All Films

Rise of the Robots

2016 • 52 min

Engineers join the race to design cutting-edge robots capable of performing human tasks, but major technical and ethical challenges lie ahead.

Night of the Clown

2016 • 45 min • United States of America

A group of college students go out into the woods for a Halloween party, only to be killed one by one, by a clown who was burned alive 30 years ago by an angry mob.

The Amazing Mr. Moji

2016 • 15 min

When Spencer (Yousef Abu-Taleb) is mistakenly delivered the wrong phone from the 4 Winds Repair Company, he discovers it has the ability to control people with it's emojis. Now the Mysterious Mr. Moji (voiced by Jeff Minnerly) has come to reclaim what is rightfully his before Spencer can do more harm than good, by any means necessary. The Amazing Mr. Moji stars: Yousef Abu-Taleb (Bite-Me) Carly Jones (Lonelygirl15), Joy Regullano (Supernatural) and Jeff Minnerly (Metroid: Other M)

Room 315

2016 • 28 min

Dr. Stone, in sessions with his clients, discovers how life holds all four of them, including himself, in one intricate web.

Lucy Worsley: Mozart's London Odyssey

2016 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Lucy Worsley traces the forgotten and fascinating story of the young Mozart's adventures in Georgian London. Arriving in 1764 as an eight-year-old boy, London held the promise of unrivalled musical opportunity. But in telling the telling the tale of Mozart's strange and unexpected encounters, Lucy reveals how life wasn't easy for the little boy in a big bustling city. With the demands of a royal performance, the humiliation of playing keyboard tricks in a London pub, a near fatal illness and finding himself heckled on the streets, it was a lot for a child to take. But London would prove pivotal, for it was here that the young Mozart made his musical breakthrough, blossoming from a precocious performer into a powerful new composer.

The Last Days of Legal Highs

2016 • 47 min

This eye-opening film goes behind the scenes at two head shops in Portsmouth – businesses selling powerful legal highs, in bright packets. From cocaine substitutes 'Blow' and 'Rush', to the zombifying effects of 'Spice', these over-the-counter highs have changed the face of the local drug scenes across the country. But now, with a radical new blanket ban due to come into force, it looks like its game over for Britain’s 335 head shops. This film follows the owner Peter as he rushes to clear his stock; the users as they prepare to cope without their legal fix; and the inventor of the drugs, the elusive chemist Dr Zee, as he scrambles to figure out a way around the new law. Will the new law stamp out this trade, or just drive it underground?

Your Little Secret

2016 • 12 min

Woo-hyun, an athlete, has a secret he can't tell anyone. It is Woo-hyun is nerd who likes The cute bear Rilakkuma. The secret is caught by a mate, Ye-joo, and the two become "good friends."

W. Kamau Bell: Semi-Prominent Negro

2016 • 59 min

Comedy special featuring socio-political comedian W. Kamau Bell, who brings his characteristically biting and hilarious take on the real issues of contemporary America from gentrification to raising his family in a post-Obama nation.

Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

2016 • 16 min

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare

2016 • 53 min

In the thick of World War I, Allied forces attempt the daring feat of planting over a million pounds of explosives beneath enemy lines.

Potshot

2016 • 24 min • South Africa

Fanus, tired of life and alone, is incompetent to take his own life. The nosy caretaker, who is always looking for her rent money but is actually looking for a friend for her wheelchair bound son, complicates the situation as well.

NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice

2016 • 53 min

Scientists venture onto the ice to find out why krill, creatures crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem, are disappearing at an alarming rate.

The Pulley by Steven Kwang

2016 • 24 min

A man suffering from writer's block thinks he needs to commit murder to get inspiration. Then he realizes that murdering people who are madly in love each other is never easy at all.

Straße - Transient Passage

2016 • 41 min • Japan

Ishi's Return

2016 • 27 min

The story of Ishi, who became known as the "last wild Indian" when, at about 50 years of age, he wandered out of the woods in Oroville, Cal., in 1911. He died five years later; and his brain was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.. Eighty years later, however, his descendants successfully fought to have his remains repatriated to his ancestral home.

Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

2016 • 21 min

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Painting Leah

2016 • 4 min

A transgender woman uses the art form of painting to come out as transsexual to her mother.

Adventures of Gumby: A Sample

2016 • 7 min • United States of America

Art Clokey's first clay animation film was Gumbasia (1953), a short film showcasing a series of clay shapes twisting, turning and contorting in kaleidoscopic patterns. Clokey showed the film to producer Sam Engel, who suggested that Clokey apply the technique to form children's stories. Although the next film Adventures of Gumby: A Sample (1955) was never televised, it is confirmed to be the first pilot episode of what would become The Gumby Show. Soon afterward, Clokey completed the second pilot for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) through the financial assistance of Engel. Entitled Gumby on the Moon (which Moon Trip Part 1, the actual first episode), this marked the television debut of Gumby. The cartoon was presented on Howdy Doody to much success, and led to the development of the series The Gumby Show.

Chris Olsen: The Boy Who Cried

2016 • 17 min

In the movies since he was an infant, Chris Olsen appeared in films by some of the best directors of the 1950's. Even though he never became a famous child actor, he played a pivotal role in some of the most iconic movies of the era. Retired since the age of 14, he looks back on his life as a child actor, trying to find the thread that ties his movie roles together.

Natalya and Ethan Do America

2016 • 12 min

After an unexpected visit from homeland security, a beautiful Russian immigrant tries to convince her gay, down on his luck, stripper roommate to marry her.

Yes to Everything

2016 • 3 min

An encounter between a deaf/mute and a regular guy and their mutual attraction.

Bozo

2016 • 14 min

A sensitive young man reconnects with his ex-girlfriend when her grandmother dies.

Toys

2016 • 2 min

In 1930s farm country, a father wants a son, but he gets a little girl. He tries to toughen her up by giving her toys intended for boys. His efforts backfire when she proves a little too capable for comfort.

The professor's night

2016 • 20 min

It’s 3 a.m. Sergio and his wife Anna are deeply sleeping when the phone starts ringing. On the other side of the phone, an hesitant voice says: “There is a dead person down below”. Sergio is confused and decided to ring up his downstairs neighbor Enzo, who always bickers with his girlfriend Cinzia. But when Enzo come to Sergio’s house, he says that doesn’t even know about that call. Sergio and Enzo make hypothesis and assumptions and then decide to start an investigation through all the apartments in the building. Landing after landing, neighbor after neighbor, the investigation lead Sergio, Enzo and other neighbors to the last door. But sometimes things aren’t what they appear to be…