All Films

Schurback

2012 • 29 min

Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those who have not fared so well. Herr Shurback is more than just a failed entrepeneur. This is his movie.

Simple Minds: Main Square 2012

2012 • 60 min

Jim Kerr and Simple Minds perform hits including 'Don't You' live at Main Square festival in 2012.

The Age of Anxiety

2012 • 51 min

The Age of Anxiety is a film that delves into a crisis in motion according to the World Health Organization, disorders related to dread are the most prevalent mental illnesses on the globe at the moment. Is this a disease of modernity? Or is our highly competitive and material culture itself undermining our nerves? The Age of Anxiety explores these questions, while also investigating the role that pharmaceutical companies and even the psychiatric profession play in this phenomenon. Is our anxiety fueling an industry that in turn is profiting from and exploiting our dread in a vicious and self-perpetuating cycle?

Documental 9.70

2012 • 43 min • Colombia

9.70 tells the story of how the Colombian people, and specially a farming community, fought against a savage treaty that turns them into criminals for seeding the seeds they have been using for many generations.

Disclosure

2012 • 22 min

Tyler realizes that it's time to talk to his partner about his HIV status, a revelation that takes them both on an emotional journey of heartache, isolation, and discrimination.

Lopsided

2012 • 29 min

A new kind of medical cure has been invented. Within 24 hours of consumption, homosexual users will be “treated” and return to the state of heterosexuals. Lotus is a lesbian, but a series of events follow as soon as her conservative mother finds out about Lotus’ sexual orientation.

Car Crash Opera

2012 • 7 min

A tragic/comic opera about a tragic/comic fatal multi-car crash. The results are smashing.

Then You Can Be Free

2012 • 5 min

To be in love is a great feeling. But if you are gay and you can't show you love as you might like. What would your parents say? How will other people react? The short film "Then you can be free" empowers young gays to be proud of what they are.

The Butterfly Effect

2012 • 3 min • United Kingdom

An ordinary looking guy wakes up one morning feeling the worse for wear and realizes he's run out of milk. As he drags himself out of the house to go and buy some, an extraordinary sequence of events draws him into a journey of mayhem on the streets of San Francisco.

Darna: A Stone Is A Heart You Cannot Swallow

2012 • 6 min

In this novel retelling of an old story, Darna, the foremost Filipino female superhero, wakes up to discover that her magical stone has grown as big as her heart. Alone in a world where silence is her only companion, she learns to come to grips with the finitude of love.

The Pride World

2012 • 19 min

Multi-channel video. Specifically created for the exhibition EDIT-Image Fetish and Phobia in September 2012. Different from his previous works, this two-channel video is projected onto the Chinese traditional Xuan paper - Jia Xuan. The black and white image and the natural texture of Jia Xuan paper create a unique visceral sensation. It triggers and foregrounds a special nostalgic sentiment from the video’s characters and environment.

Augusta 120

2012 • 18 min

Rich and poor. Garbage and luxury. All tribes, people, tastes, genders and flavors. All the opportunities. From reason to emotion. That's how it is on the most famous street of São Paulo, Brazil: Rua Augusta.

Écart de Conduite

2012 • 4 min

Chloé takes her driving test, for the ninth time.

Country Ball 1989–2012

2012 • 13 min • United States of America

Described by its maker as an "Hieronymus Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights–inspired landscape," Jacolby Satterwhite’s video abounds with a raucous and celebratory energy as it combines personal home movies of a family cookout, renditions of his mother’s drawings, and multiple simulations of himself dancing.

Alienation

2012 • 3 min

Animated Short Film Directed by Silvia Carpizo.

Vespres Verds

2012 • 3 min

A short film based on the sketchbooks of Andrés Hispano.

Spirit Science 12 ~ The Human History Movie

2012 • 59 min

This video dives in and explores an alternate version of our human history, connecting the dots that up until now, seemed to be random anomalies in our ancient past. The story is certainly different than anything you likely have heard or seen before, but just as well - paints a very complex and yet simple picture of our history, which explains all of the world’s religions, and the state of the world today. All of the struggles that humanity is experiencing, and even why we are struggling to begin with, is explained through this story.

00:00:00 (Zero Hours, Zero Minutes, Zero Seconds)

2012 • 11 min • Guatemala

Short film from Guatemala.

Vision of Traces

2012 • 1 min

A film made by removing the surface of found footage filmstrip on to paper with the aid of chemicals. The visible elements of the found footage filmmaterial, which shows mostly rehearsals and not used filmscenes, are the remaining traces of that film printing process.

The Row

2012 • 59 min

Amidst the pressures of college a gay frat boy vows to leave his mark on the world the only way he knows how -- by sleeping with one guy from every on-campus fraternity.

Dawn Rescue

2012 • 6 min

Two men relate how they first met in a gay bar 11 years ago, when Dan whispered in Matthew's ear the chilling words which changed his life forever. A blackly comic look at how religion corrupts the innocent.

American Overture

2012 • 7 min

A short abstract dance film that celebrates American cultural diversity, gay rights, freedom and religious rights, innovation and equality set in a collage of iconic surreal imagery.

CockTales

2012 • 15 min

After Jharemy's new discoveries, he has realized that girls run the world and decided to link up with his new BFF, Blaire Knowells. Unfortunately this truth is only in her head. Jharemy and Blaire are comanagers of the hottest gay night club in New York City and they never see eye to eye on anything except both loving and sharing a good CockTALE. Through the lives of Jharemy, Blaire, and their diverse group of friends, audiences experience the intoxication and unfortunate hangovers of being friends, business partners, and what it is like to actually become an adult. Both adults experience their own business and!relationship struggles that mold their entire New York City experience and bridge the gap between hetero homo lifestyles.

Angie

2012 • 16 min

A short film about the grief surrounding the death of a woman soldier Angie. Her girlfriend Jules and her mother Dawn find themselves in conflict over their loss; Dawn has never been able to accept that her daughter is gay and Jules resents Dawn for never allowing them to marry.