All Films

Mademoiselle Noir

2012 • 3 min

A musical tragedy about a young man who comes upon a tower and finds this pale woman with long dark hair who just so happens to be the living dead.

On the Edge

2012 • 29 min

In Boujaâd, a Moroccan town where ancient myths and legends are rife, seven-year-old Karim, the only son of his modest parents struggles with his childhood fears and his urgent desire to be a man

Adorno's Grey

2012 • 14 min

Adorno’s Grey features a single-channel video set in the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, where German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno famously taught. It shows two conservators scraping the walls of a lecture hall, looking for the legendary grey that Adorno had his classroom painted in order to promote concentration. The excavation is staged as a film set: the technical apparatus of the production is exposed and Steyerl’s directions for the excavators can be heard off camera. The video returns to an image of a camera being set up to take a photo of the lectern.

Somnium Adveho Verus. Nocturnum 1

2012 • 10 min • Ukraine

At the center of the plot are the reflections of the main characters of the film - a girl, a boy and a little girl, different in character, preferences, but united by faith in the fulfillment of their dreams. Dream until the dream comes true, for the dream comes with faith.

Please, Mister: The Tony Miller Story

2012 • 60 min

Anthony Joseph Miller (1941–22 December 1960) became the second-last criminal to be executed in Scotland when he was hanged on the gallows at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison on 22 December 1960. Miller had been convicted of murdering John Cremin at Queen's Park Recreation Ground (near Hampden Park) in Glasgow on 6 April 1960. At 19 years of age, Miller was the last teenager to be executed in the United Kingdom.

Frontline: The Real CSI

2012 • 54 min

An examination of the weaknesses of forensic science in the American justice system.

In the Stone House

2012 • 35 min • United States of America

In the Stone House records and recollects a period of life of four years in rural New Jersey. In the latter 1960s, two young guys with monastic leanings leave the clatter of Manhattan’s art and film scene to catch the wave of higher consciousness that was about to change the world forever to find themselves washed ashore in a place only slightly updated from Way Down East. The monastic retreat quickly turned into the weekend getaway for a host of extravagant Manhattanites seeking films and fun. We learned from hitch-hiking guests that the police referred to our haven as “the stone house.” —Jerome Hiler

I Dreamed I Searched for You in Heaven

2012 • 53 min

A documentary based upon the lives of outsider folk artists Ronald and Jessie Cooper. They became artists in their mid-fifties while living on disability after having lost their Kentucky country store, enduring multiple heart attacks, and being seriously injured in an automobile accident. The story is told through the voices of their four children as well as pioneers of the Kentucky Folk Art Center in Morehead, KY who gave the Coopers their start. The film is an account of their life tragedies and triumphs based upon the messages told throughout their artwork.

Strata of Natural History

2012 • 12 min

In 1881 a group of Kawéskar natives from Tierra del Fuego were exhibited in human zoos across Europe, organized by the merchant of wild animals Carl Hagenbeck from Hamburg.

Um Rio Chamado Ave

2012 • 22 min • Portugal

This film explores the continuous journey between the past and the present. In the sense of change, like the natural condition of a river and of man. In low flight across the water, from the source in the mountains to its mouth, we witness the consequences of the indifference of man towards nature. But the river resists. Because everything that runs deep is revealed at the surface.

The Mennonite Federation

2012 • 4 min

A mysterious, amusing, semi-nostalgic ramble through a small town in Iowa gives way to what may be the U.S.S. Enterprise indulging in a bit of time travel. Dialogue contrasts the pleasures of the simple life with its hardships and the mere act of looking at a patch of mums is complicated by the addition of a loupe that both blurs and sharply focuses each flower.

Salman the Persian

2012 • 30 min

From Badr International comes the long-awaited series, Animated Stories of Islam, relating some of the great stories that took place before, during and after the Prophet Muhammad. Salman the Persian, the third and final part of the 3-part series, tells the story of the life of Prophet Salman. Included in this film are his wise tales of justice, his ability to control jinn and speak to animals, as well as his rise to Kingship.

2 Days: Adrien Broner (HBO Sports)

2012 • 10 min • United States of America

A behind-the-scenes portrait of the undefeated rising star and Cincinnati's own sensation Adrien "The Problem" Broner before and during his bouts with Eloy Perez and Vincente Escobedo. “2 Days” is a revealing and intimate look at a 48-hour span in the life of a boxer in the lead-up to one of his fights focusing on junior lightweight title-holder Adrien Broner. HBO cameras followed the engaging and free spirited fighter prior to his showdown against Eloy Perez.

Bob the Builder: Adventures by the Sea

2012 • 56 min • United States of America

Bob the Builder and his machine team "sea" lots of new ways to work together to get jobs done in and around Fixham Harbor in five exciting stories.

Cheryl

2012 • 17 min

2011/2012, 16mm, Optical Sound, B&W, 17 min

Decision

2012 • 56 min • India

The film's director Pushpa Rawat brings her scrutiny to bear upon her closest female friends, her ex-boyfriend, his parents and her own family through interview/conversations. She asks, and reflects herself, on uncomfortable questions about jati, choice, personal freedom, happiness and compromise. Rawat made Nirnay in collaboration with Anupama Srinivasan, a documentary filmmaker and director of the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival.

The Seven Pillars of Catholic Spirituality

2012 • 60 min

We all need our spirituality re-energized from time to time. Matthew Kelly has been inspiring Catholics to explore the genius of Catholicism for twenty years. If you are not quite sure where Catholicism fits into your life, have questions about the faith, or just need your spiritual life reinvigorated... this one hour presentation is perfect for you.

The Ambulance

2012 • 8 min

An ambulance answers an anonymous call. Is there anything to save? They end up in a matrix between good and evil ... Do they decide their own destiny?

Experiment III

2012 • 2 min • Canada

Video feedback, AZDEN VPC-10, LZX video synthesizer

Experiment V

2012 • 1 min • Canada

Digital images processed through the LZX video synthesizer

The Blessed

2012 • 14 min

María (13) is an intersex girl (hermaphrodite) who is forced by her father to impersonate the Holly Virgin Mary at the procession of their town, because he thinks this is the only way she can "get fixed".

Disordered

2012 • 42 min

A cavalcade of characters in conflict with consciousness is conjured up within the confines of Studio 8 at the San Francisco Art Institute and digitized for analysis.

Louis(e) de Ville, portrait d'une bad girl

2012 • 48 min

Louis(e) de Ville is an actress, sex educator, author, and american burlesque performer. Follow her as she performs in burlesque shows throughout Europe and for the run of her one woman show: Betty Speaks!; from glamour to trash, from on stage to backstage, join her as she explores and explodes the codes of gender and feminism.

Citizen Change

2012 • 48 min

Citizen Change reveals how a dedicated group of East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area) LGBT pioneers blazed the trail for marriage equality by inventing the domestic partnership and attaining its first-ever enactment into law in the city of Berkeley, CA in 1984. In relating their personal stories, these remarkable men and women take us back to the 1970's and 1980's, creating a vivid portrait of how a small, dedicated group tackled the seeming-impossible: the attainment of the world's first law that affirmatively recognized same-sex relationships. In doing so, they changed the very language that is used to describe same-sex relationships and created a template that spread worldwide. Their accomplishment made possible today's efforts to establish marriage equality. Their contribution is revealed in this stirring documentary.