All Films

Lazy Virus Of The Afternoon

2011 • 8 min

8mm short by Yasunori Ikeda.

rial and tERROR

2011 • 15 min • United States of America

The film comprises pre-revolutionary Iranian TV commercials of Western commodities, Iranian 1960s psychedelic rock music, pirated tapes of American 1980s pop music videos distributed as contraband in post-revolutionary Iran, and home videos. Through its anagrammatical title and anachronistic structure, it creates a fragmented, cross-generational narrative of the Iranian diaspora through moments of collective loss, longing and violent disruption. A central question to this experimental video is how the notion of pleasure is shaped through imperial, military and state violence.

The Urgency of Sleep and the Cosmical Dome

2011 • 7 min • Portugal

A film by Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela.

freedom2dance

2011 • 20 min

NYC, 1970. At a time when African-Americans, women, LGBT and other minorities had few options for participation in society, a dance-based culture was born that encouraged total freedom of self-expression and communion with your fellow men and women. This underground subculture grew steadily over the next two decades but in the 1990s Mayor Giuliani resurrected forgotten Prohibition-era Cabaret Laws, which strictly regulate social dancing, successfully shutting down venues and repressing the city's once vibrant dance scene. To this day, dancing remains illegal in most bars and restaurants in 'the city that never sleeps.' freedom2dance chronicles the history of these restrictive laws through the lens of New York's legendary dance subculture.

Code Couleur

2011 • 1 min • France

A burka-clad woman is refused access because of her attire, and decides to take matters into her hands and change her dress-code.

Biooil

2011 • 1 min • France

The destruction of nature by man.

a pray

2011 • 3 min

Experimental short by Yuta Takehiro.

Shao nian yu dao

2011 • 27 min • China

A teenager and a knife

Lesson

2011 • 1 min

Experimental short by Kaneko Saori.

Lost Dojo Warriors GFantis Commercial

2011 • 4 min

A fake commercial for a Gfantis figure

Audrey Superhero

2011 • 9 min • United States of America

AUDREY SUPERHERO, an experimental documentary, explores the shifting terrain of gender identity. The film includes vividly charged discussions with Audrey, who insists she is Superman. Playful and arresting, Audrey de-cloaks from Clark Kent to Superman, revealing her “secret identity” as a boy. She does push-ups, practices flying, vehemently declares “I wanted to be a boy when I got borned, you know, outta your tummy!” and imagines “saving the police from the bad guy,” all the while drawing us into her state of transformation. The unscripted narrative is built through the collaboration of mother and daughter; Audrey is youthfully honest and willing to reveal her inner emotional state. She is open as only a six-year-old could be.

You're My Thrill

2011 • 13 min

Two guys know each other via chat and decide to meet for sex... but something unexpected happens.

Murderville USA

2011 • 30 min

A docudrama film called Murderville U.S.A. was filmed entirely in St. Louis, Missouri. It was filmed in a notoriously dangerous section on the Westside known for extreme violence and police activity. Exclusive raw & uncut footage shot Gangland style.

Changed Landscape

2011 • 7 min

Changed Landscape observes the mundane lives of cows, donkeys, ducks and humans, and juxtaposes them with the soundtrack of spectacular and catastrophic news headlines happening in the world at large. It depicts a natural world moving towards an ominous shift.

Bama and the Lost Gorillas

2011 • 44 min • Germany

Alfred Bama, an animal keeper from Cameroon, has an extraordinary connection with gorillas. "Nyango," one of the gorillas he looks after, is the world's only Cross River gorilla in captivity. Until just a few years ago, this species was thought to be extinct. Now, Bama embarks on the greatest challenge of his life: locating Nyango's family in the wild to protect them before it's too late.

Truth < Contradiction > False

2011 • 2 min

There is always existence of contradiction between truth and lie of dichotomy situation. The dichotomy situation tries to develop and resolve in collision and opposition. I will try to show the dichotomy situation with my body figure.

A Dan La Vi

2011 • 10 min • France

A roof, a floor, a bed: for Jahkin, this fishing hut may not be a choice, but it is a house. While waiting for life to offer him better, he adapts to it.

Die Ankunft Eines Zuges

2011 • 3 min

The Lumière brothers pointed their apparatus on the arrival of a train, and invented this way the art of movie-making. This event didn't loose any of its attraction until today.

Will-o'-the-wisp

2011 • 11 min

Single 8 short by Shintaro Kyonari.

Center*center

2011 • 4 min

Super8 short by Saika Tokunaga.

Beady Eye: Live From Abbey Road 2011

2011 • 30 min

On June 29th 2011, Beady Eye 'Live From Abbey Road' was broadcast on Channel 4.

Kaboul Ambulance

2011 • 29 min • Afghanistan

An ambulance company and its tireless heroes doing their job day and night in the chaotic streets and traffic jams of Kabul. A team made up of a driver and a doctor, who, having lost a child in a bomb attack, fights every day to save others’lives.

Check Point

2011 • 28 min • Afghanistan

At one of the many checkpoints in the city, policemen take turns, exposed to all dangers, far from their families, sheltered in containers where they share their meagre meals, and try to steal a few hours sleep.

Dr Thi's Clinic

2011 • 34 min • Vietnam

The villagers like to visit Dr Thi because they trust him. Most of his patients are over seventy years old. Though time has past, war sequels remain vivid. “Talking helps to relieve the pain” says Doctor Thi. The camera never leaves the precincts of the clinic where patients are filmed like the characters of an ancient theater play.