All Films

Backwash

2012 • 4 min • Japan

Stop motion animation using 30,000 cards, music Gary Ashiya. Screening at Image Forum Festival 2012.

Wriggle

2012 • 3 min • Japan

This silent 8mm short was filmed in 2012 and hand-developed using Caffenol, a home-made developer based on instant coffee and vitamin C.

Donk: 150 Beats Per Minute, Hardcore, Rave Music

2012 • 31 min • United Kingdom

Since the advent of acid house in the late 80s, British techno music has been in a long, baffling search for some sort of universal lowest common denominator. Breakbeat, digital hardcore, and gabber all made strong efforts in the race for the bottom, but none of them holds a candle to Donk. Combining the 150bpm madness of happy hardcore with indecipherable North English rap and then overlaying the whole mess with a single, infuriating "donk" sound, Donk may well be the apotheosis of all ridiculous dance music to date. It is also the only local thing going for an entire population of working-class kids with dwindling outside prospects. We meet up with Black Out Crew, commonly referred to as the Beatles of the Donk scene. Their video "Put a Donk On It!" has almost 4 million views on YouTube. So come along for some ecstasy fueled all nighters into the bizarre scene that is Donk.

East Croydon

2012 • 15 min

A short shot made from a train traveling from south to north through East Croydon station is cut into three-frame sections, each of which is looped for ten seconds. Each loop advances by one one frame at a time. The looping process generates complex artifacts and kinetic illusions in the image.

Witches Walk

2012 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Two figures walk through a forest that morphs and transforms before our eyes. In this expressionistic film, VHS footage has been projected and refilmed several times with different cameras until it breaks down and takes on a fluid quality, reminiscent of watercolour or ink, to create a unique and hypnotic image.

Sweet Violets

2012 • 40 min

In the Gilded Age and beyond, high fashion decreed that violets were the flower of choice for Valentine's Day, Easter, and a fragrant corsage. At its height, in the years before World War I, Rhinebeck, New York, growers shipped millions of sweet violets (viola odorata) to New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and beyond.

Caught in the Act: Lion Brawl

2012 • 45 min

Eyewitnesses share amazing wildlife encounters caught on tape. In New Zealand, two filmmakers witness an act of Octopus cannibalism. Tourists in California are shocked to see Killer Whales viciously attack a Dolphin. Surfers in Mozambique spot a monkey and a dog playfully fighting and teasing each other in a game of tag.

Fertile Ashes

2012 • 27 min

It is the summer of 1972, Joey's Place is an underground club that caters to working class lesbians and queer women in St. Paul, Minnesota. The club owner Joey must pay the mafia to keep the peace with the local police, things heat up further when an anti-war activist approaches the bar for the purpose of, "LESBIAN ORGANIZING."

Ephemeral Nature

2012 • 6 min

A classy and stylish couple living in a London maisonette hide a secret behind closed doors. They hold a relationship with several plastic objects including hand-made acrylic playful jewellery from a brand called Displexia.

Pedra e auga

2012 • 4 min • Spain

Piece created as part of ‘Gallaecia Petrea', an ambitious exhibition designed as a genuine tribute to Galicia in the form of a journey across history through stone: from the mystery of the petroglyphs to contemporary art’s latest creations, such as this.

Lyrica

2012 • 5 min

Sadsack protocomercialism

An Afternoon

2012 • 3 min

A film by Nick Collins

take my word

2012 • 2 min

A section cut through a transitional editing tool, the dissolve. For Craig Baldwin.

American Homes

2012 • 12 min

1800 years of American residential architecture in 11 minutes.

La Ñaña

2012 • 5 min • Chile

At home, by the fire, La Ñaña Juanita Huenchumil talks about Chile and the Mapuche struggle.

Canto Arquipélago

2012 • 8 min • Canada

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

Through the Lens of inkedKenny

2012 • 17 min

inkedKenny is a photographer who has a special relationship to his models, who dares to look behind the facades, who produces and opposes them. He shapes the universe of the homosexual Bear Community of Montreal by taking pictures of muscular men who embody a certain ideal of beauty. What appears at first glance to be a pure body cult is a source of strength in an extraordinary fate.

Climate of Doubt

2012 • 53 min

Four years ago, climate change was a hot issue and politicians from both sides seemed poised to act. Today public opinion on the climate issue has cooled considerably. Politicians either ignore it or proclaim their skepticism. What’s behind this massive reversal? FRONTLINE goes inside the organizations that fought the scientific establishment to shift the direction of the climate debate.

Blue Follies

2012 • 13 min

A Wolf Called Storm

2012 • 59 min

Storm is an extraordinary wolf - the head of a pack in Canada's frozen north that hunts the giant buffalo herds. This pack came to fame in Frozen Planet, and now cameraman Jeff Turner spends a year with Storm and his wolf family, learning how they survive in this harsh wilderness and whether Storm can pass his hunting skills on to the new generation of wolf cubs.

the arc of the sun

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

A cosmically devotional portrait of the great Sun Ra Arkestra led by Marshall Allen, performing at Victoria Theatre in San Francisco.

Nine Below Zero: Live at The Marquee Club

2012 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Incredible and frenzied live performance from the British Blues rockers, Nine Below Zero, filmed at the Marquee Club in London 1980.

Strike II

2012 • 1 min • Germany

In Strike II, the artist and her daughter hit the camera with a pair of hammers, attacking image-making apparatus and representation.

Good Evening

2012 • 12 min

The troubling hallucinations of a deranged mind.