All Films

Iris Out

2008 • 10 min

Iris Out is composed of single frames from sequences of expanding or contracting circles, reformatted for different aspect ratios. In certain passages of the video, the combination of circles and ellipses resembles an eye, returning the gaze of the spectator. In the middle of the piece there are rows that incorporate nine contrasting sequences comprising six different colours and tones in alternating combinations. Besides the physical impact of this piece, I am primarily interested in the relation between the edges of planes/shapes and the confines of the screen. What’s fascinating to me is the way in which the colour fields are reproduced by the eye and brain, affecting consciousness and perception. - Simon Payne

Gay Hitmen

2008 • 16 min • United States of America

Edward and Benny are in love, either despite, or because of their unorthodox day job. Can the wild at heart mix business and pleasure, without letting work get in the way of romance?

Veves + Loas

2008 • 4 min

Directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Inkblot #9: At Twilight

2008 • 6 min

"…..At one point, 6 years ago……..I felt I had become very resolved with things in my life and had reached a contemporary state…………….But that was the problem……I found a resolution…………and defined a cycle……….of issues…………..but then I felt so lonely…………and quite empty………..The things eating at me were now resolved……………and I was left with a big blank empty unknown…………………….In my gut…….I felt I needed to move on……………….So I dove into a more abstract world of decomposing film by rotting it in my garden…………and thinking about color to roll out my Inkblot films to drive myself into a visceral beautiful turbulent place…………………That visceral….turbulent place……….turned out to be more than I expected………." - Luther Price

A Different Story

2008 • 7 min • Poland

Short animated film by Pawel Debski

Poïética

2008 • 29 min

“A film conceived with Nouvelles Images (processed electronic images) produced by Marc'O at the INA at the end of 70 from Renaissance and Mannerist paintings and photographic creations.” (Cristina Bertelli)

Veneris Dies

2008 • 16 min

"Marc'O's drawings echo an extract, read by the author, of one of his last pieces: a remark, both raw and poetic, which offers a sarcastic and lucid vision of sexual power." (Cristina Bertelli)

Mirages

2008 • 45 min • France

One image, in particular, is likely to haunt viewers: that of many men huddled together on the back of a truck. The men are headed northward, from Niger to the coast of Algeria. Just how long they will be travelling depends on countless unknowns. And once they’ve reached the African coast of the Mediterranean, they’ll still be far from their goal, for it is only then that their dangerous attempt to cross the sea to Europe begins. Theirs is a journey in hopes of a better life – one that frequently ends in death.

Mujo no kaze

2008 • 12 min

Kaz, a Japanese college student, is thrown into a world of depression after his best friend is murdered in America. Elsewhere, a girl named Michi stands in front of a grave high in the mountains of Japan. Kaz embarks on a spiritual journey, where he crosses paths with Michi who is trying to escape the influence of Ito, the leader of a suicide club. Will Kaz and Michi go through with their self-destructive plans, or will divine intervention show them a way out?

Space Neko Theater

2008 • 8 min • Japan

Cat lovers by cat-lover, love for cats, which are animated omnibus CM and assortment of fictional programs.

Building Archive

2008 • 7 min

Film “Archive Building” the product of a three month research trip to Warsaw focusing on the contemporary past. In his research, he explored archives to collect slogans from protest movements and demonstrations from the key year 1968 right up until the present. The film records the process of hanging these slogans, each written on a separate piece of card, on a web of red string, like so much encumbering washing, around the space of the flat in which he lived in Warsaw.

Alone

2008 • 3 min

Repurposed footage from The Lone Ranger and Man with a Movie Camera.

From the Classroom

2008 • 6 min • Germany

Left screen: girls dancing in front of a blackboard in a Tehran classroom (Source: YouTube). Right screen: video still of the blackboard without people, changing text projections which tell the story of the daily routine of a young woman in Tehran.

Scripture Bugs

2008 • 37 min

"Scripture Bugs," tells the biblical story of Moses and Aaron — with a little football, a lot of insects and some quirky humor thrown in. Billed as a "3D animated musical adventure," the film was created, directed and composed by Aaron Edson, whose previous credits include "Liken the Scriptures." Edson's main character is Noah, an 8-year-old boy growing up in Hawaii whose imaginative world is occupied by six friends who also happen to be bugs. Noah loves the sport of football, but is soon hit with the realization that his talent level doesn't quite match his enthusiasm. That's when the discouraged boy's father tries to encourage his son by telling him the story of Moses, a great prophet who was not without his own shortcomings. The subtitle of Scripture Bugs is "We're All Important: The Story of Moses and Aaron."

Nature's Dance

2008 • 51 min

"Nature's Dance" is a celebration of the beauty and grace in nature as seen during the hectic summer months of Scandinavia when animals seek partners to secure the survival of their species.

O Segredo

2008 • 25 min • Portugal

António Dias Lourenço, a communist, remembers the years of incarceration in the fort of Peniche, during the fascist dictatorship in Portugal, focusing on the episode of his evasion in 1954.

Two Scoops

2008 • 2 min

Hand-drawn illustrations animate this touching personal story about the "Sixties Scoop” of Aboriginal children into the Canadian child-welfare system.

Kurt and Ove's Car Repair

2008 • 9 min • Sweden

Much has changed in the world since the 1960s, but at Kurt & Ove's car repair it seems as if time has been standing still.

I am Ziggy

2008 • 14 min • Sweden

Jag är Ziggy (I am Ziggy) is a documentary about having a thousand talents and one handicap. Ziggy was born 17 years ago as Maria Wigren. She was already as a kid different and more sensitive than other children and was given the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome. She was bullied, depressed and tried to commit suicide multiple times. But out of the victim Maria, Ziggy was born. Ziggy refuses Asperger's. Ziggy refuses to be a victim. Ziggy faces life with flannel shirts, wigs and a great sense of humor. Follow her stubborn struggle to understand the world and become a part of it.

Capa de Chuva

2008 • 13 min • Brazil

A man comes to home and brings gifts to his family. Among the presents is a raincoat that he gives to his son. The strange situation and events that follow will mark the family forever.

Stories of Change

2008 • 55 min

Stories of Change is a 2008 documentary film by BRAC Pathways of Women Empowerment. The documentary focuses on the lives of five women aging from 16 to 60, coming from different walks of life, from different professions, religions and regions of Bangladesh.

Covert Hypnosis in Politics

2008 • 7 min

This video is a mashup depiction of Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) and Vice President Richard Nixon (R-CA) delivering their introduction speeches at the first televised presidential debate (1960) in U.S. history. The candidates’ images are overlaid, moving together in a hypnotic manner. By recontextualizing this early use of technology in politics, we are able to consider the electoral process in a new way.

The Xtacles - Operation: Mountain Punch

2008 • 11 min

Paralyzed by a lack of leadership, The Xtacles struggle with the decision to decide about future decisions. Meanwhile, terrorists are systematically destroying the Rocky Mountains. Evil President Stan has no choice but to call on the Xtacles to stop the destruction of America's Favorite Mountain Range

Lisa för ögat

2008 • 8 min • Sweden

Two strips in a photo booth lead to complications, and maybe something more.