All Films

All I Ever Wanted

2011 • 15 min

California’s ultimate party boy Carter typically spends each day going to the clubs having a good time followed by returning to the apartment he shares with his older sister Rochelle, where he continues the party. Rochelle, having had enough of his endless drunken nights and “sleepovers” with every guy in the city, takes matters into her own hands. Sent to New York to finish college, he finds himself faced with the same temptations he is trying to leave behind. Will Carter fall back into his old tricks or find something more?

I Dig Dinosaurs!

2011 • 25 min

I Dig Dinosaurs overflows with dino-facts that children live to learn and share! Real-life adventurer Buddy Davis inspires kids with fun, creation-based science and an infectious passion for the gospel. Buddy flies an old single-engine airplane to the Badlands of Montana, uncovers a BIG dinosaur bone, and in the process reveals the effects of Noah's Flood. Your kids will see a remote area of the USA where the powerful floodwaters of the Genesis scoured the earth and left a mangled graveyard of dinosaurs, fish, plants, and more—a treasure trove of fossils! Both the Bible and the dinosaur evidence point to a recent, worldwide Flood!

The Buried

2011 • 21 min

In rural Alabama, on July 22, 2004, Scotty Joe Weaver was brutally murdered for being a homosexual by his closest friend. After interviewing family members, and meeting the murderer in an Alabama prison, filmmaker Jonathan Pope Evans created this experimental narrative about the brutal crime, a fractured and startling re-imagining of the violent murder.

I Travel Through Time to Meet You Again

2011 • 6 min

A man encounters, encountered, or will encounter a woman in an elevator of an office building. They are destined to meet each other again, yet both are thrown into the maze constructed by time and space through images and sounds that might be different from one’s daily experience in reality. Possibilities have been created, yet further and further away from reality.

In the Land of Cowboys

2011 • 32 min

A film about cowboys in Sonora, a state in Northern Mexico. It is a world of deep-rooted and rancid traditions, in which, however, there is no shortage of gay and lesbian stories that have tried to move forward and lead a dignified life despite social rejection.

He & Him

2011 • 23 min

Pietro, a young selfish male, is kicked out of home from his girlfriend Laura, tired of being put in second place to football and friends. After an exhausting search for a room to rent, Peter goes to live with Omero, a friendly man whose homosexuality goes unnoticed by Pietro.

Modeled

2011 • 8 min

A close-up look at the work and technique of photographer G. Elliott Simpson, whose haunting portraits of men covered in black paint are known for their strikingly disturbing beauty. Shot in a mixture of high definition video, 16 mm and Super 8, the work looks beyond the gloss of the artist's stylized photography to explore the relationship that homophobia plays in shaping body image as well as the role of sex and art in transcending violence.

Seed Money

2011 • 27 min

Alvin Malone is heavily in debt because of his addictive gambling; he is plagued by self-repressed homosexual tendencies; and he is finding it all very hard to reconcile with his Jewish heritage... not to mention with his wife. Between the crumbling ties of matrimony and threats of violence from his bookie, Alvin finds little time to look for work. Just when things seem their worst, his overbearing mother-in-law makes him an offer: 'Give me a grandchild and have your gambling debts settled for good.'

Strangers

2011 • 25 min

A cold winter night. An endless empty road ahead. A young driver picks up a stranger with car trouble. A big mistake.

The Old Master

2011 • 26 min • Serbia

Uroš Tošković, one of the best draftsmen of all times, a man who merged art and reality, talks about his childhood, growing up and events that influenced him, his way of life and his creative work. He refuses to recognize imposed rules – he is a free man.

Canceled Flight

2011 • 4 min • Spain

When his flight is canceled, Martin returns home and is faced with infidelity. He calmly prepares breakfast for three.

Carnalis

2011 • 4 min • Poland

Look at your hand from really close, choose a spot and stare at it for a moment, until you see a landscape. When the veins become rivers and trees you can watch Carnalis and the film will stay in your mind for a long time.

The Best Is Yet to Come

2011 • 16 min

Set during the much debated and highly public USA Obama presidential election and controversial California State Proposition 8 vote for same sex marriage a young couple privately confront their family, fears and dreams.

Duh Casia

2011 • 21 min

A response to Bill Morrison's film of a similar title and the laziest film I've ever made: A reel of found footage thrown in the trash and left there for a few months. The result, Duh Casia

Container

2011 • 1 min • Germany

Ela Morava na Frente do Cinema

2011 • 29 min • Brazil

Under Current

2011 • 5 min • Japan

2011, sound, color

Irregular Time Signatures

2011 • 3 min • Canada

How does music measure time if time is stretched like a rubber band? Irregular time signatures are ways of describing an uneven beat. The arrhythmic pulse of this film is music lesson, math puzzle, and spot-the-difference game.

20 Hz

2011 • 5 min

20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.

Labyrinth

2011 • 3 min

Labyrinth is about new apocalypse. All the war and peace imageries we've seen on the net, newspapers, Hollywood movies with a new filter. Every character is created on the computer from scratches. Every item has a distortion and variation filter such as gravity variation, speed variation which makes natural and daily elements look like different.

O fim da utopia

2011 • 26 min • Brazil

Mummy King Mystery

2011 • 45 min

Egyptologist Zahi Hawass presents this Discovery Channel documentary exploring the mysterious death of an ancient pharoah. Though Ramesses III, who ruled Egypt between 1186 BC and 1155 BC, would arguably have been the most powerful human being in the world during his lifetime, analysis of his mummified remains revealed that he was killed by a sharp blade. Hawass and a team of helpers set out to solve this ancient murder mystery.

Silos

2011 • 3 min

Shot in super 8mm in Silo # 5 of the old port of Montreal in 2002, this film was achieved in 2011. Music by BJ Nilsen.

Fragments of a Revolution

2011 • 57 min

"FRAGMENTS OF A REVOLUTION goes beyond the headlines and the tweets to tell the story of the protests that swept Iran in the aftermath of the disputed 2009 presidential election. Directed by an anonymous Iranian living in exile, the film brings together clandestinely sent emails, online videos and footage shot by protesters in the midst of demonstrations."