All Films

Invisible Writing

2011 • 48 min • United States of America

Invisible Writing was commissioned as an installation by the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. The 48-minute piece is a high definition record of live improvisation in which the eight artists of SWTB blend intimate and cosmic images to music in real time on a single screen. Layered scenes of dream and nightmare, myth and legend, landscape and memory emerge from and melt back into a magical liquid world.

Watercolor

2011 • 1 min • Turkey

"Mixing water from the Red Sea with water from the Black Sea". Trabzon, Turkey-Aqaba, Jordan, 2010.

in-sight

2011 • 38 min

in-sight is a 38 minute documentary film made by the British Street Photographer Nick Turpin that follows some of the members of the in-public Street Photographers group shooting on the streets. The film in-sight was produced in conjunction with the Format Photography Festival to mark 10 years of the Street Photographers group In-Public. Shot in London, New York, Melbourne and Rotterdam it follows members of the in-public group shooting on the streets of their respective cities. Using miniature HD camera technology to place the viewer on the Hotshoe, the film provides an in sight into the working methods and approach of some of the worlds most notable contemporary Street Photographers.

Amateur

2011 • 9 min • Albania

The story of an old musician who is afraid of leaving nothing behind him.

Bred in Captivity

2011 • 11 min

Suspecting his life to be a koala's dream, Fletcher drags Joey to the zoo the discover the truth before the creature wakes up.

Doomsday in Tunguska

2011 • 45 min

On June 30, 1908, one of the biggest explosions in history rocked a forested region in Siberia. The theories of what happened are as widespread as the damage the fireball caused. Some speculate asteroids, space aliens and black holes were the culprit. Others focus on the earth, pinning the blame on everything from subterranean volcanoes to acclaimed physicist Nikola Tesla. Join the ongoing investigation over what caused one of the biggest explosions in history.

Hunt for the Double Eagle

2011 • 45 min

The 1933 Double Eagle is more than just a rare coin. It's a lightening rod for history, greed and corruption. Never officially issued, the coin was slated for destruction after being minted, but some Double Eagles escaped the meltdown and immediately became the obsession of billionaires, kings and criminal investigators. Join us as we recreate the story of the world's most valuable coin, a journey that takes us to an Egyptian King's palace, a Secret Service sting operation and the most extraordinary auction of the century.

Cut Adrift

2011 • 9 min

A series of vignettes involving patricide and sexual awakening shared by two half-sisters.

Decorations of the Mind II

2011 • 9 min

My entire practive is a form of consumption. I hit my stride as soon as I realized that shopping, home decorating, and all of the television and video games I’d consumed as a child could be a source of inspiration rather than something to disown. Today, my generative consumption extends to Google image searches or SkyMall browsing.

Hollis Well

2011 • 1 min

Hollis Frampton's T-Shirt Collection - animated!

Perception

2011 • 2 min • United States of America

An experimental animation exploring the disconnect between one’s own perception of self and how one is seen by the rest of the world, specifically facing the journey of transition from female to male.

Jazz Icons - John Coltrane Live In France 1965

2011 • 52 min

Features the Classic John Coltrane Quartet at the peak of their powers. Includes the only public performance of Ascension and of A Love Supreme which they’d recorded eight months earlier and had become an instant and influential hit in the jazz world. Every night this band played was a major event and spiritual experience for those who witnessed it.

Scylla

2011 • 21 min • France

Three young people come to spend the day on a very beautiful beach. On the menu of this trip: bathing, surfing, bronzing and a beautiful night in the tent in the middle of the immense forest of pines. A forest warden observes them from far. In the evening, Stephen, Cindy and Sophia get ready to spend the night close to the nature. A nature which has rights and which could indeed become more threatening.

Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness

2011 • 16 min

Massachusetts State Representative and Civil Rights Movement veteran Byron Rushing takes the campaign for same sex marriage in to the Black community, with the support of progressive Black clergy and activists. They face the hostility of the church and defining the right of same sex marriage as a civil rights issue on par with the campaigns of the 1960s.

Houria

2011 • 7 min

HOURIA weaves together the stories of Hattab and his grandmother Yousra to reflect on fluid modes of belonging. Yousra was expelled from her village Jamaseen Al-Garbi by Zionist paramilitary groups in 1948, and she remains witness to the decline of Jaffa’s glory where she resettled after the Nakba. On the other hand, Hattab, presented as a hybrid mermaid and a symbol of the shores of Manshiyyeh (North of Tel Aviv), embodies both the liminality of those who were driven out of Palestine and the longing desire to belong to the Palestinian nation.

military memoir of a child

2011 • 4 min

little soldier kills plenty of enemies

A Arte de Andar Pelas Ruas de Brasília

2011 • 18 min • Brazil

Brasilia is the scenery for the encounter between two girls. Ana and Leila share a friendship and the typical teenage coming of age.

Oil and Water

2011 • 4 min

This work was a product of life pressures and an interest in science and experimentation, specifically biology and cell structures. Oil and water will never mix and it is this basic concept that has driven the production of this video work. I wanted to create a situation where the two try and come together, despite the obvious outcome. The physicality of oil and water will never allow this union and thus causes an interesting to and fro within the video frame. The images have been mirrored and a combination of machine,electronic and organic sound create an almost abstract machine like structure, technology and nature come together in an exploration of force and pressure.

Light from an Old Town

2011 • 17 min

A man cruises the streets of his old neighbourhood at nightfall.

August Song

2011 • 5 min

Filmmaker Jodie Mack’s video animated short is the cat’s pajamas. Literally. The London-born experimental animator’s overlay of recycled everyday patterns and materials has a homey, patchwork quality well-suited to its just-barely-domesticated feline subjects. Its playful and eye-catching collage also offers us the chance to consider the relationship between fine-art sensibilities and the castoff items of mass-market design. – Robert Avila

r.i.p. kodachrome and plus-x

2011 • 11 min • United States of America

"This silent film is more of an assembly, than an edit with a point of view. The footage is from my final rolls of the venerable Kodak Super-8 film stocks, Plus-x and Kodachrome. Plus-X was kodak's first film, and it's longest in continuous production [...] Plus-X movie film will be missed as much as the magnificent Kodachrome [...] footage was shot in october and november of 2010 for my film "aka martha's vineyard."

Inside the Egyptian Museum

2011 • 44 min

From the mystery of a Pharaoh's gold to the strange practice of animal mummification, discover the secrets inside the Egyptian Museum.

play god

2011 • 5 min • Canada

'play god' is a meditation on the movements of the shadows in Plato's cave or the TTC, take your pick. It was commissioned for TUFF (Toronto Underground Film Festival) to puzzle commuters on their way to and from work.

Letraglide

2011 • 3 min

Strips of adhesive Letratone textures were applied to super 8 film; to create the soundtrack the edited movie was played back and registered by a special photocell controlled audio generator, and the resulting tones were modified through speed changing.