All Films

When Rock Goes Acoustic

2011 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The cliché of classic rock guitar is one of riffs, solos and noise. But write a list of great guitarists and their finest moments and a quieter, more intense playing comes to the fore. The acoustic guitar is the secret weapon in the armoury of the guitar hero, when paradoxically they get more attention by playing quietly than being loud. This documentary takes an insightful and occasionally irreverent look at the love affair between rock and the humble acoustic guitar. Exploring a much less celebrated, yet crucial part of the rock musician's arsenal, contributors including Johnny Marr, Keith Richards, Ray Davies, James Dean Bradfield, Biffy Clyro, Joan Armatrading, Donovan and Roger McGuinn discuss why an instrument favoured by medieval minstrels and singing nuns is as important to rock 'n' roll as the drums, bass and its noisy sister, the electric guitar.

Sunshine

2011 • 15 min

An American advertising producer in Shanghai tries to sell fast food to the Chinese. An endearing portrait of a modern day "Mad Man."

Tommy

2011 • 9 min

A little boy is having dinner with his family and imagines his father, mother and sister as he would like them to be, before coming back to a sad reality.

Silent Film

2011 • 2 min • Philippines

Black-and-white sequence of contemporary urban life, jittery images recorded by a 1940s motion-picture camera, and a sleepy narration of words, written by Filipino poet and singer Lourd De Veyra.

tricotMOVIE4月号

2011 • 3 min • Japan

tricot movie april

A Castle Built Upside Down

2011 • 19 min • Japan

Video, Color

Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good

2011 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Ian Hislop presents this film about the colourful, seriously wealthy Victorian financiers whose spectacular philanthropy shows that banking wasn't always associated with greed or self-serving financial recklessness. Ian looks at attitudes to money and morality when the London first became the world's financial centre.

Devote to Spring

2011 • 45 min • Japan

Love beyond death. A promise often made among lovers, albeit a false promise, honestly, coexisting with the corpse of the beloved one is not desirable for most people. Natsumi cannot put up the loss of her great love, who passed away in tragic circumstances, so without further ado she puts that into action. First it feels like a doll house, although with a lifesize doll. Then, shortly thereafter, it starts to move...

Kyrielle

2011 • 10 min • France

Short film by Boris Labbe

Breakdown

2011 • 9 min

An operatic performance with libretto and choreography interpreted from scenes from soap operas, plays, movies, and reality television shows featuring characters expressing psychological crisis.

Wile E. Sisyphus

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote attempts to squash the Road Runner with an enormous boulder.

Ring*Con: The Kiwi Experience

2011 • 49 min

The inside story of a bunch of New Zealanders who have become the hits of Europe's largest fantasy convention. "There's nothing like Ring*Con - you the fans are incredibly passionate and it's also what the Kiwis have brought to it". That’s Ring*Con 2010 - devoted to the Lord of the Rings - in Bonn, Germany. Featuring interviews from: Mark Ferguson, Craig Parker, Jed Brophy, Lori Dungey, Daniel Falconer and Dayna Chiplin

Mater's Brick Tales: The Great Race Case

2011 • 2 min • United States of America

Grem and Acer are trying to sabotage the race and Mater has to stop them.

Life Beyond Trek: William Shatner

2011 • 10 min • United States of America

This Documentary Short let us take a look at the life of William Shatner after his life with Star Trek and acting the part of James T. Kirk.

Sunday

2011 • 12 min • Brazil

Memoirs of a Sunday.

Jenny@7-11

2011 • 5 min • Hong Kong

In a convenience store, the door of the storage room is a two-way mirror, reflecting a romantic story of love at first sight.

The Game Kiss

2011 • 9 min

Teenagers Peter and Marco are in Marco’s room playing a video game. Then suddenly Marco leans in to kiss Peter. This segment details what happens when both boys realize that their long held feeling for their object of affection is reciprocated.

The big picture

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

What unites Fred Astaire dancing in a choreography of volcanic eruptions, a ghost barrow comes from the sea, Nikola Tesla sodomized by a bolt from the blue, a maniac of the jugular veins of failure, a group of pin-ups just escaped from a maximum prison security, and the saddest shot in the cinema history? Too late for tears.

White Light/White Heat

2011 • 6 min

A strong laserbeam is deflected by two mirrors oscillating at very high speeds. The human eye perceives a stable image as long as they move fast enough. White Light / White Heat operates at the threshold of this rate. A constant modulation is introduced, flicker and envelopes modulate basic geometric shapes and waveforms.

Jay Malone: Canadian Bacon

2011 • 24 min • United States of America

The Canadian born Comedy Award winner Jay Malone expounds upon his awkward experiences with the opposite sex and the over the top expectations of sexually aggressive woman all the while receiving dating advise from his Grandmother. Presented by Laugh Out Loud Flix as part of the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Festival.

Cinderela

2011 • 11 min

Love and loss in a Rio night club. How far will Luiza go to spend one more night with the man she loves?

17 for Sol LeWitt

2011 • 1 min

This is a video piece made using Processing. The heart of the piece resides in the code, which generates a randomized image within the given parameters. This video is a unique seventeen second iteration of the code. The code may be used at any time to generate new imagery for any desired length of time (x seconds) and subsequently be titled X for Sol LeWitt.

Dos almas un Destino

2011 • 18 min

\Do you want your dreams to come true? Watch out! Because they can become your worst nightmare

Fukuoka Renai Hakusho 6

2011 • 60 min • Japan