All Films

This Migrant Business

2016 • 6 min • Denmark, Kenya

This Migrant Business shows the systems that exist that enable and exploit African migrants seeking better lives in the Middle East and Europe. The system creates a cyclic force that ensures that demand and supply will continue to feed into each other, indefinitely. This is a lucrative trade with vulnerable people as its currency.

Bob and Roberta's Excellent Protest Adventure

2016 • 60 min

British artist, academic, musician and activist Bob and Roberta Smith has been waging slightly odd political protests for years, in this documentary he investigates the age of activism and discovers what people are protesting about.

O Despertar De Selma

2016 • 9 min • Brazil

The Bird and Us

2016 • 20 min • France

In 1926, a Brancusi sculpture is stopped at the American border. Non-figurative, this artwork is classified as a manufactured article and its owner forced to pay a duty. The artist, Constantin Brancusi, appealed the decision. Judge Byron Waite, a former member of the Customs Board, is chosen to process the trial.

Big Bang

2016 • 7 min • United States of America

A silent tale about a dying love. Symbolisms and sounds are the elements used to explore the birth and destruction of a universe derived from the exchange of behaviors and beliefs when two individuals collide. - The film was recorded in the desert of White Sands in New Mexico. BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM at TRANSFORM FILM FEST 2018 WINNER - EXPERIMENTAL FILM FEST 2023 - Una historia muda sobre un amor que muere. Simbolismos y sonidos son los elementos utilizados para explorar el nacimiento y destrucción de un universo derivado del intercambio de comportamientos y creencias cuando dos individuos se encuentran.

The Wishing Jar

2016 • 14 min • Canada

One starry night, a little girl chases a star streaking across the sky in the hopes of capturing it in her jar so that she may make one more wish.

The Blimp Trap

2016 • 45 min

Nine-year-old Harwood isn't like other boys in 1977 Texas. After losing his brother in a tragic car crash, his mother takes up drinking, and Harwood finds comfort in his best friend -- fellow-nine-year-old Billy, the mentally-handicapped girl from down the street. Together, they watch the famous blimp fly overhead, and craft a "blimp trap" to catch it for their very own. They're teased for their special game, and their friendship, until one day, something miraculous happens.

Starfuc*er

2016 • 1 min • United States of America

A pop star with stunning sex appeal is the prey of a secret admirer who's stalking her.

Vampiro

2016 • 20 min • Spain

A screenwriter contacts a prostitute to research a character of his new script.

The Seaweed in Your Hair

2016 • 8 min • France, Greece

In this shapeshifting essay film by French-Greek filmmaker Daphné Hérétakis, we visit the streets of Athens in July 2015 and the wake of an austerity referendum, finding friends and strangers, pop songs and poetry, fallen monuments and hopes for the future. It is a lyrical sketch of a time of personal and political transition – culminating in an image of liberating, apocalyptic possibility.

The Gas Station

2016 • 8 min • France

A disgruntled gas station attendant gets a visit from an abrasive party girl looking for justice.

The Laughing Man

2016 • 21 min

The Laughing Man references Scott Snyder’s “Death of the Family” Batman comic and takes place in a psychiatric facility where a new, unidentified arrival is being questioned. Viewers are taken on a tense excursion into brutal, bloody territory as the dialogue unfurls into a high-stakes role reversal.

Handover

2016 • 17 min • Germany

Mark and his friends spend their free time rather dangerously: They jump in front of cars for a quick adrenaline rush. To win back his girlfriend Nina, Mark has to be better than everyone else - but someone is sabotaging him. Or could it be that "someone" is Mark himself?

24

2016 • 38 min • Ukraine

He and she are refugees from eastern Ukraine. Both of them are 24, just like their country. They have left home and now live in someone else’s flats. At night they watch the lives of others, and in the daytime they have to return to the life of their own. All they have is their memories and dreams.

Kawasaki Keirin

2016 • 41 min • Switzerland

In the industrial city of Kawasaki, on the corner of the street where my grandparents used to live, bettors of keirin — a cycling race developed in post-war — gather in a tiny bar busy drinking, chatting and gambling at the velodrome nearby. Most are old men who struggle to make a living for themselves; most have lived in this town their whole lives. This film frankly captured with a fixed camera, gives voice to the lives of the elderly men who have been left behind by Japan's economy.

Live at the Necropolis: The Lords of Synth

2016 • 11 min

Three legendary synth musicians compete in a cosmic battle for synth dominance, in this recently-unearthed concert from 1986.

Consequence

2016 • 20 min • Australia

When Ty makes the biggest mistake of his life, will it be possible to fix it? Or will he be forced to finally accepted the consequences of his action?

White Collar Unit

2016 • 23 min • Ukraine

While he was fleeing Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych tried to destroy all the evidence of his government's corrupt activities. In order to save the drowned, slashed and burned papers and bring about the punishment of the criminals in power, journalists and volunteers organized the White Collar Unit, which day by day is building up valid proof of the crimes from the tiniest pieces.

Antarctica: The Journey to the End of the Earth

2016 • 51 min

Antarctica. “Terra Australis Incognita,” or unknown southern land. This is the harshest and coldest place on the planet. There are no bustling cities or green forests here, no large rivers. Only endless snowfields, surrounded on all sides by giant glaciers. Join us and follow in the footsteps of the early explorers of Antarctica, from the era of great discoveries and first voyages around the world to the present day. Visit the most remote places on the continent and find out how research conducted here has influenced modern society and science. Antarctica: The Journey to the End of the Earth is filled with striking imagery that captures the frigid splendour of this vast continent and the incredible beauty of its wildlife.

The World's First Twurkey!

2016 • 1 min • United States of America

I thought the idea was funny so I animated it. This is a strictly cg twerking turkey. For those who don't know, Twerking (/ˈtwɜːrkɪŋ/) is a type of dancing in which an individual, often female, moves to music involving thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance. Twerking is also known as "booty shaking" and "bounce" depending on the context. In 2005, a trio of teenage girls founded the "Twerk Team", and joined YouTube on June 5, 2009. The team is now composed of two African American sisters from Atlanta, Georgia. Since the foundation of the team, they have been posting videos of "them gyrating and shaking their butts, to a point that it's artistic". It has been making the whole world laugh regardless of age, standing, or even political affiliation (shocking right?) Everything you see I made. Music is by myself using royalty free samples.

Love/Work/Cinema: A Conversation with Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss

2016 • 26 min

New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss

Alfredo

2016 • 16 min • Netherlands

13-year-old Alfredo Lorenzo has a dream: he wants to be the best magician in the world. This isn't a random wish, as his whole family works in the entertainment industry. He was raised performing magic and comes from a long line of artists. For this reason his whole family is helping him to realise his dream. To achieve this, he has a tough road ahead with lots of practice, performances and magic competitions. Alfredo's life seems like one big show, but what does it really take if you have decided your future profession at such a young age? How does Alfredo deal with the pressure, the intense training and life in the limelights?

Death in the Terminal

2016 • 52 min • Israel, United States of America

A thrilling reconstruction in so-called Rashomon style, with several eyewitnesses offering their own perspectives on a single event. On October 18, 2015, a terrorist started shooting at the bus terminal in the Israeli town of Be’er Sheva, killing an Israeli soldier. This detailed, minute-by-minute reconstruction reveals what happened in the crucial 18 minutes following the attack.

Let's Play Nomad X

2016 • 3 min • United Kingdom

In a YouTube review of his favorite video game, a man tells a story of heartbreak amongst the hints and tips on game-play...   The film is a three minute parody of the 'Let's Play...' YouTube video. The film uses 3D CGI to emulate the simple geometry and low resolution textures of a 90's video game as well as representing the narrators interior world as an 8 bit polygonal psychological landscape.