All Films

Like Other Girls Do

2015 • 27 min

Following an old Balkan custom, Stana, raised as a boy from an early age, had to sacrifice her life as a woman, agreeing to become a man in the eyes of everyone in order to perpetuate her father's name without a male heir. In parallel, interviews with five young women in Belgrade - from bus driver to graffiti artist - reveal singular chosen paths. Are we free to shape our identities?

On the shores of the Igara Paraná River

2015 • 32 min

At the beginning of the 20th century, the rubber fever brought entrepreneurs to the Amazon who turned the exploitation of the jungle into a death machine. Some forty thousand indigenous people died, and those who survived slavery, sprouted in this corner of the world.

Gray Elegy

2015 • 5 min

A buoyant character struggles with hazards in a cloudy gray environment in this animation inspired by the Dylan Thomas poem Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed.

Monster Croc Invasion

2015 • 44 min • United States of America

Animal Planet's Gator Boy, Paul Bedard investigates the alarmingly high number of attacks by crocodiles in Costa Rica.

Af-Fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, Movement I: Essex + Audre

2015 • 2 min • United States of America

Between 2014 and 2017, McClodden revived the work of deceased Black queer artists who were active during the 1980s AIDS epidemic, including the poet and activist Essex Hemphill. Here, McClodden remakes a scene from Marlon Riggs’s essay-film Tongues Untied (1989), in which Hemphill recites a passage from writer Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984). McClodden describes the video as “a portrait of self-contained conflict and rage,” with Hemphill gazing directly into the camera. Conceived as a “duet” between Hemphill and Lorde, it also underscores Hemphill’s commitment to Black feminist thought, highlighting the transfer of language and influence from one poet-activist to another. [Overview Courtesy of MoMA]

American Dreamlands

2015 • 44 min • United States of America

The Christmases find beautiful pieces of untamed wilderness and transform them into incredible homesteads. After each renovation, they sell the land to families and help them reconnect with the great outdoors.

Mainbitch.mov Spring Scrap

2015 • 6 min

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Outer Dark # 430.670 Mhz

2015 • 8 min • Italy

The video deals with peripheral areas of Milan: spaces excluded from the sparkling imagery advertising EXPO2015. Only unproductive parcels, debris of urban gardens and spontaneous weeds are left. Shot at night in these dehumanized areas, barely revealed by street lights or by the flashlight of night security guards. The reverberation of off-screen sounds gives back the vastness of these construction sites, whose complete vision is denied to the viewer. Gradually some radio conversations emerge.

nato vachnadze

2015 • 43 min

short documentury about georgian silent film star nato vachnadze, Real name Nato Andronikashvili. Mother was Polish. Her father came from an old noble family which has roots from last Byzantine Emperors. She was the megastar of the Soviet screen in the twenties and thirties. Studio Sakhkinmretsvi gave her almost Hollywood splendor and glamour. Her name was on the top of billboards and magazines, and her photos were on the first pages of papers. Red producers created a legend which broke box-offices. It helped studio Sakhkinmretsvi to become the biggest for those days in the Soviet Union

Micrographia

2015 • 4 min • United States of America

"As a filmmaker, I spend many hours examining the world through a lens. When asked to reflect on the collections at the Huntington, I was instantly drawn to the 1665 edition of Micrographia, a seminal work of observations made with the aid of a microscope by the great natural philosopher Robert Hooke. As I subsequently wandered the gardens and collections I searched for resonances in texture and form, seeking out plants and objects that suggested the exquisite delicacy of the engraved illustrations in Micrographia." (Charlotte Pryce).

America's Game: 2014 New England Patriots

2015 • 44 min

The story of Super Bowl XLIX champion New England Patriots. Featuring interviews with tight end Rob Gronkowski, defensive back Devin McCourty and wide receiver Julian Edelman. Narrated by Chris Evans.

Giants in Milan Vol. II

2015 • 52 min

After the first Four Giants in Milan (Leonardo, Napoleone, Hemingway and Stendhal), Farinotti tells the story of other "giants" who lived in Milan and played important role in the city's history, from the 5th century b.c. to the second war of independence which let Milan freed from Austrians.

Mississippi Inferno

2015 • 46 min

They risked their land and their lives by joining the battle against white supremacy and sheltering those who lead the charge. This is the untold story of Mississippi's African-American landowners of the 1960s and their vital role in a paving the way for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Narrated by Danny Glover, this two-part series recounts a seminal moment in civil rights history. Through rare archival footage and interviews, see how the farmers, activists, and volunteers dared to challenge racial repression in Mississippi and changed America.

Mama's Home

2015 • 12 min

Geena returns from jail to her son's home only to find out he's gay and married. Her son Matthew wants to give her another chance but his husband fears what she might be capable of.

Jake the Magnificent

2015 • 8 min

Jake has 5 days to perfect the disappearing trick before performing it at his birthday party. Will he become the magician he dreams of or will it end in disaster?

Showdown at Horseshoe Hell

2015 • 20 min

Lie

2015 • 7 min

Transforming Gender

2015 • 43 min

The battle over the rights and freedoms of transgender individuals is the first great civil rights struggle of the 21st century. And while their battle for freedom is decades behind that of gays and lesbians, blacks or women, few doubt that the era of transgendered enfranchisement is upon us. TRANSFORMING GENDER tells this story exclusively through the voices of transgender people from all walks of life. Through a set of intimate vignettes the film opens up the world of transgender people to an audience that may have little awareness of what it means to be-fundamentally and in your deepest core-in conflict with the gender you were assigned at birth.

Borderlands

2015 • 13 min

a film by robert todd

The Bronins

2015 • 5 min

The Bronins plot.

The Lingerie Show

2015 • 8 min • United States of America

A drug addict, Lorraine, tries to seduce her bisexual boyfriend Cesar away from his sugar daddy, Wade, by throwing him a lingerie show. A drug fueled orgy ensues.

Super-critical Flow

2015 • 27 min

"Super-critical Flow" is a combination of a documentary and drama. It starts like a documentary about the declining Yongsan Electronic Mall, but all of a sudden changes into a story about a poor couple wandering around the mall after finding out about their unexpected pregnancy. Could the first documentary part of the film be a long prologue for the drama? Or is the drama a needed source to complete the documentary? Either or there wouldn’t be much difference in experiencing what the characters and the mall is about to face. However, the second question makes it sound more interesting. The film starts with a clip from a surveillance camera which could feel like something more than a documentary, it then passes a participation stage showing interviews and finally meets the performance form. (BYUN Sungchan)

Prison Songs

2015 • 54 min

Prison Songs is a documentary musical made in 2014, during the last days of the operation of Darwin’s Berrimah Prison – the largest correctional centre in the NT.

Sitka: A Piano Documentary

2015 • 30 min • United States of America

The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. has been presenting concerts alongside its paintings since 1941. Some of the world's leading pianists have played its Steinway Concert D 542016, but they started hearing something wrong with it: the soundboard. This half-hour documentary - named for the spruce wood that replaced it - tells the story of tearing the piano apart, and bringing it back to life. Along the way, we learn how a piano works, and witness the consummate art of restoration by PianoCraft. Rising international star Olivier Cavé puts it to the test, playing his specialty of Joseph Haydn, in this richly textured cinematic music documentary by independent filmmaker H. Paul Moon.