All Films

Bone Gym

2017 • 3 min

Bones provide structure and support for the body, but did you know they're also a great workout tool? Don't believe me? Come on down to the bone gym - the results speak for themselves!

Symphony on Skis

2017 • 60 min • Germany

An adventurous ski tour of two sisters, who follow the tracks of their father, across the pristine landscape of New Zealand. 30 years ago, Gottlieb Braun-Elwert set out on an un-chartered expedition. He conquered the major glaciers of the Southern Alps and crossed 40km and 4000 vertical meters, from the heart of the South Island to the Pacific in just 18 hours. A route of astonishing beauty, immense freedom, breathtaking vistas and the danger of the uncontainable nature. He called this route “Symphony on Skis”. Now, his daughters Carla, Elke and a small team of adventurers embark on the same adventure. This film is a homage to their late father who found a love and home in New Zealand's Southern Alps.

Sexual Being

2017 • 17 min • Canada

Chandler is an emerging porn star and self-described sexual deviant trying to make it big in Toronto. Meaghan is a socially attuned empath and aspiring actor making experimental art films in LA. They both happen to have cerebral palsy, and they're sick of society's normative standards of beauty getting in the way of their dreams. A raw, intimate portrait of two people's distinct journeys on their first attempts to shift the social perceptions of sexuality and disability.

Vortex

2017 • 9 min • Portugal

A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a mise en abyme: it’s a pure enclosure inside the image world, it’s the Descent into the Maelstrom.

Trek of the Mutants: Pilgrimage

2017 • 60 min • China

Voyage into a world of Chinese Kung-fu and epic fantasy in this adventure tale of a young monk's quest to find the truth of good and evil with a band of brave adventurers.

Absences

2017 • 4 min

Somewhere in eastern France, the State is trying to sweep its nuclear waste under the rug so that it can be forgotten. People are rallying against the project and little by little, between radioactivity and the food industry, many things are being erased from memory. Under disappearing pastures, waste hidden from view radiates an invisible poison. The Ensemble Vide (Ø) collective have attempted to capture these absences on film.

The Death of Hitler: The Story of a State Secret

2017 • 52 min • France

On April 30, 1945, while the Russian Army surrounded Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker. His body was discovered a few days later by the Soviets. He would be positively identified after a top secret inquest in which Hitler's personal dentist would play a central role. And yet, at the same time, Stalin publicly declared that his army was unable to find the Führer's body, choosing to let the wildest rumors develop and going so far as to accuse some of his Allies of having aided the monster's probable escape. What secrets were hidden behind this dissimulation? What happened then to the two ladies involved in the identification of Hitler’s body?

Brotherly Love

2017 • 8 min

When Chris and Megan's relationship comes to a screeching halt, Chris digs deep into romantic comedy movie tropes to try to win her back, but ends up getting help in unlikeliest place.

Jack Kirby: A Personal Journey

2017 • 55 min • United States of America

Featuring unique, unseen footage, this is a journey to find Jack Kirby; artist and co-creator of so many iconic comic book characters.

Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

Through softly textured 16mm photography and regional iconography, Silva offers a modernist reflection on two of upstate New York’s most storied 19th century touchstones—the landscape painters of the Hudson River School and the legend of Rip Van Winkle—nodding to a few musical heroes along the way.

Pacalien

2017 • 11 min • Japan

Romeros is an alien investigor who looks like an alpaca. When he lands on Earth, he finds his spaceship damaged and becomes disconnected with his planet. He arrives on a mountain where people wearing weird masks are waiting for him.

Alone Together

2017 • 28 min • South Korea

Ju-won, a personal assistant for people with disabilities, steals the guide dog from her visually impaired employer, Kyung-min, to pay off her boyfriend's debt.

Violets

2017 • 23 min

A short film about love, and how one family is transformed when its patriarch is revealed to be transgender.

Bloopers

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

Staged for 'Take 3' to be the shot, the 'perfect shot.' The rest are bloopers, this film is called 'BLOOPERS' a staged shoot for the perfect shot without consideration of chance. One roll of super 8 film, duration of 8 takes, 3 actions, 8 shots made. How can we edit a pre-planned shoot in which one shot is planned to make it?

Girl on Wave

2017 • 60 min

Girl on Wave introduces professional windsurfer Sarah Hauser and documents her journey as a New-Caledonian athlete competing on the American stage of windsurfing.

Judith: Shoulda Seen the Other Guy

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

"A piece of cinematography" inspired by Ingmar Bergman. Created for the band Judith.

Home Exercises

2017 • 21 min • United States of America

Using the formal structure of a home workout video, this hybrid documentary and dance film investigates the gestural habits of aging individuals and looks at the physicality of aging as choreography. In its invitation to viewers to move, the film stages choreographies between the mise-en-scène and the home dweller.

Bullets Leave the Flesh

2017 • 3 min

Bullets come up from the flesh is a female voice, a poetic speech, a fable in reverse, about environmental protection, human rights and the unpredictable human nature.

From Phoenix

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

When confronted by the Law, Butch decides to fight.

Pillow Talkies

2017 • 3 min

An experimental short film asking: if we make explicit the sexual subtext of two 1940 classic talkies, does it enhance or detract from the meaning?

Making a Mark

2017 • 56 min • Australia

Filmed during the inaugural year of the Ramsay Art Prize, Making a Mark is a chronicle of passion and creative trailblazing as a selection of finalists, all aged under 40, vie for the $100,000 prize. In a story that spans the globe from Europe to Outback Australia, we explore one of the most personally challenging and financially tenuous vocations, and find out just what it takes to live a life in the world of visual arts.

Shredtopia

2017 • 45 min

Focusing on good times all over, the bots travel to new spots only to realize that when you’re strapped in and having fun with the crew, you forget where you are anyways, it’s all “Shredtopia” to us.

Soft Spot

2017 • 12 min

When Kris's partner Jess comes home from an evening out, the night takes an unexpected turn. Kris, struggling with the surprise death of an ex-lover, side steps Jess's post gin and tonic come on's and inadvertently reveals too much. In the wake of Jess's insecurity the two of them may have to deal with the past instead of the present issue at hand.

Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea (by Kelly Gabron)

2017 • 7 min

Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea began as a video designed to be background eye-candy at an outdoor performance event and evolved into a protest against the reverberations of the neo-fascist nonsense percolating in American culture.