Welcome To Sugartown
Matthew Stolarik | United States | 1 h 37 m 37 s Worried about his impending death, an elderly shut-in sets out in a lawless town to hire a for-profit preacher (complete with his own malevolent God) looking for any sort of miracle to keep him alive. He strikes a deal with the preacher only to end… Read more »
Singularity
Roman De Giuli | Germany | 2016 | 5 m 24 s Facebook An ode to planet earth, solely told with organic fluids and a tiny crystal ball. Sometimes, the complexity of simplicity makes us fail to preserve the fundament of all we are and all we represent. But reaching awareness is not about the end,… Read more »
I + Another (remix)
Jim Thompson | Australia | 2015 | 2 m 57 s An intimate phone call between two lovers. Made entirely on the Iphone 5. Cast Michael Wahr Penny Harpham
Filament, Filament, Filament
Brandon Doherty | United States | 2016 | 9 m Inspired by Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider”, we explore their surroundings.
Platopolis
Fernando Gómez-Luna | Spain | 2016 | 1 h 10 m English, French with English Subtitles Halfway between the tourist transgression and a dadaist essay on how to shoot, ‘Platopolis’ proposes the creation of a territory as a walking tour in a structure rhizome through the district of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, seated on a plateau at the… Read more »
The Betrayal
Susan Young | United Kingdom | 2015 | 5 m 40 s A traumatised woman trusts her psychiatrist, but becomes imprisoned in his prescriptive regime of psychological manipulation. Fragments of medical records interwoven with pulsing pills form a disorienting montage depicting the enmeshed relationship between patient and doctor. At its dark heart, The Betrayal is a… Read more »
YOU’RE OUT
LIUBA | Germany | 2016 | 12:57 English, French, German with English Subtitles Facebook Italian video artist and performance artist LIUBA continues her work focusing on the European ‘Refugee Problem’ and on the struggle for immigrants rights. The performance is a public play of the children’s game, Musical Chairs (called Trip to Jerusalem, in Germany). The idea… Read more »
Villusion
Colleen Keough | United States | 2015 | 9 m 5 s VILLUSION explores the illusion and artifice of the screen. A microscopic camera scans the pages of a vintage Pin-Up Girl publication revealing the patterns and textures of analogue printing methods. The magnified view speaks to the mechanisms of media and the illusion and artifice of image… Read more »
Stille Vann
Annette Wirtz | Germany | 2015 | 14 m 3 s English, Persian with English Subtitles The short film “Stille Vann” was created in an inclusive working process by about 30 artists with and without handicaps. The band members of “Stille Vann”, a project by the inclusive institution Barner 16 from Hamburg, invented their own alter ego for… Read more »
Peace Pilot
Tracy Claybrook | United States | 2012 | 20 m Facebook Peace Pilot, is a monumental film featuring four meditative short films about peace which depict the four stages of the hero’s journey. Each film is a reflection on the hero’s journey toward personal, communal, and global transformation and peace.