All Films

Masdar: Exploring Our Future

2012 • 48 min

Built in heart of the Middle East desert, Masdar will be the world’s first zero-carbon city, exclusively fueled by renewable energies. 50,000 inhabitants will have access to water and sustainable energies while producing no waste.

Initial Vapor

2012 • 13 min • Japan

The origin and the end of the world is portrayed by weaving fictitious landscapes of diorama set and the lighting effects into the actual landscapes of 2012 Tokyo. The film is like an old diary.

La huellita

2012 • 10 min • Mexico

Born to Dance This Way

2012 • 12 min

Joo Si auditions for the opportunity of a lifetime to be a principal backup dancer for the sexy female pop singing sensation, The 4Play Ladies.

Pumping

2012 • 10 min

A love story between skaters is crossed by a family dispute. Everything is not always what it seems among adolescents, though ambiguous areas are naturally installed and enabled. Crossing traditional gender love is strong and familiar containment imperative.

Prisoner's Cinema

2012 • 10 min

Essentially a trance-inducing flicker film, Prisoner’s Cinema opens by establishing a simple, yet aggressive, black and white flashing sequence, defined by its frenetic pace and hypnotic pattern. It assaults and entrances the viewer with its rapid optical rhythm; a low-toned droning sound and a high frequency stuttering provide a sonic anchor that augments the hypnotic effects of the flashing imagery.

Cant

2012 • 8 min • United States of America

Love brings together two men from different parts of the world, Tony, an American and Sadeq, an Arab Muslim. Sadeq is however caught between his love to Tony and his commitment to his religion. On the day Sadeq is to travel back to Syria, Tony discovers a secret that threatens to destroy their lives together. Will Sadeq and Tony be able to reconcile their two worlds?

Thanksgiving at the Morgans

2012 • 15 min

Charles is gay. His family doesn't know. Charles is scared. He wants to make this as painless as possible, he's decided to come out on Thanksgiving. Now Charles is really scared.

Krake

2012 • 10 min

Thalé

2012 • 5 min • Canada

Barry Doupé’s Thalé (2009) experiments with the phenomenology of light and colour through fiber-optic flower arrangements. Doupé’s animations are inspired by the Thale Cress plant, which is commonly used in biological mutation experiments. His rotating electronic floras, which resemble neon lights, sex toys and fireworks, glow in the dark digital void. - Amy Kazymerchyk, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film

Positive Women: Exposing Injustice

2012 • 45 min • Canada

Women's voices have rarely been heard on this important issue. What happens if a woman does not disclose her HIV-positive status to a sexual partner? How does criminalization impact HIV-positive women in Canada, who are trying to live their lives in the shadow of stigma and fear? Does the law actually protect women's health? How do women feel about their experience with the criminal law with respect to HIV non-disclosure?

Où va-t-on ?

2012 • 2 min

100% Renewable Energy

2012 • 2 min • Japan

Short film directed by Amika Kubo and sponsored by WWF Japan as part of their campaign to move Japan away from nuclear energy and towards the use of renewable energy.

Celestial Space

2012 • 28 min

Rak and Noi are construction workers lovers who live on a construction camp site. Everything seems to be normal. However, on their wedding night, Rak can’t perform sexually and it looks like both of them are stuck in the darkness.

Psychics III : Frans Dupont / Rooseum, Gasverksgatan 22, Malmoe

2012 • 40 min • Sweden

A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces, despite the limitations of rational discourse. The video is not edited, respecting the actual duration of the performance. In this particular case, Frans Dupont is looking at the past but also at the future of Rooseum - Center for contemporary art in Malmoe, which was on the verge of being shut down while Blum was artist-in-residence.

María Elena Walsh: Postal Detenida

2012 • 55 min • Argentina

María Elena Walsh forever revolutionized the language and imagination of children's shows. But very few know the importance of his works for adults, his political convictions against dictatorships and his defense of women's rights. Topics addressed by this work that covers the main conflicts experienced in his personal and professional life. From his adolescence as a precocious poet in an oppressive society, until his later years, after leaving the stage during the last Argentine military government.

2012

2012 • 2 min

In the film 2012, fear and desire are constantly oscillating. The camera takes us to the boundary of a closed property. Initially the eye is reluctant to approach even further but curiosity is takes over and forces us to enter the house.

Thinking Dot

2012 • 8 min • Japan

This work is a consideration of the vision expressed by "dot".

a dog at SANGENJAYA

2012 • 11 min • Japan

Duas, Uma

2012 • 7 min • Brazil

A body with different temporalities resizes the movements of the same choreography.

Natale Nazista

2012 • 16 min • Italy

Natale Nazista is an ironic and caustic reflection on an aberrant "nostalgia for dictatorship", or rather on the insidious nature of political and economic power capable of acting pervasively on the collective consciousness to the point of becoming acquiescence and convinced acceptance.

Backmatter (1)

2012 • 10 min

The first film in a two-part study of daily routines.

The Line

2012 • 1 min • France

At dusk, Belfast murals come to life and transform themselves into creatures to allegorically re-enact the fierce fight that opposed the Unionists and the Republicans during the Irish Civil War.

The 100-Day Trial of Kanae Kijima

2012 • 49 min • Japan

Three mysterious deaths. The prosecutor claimed the defendant was a serial killer. Her lawyer said she was innocent. The evidence was limited, and the lay judges had difficulty reaching a verdict. Learn about the problems real lay judges face.