All Films

Pixel Baby

2008 • 5 min • Austria

Crying infant and the metaphorical resolution in a digital order in the binary code of 0 and 1.

Celos

2008 • 6 min

Luis and David, a gay couple, both study at university and David also has many gay friends. Luis will argue with his boyfriend because he is jealous to think that his son can flirt with other men. And he asks for something impossible: to leave his "queer" friends.

New Zealand: Quest for Kiatiaktanga

2008 • 54 min

Traverse the southernmost reaches of civilization to uncover New Zealand's pristine natural beauty, alluring culture, and enigmatic mythology.

Giallo (canicule)

2008 • 15 min

A blazingly hot film, painted by hand in the summer heat.

Hello Antenna

2008 • 4 min • Germany

The story about Susie, her mother, the Royal Family and shopping. Animated music video with lots of airplanes, antennas and a big explosion.

home.movie

2008 • 10 min • Austria

home.movie is an extremely mobile film. The camera pans, scans, jolts, and races through Martin Bruch's apartment, never standing still for a moment, and every shot is a pan or tracking shot.

Working on it

2008 • 50 min

A film about sex and sexual identity. Interviews are used in the film to lead a discourse on day-to-day dealings with sex and identity and explore how these are construed out on the street, in film/on television and in personal relationships. How can insinuations and overtones be counteracted? Who or what decides a person’s sex? An active queer community exists in Berlin. Queering is perceived as an exercise in re-examining experiences, perceptions, knowledge, constraints and desires.

Mysterious! Unbelievable: Horror! The Cursed Game

2008 • 60 min • Japan

This psychic documentary introduces a number of ghost photos that have been submitted, and also explores the haunting truth behind them. The film is full of shocking stories, such as ......, where a hair-raising curse was placed on a simple innocent game.

Space Circus

2008 • 5 min • Japan

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

Authentic Recordings! Cursed Urban Legends: The Underworld of Tokyo

2008 • 58 min • Japan

This films highlights some of Japanese most infamous urban legends that have been passed down generation by generation. Some of the urban legends included are Hana Ichi Monme and the first part of 'Inunaki Village').

Geduld der Erinnerung

2008 • 6 min

The memory of Dresden, the city which was one of the most painted and destroyed in the past centurys. A romantic-expressive trip into the past, sort of fictive documentary in animation. All material used in film are the artworks from the artists who use to work in this city. From Caspar David Friedrich to WOLS.

In A Shrine

2008 • 14 min

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

The Secret Peacemaker

2008 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Brendan Duddy is an ordinary man from Derry who, for more than 20 years, was at the centre of extraordinary events that eventually led to the historic IRA ceasefire of 1994 and the Belfast Agreement. During that time his identity was kept a closely guarded secret by those with whom he dealt - representatives of the IRA's ruling army council and British intelligence officers from MI6 and MI5. Until now, he's only been referred to as "The Link" or "The Contact", the secret intermediary whose aim was to bring the two sides together to end the conflict.

Colors

2008 • 6 min • Mexico

Andrés Ibáñez short film from 2008 shot on 35 mm.

Scary True Stories: Night 9 - Suicide Note

2008 • 60 min • Japan

14th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

Obar

2008 • 12 min • United States of America

Obar is a super-8 portrait of a New Mexico ghost town. Disembodied oral histories of water dowsing and train hoping provide insight into the towns possibilities and failures, while time lapse images of the desolate landscape paint an eerie portrait of life on the wild frontier.

Shinrei Kenkyūka Ikeda Takeo no Reikai Junrei Sono Shi: Kinton no Kohan Kimigano Junrei

2008 • 60 min • Japan

This is the fourth installment of the horror documentary series in which psychic Takeo Ikeda undertakes a terrifying pilgrimage to save souls in the afterlife. The film clearly depicts his pilgrimage as he listens to the voices of the spirits who remain in this world even after death and are never rewarded.

Mysterious! Unbelievable: Book of Prophecy

2008 • 60 min • Japan

The latest in a series of psychic documentaries compiling horror stories submitted by ordinary viewers. The film introduces a number of haunting ghost photos submitted by viewers, and explores the shocking truth behind them. The many frightening images that cannot be seen directly will surely shake all viewers to their very core.

Guest Worker Vera

2008 • 39 min • Russia

In the seemingly simple fate of the heroine of the film, Vera, there is a whole tangle of social, national, demographic and other problems of our difficult time.

Mighty Lady Excelio & Astral 1st Stage

2008 • 40 min • Japan

An entry in the Mighty Lady tokusatsu series and the first part of the Mighty Lady Excelio & Astral duology

Seriously Film

2008 • 1 min

70MM Film Leader soaked in MSG and boiling water - inscribed & stamped with the word seriously - with Viagra, Visine and Fake tanning lotion, 2008, 1 minute, 1 second 70mm film transferred to digital video

It Seems to Rain

2008 • 37 min • Taiwan

Kuan has to straighten his naturally born curly hair with a hair straightener before school everyday. But due to the raining season...

Kipple

2008 • 30 min

Compiled by Eagle & Feather from videos found entirely in Stoke-on-Trent charity shops between September 2008 and November 2008. The material was re-kippled at the Monastery, Slaithwaite.

Unlucky in Love: An Unrequited Love Story

2008 • 15 min

This endearing featurette examines the love lives of the Peanuts characters and it also looks at how creator Charles Schultz's own personal views on love and relationships influenced his work.