All Films

Hopfrog

2012 • 6 min • Russia

Non scientific observations of the jumping fellows life.

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2012 • 6 min • Japan

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Lalang

2012 • 8 min

A short allegory on the neverending political discourse in Malaysia. it tells the point of view of a third party, the deer that got stucked between two elephants, and a butterfly

The Wolf

2012 • 20 min • United States of America

This story focuses on a conflicted young man (Travis Wolf) who struggles with his freedom after witnessing his girlfriend overdose on drugs she found in his jacket pocket. On the run and desperate to survive, he makes one bad decision after another that leads to his ultimate demise. Director Jay Carver Writer Jay Carver Stars Bill PacerAnna Julise CookPaul McComiskey

Claudio y Adrián (Amores de historia)

2012 • 52 min • Argentina

Claudio inherits a bar from a gay uncle who died, whose family had alienated him. Claudio begins to work on it and meets Horacio, a young poet who falls in love with him. They set up a cultural center in the bar, until one night in the crisis of the 90's some criminals rob them and kill Horacio. Not having a bond justified by law, Claudio cannot save Horacio. Years later Claudio hires Adrián as a waiter at the bar. And a new love story begins again in times of the same-sex marriage law.

Snows of Reduction

2012 • 5 min

Special Day

2012 • 11 min • Greece

Sofia panics during the planning of her wedding. A jumble of thoughts and images triggers an anxiety that Sofia struggles against and trying to overcome.

Machine

2012 • 3 min

A brief encounter between a mechanical flower, an oil pump on Saturn, outdated picture books, and a bird.

Plurality

2012 • 14 min • United States of America

In the near future, instant DNA identification has created an information grid that makes crime extremely difficult, and anonymity impossible. But, suddenly, the same IDs start to appear in different locations. A pro-level and intelligent sci-fi piece about the genesis of a big brother state.

Moon Cakes

2012 • 13 min • China

A lonely boy takes a chance on a wish to try and make his dream into a reality.

Atanasoff: The Father of the Computer

2012 • 47 min

The story of the lone inventor who fought all his life to be recognized as the originator of one of mankind’s most significant inventions. John Atanasoff, a physics professor at Iowa State College, needed a better calculator that could quickly solve advanced equations and when he tried to find such a machine, realized none existed. So Atanasoff decided he must build his own calculator. Through archive material, reenactments, interviews with experts and first hand witnesses this documentary shines a light to controversy over who was the actual inventor of the computer and an unknown part of our history.

Guards

2012 • 20 min

A film about museum guards with a background as law enforcement officers or military personnel.

Markings 1-3

2012 • 7 min • Canada

A tactile journey in three parts, Markings 1-3 explores nature through the surface of celluloid, using such techniques as tinting, toning, painting and scratching. This film was shot and hand processed at the Independent Imaging Retreat (The Film Farm) in Mount Forest Ontario.

Haircut Mouse

2012 • 3 min

Respira Até o Fim

2012 • 9 min • Brazil

Partnership between the rock band Madame Saatan and the music video director P.R. Brown.

Unprecedented Longing

2012 • 40 min

Unprecedented Longing is an honest coming of age film about two boys searching for their identity and love, in which making music plays a central role. An ode to nonverbal communication and unspoken longing and affection.

Crashing Skies

2012 • 6 min • Canada

An ordinary rural landscape is transformed into an enigmatic dreamscape. A farmhouse stands in a copper field of scratched emulsion as solarized flares illuminate the sky. Split toned horses amble dreamlike across the frame into inky underexposed blackness. Copper thistles sway in the wind, looming and strangely monumental. The hand-processed 16mm imagery creates an elliptical inner world of memory and dreams.

Dumb Ways to Die

2012 • 3 min • Australia

Cheerfully-animated short music video, part of Melbourne's Metro Trains public service campaign that promotes rail safety, depicts various common and less common ways of getting killed as a lighthearted tongue-in-cheek song lists them.

Magma

2012 • 17 min • France

While walking, try to express something of an inner rage.

Vexed

2012 • 28 min

As physicists are closing in on the particle described as the fundamental building block in our understanding of the Universe, Telcosystems show a far less conclusive particle theory; one that describes a digital world that is unstable and multimodal by nature, only revealing itself through bits and pieces traveling at superluminal velocity. At these speeds even the slightest fluctuation or disturbance unleashes a cascade of shapeshifting sono-optical movements, constantly challenging and redefining the rules by which this pattern-defying universe is pulled from stasis into turbulent chaos.

The Last Train

2012 • 1 min • Ireland

Short animation about a monster haunting a train in the night.

The Waves

2012 • 21 min • Portugal

The connection between the Portuguese coast line and the memories of someone's past.

Tenpin Arpeggio

2012 • 10 min

2012, digital video, color/sound, Cinemascope, 10 mins. Movements of bowlers in an American bowling alley form an arpeggio of sound and image against backgrounds of abstraction and calls for civic engagement. The hypnotic cutting threatens to break apart the frame, as if the bowlers were attempting to free themselves from the restraints of their physical environment.

Spring of Anbar

2012 • 52 min

Al-Qaida propaganda shows their fighters training in the Iraqi desert, carrying out attacks on convoys and barracks U.S. and Iraqi troops and patrolling the streets of the Al-Anbar towns and villages.