All Films

Going Dark: The Final Days of Film Projection

2013 • 15 min

Hollywood has made up their minds, forcing theaters to convert to digital or go dark. As theaters around the world change to newer digital technology, the job of the 35mm film projectionist is becoming irrelevant. Going Dark profiles two theater projectionists during their final days on the job.

Firefly

2013 • 2 min

A short film made for "Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded". The camera follows an elderly man walking slowly.

Werewolf From Paraíba

2013 • 16 min

Graciano tells an injured boy that he has a leg wound caused by the encounter with a werewolf when he was younger.

Death of a Boy

2013 • 6 min

Early spring 1951. Søren has dissapeared from his own engagement celebration. His fiancée finds him pale and gloomy, sitting on a jetty. She confronts him with his constant absence. In return she gets to witness Søren revealing a most fatal secret.

Tired of Being Handsome

2013 • 30 min

Two cowboys look for a bullet in the desert.

Massimo, il mio cinema secondo me

2013 • 50 min

Fragments of footage, unpublished snapshots and interviews with friends and colleagues. A tribute to the actor, director and producer Massimo Troisi, to celebrate what would have been his sixtieth birthday.

Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

2013 • 29 min

This documentary explores Serge Diaghilev's roots, his genius for bringing together avant-garde composers, dancers, painters, and designers, and the legacy of the Ballets Russes. The film includes dazzling highlights from recreations of Ballets Russes productions by major dance companies in the US and Europe.

Variation FQ

2013 • 11 min

The 16mm film from the installation exhibition by the same name that presents the transgender voguer, Leiomy Maldonado, within the stark, black and white aesthetics of an experimental 1960’s ballet film. Using sharp black and white contrast, step-and-repeat optical effects, slow motion, and an original soundtrack composed by Shaw, the film amplifies the unique, cathartic movements of the protagonist's dance, both eloquent and violent. Variation FQ is a study of the co-evolution of subculture, gender, dance, and special effects.

Martin Parr's Black Country Stories: Mark goes to Mongolia

2013 • 42 min

Martin Parr’s second film for Multistory, Mark goes to Mongolia tells the extraordinary story of Mark Evans – pigeon auctioneer, breeder and entrepreneur – based in Moxley in the Black Country. This film documents Mark’s trip to Baotou in Inner Mongolia, in November 2012, where pigeon breeding, pigeon racing and Mark Evans are hugely popular. The film is part of the Black Country Stories body of work commissioned by Multistory to document life in the Black Country.

Barbie in The Pink Shoes: The Land of Sweets

2013 • 5 min

Kristyn and her ballet student Hannah practice in a dance hall when Hannah suddenly stops because she doubts her ability to portray a good sugar plum fairy. To help her Kristyn gives her the pink magical ballet shoes which throw them into the Land of Sweets once they're dressed. There Hannah learns how to believe in herself and how to become a good self-confident dancer.

1812: Cavalry

2013 • 3 min

A visual sound work with live soundtrack in a 6 channel stereophonic sound.

Snowpiercer International Special Animation

2013 • 5 min • South Korea

Animated short film based on the movie Snowpiercer.

Leave Us Alone

2013 • 13 min • Canada

Sam, a city dwelling single mother inherits a profitable piece of farm land from a grandfather she never knew... On the grandfather’s deathbed, he tells Sam about a ship that crash-landed on the farm, and the deal that he made to not disturb the travelers when they return. Covering up the disappearance of three missing geologists, Sam is prepared to do anything to protect her son as well as the farm’s dark secret.

130919 • A Portrait of Marina Abramovic

2013 • 7 min

This one-take, 3-D film majestically documents legendary performance artist Marina Abramovic, capturing the breadth of space in infinite detail: the life of an artist, her keen sense of transition, a space's decay, and the ripeness of rebirth.

How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File

2013 • 16 min • Germany

How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013) mocks an instructional film on the idea of becoming invisible in the digital world.

Not Found 11

2013 • 60 min • Japan

11th entry in the Japanese horror found footage series "Not Found".

Sankara ... And That Day They Killed Happiness

2013 • 51 min

In this documentary by a veteran Italian journalist Silvestro Montanaro some of the conspirators behind Sankara’s death are interviewed. The rise and fall of The Burkinabé Revolution is placed in the international context.

House Sitter

2013 • 2 min

House Sitter is one of many new short films on the 2013 DVD Extra Shot by Kern.

JK Slayer Yaksa

2013 • 60 min • Japan

Mikoto is an average school girl, but actually is the figure of Asura after getting sealed by Yama. She spends her days accomplishing missions to fight against demons. One day, she saves a boy who was getting beaten by the chefs for running away without paying for what he has eaten. Unfortunately, the boy was possessed by a ghost that Yama was looking for. Yasha, the guardian of the Sky, hears about this and concludes Mikoto wasn’t doing her job. Yasha decides to deprive the qualification as a Slayer and makes Yama summon her to hell.

The Ladybird Books Story: The Bugs That Got Britain Reading

2013 • 40 min • United Kingdom

A history of and tribute to the children's book publisher

Stoinky Beach

2013 • 36 min

It’s 1986, the weather is hot and the babes are WET! Join Lance, Lucas, Rick and Wheels as they head on down to the coolest beach around, STOINKY BEACH. After Rick's girlfriend Ariel dumps him for spending too much time on his brats and bros, he and his sex-starved buddies decide to travel to the hottest beach around, Stoinky Beach. Where the bros are drenched in sweat and the babes are moist and stoinky! With the help of an alien friend named “Blumpy”, they will not only meet the boobs of their dreams but realize that a weekend at Stoinky Beach will solidify that friends for eternity, loyalty and honesty are their true reward!

Yes I Do

2013 • 60 min

Kim is a new lawyer who gets a difficult case of helping a lesbian couple to adopt a child without any support. He knows that this going to be a long and tough process, but he is still willing to take it. Kim meets Allen who is just like a brother of his clients Queen and Mang. He also gets acquainted with Shi-Li, who comes from a family that has two lesbian mothers. Kim realizes that there are many heart-breaking stories behind the smiles of gay and lesbian people and gets involved with many people's life unexpectedly.

Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Júlio Bressane

2013 • 2 min

A short film made for “Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded”.

Youssou N'Dour et Le Super Etoile de Dakar - Fatteliku

2013 • 42 min

October, 1987. An open-air amphitheatre cut into a mountain overlooking the twinkling sprawl of nighttime Athens. Thousands of people are going crazy for a young Senegalese singer they’d never heard of until moments before, when headline act Peter Gabriel walked onstage and introduced him. Here, then, is N’Dour’s opening set from that legendary Live in Athens show, as performed by an act on the cusp of Western stardom. An act that had transformed Senegalese music by playing traditional rhythms on electric instruments, fronted by a singer whose charisma, multi-talents and social conscience would eventually see him acknowledged as one of the most celebrated African musicians in history.