All Films

It Takes Balls

2011 • 15 min

A young man waiting for a sex change operation is confronted by his masculine conscience, which tries desperately to convince him not to do it.

Excellencies

2011 • 10 min • Iran

Excellencies...

Oceans in Glass

2011 • 60 min

Behind the Scenes of the Monterey Bay Aquarium

London Underground Revealed

2011 • 46 min • United Kingdom

Any Londoner can tell you that the Tube is overcrowded. But how many know the real reasons why? In the premiere of London Underground Revealed journey below London's pavements to look back over 125 years of crushed commuters and rush-hour rage and discover remarkable engineering history behind the biggest metro system in the Western world. With each day bringing over 4 million passengers into a vast network of tunnels under the city, the iconic transport system is creakingly close to capacity. Can an ambitious plot involving £16-billion to build 30 new stations drag it back from the brink?

Shinsei Kamattechan

2011 • 4 min

An old cleaner goes on a cleaning rampage in the sewers of a futuristic city, after he lost his job to a robot. The seventh part of GAINAX' "Music is SF" series.

Dreams

2011 • 2 min

Experimental short by Tatsuhiro Ariyoshi.

Edge Cutters

2011 • 25 min

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

La nadadora

2011 • 10 min • Spain

After an argument with her boyfriend, Maria goes to find him but he seems to refuse her attempts to make things up.

RIP Geocities

2011 • 3 min

As though on a rollercoaster at an amusement park, “RIP Geocities” is a ride through what Hollywood envisioned as cyberspace in the 1990’s. Geocities, a website that hosted personal homepages for free, was a locus of creative Internet energy in the 1990’s. This video abstractly represents and mourns the loss of not only the Geocities website, but also the culture it engendered, teeming with polyphonic, hand-coded web presences

The Stone Boy

2011 • 6 min

He hears the whispers of gargoyles in a hall of heavy stone.

My Tree

2011 • 48 min

Hello, my name is Marie and I am ten years old. And let me tell you I am not always comfortable in my skin, particularly at Christmas time when I get torn between household and household. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you: I have two fathers, two mothers, a stepfather, a stepmother and I know not how many (half-)brothers and sisters and other relatives (or not!). How can that be? Well my mother is gay and has a new companion. My father is also homosexual and he too has a new mate and..., Oh leave me alone, I just can't work it out! And how did I come into this word? Who gave me life? Am I not, like the other Mary, after Whom I am named, the fruit of the Immaculate Conception...???

Stick Climbing

2011 • 14 min • Austria, Switzerland

A contemplative walk leads to a bizarre climb. The camera, which has barely touched on an everyday rural landscape, attaches itself to a wooden track to follow a breakneck route over a vertical rock face. At the end: a view of the starting point of the journey - the village! It is only a few minutes of film, but hints at an eternity, far, deep under the rock face.

Muse

2011 • 2 min

A film inspired by birds, planes, and flight. Based on a poem by Filipino writer Allan Pastrana.

3 L Affairs

2011 • 24 min

A love story between 3 people who are named as Luc, Laurence, and Liz (the 3 L's). Luc is a young Chinese guy working in a foreign company in Beijing, who is secretly in love with his foreign boss Laurence. But later he finds that Laurence is very close to a girl Liz. Just when he decides to move on suddenly things change. Where is love going to lead these three people? The movie tells you in three chapters from each of three people’s angles to unveil the truth beneath love.

Hoy no se hace pastel de chucho

2011 • 5 min

Felix the fisherman goes after Chucho the stingray in an intense underwater persecution that only comes to an end when they are both buried by garbage that is dumped by a passing ship. This experience forces Felix to reflect on the polluted ocean that sustains his living.

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2011 • 6 min • Japan

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2011 • 5 min • Japan

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Schwalbennest

2011 • 51 min

Lisa has a passion for mopeds. So does Heinrich, and the two become friends. Soon their relationship blossoms into something deeper. But in "Schwalbennest", homosexuality is the norm. When her fathers find out about Heinrich, Lisa must choose. Should she respect her family's wishes? Or will she be true to herself and the one she loves?

Morning

2011 • 4 min

The oft-recounted tale of an immigrant’s identity, loss, and search for self in old places.

Women with a camera

2011 • 47 min • South Korea

Yu-nan, who took a role of a drummer in director Shin’s debut film, is preparing a solo album. Shin gives her a camcorder used in her film Passerby #3 and asks her to take a selfie. One day the camcorder that Shin lent to Do-yeon arrives. In the box, there was a documentary of her daughter she shot. Shin wonders who were the first woman to hold a movie camera in Korea.

Denden Interview

2011 • 20 min • Japan

Interview with actor Denden on Himizu

A Film Portrait on Reconstructing 12 Possibilities that Preceded the Disappearance of Zoe Dean Drum

2011 • 11 min • Canada

Through a series of meticulously crafted scenes, A Film Portrait... devises a disturbing presence-in-absence concept that compel a new gaze from the spectator. The clichés of the thriller film are exploited through a series of progressive tableaux as the experimental narrative recreates 12 scenes that hypothesize the disappearance of Zoe Dean Drum.

Dollface

2011 • 8 min

A couple's Halloween Night turns into a night from hell when a mysterious and strangely costumed woman shows up at their door.

Eve

2011 • 6 min

Experimental cameraless short by Hirotada Suzuki.