All Films

Lucha

2011 • 16 min

A young Mexican woman, Lucha, awakens to find herself beaten and bloodied. As she tries to gather her bearings and summon what physical strength she has left, she learns her nightmare is just beginning. Two Men, angels of death, arrive to finish the job. With likely her last dawn approaching, she is taken further into the Chihuahuan desert to be left for dead. It is up to Lucha to search within herself and discover what lengths she will go to in order to survive.

Welcome to Pine Point

2011 • 35 min • Canada

Interactive short documentary film from the NFB. The mining town of Pine Point in Canada's northwest territories has been flattened, leaving its former residents with only their memories. Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge explore what memories mean to us in this creative web story which attracted 100,000 viewers in its first two months and has been nominated for a Webby.

Not a Man in Sight

2011 • 48 min

Martine (24) is still developing her identity. She wants to be seen as a masculine individual – not a lesbian. Mette (35) – the film’s director – is dreaming of becoming a mother. She and her wife Stina, face the big question; Is our baby not going to have a father? Marja (78) and Bodil, part of the first openly gay generation, think their new apartment is too masculine and needs “gender reassignment surgery”.

How Are You

2011 • 58 min

HOW ARE YOU is a remarkable documentary about two now famous artists. The film brings us back to when they fell in love with each other and started working together. And even though the two young rebels started out shooting salt water into their veins, they ended up meeting a real queen at the peak of their fame. In an astonishing few years Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have become some of the biggest stars in the international art world. In a sharp, playful and humorous way they pinpoint important themes such as identity, sexuality, welfare and democracy. With simple twists and turns they make us confront ourselves and make us face the conformity and tightness of everyday life and our idiosyncrasies.

Big Drive

2011 • 9 min

In an era before in-car movies and video games, four sisters squeeze into the back of the family car for a long journey. While the parents keep a steady watch on the road ahead, restlessness gradually gives way to mayhem in the car’s close quarters. Just before the ride becomes unbearable, the sisters are inspired to combine their creative energy. Suddenly, the big drive becomes an even bigger adventure.

Mother's Colours

2011 • 8 min

Judith, an artist, moves into a senior's residence, and she feels lonely and alienated. She discovers that she can escape into her painting. Her neighbour, Greg, notices her diving into her landscape and follows after her.

The Century

2011 • 9 min • Brazil

The Century (O Século) is both the documentary of a performance and the documentary of an allegory. Without a human figure in view, scraps, debris, and junk are thrown dramatically from one side of an alley to the other, and then a volley begins from the other side.

The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts

2011 • 15 min

Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Concentrate your attention. What Question will you ask? The Matter Propounded... makes use of an early 20th-century “Tablet of Jupiter” system for attempting to tell one’s future. The film invites viewers to make their own suppositions about the relationship of the questions we ask of the world and the answers we find for ourselves. A "letter-press" 16mm film.

Church of the Dead

2011 • 21 min

A haunting at St Mary the Virgin Church.

Terry Kendall and Orange Green

2011 • 11 min

Young Terry Kendall's life is thrown out of whack when she discovers that she's being followed by the creepy Orange Green.

Slight @ Love More HK

2011 • 8 min

Slight @ Love More HK

A Film Without End - 2

2011 • 42 min

Part two of Tuluum Shimmering's 'A Film Without End'.

A Film Without End - 1

2011 • 27 min

Part one of Tuluum Shimmering's 'A Film Without End'.

Shayne's Rectangle

2011 • 5 min

In Shayne's Rectangle, Dani Leventhal's moving and mysterious prayer for healing, a horse farm and a casual poolside dissection are the nodes between which a series of patiently taken sharp turns maneuver through moods both intimate and detached. The camera pursues, observes, offers, reflects, and is reflected. Things clear and things indistinct interact rhythmically, resonantly, producing a volatile and haunting visual prosody. -- Jeremy Hoevenaar

Project Marionette

2011 • 3 min • Singapore

Awaking trapped, a young woman has to rapidly research her own extreme medical situation.

Things I Don't Remember

2011 • 8 min • United States of America

Recollecting your childhood is like watching the VHS tape you found buried in the corner of your basement. You may have almost forgotten it, but the important thing is that you still have it.

8 switches (Part 6)

2011 • 3 min • United Kingdom

With 8 Switches, Tim Wright presents six black-and-white microcinematic vignettes of retina-searing, hard-edged, epilepsy-inducing sound and vision; digital hallucinations drained of colour, synchronized to a soundtrack that is relentless and unsentimental. Each new section presents a variation on the same sleek, kinetic minimalism. As each section progresses, the razor-sharp line between a host of binary oppositions—black/white, figure/ground, silence/sound, here/there, on/off — dissolves through sheer velocity. The rapid-fire alternation between these binary oppositions acts like the flicker of film frames, accelerating until sound and sight are wed into a synchronous whole in which neither the visual nor the sonic takes primacy. Instead, each acts as mutually constitutive literalisation of the other. — Joseph Clayton Mills

El retrato postergado

2011 • 60 min • Argentina

The relationship between the deceased writer Haroldo Conti and the young film director Roberto Cuervo in the 1970s. Three decades later, Andrés Cuervo, Roberto's son, recovers the footage filmed by his father and creates a long-delayed portrait.

Sack Lunch

2011 • 25 min • United States of America

Healthy Summertime Vibes in Mt. Hood, Oregon. Performed by: Khai Krepela Blake Nyman Rob Heule Banks Gilberti Jeff Kiesel Parker White Ian Wade Hayden Price John Ware Tyler Barnes Collin Collins Scott Damon Jason Arens Jay Heule Alex Gorham and Friends. Camera/Edit: Shayne Metos (vimeo.com/user4509430) Additonal Cinematography by: Jason Eichhorst (Fromoverhere.com) Alexandra Erickson (alexandraerickson.com) Tyler Malay (tylermalay.com) Jake Strassman (vimeo.com/jakestrassman) Paul Heran (vimeo.com/bhappyfilms) All the Athletes

Remote

2011 • 12 min • United States of America

In the collage video Remote, dream logic invokes a presence that drifts through physical and temporal barriers. There is a presence lingering in the dark woods, just under the surface of a placid lake and at the end of dreary basement corridor. It’s not easy to locate because it’s outside but also inside. It doesn’t just crawl in on your wires because it’s not a thing. It’s a shocking eruption of electrical energy.

Pillager

2011 • 4 min

A chemical painting made towards the end of my tenure as a grunt worker in a film processing lab at a time when I was spending most of my days slacking off down in the lab's sub basement playing with raw film stock and reversal chemicals. This was a fairly disgusting space with dirt floors and four-foot ceilings from which the leaking guts of the operation above hung down, but it was open, and I could stretch out full 100' foot rolls of film from end to end on the floor. From there, I could freely apply developers, bleaches and fixers in whatever ways I could think of, usually mashing in the dust, leaves, and garbage that was kicked up in the process.

Pipe Dreams

2011 • 7 min

Between dreamscapes and reality, this video is a journey in three chapters, on the backdrop of the uprising in the Arab world. A Rise, a Decline, and a Fall that would create a tabula rasa and a new start. "Sometimes dreams have to hurt before they become a reality"

How we were looking for Lailonia

2011 • 16 min • Poland

How we were looking for Lailonii. Film is a part of the series "14 tales from the Lajlonia Leszek Kołakowski Kingdom".

The Tale of Heroes from Chaoshan: Battle at Tangpu Bridge

2011 • 17 min • China

The first short film in The Tale of Heroes from Chaoshan series, famous for being one of the most popular so-bad-it’s-good titles from mainland China.