All Films

Recipe for Love

2011 • 26 min

A film about two women from disparate backgrounds embark upon a journey of self-discovery, passion, and their love of food. Made in San Francisco but with strong Brazilian influences.

Truck Farm

2011 • 48 min

Documentary, comedy - Truck Farm is a whimsical, musically-narrated, documentary film about urban agriculture. Filmmaker Ian Cheney

These Blazeing Starrs!

2011 • 14 min • United States of America

Since comets have been recorded, they’ve augured disaster: catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. A short film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic ties to divination that combines imagery of 15th-18th century European broadsides with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory footage. …These Blazeing Starrs! juxtaposes a modern empirical desire to probe and measure against older methods, when star gazers were translators, explicating the sky more intuitively for predictions of human folly. Comets are now understood as time capsules harboring elemental information about the formation of our solar system. Today we smash rockets into them to read spectral signatures. In a sense, they remain oracles - it’s just the manner of divining which has changed.

Filmstar Fish: Struggle For Survival

2011 • 49 min

The Academy Award-winning animated movie “Finding Nemo” was a financial blockbuster. Ironically, the movie’s message of conservation has been swamped. Now everyone wants their own Nemo, with soaring demand driving a hugely profitable tropical fish industry. Twenty million clownfish, worth $ 500 million will be taken from the wild this year. Featuring all new HD footage of the lives of these fascinating creatures, this new documentary investigates the impact the movie has had on their survival.

The Sole of the Foot

2011 • 35 min

Borders (and all the politics attending the drawing of borders) exist to keep some people in (citizenship) and others out. This film is an attempt to capture the presence of people otherwise denied the political right to be at home in some place that is their home, where they have their roots, where they have their being.

Solar, the Blindman Eating a Papaya

2011 • 3 min • Portugal

16mm film, colour, no sound, 2'35"

Grrrl Love and Revolution: Riot Grrrl NYC

2011 • 42 min

Documents the underground feminist punk movement 'Riot Grrrl', a network of bands and fanzines that called for 'grrrl love' and 'grrrl empowerment' and whose fiery rhetoric and groundbreaking performances resuscitated both feminism and punk rock.

How to Get a Head in Sculpture

2011 • 60 min

From the heads of Roman Emperors to the 'blood head' of contemporary British artist Marc Quinn, the greatest figures in world sculpture have continually turned to the head to re-evaluate what it means to be human and to reformulate how closely sculpture can capture it. Witty, eclectic and insightful, this film is a journey through the most enduring subject for world sculpture, one that carves a path through politics and religion, the ancient and the modern. Actor David Thewlis has his head sculpted by three different sculptors, while the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, artist Maggi Hambling and art critic Rachel Johnston discuss art's most enduring preoccupation, ourselves.

Villatalla

2011 • 20 min • Chile, Italy, Switzerland

"Film shots and sound recordings over the course of one month in a remote mountain village in Liguria. I do not work with the illusion of the synchronisation of image and sound, but with the idea that these 2 dimensions do exist as realities independent of each other, and as such do in fact emerge in our consciousness. The world in Villatalla is not showcased but simply lived. The few remaining inhabitants pursue the few remaining work. Social life happens in a beautiful slowness of the present." Jeannette Muñoz.

Tadpole

2011 • 2 min

If you like tadpoles, fish, dragonflies and surprises, you’re going to love this beautiful, animated short film about a tadpole just trying to get a little rest.

Scala and Kolacny Brothers Live in Bruges

2011 • 59 min

Live performance by Scala & Kolacny Brothers, the all-female Belgian rock choir led by brothers Steven and Stijn. "Scala & Kolacny Brothers: Live from Bruges" features "rock's heavenly choir" (NPR Morning Edition) performing a diverse set of "ethereal spine-chillers" (Elle) at Concertgebouw Bruges Theater in the historic city of Bruges, Belgium. 'Live From Bruges' finds Scala weaving their own compositions through imaginative reworkings of classics from artists including The Police, Roberta Flack, The Mamas and The Papas, and U2.

Luce riflessa restituita alla notte

2011 • 9 min • Italy

Vance and Pepe

2011 • 53 min

In this mockumentary special based on characters from "The House of Venus Show", Vance and Pepe, two hosts of a renowned reality makeover series, find out their show has been canceled. Desperate for work, they devise a plan to use their 'fame' to find new careers in the porn industry.

Animal House

2011 • 52 min

Animals across the globe reveal themselves to be natural architects and engineers in this special highlights their unique construction skills.

One Eye Open

2011 • 6 min • Canada

Short film by Pascal Grandmaison.

Als Het Kan Dan Moet Het

2011 • 55 min

What inspires Dutch people who go ice skating over one night? Radio and TV warn that the ice is dangerous, but the true skater can not be stopped. Virgin ice is irresistible.

Narcolepsy

2011 • 22 min • United States of America

Narcolepsy includes footage shot with a small hand-held digital video camera, mobile phones and underwater devices. The videos appear on one monitor at a time, as the rest remain blank. A transparent rabbit in bed is superimposed on a dog in the snow; hands being washed under a faucet are juxtaposed with an outdoor flood; little girls play with dolls and mothers tend real babies; a spider web holds a captive fly.

Finiti

2011 • 28 min

[Originally] six virtual screens matted into three Blu-ray projections. First exhibited at the Centre Multimedia Gantner in 2011, then on an immersive 18 metre curved screen at Tate Britain in 2012. It explores an interplay between abstracted colour, personal imagery and war related newsreel, seeking a coherent set of linking themes. Perhaps an homage to Dziga Vertov. A single screen version was made in 2013 and shown in Millennium, New York and at Tate Britain.

Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now

2011 • 16 min • United States of America

Re-introduces us to the city of Slavutych and its residents/survivors of the Chernobyl disaster while the workers are still dismantling the plant.

Wild Sky

2011 • 42 min

A hospital room, a drip... At his sick father's bedside, in a final, silent showdown, Rachid B. recalls his strongest memories, those which, in the course of his life constructed him or drove him to the worst. From his childhood in Morocco to recollections of his homosexuality and rejection of Christianity, right up to his recent conversion to Islam, he gives an honest account of his life, his wanderings, and the splits that have marked it.

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2011 • 3 min • Japan

16mm film by Kayako Oki.

Body möbius strip

2011 • 5 min • South Korea

Experimental short by Minkyou Yoo.

Gale

2011 • 12 min

A few days before, after a harsh revelation, Mariana and Antonio reached an agreement to avoid an imminent separation. It seems he has not kept his part of the agreement. That night, she goes to his apartment to demand an explanation.

Warning Triangle

2011 • 6 min

A found footage film collage about the destructive triangle between a man, a woman, and her car. Produced for the exhibition "Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am." for the Museum Tinguely, Basel.