All Films

Venite et Loquamur

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

A group of students and teachers gather in an historical mansion in the woods of West Virginia for a week-long retreat in spoken Latin. I observe and I participate while navigating the errata with my camera.

Not Muslim, Not Christian, Not Silent

2015 • 45 min • United Kingdom

An exclusive and detailed look into an extremist political group/cult religion running for a parliamentary position in Thanet, Kent.

Deforest

2015 • 10 min

Deforest is an art/science project that combines environmental critique with material enquiry. In this project, sulphuric acid – a highly corrosive acid that burns to the touch – is used to dissolve photographs of old growth rainforest from subtropical Queensland.

Maschile-Roma

2015 • 3 min

Men, their faces in close-up, gazing face first into the camera one after the other is the opening motif of this barely three-minute film, which only right at the end, and after the credits reveals a view of the city of Rome; of a fountain and its water-jet, which at this point could also be ambiguously interpreted and here, as already in earlier films, through (humorous) breaks with and against itself, mirrors a direct interpretation. -Rike Frank

No Man's Land

2015 • 20 min • Denmark

Western Front, 1916. Robert and Anton are two soldiers stuck in a bomb's crater in the middle of no man's land. Under the enemy fire, the two men start getting closer as they wait to be saved.

Alabama Shakes: La Musicale (Sound & Color)

2015 • 49 min • France

Live performance by Alabama Shakes

1834 – La Mémoire de Masse

2015 • 14 min

1834 – La Mémoire de Masse unfolds during the second canuts revolts in Lyon in 1834. These riots now known as the ‘bloody week’ came as a reaction to the automation of work in the silk industry by the jacquard loom and its implementation of the punched card – first historical ‘mass storage’ system allowing the inscription and replication of complex weaving patterns. This inaugurating event in the history of workers emancipation movements of the 19th century is actually the first revolt against modern computation.

Academy

2015 • 24 min • Austria, Russia

A short review of one day in the life of young artists, mostly women, from different countries, students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Documentary episodes are interspersed with scenes, that mimic everyday life, and with the excerpts from the work by Sabina Spielrein, the first female psychoanalyst. What happens to life when nothing is happening, and what is the motivation of young artists, but already not so young people, to make art? The work continues the theme of the video “Interview” (2013), in which the author asked this questions to himself.

Fear and Loathing in Inner Mongolia

2015 • 6 min • China

A man tells the story about his trip to Inner Mongolia.

Como é bom ser bom

2015 • 20 min • Brazil

Film about the life of the doctor and poet Martins Fontes.

Beach Blanket Frankenstein

2015 • 48 min

Victoria Frankenstein is in love with Marylou, the hottest surfer girl on the beach. When Marylou is mauled to death by boob-eating shark, Victoria jumps at the chance to make a new best friend. The only problem is, she's a real monster.

Utopia 1.0- Post-Neo-Futurist-Capitalism in 3D!

2015 • 20 min

As the sun begins to set on the once-bustling online pseudo- reality Second Life, filmmaker Annie Berman sends her avatar in to investigate the decline of this utopian world.

Banned Cartoons

2015 • 2 min • United States of America

Out he did go with one thought in mind: To capture the poor little sheep.

Pussy Power

2015 • 2 min • Malaysia

An animation about missing men.

From Ally To Accomplice

2015 • 17 min

"To-day at last we know: John Brown was right." -W.E.B. Du Bois. This film is an experimental essay in three movements that explores the importance of being more than an "ally" in struggle, by sharing histories of committed accomplices John Brown, Marilyn Buck, and others. The film also delves into the history of the landscape and former prairie that was the earth on which Brown's militants trained. In the face of exploitation of people and destruction of land, radical struggle cultivates new life.

Outermost Radio

2015 • 60 min • United States of America

Outermost Radio is a feature-length documentary that takes an intimate look at a community on the tip of Cape Cod, far from the mainland and out of the mainstream, committed to keeping their freedom of expression alive, and their non-profit community radio station on the air. Meet the people who bring their love of music, controversial points of view, and authenticity to the airwaves.

One Minute

2015 • 11 min • Palestinian Territory, Jordan

During the summer of 2014 Gaza war, in the battered neighbourhood of Shujaiya, 37-year-Salma made her home her shelter from the attacks. She and her daughter are protected in relative calm, until she receives a text message warning her of their impending fate.

Tape

2015 • 2 min

A two-minute film of 100 feet of color negative on 16mm, shot quickly and on impulse while waiting for a boat on an island in the Cyclades.

Tottori

2015 • 6 min

In Tottori, Japan, the smallest desert place in the world, where Hiroshi Teshigahara directed his film “Woman in the Dunes” (1964) every year more than two million people come to visit the place, and through their natural movements reflect constantly changing nature of this unusual landscape and its history.

The Man with Two Mouths

2015 • 3 min

William is an ordinary fellow in all respects but one: he has two completely functional mouths.

inicial

2015 • 3 min

[poem filmed, yet not legible: Boats or not They burn in the afternoon. In the heat of summer all rumor is bird. Flies heart. Or it burns. "Epitafio", Eugenio de Andrade. B.G.

Orpheize

2015 • 9 min

UigiG needs to go out and feel, like his favourite film's star. His girlfriend, just like her, loves to smoke and enjoy the authenticity... but that's before she ceases to exist.

Counting Sheep

2015 • 7 min

A little boy can't get to sleep. He calls his father who tells him to try counting sheep. The little boy does as he is told but soon finds himself with a dozen sheep around his bed.

Ganesh

2015 • 15 min

Each year, the Tamil community from South India and Sri Lanka met to celebrate the God Ganesh. The film is a description of gestures, dancing bodies, attendance recorded during this festival, crossing reminiscences of my stays in India.