All Films

A Son

2011 • 20 min

A psychologist pushes a young boy to tell why he wanted to commit suicide. What he discovers will go beyond his expectations.

Tiempo de descuento

2011 • 9 min

Troy: Naked Boys Behind Bars, Sing!

2011 • 14 min

A silly, sweet, slightly sarcastic, animated satire of cheesy, gaysploitation entertainment. Twenty-something, out and proud, gay actor Troy McDougall gets what he believes will be his big break into the business, a lead in the new musical 'Naked Boys Behind Bars, Sing!' He then falls for his hunky, gorgeous, dim-witted, baby-faced co-star Nick, who is, unfortunately for the love-struck Troy, straight. Or is he?

What It Could Be

2011 • 17 min

Together, Natalia and Catarina find the chords of a song that can break down a wall.

Familiensache

2011 • 27 min

A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions. Excessive partying has left its mark on the parents and shaped the son. With raw honesty, the family takes stock of living and growing up together.

Meet the Mothers

2011 • 15 min

A young couple discovers they're going to have a baby and have yet to meet each others parents. Rosie is nervous about telling her boyfriend Drew that she has two lesbian moms, a gay dad and a gay brother and when she finally gets the courage to come out -- Drew surprises her with a secret of his own.

Nerd Nerf Wars

2011 • 10 min

Lambda lambda lambda, nerds!

Chocolate Kingdom

2011 • 4 min

The story of a planet where people of different colors cannot mix. Stop-motion animation made with chocolate.

striations

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

striations is a two-channel video made by Steve Roden with artist Mary Simpson. It was originally part of a larger exhibition that included painting, drawing, and sculpture related to an unfinished stone sculpture made by Roden’s grandmother. The film attempts to use fragments of “stilled” information whose meanings are unknown or unresolved, to become active again through engagement and use. The imagery includes Roden’s grandmother’s half carved stones, as well as images related to Henry Moore and artifacts of his grandmother’s objects left behind, such as the crayons used in the rubbings, and the photographs of birds she used as inspiration/study for sculpture never realized. striations is accompanied by distance piece, a soundwork that intertwines with the silent film.

Disease of Manifestation

2011 • 9 min • Taiwan

This work is an argument initiated with Wendy Brown’s article Resisting Left Melancholy. She applied Walter Benjamin’s notion of “Left Melancholia” to see the political thoughts and the norms in the left-wing movement/ theory traditions as the notion of melancholia. There is the thingness of the thoughts that can see as the lost object. Extends this idea, the thingness of thoughts, come from one’s personal or collective memories could become the pathological fixation.

Lose Yourself

2011 • 5 min

A driving disco beat demands that you nod your head while an ever-shifting sunset doles out questionable advice culled from the top of the pop charts.

A Pencil, A Boy and a Dream

2011 • 9 min • Serbia

Story about growing up, adulthood and premature end of the eternal boy. By drawing a parallel between his real life and his dreams, it depicts a man who actually lived his dreams, up until the biggest of them outgrew him and absorbed him permanently.

QTzrk_loop

2011 • 3 min

Deconstructed video created for the Filtering Failure gallery show at PLANETART in Amsterdam.

Désertique

2011 • 1 min

A glitch video animation by French graphic designer Tinmaar (Martin Carlier)

Drift

2011 • 6 min • Japan

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sheet metal fence with dry leaves

2011 • 6 min

Wind in the jungle, waves of the sea that extend as far as the inner senses can reach and much more too. A network is shaken making noises of dry leaves, that network separates things. DMT circulating in the brain.

Hyper Geography

2011 • 1 min

A slow-motion flight over mountains, polar seas and deserts whose contours dissolve again and again, overlaid with still images, accompanied by the sounds of wind, water and birdsong. There are surface structures and indefinable patterns or grids, superimposed on mountain ranges and ice, desert sand and canyons, merging with them to form a semi-synthetic and sublime landscape.

Breathing for Metaphors

2011 • 6 min

This piece is dedicated to Merrilee Edgar and Peter Matussek. They focused me on my breathing, and the breathing of the Simultaneous Opposites Engine. This breathing, the duration and physicality of which is itself a focus of this video, is also of course a metaphor, one that is accepted through our implicit empathy for all objects. In an inversion: these metaphors are the intentions of Man, they are how we understand the meaning of the world, and how we know "what it's like outside".

Dated

2011 • 3 min

The story of a modern girl, an old-fashioned guy, and the ex who tried to come between them.

Liquid Movements

2011 • 14 min • Germany

Some documentary material shot in the surroundings of Bonn is superimposed with found footage from Timbuktu. By chemical influences during the developing process the material gets an painterly quality evoking an atmosphere somewhere between dream and reality.

Overpass

2011 • 3 min

Footage of a car driving pass warped.

Benghazi Rising

2011 • 51 min

At the heart of the conflict that erupted in Benghazi in 2011, lay years of hurt and political repression. Through personal stories told by the people of Benghazi, we trace the conflict from its beginnings in a small protest over one lawyers imprisonment, and capture the inspiring story of how the unarmed people of Libya rocked the titanium police state built by Colonel Gaddafi.

Dauphin 007

2011 • 3 min

Referring to the heir-apparent to the French throne, Dauphin 007 is a short animation which draws on elements and narratives surrounding the French Revolution, chronicling a would-be king lion who meets an untimely demise via a MRI machine/guillotine.

Diary of a Protest

2011 • 4 min • Sudan

Demonstrations in Khartoum during the height of the Arab Spring.