All Films

It Is What It Is

2011 • 40 min

A short film that explores the lives of seven young New Yorkers during a twenty-four hour period of near misses, tattered relationships and crumbling dreams. A Bohemian dog walker, an unemployed single mom, a Swedish fashion photographer, an aspiring dancer from Georgia, a gay South African model and two British grad students inadvertently discover that sometimes to find yourself, you have to acknowledge being lost.

Order of the Grail

2011 • 60 min

Captain Thunder, a valiant knight in 12th-century Spain, is tasked with protecting the Holy Grail from evil and returning it to the Guardian Knights.

The Video Diaries

2011 • 7 min • Egypt

Cairo-based Khaled Hafez's latest work, The Video Diaries, is the artist's response to the revolution that swept through Egypt in January and February 2011. This three-channel video has been adapted for Ibraaz into a single-channel work in which three windows display footage either shot by the artist or taken from social and international media. These moving images - showing policemen; protesters singing and praying; and people apparently being shot or attacked by water cannons - run simultaneously across the three screens, while clocks urgently count down the seconds of the work's duration. A persistent, echoing beat; the sounds of a baying crowd; and a lachrymose guitar solo accompany the footage at different points.

Eden

2011 • 15 min • Japan

Matsuo Mine is a large abandoned complex in Hachimantai city, Iwate prefecture. I felt it possesses two conflicting natures- those of impermanence and eternity. Instead of the concrete “past” I tried to look for abstract “memories” through the viewfinder and resurrect them as a narrative.

Remixofagia (Allegories of a Revolution)

2011 • 16 min

Remix about Digital Culture in Brazil

Fat Free Nirvana

2011 • 3 min

Based on Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha’s story of achieving enlightenment through extreme fasting, “Fat Free Nirvana” portrays a Chinese Laughing Buddha trying to lose weight while consuming healthy vegetables. In the beginning the diet shows results, however, after eating the following genetically modified vegetables and fruits- “Flavr Savr Tomato”, “BT Corn”, “Botox Apple”, “Killer Strawberries” and “Roundup Ready Soybean”, he feels very ill and starts vomiting until he reaches the fat-free nirvana.

Peony Pavilion

2011 • 5 min

The green smoke of the incense burner, the winding path of the house, the picturesque scenery in the garden, the lady who looks like a fairy is raised in the boudoir and no one knows it. When the flowers are blooming in spring, she pushed open the door hinge of the embroidered household, Ping Ting swayed, chasing the footsteps of spring in the garden.

The Waves Of Time

2011 • 19 min • Morocco

On a deserted beach, Saïd, a lonely old man, meets Mehdi, an enigmatic young man. Intrigued, Saïd invites Mehdi to his home. But Nadia, wife of Saïd and a painter in need of inspiration, is not happy with this foreign presence.

Typingmonkeys

2011 • 11 min

Utilizing computational capability the unit produces and controls a humanly impressible amount of objects. The output sometimes makes no sense, like text typed by monkeys.

Earth

2011 • 5 min • Turkey

An attempt to make a poem film. A reaction to Efe Murad's poem, "Earth": your sweet and dream instances earth. if the whole of deprivation is tempted. if it truly asks and truly speaks. deprivation reunites earth. how the darknesses through your eyes. hate-kernel burst out of time. to all of the love morsels of love. maybe one day we will love each other. don't leave me alone engulf me earth.

Dark Night of the Pumpkinman

2011 • 53 min

A traumatized middle-aged man gets reacquainted from an obscure figure from the past while discovering missing clues from his sister's bizarre disappearance 17 years prior. As the sun goes down on Halloween, Jim suspects to be visited by the unknown killer in his paranoid maniacal funhouse.

Cigarettes and Kopiah

2011 • 14 min • Malaysia

between cigarettes and religion

The Square

2011 • 9 min • China

This experimental short, shot in a number of public spaces across China, explores the ways individual self-expression may in fact become codified in collective forms—or, if you like, how collective performance extends into the age of the supposed individual.

This Gay House

2011 • 18 min

An inspiring, stylish look into the homes and inspirations of top-notch contemporary designers who welcome the cameras over for a visit.

Darkroom

2011 • 2 min • Poland

A very short film about a man leaving a night club, a street in dark, a guy offering his sexual services and his tears. The only demand. Intense, almost cruel, a precise portrait of refuges, loneliness, compromises and fall.

Smoulder

2011 • 11 min

Smoulder is a film about a teenage girl, Jacquelyn, who has a very controlling, conservative mother and struggles with her sexuality. Jacquelyn uses her friend's bonfire party to break free of her mother's control and explore having fun as a teenager and her desire for her best friend, Vivian; but, Jacquelyn's mother haunts her subconscious and small town mentality oppresses who she really is further. Jacquelyn is a shy, repressed person, while her best friend is popular, mature, and individualistic. The people at the party also overshadow Jacquelyn, and she must build up her confidence. She makes a move on Vivian, reveals her feelings, and crosses a line in their friendship upon which she can't return from. The film approach is surrealistic.

Serotonin Rising

2011 • 60 min

A revolution of good deeds positively changing the planet. In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered that humans are hard-wired to be unselfish. During functional MRI brain scans, scientists learned that altruism makes people feel good, lighting up a primitive part of the human brain that usually responds to food, receiving money, and even sex. Combine a heart-warming, funny and semi-autobiographical storyline about two reporters who uncover this altruistic revolution with actual interviews from leading scientists, artists and philosophers and you have the World's First Truly "Feel Good" Movie, Serotonin Rising.

Cet homme-là (est un mille-feuilles)

2011 • 55 min

This man is Xavier, the director's father. She films the man who, after having had three children with his wife, Dominique, leaves her for a man, François, whom he then leaves for a (much) younger man, Guillaume. In reality, the final combination is not so simple because this man leaves no one and no one leaves him either. This is the story of a family break-up that did not happen, that has been commuted into cohabitations that sometimes defy common sense, sometimes the imagination. The story of a contemporary family: when bonds that were at first unimaginable gradually become inseparable.

Dave Thornton: A Different Type of Normal

2011 • 60 min

Dave always thought his family was pretty normal. That was until everything changed when he was nineteen.

Document

2011 • 2 min

People on Sunday

2011 • 3 min • Austria

A group of people in a room eating pizza, drinking, conversing, perhaps having a party.

Crazy Cradle Arounds

2011 • 7 min

The Performance of Drowning

2011 • 10 min • United States of America

On a trip to “Crippled Children’s Camp,” Terry Galloway falls for the deep-end swimming instructor, nearly drowning as she learns to perform her newly discovered queer, disabled identity in The Performance of Drowning.

Inside the Muslim Brotherhood

2011 • 44 min

Egypt's largest opposition group plays a role in the country's future.