All Films

The Snake Sultan

2012 • 46 min

Iranians call him "the Snake Sultan". This man from the nomadic tribe of the “Bakhtiari” catches poisonous snakes with his bare hands and delivers them to the Iranian central Serum institute for production of anti-venom. Now he is introducing his children to his trade.

Planet Parrot

2012 • 54 min

About 50 Amazon parrots live rough on Stuttgart’s streets. They’re not built for the German winter- surviving there takes extraordinary adaptability. But, Stuttgart’s Amazons are far from unique. Parrots are appearing in cities all over the world…and they’re doing it in big numbers.

post benning generation

2012 • 4 min • Japan

Short by UMMMI.

Farmácia Verde do Sertão

2012 • 10 min • Brazil

the women who work with the agricoulture in paraíba state, northeast of Brazil.

Things I Heard on Wednesdays

2012 • 9 min

A chronicle of Egypt's modern history through the eyes of one middle-class family.

17 New Dam Rd.

2012 • 8 min

In Dani’s Leventhal’s latest video we are invited along on a house visit with a familial group. There’s trash in the garden, guns on the sofa, and martial arts in the living room. A photo session records a young woman throwing punches at a man, playacting for the camera, but sweating anyway.

Versions

2012 • 7 min • Germany

Versions 2012 is the third in an ongoing series by Oliver Laric

Autoportrait

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

A traveling confrontation to a disintegrating sense of unity and to questions of homeland, togetherness, and separation.

The End of December

2012 • 27 min • United States of America

The End of December follows a rogue agent, 'Widow', as she is forced to enlist the help of an operative she betrayed years ago in order to save her son. She must mitigate his thirst for answers and revenge as they embark on a suicide mission against a much more powerful adversary. The story is one of redemption and manipulation as these highly trained operatives infiltrate a hostile stronghold while struggling to trust each other and keep their past behind them

Your Words Are Like Swords

2012 • 60 min

Enter the world of the Garden Nymph, the Blazing Star Faery, the Inner Eye Spy, the Blue Collar Buddha, God, and the Questioner. Visit the places they call home, dream with them, and listen for the roadway symphony in your mind.

Le début des choses

2012 • 11 min

Moon Cake

2012 • 5 min

Womanly changes are brought on by pancakes.

Nothing Comes from Talking (But Sound)

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

An absurdist demonstration of how the alphabet works.

Sailor's Diary

2012 • 5 min • Canada

An artifact from a hopscotch tour of literary and cinematic sailor narratives. A story brought together with old postcards, snippets of text, observational footage, and cinematic scores.

I Told You This Would Happen

2012 • 6 min

A dance in a surreal imaginary space-time…

6 Minute Jump

2012 • 5 min

A man who lost something very special a long time ago finally finds what he's looking for. What will he do to get it back?

One Day And Every Day

2012 • 9 min

A tedious day in the country. A chaotic day in the city. The relation between both stories becomes complicated as sound and image begin to diverge.

The Chair

2012 • 10 min

One boy's reaction to a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold in his small, rural town.

To Do

2012 • 1 min • United States of America

Interrogates goal setting and celebrates it, while simultaneously poking fun at it. Actual 'to do' lists are set to a snappy beat in a manner that avoids overwhelm and opens up possibility.

Die Flucht des Geparden sah ich nicht

2012 • 4 min • Germany

A tribute to cheetah Nelson.

Dramatis Personae

2012 • 6 min

Using the Zapruder footage of the Kennedy assassination, the Maysles brothers, 'Gimme Shelter' and a television series opening credit sequence as a conceptual framework 'Dramatis Personae' examines the Black Star Agency's photographic archive during the time of the artist's coming to consciousness in the 1960's. The source material signals the search for meaning in the precise moment the bullet enters Kennedy and leaves the world in shock and as we watch Jagger as he tries to find the instant the knife kills the Woodstock Nation.

When Bodies Touch

2012 • 4 min

A reflection on the material, on the filmic support. Strips of figures wander, fluxuate in the whirling kinetic rhythms imposed on them. These faces, these dispersed shattered bodies result from contacts (this is where they "touch") made by old photographic plates and anonymous fragments of film; everything is set onto and into a spiral.

Occupy Image

2012 • 13 min

The conventional use of parallax in 3d media presumes a coherent Cartesian space. The meshing and sequential dissolving of varying perspectives and disparate spaces in Occupy Image destabilizes the illusion and expectation of space. What is expressed in its place is an expanded sense of parallax in regards to depth perception. One where depth is a negotiation of difference to be perceived by combining the here with a formally unrelated there, and there and so on.

where she stood in the first place.

2012 • 10 min

Situated at the geographic centre of Canada, Baker Lake, Nunavut is the only inland settlement in the Canadian Arctic. Fixing its gaze on this stark landscape, McIntyre's haunting and sparse film uses hand-wrought black-and-white 16mm film in a meditation on place and personal histories.