All Films

Based off a homophobic Bataille essay — L’Anus Solaire (1931) — which draws the erect penis as the sun, and the anus as the nighttime, attracted to each other but unable to exist together, Ron Athey’s performance work aims to queer Bataille’s theory. After pinning his face and head into a crown, Athey proceeds to fuck himself with a dildo attached to a pair of high heels, eventually releasing a string of pearls from his anus.

Give it your all, give it your best, give it your courage. Akane is withdrawn and unable to communicate well with others. She is looking for a job, but can't find one, and her younger brother, who lives with her, lectures her about it. Her hobby is to go for walks in the morning when the town is deserted. One snowy morning, Akane sees a man carrying a red TV and follows him to the rubbish dump. Akane is fascinated by the man's unique atmosphere, and takes the TV home with her. She dismantles the TV and makes a snail object from its parts. The next day, Akane is trying to return the TV with the snail hidden in it, when she is spotted by the man. She rushes to turn back, but decides to hand over the TV to the man. The town is covered with snow and is very quiet, and the protagonist never speaks. This is the director's way of reading the beauty in things that are often overlooked, and it leads effectively to the ending, in which the protagonist steps forward to communicate.

Filmed in 1997, Young Americans has a powerhouse cast of classic gay porn stars. These top adult models team up with four newbies and head off to the lush mountains of Southern California for some all-boy action. Oh right, the plot! Seven cute college guys spend a weekend of discovery. The shyness and limitations of college are soon swept away as they forget the books and get down to the detailed studying of their own beautiful youthful bodies!

WALL or FU MI KO #8.

Joe Fly is a stereoscopic 3D short film about a lazy, dreamy blue bottle fly who finds himself confronted with a nasty beetle, a giant mantis and a ghost. A recut version exists called Joe & Basket "Mostly Sports".

Short animation by Manfredo Manfredi

Formerly classified, this motion picture material documents Operation Tumbler Snapper, which detonated small yield atomic weapons to determine their effectiveness on troops, animals and buildings.

A highly evocative fable of the flaws of human ambition. It starts with a stormy debate between a man and his conscience. Torn between a rational approach and his desire to go his own way, he finally sets out on a initiatory journey that will end on a desert island. To see into the distance, he builds a lighthouse that will become his ivory tower, while the sea around him becomes the repository of his fantasies of wealth, love and glory. The Lighthouse is a visual feast. A wealth of technical and artistic inventiveness enriches the storyline. An animated film without words.

When Emily (the daughter of Holocaust concentration camp survivors) meets Gitta (a German-raised woman who considers herself removed from the events of the Holocaust), their burgeoning passion for one another is threatened by their markedly different relationships to history and memory. Negotiating, coping with, and transcending the past are the hallmarks of this compelling drama.

A campy spoof on various traditions of erotic representations, from contemporary commercial porn to Warhol's understated underground 16mm films, to lesbian wood nymphs. Also featured in a hilarious recurring infomercial segment is Mary Faké, promoting her special line of products for those interested in creating successful "sexual illusions."

Documentary film by the musical group The Dartz. The plot was mainly based on the band's songs from their debut album.

Oswaldo Guayasamín, one of the most renowned Latin American artists, with more than 600 portraits in his pictorial career, (among which are F. Mitterrand, Carolina de Mónaco, Juan Carlos I, Rigoberta Menchu) paints his self-portrait, while he tells us the foundations of his art.

All their life two brothers have cherished the same passion for film. They brought along with them their spouse, Marinette and Marguerite. For over 50 years, in some villages from the Hérault region, they managed 3 cinemas built from their own hands.

Writer Slawomir Mrozek recalls his past as he prepares himself to move out from Mexico and resettle in his native Poland. He discusses his youth, career and emigration, while walking down his vast Mexican ranch La Epifania.

A rough ride through the rocky terrain of modern day baby-making.

The inhabitants of a Spanish village gather for the visit of a death defying tightrope walker. He comes with his own attractive aura of danger and drama, and the crowd are not disappointed. Animated in a sketchy style on paper, this film powerfully uses the graphic freedom of this technique to select and embellish, to swoop and wander around the village. Austere sound effects and an Albeniz guitar piece are used to heighten this charmingly modest drama in which ordinary things – a hammer driving a nail, a flock of birds wheeling in the sky – are given their due.

Bogdan becomes the victim of the corruption in a small town when he loses a court case to a local bank but everyone in the town just covers for their friends.

A documentary about the life and works of the maestros of Imaginary Painting School who made Iranian popular old style Khialisazi or Coffee-House Painting.

Froglight is a film about having faith in the unknown

Bad Habitus Project collates images and ideas about the city of Newcastle. It is a portrait of the city built out of the stuff it has discarded: junk, used machinery, decaying vegetation, and is activated by the presence of the artist. Crow feels out its atmospherics, reproduces and reflects the quality of the city's space as it metamorphoses into its bicentenary, making visible its invisible sense of place.

The Leppo’ Ké, a subgroup of the Kenyah, an important Dayak set of people scattered in Borneo across the provinces of East and North Kalimantan (Indonesia) and the state of Sarawak (Malaysia), live in the district of Bahau Hulu, on the uppermost Bahau River, a tributary of the mighty Kayan River. The film was shot in Long Pengayan hamlet, at Apau Ping, the last settlement on the Bahau, and home to Oko’ (Grand-Mother) Asung Kiring. In the past, all Kenyah Leppo’ Ké women were potters, but today this is a dying craft, which is considered dirty work and therefore quite unpopular.

A one-year, four continent odyssey by some of the world’s greatest skiers and snowboarders. Harvest makes a major statement on the contemporary spirit of the sport and the relentless progression of big mountain riding. Helicopters, avalanches, trams, big mountains, first descents, whales and car crashes. Shot on location in Wyoming, Europe, Alaska, and Greenland. A segment in Harvest was picked to tour with the Banff Film Festival’s Best of Festival Film Tour.

MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.

On the Botel Tobago Island in Taiwan, the first months of the lunar Yami calendar (July-August) are dedicated to buildings and collective festivities of competitive nature. They are punctuated with responsorial songs which can be sung in the Karyag way, that is to say “accompanied by banging hands”.