All Films

The Taste of Salt

2011 • 52 min • Senegal, France

At Ngay Ngay, a village in northern Senegal, there are real natural evaporative basins in which depending on the year large or small quantities of sea salt dry out. Located 15 kilometres from Saint-Louis, the village is living around a complex community organisation: men divide the salt fields into plots, and women are those who harvest. In the end, the men receive a share of the crop, while women are those who took great pains over the harvesting.

Skinemax

2011 • 55 min

Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It's long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind. A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that motivated, delighted, and terrified us on the silver screen, set to propulsive modern music that pines for a simpler time.

Vicious Cycles

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote attempts to catch the Road Runner by riding on motorcycles he stole near Chuck's Roadhouse tavern.

Heavy Metal

2011 • 2 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote dresses up in a robotic suit filled with spy equipment to finally capture the Road Runner. However, his suit turns out to be too heavy.

Triangle: Remembering the Fire

2011 • 40 min • United States of America

On March 25, 1911, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City. Trapped inside the upper floors of a ten-story building, 146 workers - mostly young immigrant women and teenage girls - were burned alive or forced to jump to their deaths to escape an inferno that consumed the factory in just 18 minutes. It was the worst disaster at a workplace in New York State until 9/11. The tragedy changed the course of history, paving the way for government to represent working people, not just business, for the first time, and helped an emerging American middle class to live the American Dream.

Endless Roads

2011 • 51 min • Spain

7 female riders, 1 van, 15 days, 4,300km, 416 GB of raw material… culminating in one video, divided into four chapters. The film documents the adventure of the trip, portraying the girls, their lifestyle and their passion for longboard.

Ré La Belle

2011 • 4 min

Film shot on the Isle of Ré where I spent my vacations as a child at my grandparents' house. I attempted to show everything that had moved me.

Dominic

2011 • 15 min

Ten years after his lover's inexplicable suicide, Dominic is consumed with a need for absolution. But he is unable to let go and instead discovers an elaborate method of coping with his loss.

Witness: Disaster in Japan

2011 • 45 min • United States of America

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck 75 miles off the eastern coast of Japan. Almost immediately, tsunami warnings blared, urging residents along Japan's coast to quickly move to higher ground. For the next several hours, residents watched in stunned horror as a series of massive waves slammed into the coast, inundating entire towns and sweeping across the countryside, laying waste to everything in its path. Throughout, amateur videographers, news crews, government agencies, tourists, and countless others were recording the sights and sounds of the unfolding catastrophe. Weaving together their footage, Witness: Japan's Disaster reconstructs the earthquake and tsunami as they happened, entirely through the eyes of those who experienced them.

Não Permita Deus Que Eu Morra Sem Que Volte Para Lá

2011 • 54 min • Brazil

Dálvaro José de Oliveira survived the German attack that sank two Brazilian ships in 1942.

Garagouz

2011 • 24 min • Algeria

Mokhtar earns his living as a puppeteer, aided by his son. Using his old van, he moves between the few schools scattered in the gloomy countryside.

Twelve Stories about the Flood

2011 • 23 min • Taiwan

This documentary tells the sorrow and helplessness faced by villagers in Nansalu Village (Ming Tribe) of Namaxia Township at southern Taiwan, a hard-hit area by typhoon Morakot. The twelve short stories about homes depict the kind of emotional entanglement experienced by the tribal people after going through a drastic disaster. These stories portray the cruelty of reality and allow the audience to see how it forges endurance of life.

Tupac Uncensored and Uncut: The Lost Prison Tapes

2011 • 44 min • United States of America

As Tupac's interviewer announces, 'Tupac, this interview is not about your trial, or your court appeals it is about Tupac, the inner man, then, and now.' Featuring an uncut and never-before-seen interview at the Clinton Correctional Facility, TUPAC UNCENSORED AND UNCUT: THE LOST PRISON TAPES presents a raw look into Tupac's world, as the rapper riffs on topics ranging from his involvement with gang life to prisons in America to his relationship with his mother. What emerges is a moving self-portrait of an artist who sees himself as fundamentally misunderstood: He may have diagnosed thug life, but he didn't invent it, and he is determined to uplift not destroy the black community. Capturing the intensity and passion of a fierce talent, TUPAC UNCENSORED AND UNCUT: THE LOST PRISON TAPES offers a glimpse inside the mind of the enigmatic artist whose music is, in his own words, 'all about life.'

I Love You Like Crazy

2011 • 22 min

Dan is crazy. He's schizophrenic, he has delusions that he's a rock star, and he's haunted by the voice of a controlling band manager who doesn't actually exist. When he gets thrown in the psych ward again, he meets Melody, a feisty punk girl who teaches him how to love. Like crazy.

Attic

2011 • 3 min • France

Foreword to Guns for Banta

2011 • 27 min

Originally an analog slide show made for two projectors, this work recounts the making of Sarah Maldoror's lost and surely never-to-be-seen first film Guns for Banta.

Goyo Cardenas: Spree Killer

2011 • 17 min

A documentary about the inspiration for Santa Sangre

Move

2011 • 1 min • Australia

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage - a short devoted to motion and travel.

Walt Disney's Taxi Driver

2011 • 4 min

Walt Disney's re-imagineering of Martin Scorsese's classic film Taxi Driver follows Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City. A 'fair use' parody by Bryan Boyce.

Heraut

2011 • 40 min

Living on an island, four isolated characters, unexpectedly come in touch with each other, so their day is different than usual. For that one day they decide to pull together and for the first time in many years, they finally seem to be able to connect with other people.

Why Did the Dinosaurs Disappear?

2011 • 3 min

Short film based on the idea of what it would be possible to see the earth from a distance so that allowed us to see their past, see the dinosaurs, Romans, our grandparents.

LoveMEATender

2011 • 52 min

How did meat become something so commonplace on our plates? LoveMEATender is a Belgian documentary that reveals the truth hiding behind our steak.

Brava Victòria!

2011 • 52 min • Spain

A great documentary about the great soprano Victoria de los Angeles. Many unseen footage, filmed by the same soprano in his travels are one of the attractions of this "Brava Victoria".

The Book of Natural Magic

2011 • 3 min

An exploration of the properties of mirrors and other devices of illusions inspired by the encounter with an old edition of Giambattista della Porta’s Magiae Naturalis.