All Films

Rampla Juniors

2011 • 17 min

Rampla Juniors Fútbol Club is a local team from el Cerro, Montevideo that has served as the heart of this Uruguayan working class neighborhood since 1914! Neither about the game nor the team, the film instead is a poetic evocation of the ritualized pleasure and dedication of the fans and the spectacular landscape of their time worn stadium.

Joule

2011 • 23 min • Austria, Italy

The ‘joule’ is a unit of energy, work or heat. The term is adapted here as a sort of prayer, an exercise in devotion and the act of letting go. In the sequential frames of Joule, a daily practice manifests itself in the form of worship, of liturgy; an expression of tensions straddling the realms of the political and the sacred.

Four Exercises in Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation

2011 • 27 min

Noa Eshkol considered dance to be a piece choreographed for at least two dancers. The film installation Four Exercises in Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation features four of Noa Eshkol’s dances, deemed here to be “exercises” as they are each performed by a single dancer – Ruti Sela, who began dancing with Eshkol in 1969. Sela moves among four identical gray volumes, which were designed by Lockhart to reference the space that the dancer’s body occupies as she moves through each exercise. Changing position for each dance, the volumes are sized according to the dancer’s measurements: the height of each volume is the height of the dancer with her arms raised, the width of each is equal to the dancer’s wingspan. The compositions of the volumes highlight the different spaces that each of the four dances occupy in space.

Body and Soul (De Corpo e Alma)

2011 • 54 min

Victoria, Mariana and Vasco are three young Mozambicans with physical disabilities living in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital city. The film explores how they see themselves, raising questions about self-acceptance and how to find one’s place in society.

Cheap Joke

2011 • 1 min

Animated short film by Ian Miller. Two men share a joke in a public restroom.

The A to Z of Gadgets & Gizmos

2011 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A tongue-in-cheek look at gadgets and gizmos in Doctor Who over the years which playfully assigns a different Doctor Who gadget to each letter of the alphabet.

Tic Tac

2011 • 3 min • Austria

Tic Tac is a zigzagging parkour move in which the runner pushes off from a surface to jump over obstacles or climb tight spaces between buildings. However, not much of the eponymous technique can be seen in young filmmaker Josephine Ahnelt’s work: The movement takes place in the protagonists’ faces. Tic Tac examines in microscopic detail the psychological processes that play out while a group of young parkour traceurs do their thing. The camera focuses on their facial expressions and gestures, their anxiety and nervousness, and also their pleasure and pain.

Nature: Survivors of the Firestorm

2011 • 53 min

Trace the remarkable ability of Australian bushfire victims to bounce back and the environment’s extraordinary capacity for healing.

今日も一日お疲れさみぃー 篠原冴美

2011 • 60 min • Japan

2011 release

DIY Aquaponics

2011 • 45 min

Murray Hallam shows you how to build an Aquaponics system from recyclable materials that you can do yourself.

Playmobil: Top Agents

2011 • 25 min

Playmobil Top Agents is a classical Sixties Spy Thriller setting where the Good Guys, a.k.a. "Spy Team" fight Dr. Evil and his "Robo Gang" (the bad guys) for world domination. The Robo-Gang threatens to take over the world using orbit-launched "Chaos Capsules" … and the "Spy Team" attempts to prevent this.

Danny MacAskill - Way Back Home

2011 • 25 min

Way Back Home is the incredible new riding clip from Danny MacAskill, it follows him on a journey from Edinburgh back to his hometown Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye.

Pendarvia

2011 • 30 min • United States of America

Pendarvia is a 30 minute film that documents the recording process of The Decemberists album "The King Is Dead" (Capitol, 2011). The album was recorded in a barn in rural Oregon. Pendarvia is heavily driven by the natural surroundings of the area, inter-cutting music with beautiful shots of the surrounding scenery. The film follows the abstractly linear narrative of the recording process, inter-cutting found moments of dialogue from the band, producer Tucker Martine, collaborators and friends. The film is a beautiful audio/visual collage that explores the trials and tribulations of the creative process.

Barney: 1 2 3 Learn

2011 • 44 min

Barney can't wait to show you that shapes, numbers and letters are the ticket to fun and friendship in this Tee-riffic adventure!

That's Fine

2011 • 34 min • Canada

Voleurz' That’s Fine documents the antics and exploits of the infamous Voleurz Family, comprised of skiers, snowboarders and skateboarders, making the multi-sport offering one of the most well-rounded and diverse films in the action sports world. Highlights include snowboarder Justin VDP slaying pillow lines in the Whistler backcountry, freeskier KC Deane's jaw-dropping big mountain segment, a raucous urban trip to Ontario with Scott Sych & Matt Brindisi, the unique style of one of skiing's most imaginative individuals, Max Hill (along with the highly entertaining return of Max Hill vs The Intern), skateboarding the streets of Vancouver with Tyler Holm, and of course, the hilarious and not-to-be-missed Winter Volympics. As voted by fans, That’s Fine won Best Web Video of 2011 on ESPN.

Woman with Flowers

2011 • 16 min • United States of America

A Mexican flower seller’s story of personal tragedy is delicately illuminated in an intimate and moving act of portraiture that is both unsettling and liberating. In her final film, Chick Strand mixes brutal heartbreak and palpable joy into a transformative vision of dignity and vitality.

An Iranian Odyssey

2011 • 51 min • United Kingdom

An Iranian Odyssey demystifies the current perception of Iran as an irrational and erratic pariah state. The film is not only a historical documentary. It is a relevant modern story that clearly tells the reasons behind the current stand-off between Iran and the West.

National Geographic The Truth Behind The Loch Ness Monster

2011 • 45 min • United States of America

For centuries, people have reported sightings of a strange creature lurking within the gloomy waters of Scotland's infamous Loch, but are these accounts true or are they just another myth or giant hoax? Despite years of investigation and countless eyewitness testimonies, the riddle of this legendary brute has continued. Now, dive into the depths of this controversy using a mix of science, eye witness testimony, zoology, and psychological testing.

The Twin

2011 • 29 min • Sweden

Gustav is practicing free diving. On land he keeps his breath. All the time. When driving a car. When he works. When he is asleep. He keeps his girlfriend awake at night.

King Dong

2011 • 23 min

King Dong dips us into the aesthetically manicured world of never-known comedy filmmaker Len Cella. Making films and videos since the 1960s, this one-man production unit makes the lowest-brow art with all the seriousness of an auteur. His apartment is a living film set, his day job as a house painter is interrupted by stints on national television, and growing old only makes him stronger- physically and artistically. Come take a VHS-tinted glimpse into Broomall, Pennsylvania's comedy shorts anti-legend.

Contour

2011 • 15 min

The trilogy Spin/Verso/Contour (2011) emphasizes the corporeal act of vision and of revision. It becomes the pivotal point of a dream-like situation where images reach into the spectators’ remembrance by means of repetition and rhythmical shifts.

Susya

2011 • 15 min • Israel, Palestinian Territory

A father and son return to their village after twenty-five years. They must buy an entrance ticket because their village is now an archaeological site of ruins of Jewish buildings dating back to the time of the Roman Empire. As these two Palestinians meander about the village, every step is watched keenly by young Israeli soldiers.

Jandamarra's War

2011 • 55 min

In Jandamarra's War, we learn how in the 1890's the European colonialists arrive in the Kimberley with vast herds of sheep and cattle, determined to make their fortune by feeding a rapidly growing population in the South. But the settlers soon discover they are in land populated with indigenous tribes, ready to fight the red-faced invaders.

Bleu Nuit

2011 • 8 min • Canada

Bleu Nuit is a track from Le Révélateur's LP on Gneiss Things, Fictions.