All Films

Same Stream Twice

2012 • 4 min • United Kingdom

My daughter's name is Maya. I've been told that the word maya means illusion in Hindu philosophy. As I watch her growing up, spinning like a top around me, I realize that her childhood is not something I can grasp but rather (like the wind) something I feel tenderly brushing across my cheek. Eleven years later, I pull out my 16mm Bolex camera once again and she allows me to film her, different but somehow the same. - Lynne Sachs

Explosions

2012 • 7 min • Australia

Explosions; a silent film set to a piece of classical music, observes an ethereal happening, as the inhabitants of a semi-industrial suburb inexplicably float into the night sky. After failing to save her boyfriend from this loss of gravity, a girl struggles to escape the phenomena.

Stay

2012 • 25 min • China

Chinese short film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai.

ADVENTURE of a CHERRYBOY

2012 • 58 min • Japan

aro who is a virgin still haven’t even kissed. When taking a pessimistic view of life, he confronts the mystery of life. Furthermore, he falls in love with Hitomi who is the “it” girl of his school.

Saxon Hoard: A Golden Discovery

2012 • 59 min • United Kingdom

In 2009 metal-detecting enthusiast Terry Herbert discovered the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure in the UK. Dan Snow travels across the old Kingdom of Mercia to unravel the secrets of the Staffordshire Hoard.

No Ball Games

2012 • 7 min

A curious and mischievous child disobeys a rule and plays football against a forbidden wall. The ball then dinks over into a world where little boys like him are destined to go.

Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Scary Stories from the Studio

2012 • 45 min • Japan

This is the sixth installment in the horror omnibus series from director Kazuhiro Yokoyama of This time, he recreates a true story of horror that occurred in the mass media industry.

Wallace & Gromit's Jubilee Bunt-a-thon

2012 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Wallace and Gromit celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, sponsored by the National Trust.

Las Plagas: Organisms of War

2012 • 7 min • United States of America, Japan

A short in-universe documentary set in the world of the Resident Evil video games explaining the backstory of the fictional Las Plagas parasite and the biology of creatures infected with it. Included with DVD and Blu-Ray units of Resident Evil: Damnation.

Voyager: To the Final Frontier

2012 • 59 min • United Kingdom

This is the story of the most extraordinary journey in human exploration, the Voyager space mission. In 1977 two unmanned spacecraft were launched by NASA, heading for distant worlds. It would be the first time any man-made object would ever visit the farthest planets of the solar system - Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. On the way the Voyagers would be bombarded by space dust, fried by radiation and discover many of the remarkable wonders of the solar system. Now, at the end of 2012, 35 years and 11 billion miles later, they are leaving the area of the sun's influence. As they journey out into the galaxy beyond they carry a message from Earth, a golden record bolted to the side of each craft describing our civilisation in case of discovery by another. This is the definitive account of the most intrepid explorers in Earth's history.

See You Then, Then

2012 • 11 min

Pearl invites her closest friends over for dinner to break the news that she's about to embark about a strange journey.

John Cage: Journeys in Sound

2012 • 60 min

A sonic innovator or an expert on chance? This documentary by Oscar-winning director Allan Miller and Emmy-winner Paul Smaczny pays tribute to the most fascinating American avant-garde composer. Shot in America, Germany and Japan, 'Journeys in Sound' premieres rare archival footage and features associates of John Cage and contemporary artists.

Polaroid Girl

2012 • 17 min

A shy photographer finds her artistry bloom when she falls for a woman who runs a camera store.

La apuesta de Pascal

2012 • 12 min

The bonds that unite a father and his daughter cannot be broken even by death.

Sensitive Man

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

Follow a man as he goes to Sensitivity Training.

Dick Winters: Hang Tough

2012 • 55 min

Narrator Damian Lewis tells the story of the building and dedication of the Richard D. Winters Leadership monument in Normandy, France in June of 2012. The film focuses on the leader of World War II's "Band of Brothers" and the leadership skills he possessed. A never before seen interview with the late Major Winters is utilized, as well as interviews with the "Band of Brothers" who are still alive.

Documentary of AKB48: AKB48+1

2012 • 49 min • Japan

Rather than following a narrative or covering large events, this documentary goes through the entire English alphabet with a different aspect of AKB48 being covered for each letter (eg. S for Shake Hands).

Naked Conversations with Nude Women

2012 • 16 min

Emulating goddess mythology and iconic paintings of reclining female nudes, 8 nude women reflect on a world without men, the human body and psyche, evolution and science.

Sanctuary's Battle

2012 • 5 min

A fallen angel kicked out of Paradise by God, Lucifer has found a way to enter Earth and live in hiding. In search of a key capable of opening the gates of hell, buried among men, Lucifer sends his two daughters and his best fighters in search of it.

Renascimento Africano

2012 • 51 min • Brazil, Senegal

The film, shot in Dakar, Senegal, has testimonials from intellectuals, politicians and religious, who present an overview of the 50 years of independence of the countries of West Africa and the interpretation of the sculpture created recently in Senegal, which it represents, precisely, the African renaissance.

Record/Play

2012 • 11 min • United States of America

War, fate, and a broken Walkman transcend time and space in this sci-fi love story.

Termites: The Inner Sanctum

2012 • 51 min

Termites are underrated. They build high rises without any technical devices that are, according to scale, 25 times higher than the the Empire State Building in New York. They are the only animals that have managed to build an air-conditioning system without electricity. How do they do it?

Corey Holcomb: Your Way Ain't Working

2012 • 48 min • United States of America

Together People

2012 • 24 min

Meet Gary, a disillusioned queen obsessed with status and “Quality of Life,” who’s living close to the edge, all the while pining for a garden cottage in Noe Valley. Vulgar people, sadistic people, ripped-off people—wherever and whenever people are falling apart, you'll find them: the Together People.