All Films

Rubber Soul

2012 • 17 min

On the verge of adolescence, Jonas' newly discovered passion for music leads him astray from his protected childhood surroundings and into the unknown ventures of puberty. Alongside Jonas, the viewer subtly crosses this puzzling cosmos, with music being the guiding star.

Tysk flyhavari 15.12.1941 ved Farsund

2012 • 38 min

December 15th, 1941 a German Heinkel HE111 military plane with 4 people aboard crashed into Raufjellet between Nørsgård and Heia in Farsund. The story here is told through first hand witnesses how they experienced this episode and the following days after.

Miss Tibet and the Limbo of Exile

2012 • 28 min

Welcome to the Miss Tibet Pageant where Dolma, representing Australia, is determined to beat five other willowy, super-competitive Tibetan entrants, three from India and two from Switzerland and the USA.

Proposal for a Romantic Sculpture

2012 • 5 min

Embedded in marble on a pedestal, an iPod shows the phrase "Ne me quitte pas" [Don't leave me] being tattooed on a man's shoulder, while Jacques Brel's song of the same title plays throughout. A poisoned gift to a lover with the intention to manipulate them to stay? Or a moment of anguish and abandonment? Khaled's work embodies the violence and fragility of failed relationships and puts the universal experience of heartbreak literally on a pedestal. (Bozar, Brussels)

Danse Macabre

2012 • 9 min • United States of America

A film strip that was prepared for Joseph Winter's "It's Only a Movie" Halloween Short Film Fest in Spanish Fork, Oct 2012.

亡命詩人の憂鬱～２３年目の天安門事件～

2012 • 59 min

Sol

2012 • 4 min • Argentina

5 moments on the sun king's agenda. Short experimental film by Ernesto Baca

Sars

2012 • 4 min

A look at the monopoly role that China’s media has played in this epidemic. Beijing. The spring of 2003. The ghost of SARS hovered over the whole city. The atmosphere was unusually tranquil but heavy. Now SARS is announced as “constrained.” People are returning to their normal way of living. Looking back, it is not surprising to see the monopoly role that China’s media has played in this special period.

Psychic Cheerleaders: Dawn of the New Age

2012 • 9 min

Two psychic cheerleaders go to a satanic frat party.

Llano

2012 • 8 min

[T]he ghost town of Llano del Rio, founded in 1913 by the socialist Job Harriman. The failure of irrigation and water supply finally caused the project, and the town, to be abandoned, nearly a century ago. We observe this desert and the vestiges of this utopian city in the sheeting rain. [...] At the centre of all this, a woman struggles to prevent the collapse. Like Sisyphus pushing his rock, she replaces the bricks and stones falling from the already disintegrated structure. Several times, throughout the film the camera takes us to a dark and gloomy engine room that seems indefinably connected to the ruin. [...]

Shock-X-Treme Vol 4: Real Fights

2012 • 47 min • United States of America

Against a backdrop of commentary by an anonymous narrator, the documentary presents a selection of solid fights recorded on the spot. These fights pit men and sometimes even women against each other with bare hands and an obviously unreasonable fervor.

Do you know about Friendship Island?

2012 • 33 min

Friendship is a mysterious island at the Archipiélago de las Guitecas (Chile) which does not exist on the map. People from the south know the island by rumors that link Friendship to miraculous healings and UFO phenomena. Toto Island is part of the same archipelago to which Shingo traveled with an improvised manual for basic communication, containing ready made phrases in Spanish regarding the purpose of his trip. The manual, an old radio and his video camera would be the only means to establish contacts and collect information on the Friendship enigma.

Serene Observation

2012 • 3 min • South Korea

A short film by Lee Jangwook

a + b ^3

2012 • 37 min • Iran

A theater directed by Claudia Souracheh

For The Birds

2012 • 19 min

Semiotics is For Cinema as Ornithology is For the Birds

In Search of Vanished Blood

2012 • 11 min • Germany

Inspired by East German writer and critic Christa Wolf’s 1984 novel Cassandra, about a struggling female artist and visionary. In Search of Vanished Blood comprises six 11-minute video projections streamed around the room through five clear Mylar cylinders, hand-painted with a variety of cultural and historical iconography, which hang in the center of the room. As the Mylar cylinders rotate, the colorful and layered imagery is projected onto the walls, creating a magical environment reminiscent of lantern slide presentations and other proto-cinema experiments in the 18th and 19th centuries

The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness

2012 • 35 min

Shot in locations such as the Cultural Revolution set at Zhenbeibao Western Film Studio and the Imperial German Qingdao, three abstract layered vignettes detail the filmmaker's grandfather’s covert role as a Chinese spy during WWII and the experiences of three generations of women in his family during China’s Cultural Revolution.

Wild Coast

2012 • 6 min

Super8 short by Robin Mellway.

Predations

2012 • 17 min • Kazakhstan

The world has been struck by a mysterious illness, and society has collapsed. A woman in a state of shock is taken in by a group of survivor, sowing discord among them.

Michelle

2012 • 11 min • South Korea

One summer night at the lakeside where a party was taking place, there we met our loved ones who had passed away.

Beauty and the Beast

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

A gorilla menaces a stripper.

The Acupuncturist

2012 • 2 min

An ambiguous description of an encounter between two women turns out to be the recounting of acupuncture treatments.

Hello, My Name Is

2012 • 1 min

Video detail of the 'lamenting' 22 minute performance art piece at San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros: "I would be kidding myself if I didn't think Aphrodite had something to do with this, and obviously Emma Bovary would have loved this!"

Cancer Katha

2012 • 27 min

A film on the filmmaker’s brush with cancer, and the fears and dilemmas on what course of treatment to follow. Through music, there are musings on love, death and memory.