All Films

Yosemite and I

2011 • 44 min • South Korea

The moment I decided to throw away my old computer, I realized that I was in love with it. I wanted to celebrate our breakup and decided to make our story into a movie.

Killer Robots: Robogames 2011

2011 • 44 min

Every year robot maniacs from around the world converge in san Francisco for Robogames, a 3 day event that celebrates the culture of extreme robotics. 220 pound robot warriors fight to the death, with the last robot standing crowned king of Killer Robots!

Doors of the Past

2011 • 13 min

As of 1990, many African women fleeing their homes because of the war and political instability in their countries settled down in Belgium. 20 years later, They are haunted by their past. How to express these anxieties that gnaw at them? How to say the unspeakable? What if women other than these refugees started to open the doors of the past?

Our Fathers

2011 • 24 min

Filmmaker Liseth Medema was raised by her father as a Jehovah's Witness. When she did not want to continue with the faith, she had to leave her parental home. In this documentary, she speaks to her father, in an attempt to get closer to each other.

Chromatic Cocktail 180 Proof

2011 • 8 min

Digital video in Chromadepth 3D. "The bubbly dayglo images and bleepy beats added a nice sacriligous feeling, since experimental film shows often feel like going to church." -David Cairns

Craig's Cutting Room Floor

2011 • 2 min

a fragmented journey through cinema's history taken right off the cutting room floor.

Sangre de Cristo

2011 • 26 min

Marcy Saude’s odyssey through highway towns, historical societies, communes, roadside attractions and mountain trails results in a stunning film where embedded layers of oppositional history converge and are revealed in the landscape of Colorado and New Mexico.

Punctum & Back

2011 • 7 min

Using as a starting point Barthes’ notion of the Punctum, this installation investigates the relationship between the body-live, the body-object (as cinematographic body) and the lack of body.

The Last Films of Humphrey Esterhase

2011 • 20 min

One of only two surviving works by Humphrey Esterhase (1931-2012). Over fifty years ago, Esterhase’s entire filmography of seven underground movies was destroyed while he was travelling in South America. His luggage, containing the only copies of these works, was thrown overboard during a mutiny on a boat he had booked passage on. The incident ended with the mutineers being summarily executed and the reclusive Esterhase gave up making films. All he left behind were these two abortive attempts to begin again late in life.

Then

2011 • 5 min

"Then" examines the mysterious world that has been embedded in memory of time and space, a virtual universe which exits somewhere between reality and dream. Images in "Then" progresses and dissolves into another and creates a haunting audio / visual experience.

Susie's Ghost

2011 • 7 min • United States of America

Susie's Ghost is about the mystery of the marks we make and leave behind. The “Susie” in the title refers to a sibling but the "ghost" refers more generally to lingering feelings of loss. The cinematography and performance both express a tentative presence and diffuse sense of disappearance. Is she looking for something? Is she really there? We shot with aging 16mm film in my downtown Manhattan neighborhood, just before construction mania obliterated the last traces of the manufacturing district I’d moved into years earlier.

Salem Witch Trial Conspiracy

2011 • 45 min

In Salem Witch Trial Conspiracy, join author Katherine Howe as she embarks on a historical journey to bring you the truth behind the world's most famous witch-hunt. Of the over one hundred people charged with witchcraft, five died in jail, 19 died on the gallows and one was crushed to death. Each of these deaths was the result of an overwhelming religious hysteria, and even to this date historians are uncovering more about what really occurred.

Angorá

2011 • 10 min

Through the eyes of a cat, the audience meets Bruno, Fabricio, Silvio and Lucio, their fears, guilt, ego and delicacy.

Hitler's Suicide Ship

2011 • 46 min

After battling in late 1939 with British cruisers off the coast of Uruguay, Hitler’s prized “pocket battleship” and high-tech wonder, the Admiral Graf Spee was blown up by its own captain, Hans Langsdorff. Denounced by the Nazi regime, Langsdorff commits suicide shortly thereafter. National Geographic Channel reconstructs the first naval battle of World War II and retraces the events that led to the Graf Spee’s ultimate destruction.

The Pope's Secret Service

2011 • 45 min

National Geographic takes an intimate look at life behind the Vatican walls. For more than a year, filmmakers were allowed extraordinary access to the center of the Catholic Church and members of the popes inner circle. We'll meet a bodyguard, an official photographer, the archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica who is privy to Vatican secrets and an altar boy living in the pre-seminary. Then, cameras enter the vaults under the Vatican museum.

Dirty Orange

2011 • 12 min

Alice is having a hard time getting ready for a funeral. Lucy, her girlfriend, is trying her best to help her, but the atmosphere between them is chilly. Will a trip down memory lane help?

The Fox in the Snow

2011 • 10 min

A women's bible study meeting takes an unexpected turn when the members' true motives are revealed.

Boys Will Be Boys

2011 • 9 min

When a man is abused by his partner, he locks himself in the bathroom. There he begins to imagine what his life would be like if he opened the door.

Coach Tyranny: Tough Love

2011 • 45 min

We know that Coach Tyranny is the most ferocious coach on the high school landscape, but this time, the real battles take place off the playing field. In the second episode of this animated series, unsuspected love interests force Tyranny into a tug-of-war over his heart and, ultimately, his soul. Meanwhile, a family get-together reminds Tyranny that his mother has never stopped teaching him eternal truths. Watch Coach Tyranny discover what it means to honor his mother and father, as well as learn other lessons God wants to teach all of us.

O Diário de Márcia

2011 • 20 min

Marcia, a transsexual from Paraíba, tells a personal and intimate story about the dilemma of living the feminine universe in a man's body, while waiting to remove the last vestige of the sex that torments her existence.

Lados Dados

2011 • 12 min

After the relationship ends, the two boys involved try to understand what really happened between the sides in the various stories they lived together. Between sorrows and resentments the truth given between the sides emerges and there is nothing left but for each one to go their own way.

The Twelve

2011 • 37 min

1270 Boylston Street was Boston's most diverse discotech in its history. Catering primarily to a gay clientele, the bar had 4 stories to move around in: 2 dance floors, a piano bar/pool room, and a rooftop terrace. Every night you could hear disco on one floor, new wave/rock on another, jazz standards in the basement and then chill on the roof overlooking historic Fenway Park Stadium. There was nothing like it before or since and those who were there will never forget the experience.

The Detroit Sound Project: Al Ester

2011 • 4 min

A portrait of Detroit most energetic DJ and fabled dance music curator. This was the first short film produced by the Detroit Sound Project in 2011. The four-minute short film beautifully illustrates Ester's career influences and highlights in Detroit dance music history.

Regional TV: Life Through a Local Lens

2011 • 60 min