoo (who is heterosexual) whilst a number of leading French professional clubs have signed their charter against homophobia.

Agorable

2012 • 23 min

The apartment of a young shut-in gets hijacked by the restless spirit of the lady down the hall.

Flickering Angels

2012 • 39 min • India

Featured here, are the journeys of a few girl children in the State of West Bengal, India, who have either lost their parents to unpropitious fate or are separated from them. These children hardly meet their parents, who are serving sentences in the correctional homes or residing as under trial prisoners. Separation from parental touch has not rummaged their lives, as they are in care of a home in a remote area in Ranaghat, on India Bangladesh border. Their ordeal has not barred them from nurturing their inner talents and skills in this home run by the pious nuns, called Dayabari. It unfolds the plaintive story of the bereaved parents who are ordained to live apart from their children, but have dreams surrounding them.

Faktories und Felder

2012 • 42 min • Austria, Canada, Mexico, United States of America

A speculative biography of Joseph Otmar Hefter, a Jewish territorialist active in the 1930's and who disappeared from public attention soon after. What begins as an investigation of Hefter's elusive life between the eastern marches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, New York, and Mexico, soons turns into questioning the biography genre - the stuff a life is made of, and the ways to make sense of it.

orwo foma

2012 • 4 min

Everything is beautiful in a woman.