All Films

A rumination on cinematic time reversals as versatile continuums. Re-discovering the outdoors as (a stage) set where the natural is made to pose as the artifice.

"Mal Necesario" it's a documentary that deals with the piracy of venezuelan films in their country. Featuring interview with directors Marcel Rasquín ("Hermano") and Mariana Rondón ("Postales de Leningrado"), it tries to understand why the pirate market it's so accepted in Venezuela by the audience, filmmakers and authorities.

"Juanita", through an intimate and poetic statement, tells the story of Márcia Gomes da Silva. A mother who had her youngest son disappeared and her life transformed. Inspired by the homonymous poem by Cida Pedrosa, the film tells us about pain, love and hope.

The mother figure revisited is a recurring theme in Louise Bourque’s work. A celluloid deterioration that addresses the ephemeral quality of the captured moment (the present) while revealing the insistent power of human presence in even the most deteriorated of states. The image of the mother is like a ghost that we won't let go. A lament for the inevitable loss of legibility.

"HBOX" or "Hermes Box" is a work by architect Didier; the entire video work is displayed inside a box. At his exhibition, artist Wang Jiawei talked about the piece he created for this venue, "Zero" — a performance art work. In terms of visual structure, it is more like a classic painting. It is performed on a very simple stage; the way Wang chooses and handles social themes lets us think of Brecht's theater. "Zero" tells a story for everyone. At the beginning, the film shows a person jumping from a building. In the process of jumping, seven floors go by, and as the jumper passes each, he sees a scene through the window. These scenes he cannot escape. Wang said that his artistic inspiration and the social reality of his film came from recent serial suicide jumping cases in China. In one case, 12 people jumped, one after another; the oldest was 21, and the youngest 19.

Lee is no ordinary warrior: he has a secret love. When his secret is revealed - Lee must face the hardest battle of her life: to gain respect.

Short movie by Tarafu Otani This is an animation made by time-lapse photography and live-action synthesis of a green bean ladder.

An abstract uncontrollable ride towards the alluring, glamorous and unreachable which guarantees satisfaction and success but also destruction and realization.

"A 4 channel video installation based on youtube material made by individuals filming themselves in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Yemen, and Libya."

A stop-motion animation about spare buttons and the people who save them.

What does the land of a community ravaged by war save? In the orchard of Juana López, in the Ixil Community “31 de Mayo”, in Guatemala, opening a furrow becomes a song of hope.

Inside 9/11: The War Continues tells the evolving story of radical Islam's war against the West. Osama bin Laden has finally been brought to justice, but al Qaeda is still going strong.

The life of Marek Winslø, a young gay man who is savagely beaten while drunk, and how he recovers from that trauma.

A homophobic solider is in a battle zone when she learns that her two fellow soldiers are gay.

A documentary that mainly deals with the stories of the wartime and the suffering of the people of Afghanistan.

Social Distortion - Live Rock am Ring 2011

An absurd landscape with a form recirculating in its narrative tradition is transformed by the artists into interdisciplinary statement about loss of a message, impossibility of a dialogue, labyrinth of meanings. Monotony of action inclines to multitude of associations: myth about Sisyphus; Frieda of Bulgakov, who is constantly offered a handkerchief; grown-up daughter of Stalker, roaming in the Zone which gives neither fulfillment of desires, nor relief. The authors slowly immerse viewers into multilayered space, where surrounding reality is dissolving, and so is human sight, which rediscovers itself on the border in searches of initial static point. Such creative exercises can also be marked by rather expected desire to arrange knowledge and understanding of cinematograph in contemporary context of visual communication and conversion of created work into completely different, unexplored quality of the art.

Ron Simon, curator at the Paley Center for Media, takes a look at the legacy and importance of Reginald Rose, the writer of 12 Angry Men.

Film scholar Vance Kepley discusses the history of 12 Angry Men, and specifically its evolution from teleplay to feature film.

The first and unpublished Luis Robledo's film that was inspired in the Brad Anderson's selftitled film.

This video was featured in "Acting Out," the group exhibition guest-curated by Erin Riley-Lopez at the Bronx River Art Center from December 3, 2010 - January 8, 2011. The artists deliberately perform—in front of a camera, before an audience, or both— acting out their narratives and characters. Costuming, location, and props, among other elements, play an especially important role in these videos, as they provide the foundation for the entire scenario that is performed by the artists. Regardless of their strategies—which range from quiet interior reflection without monologue or dialogue, to more assertive questioning and discussion—they all share a keen interest in tackling normative societal structures, traditional hierarchical roles, and what it means to be a woman.

Audiovisual release by MPLD (Gill Arnò) using amplified slide projection.

The filmmaker's response to her experience of the hijacking of her city during the Toronto G20 Summit, "Ransom Notes" re-appropriates language and meaning through the act of collage. The film combines new and old media (film, newsprint, print-outs of twitter feeds) to explore social mobilization through mass media. The soundtrack of the film was created by placing letters, words and sentences directly on the optical soundtrack.

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