All Films

Amy Carmichael: Mother to the Motherless

2011 • 58 min

The true story of a brave missionary and her battle to rescue young girls in India from being sold into prostitution and create a safe haven for them.

Trust Me It Works

2011 • 41 min • Germany

The documentary is about the British Choreographer Royston Maldoom (OBE) and his work on the Community Dance Piece that he created with children, teenagers and adults in Germany's city Detmold in 2010. It's a film about the educational power of dance.

Caffenol

2011 • 8 min

Visionaries intoxicated by the smell of coffee start to dream, and eventually end up sinking into a bottomless black sea. This silent short was filmed in 8mm during the director's first visit to Europe in the summer of 2011, and hand-developed using a homemade coffee-based developer. Colours were added by painting directly onto the film.

Cante com Peixonauta

2011 • 33 min • Brazil

Peixonauta and his friends Marina and Zico will talk a little about healthy eating, acceptance of differences and preservation of the environment. Let's have fun with lots of music and dancing.

Blue Desert

2011 • 12 min

In Blue Desert, Seoungho Cho transforms a sublime natural landscape into a stunning abstraction through precise electronic manipulation. Writes Cho: "Blue Desert is one in a series of ongoing visual struggles with Death Valley, a specific desert landscape which I have worked with since 1992. It is also not the last piece, as I have every intention to continue producing works about Death Valley. Death Valley has been quite simply my favorite place on the earth since my first visit in 1992."

Stall Stories: A History of Portobello Road Market

2011 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Made by Colville Primary School with support from digital:works with funding provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Soon we

2011 • 49 min

A Life's Work

2011 • 18 min

In the fifteen years since leaving the job he hated, D.J. Blanton has thrown himself into his practice as a blacksmith, building thousands of pieces in his home shop. A Life’s Work considers the intersection of art and life—the curiosities we are born with and the legacies we leave behind.

Genderf*kation: A Gender Emancipation

2011 • 52 min

'Genderf*kation: A Gender Emancipation' is the story of six individuals and their journey through the social, religious and political landscapes of a society that struggles to understand or allows for gender variations. This documentary includes provocative interviews with professionals and outreach members who are active in this community to help shed light on a very unfamiliar subject. This film breaks through the gender stereo-types and historical gender ideologies to liberate our bodies, minds and spirits from our own social Gender Dysphoria. Although 'Genderf*kation: A Gender Emancipation' is based in Minnesota, the subject mat

Broken Bodies

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

Aimee Le's body and suffering-centered work for FS47, Theory and Practice of Editing

Wheels

2011 • 3 min

“Wheels” is a film about relative motion as described by Descartes: if 2 objects are moving in the same direction and speed they seem to be still between each other. Inspired by Duchampian tradition, Pedro and João filmed a short chronicle of curved means of transportation in the tropics. Overlaying directly on the negative (camera editing) the feat of paradoxically freezing a moving bicycle wheel, a car wheel and anamorphic depiction of tire, João and Pedro constate that for that to happen everything else must be perceived as a gyroscope.

Dad's Having a Baby

2011 • 60 min

Tom and Scott each came from traditional families. Now gay men, they met and fell in love. Scott became known worldwide as the pregnant man when he gave birth to his first biological son in 2010. This film follows him and his husband Tom along with their two adopted sons over Thanksgiving, as they face the trials of living in bible belt America.

الجنس والمدينة

2011 • 6 min • Canada

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

Brewster, MA

2011 • 11 min

“Frolicking on the beach in early June, before the start of the summer season.” - Ernie Gehr

Pathetic Magic

2011 • 5 min

Experimental animated film by Karen Yasinsky with music by Thank You

The Last Day of the Honeymoon

2011 • 30 min • Lithuania

A young couple is coming back after their honeymoon. On the way home they find themselves in many unexpected situations that are possible to get out of only if you love each other a lot. It is a short film about love. Have you ever seen such one? Sure exactly one like this?

The Visitation

2011 • 3 min • Canada

"A statue of the Madonna from a shrine in the house where I grew up takes on an uncanny appearance as if in response to an incantation (an oft-recited prayer from my childhood)." - Louise Bourque

year of the rabbit

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

A lunar ritual observed in rain and fog.

Lights Out

2011 • 1 min • France

In the city at night, the light spawns its way into the shadow territory.

Eleanor

2011 • 2 min • France

For Eleanor, the joy of living among other people is out of reach because of her extreme introversion, she shuts herself away in a depressive routine, with her cat as her only support, until the latter, hopeless for her, decides to leave home...

Argyle

2011 • 45 min

When aspiring filmmaker Charlie receives a one-time offer from a controversial, once-prominent documentary filmmaker, he reluctantly agrees to return to the small town where he was raised to investigate the origins of a notorious serial killer who also grew up there. Once home, he must contend with agitated townsfolk, pressure from his crew, and the awkwardness of reconnecting with the townies who never left.

Friends

2011 • 5 min • Japan

Junko Wada's performance captures the spirit of birds in flight.

Petroleo

2011 • 1 min • France

A man shipwrecked on a desert island desperately waits for help to come. An important discovery will change his situation... for the worse.

Doctor Who in America

2011 • 44 min

With all of the universe to explore, what keeps bringing the Doctor back to America? We uncover the Doctor's special relationship with the US, from Daleks on the streets of New York to robot gunslingers in the Wild West. The special includes behind-the-scenes reports from the Doctor's visits to the US and looks back at the references to the 50 States in Doctor Who.