All Films

5 Walks. Hercynia Silva

2008 • 16 min • Netherlands

In the northern region is the vast expanse of the Hercynian forest, untouched by the ages and coeval with the world, which surpasses all marvels by its almost immortal destiny.

Hans Richter Early Works

2008 • 49 min

SYNOPSIS: 8 films by Hans Richter. Richter's position in the art world was unique. As one of the earliest exponents of Dada, he was also one of the first to recognize the new possibilities cinematography offered the artist. He participated in the first avant-garde film movement alongside Léger, Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Cocteau and Dali, and later in New York his teachings would influence many of the 'New American Cinema' filmmakers.

Les 120 jours de Sodome

2008 • 1 min • Canada

Sadistic purity of transfer of raw emotions from the reading of the work of the Marquis de Sade “The 120 days of Sodom. Engraving and painting on film

aTienda

2008 • 5 min • Spain

DSK produced three surprising publicity videos carried by the very personal e-store platform Codeco.org for three highly peculiar products: Bin2pdf software, the antivirus Codeco aT, and Codeco T-shirts. Bin2pdf ad (analogue backup). 2008, 1 min. Codeco aT ad (analogue backup). 2008, 1 min. Codeco T-shirt ad. 2008, 1 min.

Sand Saga

2008 • 11 min

In Sand Saga, Moulton's alter ego Cynthia again gains access to a parallel universe via the transformative powers of New Age body treatments and domestic objects. After applying a facial beauty mask, she moves through an environment energized with Southwestern motifs and rituals, from sculpted heads and Georgia O'Keefe-like forms to sand painting and hot stone massage. Ultimately Cynthia is transported to a fantastical world and emerges transformed.

The Lavender Boys

2008 • 17 min

A short narrative film featuring John and Sid, an elderly gay couple, as they talk about being gay in 1960's Oxford, coming out and family reactions to them, the impact of the Stonewall Riots on the gay rights movements, and their role models and influences. It offers an intimate and personal account of less tolerant times, but also hope for the future.

I hate you don't touch me or Bat and Hat

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

When the mundane becomes gruesome.This film is about dealing with change and attempting to hold on to beliefs. We give something up when we try to make ourselves better.

three nooses

2008 • 4 min • Turkey

to the seas...

anopticon

2008 • 5 min

It could not be there!

All That Remains

2008 • 8 min

A study in the light, textures and ghosts that make up the abandoned.

Fraternity

2008 • 5 min

A performance of masculinity and élite-white-male rage, filmed inside the fraternity house of the Yale chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

v=d/t (velocity = distance / time)

2008 • 8 min

v=d/t is the physics formula which calculates velocity by dividing the distance traveled by the time required to travel that distance. This film explores the possibility of measuring distances between loved ones through time zones. The sound track is comprised of personal and tragic phone messages left on voicemail when individuals could not connect due to great time zone differences, while the visual elements present simple and contemplative images of antique telephones.

Q2008

2008 • 14 min

Inspired by automatic painting machines and looking for a way to replicate the effect in a digital space, Mengbo discovered that within the code for the video game Quake III Arena there existed a parameter called r_drawworld. After changing the parameter from it's default of 0 to 1, he found it was possible to capture a sequence of animation in one frame, which he used to create a painting machine from entirely within in the game's engine. His live painting efforts using this technique are showcased and set to a Hawaiian music soundtrack.

Memory of spider and moth

2008 • 33 min

Short film by Omori Hiroki screened at YIDFF 2009. A drunken lover. An anti-romantic friend. The soliloquy of a cat. Fragment gleaned from time to pass away is keeps obtaining the place on the film, and asking the meaning until the future. The camera works everyday to collect fragments of usual daily life. This film was made with usual days.

Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS): A Sacred Calling

2008 • 18 min • Canada

Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS) is the largest First Nation police force in North America. Police officers in this severely underfunded police force go above and beyond the call of duty when compared to other police officers. NAPS officer duties include, cutting firewood for the wood stove that heats the police detachment and emptying slop buckets with prisoners’ urine and excrement. "A Sacred Calling" shows the deplorable working conditions and the devastating personal consequences to NAPS officers as they heroically provide security and safety to First Nation communities in the remote north of Ontario.

Rotunda

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

Designed by Thomas Jefferson to represent the “authority of nature and the power of reason,” the Rotunda is the physical and symbolic center of the University of Virginia, founded by Jefferson in 1824 as the first secular Liberal Arts university in America. Composer Judith Shatin and filmmaker Robert Arnold have created a portrait of the Rotunda that combines its timeless majesty with the ever-changing hum of daily life. Sounds and images recorded over the course of an entire year from season to season, are presented as a single day, from dawn to sunset.

Your children will become like us

2008 • 28 min

In the night of November 14, 2006, a Castor transport drove to the Gorleben interim storage facility. Some opponents of nuclear power are protesting on the streets. They are faced with a large contingent of police. Also in May 2007, at the meeting of the G-8 states in Heiligendamm, the demonstrators were confronted with an enormous police presence. Andree Korpys and Markus Löffler documented the two events.

Street Lights

2008 • 4 min

Super-8 film of night and daytime cityscapes and illuminations, collected over several years and spliced together into a split-screen collage. The work is a mixture of home movie found footage, offcuts from various projects and specially filmed sequences, and has an electronic soundtrack to compliment the cut up collage style.

Mystic Tube #2: Number of Fluorescents

2008 • 11 min • Japan

The second episode from the "Mystic Tube" series ascertains the variations of "transitions of the reverberations as the sound sources are moved" with continuing the same basic simple plot of "pilgrims pass through a tunnel, playing music as they make their way to their destination". This episode is about the four pilgrims who are led into a high-key sunbeam. The drones and Mevrevic riff in three different folk flutes (Quena, Shinobue, Suling) are intoxicated under the interference of the fluorescences, still, the four continue with their pilgrimage.

Don't Erase My History

2008 • 30 min

A cross-section of Bay Area youth take viewers on a quest for the very history that has no name in their schools. Together, they open archival closets and talk with LGBTQ artists, activists, and pioneers. In a world where their queer history is still regularly erased, what will they discover?

DAISUKE ICHIBA Anime

2008 • 2 min

Experimental short film featuring artwork by Daisuke Ichiba.

Becoming Vera

2008 • 54 min • Cameroon, France, Russia

Between age three and four, Vera Loumpet-Galitzine traverses many landscapes, exploring where she comes from, to come into her own. We follow her to her school and neighbourhood activities in France, Cameroon and Russia. As Vera dances, sings and runs around these visually engaging landscapes, seemingly easily integrated into her rich fantasy world, we attempt to imagine what they look like to her. What does she see, think, or imagine?

Candidíase

2008 • 8 min

Two girls, Cândida and Serena, with different expectations about their relationship. Serena, unable to deal with Cândida's lightness, decides to take a stand and face the ghost that haunts her. The ghost hides in the closet ....

Chronos 1.0

2008 • 1 min

In this animation short directed by four Gobelins students, a time traveller takes off for the first manned trip to the future ... but the past beckons.