#43
Similar to cells absorbing energy from the environment to sustain themselves, the pixels in #43 feed on beautiful noise to stay alive.
11'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Similar to cells absorbing energy from the environment to sustain themselves, the pixels in #43 feed on beautiful noise to stay alive.
11'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
A sublime landscape, but something goes wrong. #47 is part of a series researching the relationship between landscape representation, perception and the unconscious.
11'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
A naked woman draws the outline of her body. The process and the unexpected result show her brave and playful approach to bodily changes.
3'
Sweden
IFFR 2014
Yesterday's film technique applied to today's space. NYC's Times Square turned into a red, green and blue light show.
5'
USA
IFFR 2014
Thoughtful man decides to stop participating in reality and its rules, and picks a date for his death. Does life really mean nothing to him?
38'
Italy
IFFR 2014
In Ethiopia music is of a different calibre and overcomes the deepest traumas, even deafness. Rhythmic drama.
18'
Ethiopia
IFFR 2014
Enter the world of glitter, glamour, fashion and decadence. Here dreams and wishes become reality. Close your eyes, you'll see.
18'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Fun, rhythmic animated series of animal photos. Gradually it becomes apparent that these are not innocent shots.
8'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
An American artist's female alter ego gains supernatural powers. His ambition rises to unparalleled heights.
6'
USA
IFFR 2014
A stranger seems to threaten the peace of the animals at an untidy farm; however, he has different, unexpected plans.
7'
Italy
IFFR 2014
Breathtaking nature documentary about bees which reveals the filming process, but not the secrets of the beehive.
26'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2014
1'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
The space the artist makes his work in becomes the subject. The camera draws the outside world and colours objects.
16'
Switzerland
IFFR 2014
Unexpected twist in daring love story about polygamy in colourful, musical Senegal, as the ageing Madeleine meets her husband's second wife.
12'
Senegal
IFFR 2014
Tipping urban images become a setting and pulsing mandala. Made with a Bolex robot that smoothly rotates around its axes.
18'
Canada
IFFR 2014
Video in which a rabbit fight is re-choreographed into a bizarre, abstract motion capture variation on the Bugs Bunny cartoons.
3'
USA
IFFR 2014
Unexpected visitor breaks the safe routine of the Jewish retiree Aaron in a notorious suburb of Johannesburg.
13'
South Africa
IFFR 2014
Lonely traveller's harsh memories resurface in the shape of scenes with female protagonists from cinema's history.
26'
Norway
IFFR 2014
A video-photo-text portrait of the escape journey made by Vera Frenkel's mother at the outbreak of World War II.
9'
Canada
IFFR 2014
Ode to the unique blue of the discontinued Kodak Ektachrome. A clear blue California sky made of clouds of film grain.
3'
USA
IFFR 2014
She seems stoic, the young maid Boonrerm, but one day her demanding mistress will discover where her patience ends.
17'
Thailand
IFFR 2014
Will this Parisian actress land one last, big role? Intriguing portrait of an aging star.
13'
France
IFFR 2014
Suzanne is a liberated young woman who lives alone on the edge of the village. Not everyone is happy with the way she leads her life.
40'
France
IFFR 2014
There’s no sentiment as bold as the one in a duel shot in cinemascope, no emotional drop as high as the one in a vertical movie.
9'
Austria
IFFR 2014
A collage of YouTube videos with amateur footage of hunting that documents the tension felt before and after the hunt.
6'
Germany
IFFR 2014
Globalisation, progress or its lack from a West-African perspective: the complexity and beauty of a post-colonial crisis zone.
42'
Belgium
IFFR 2014
A magical omnibus of posturing and illusion from a dysfunctional band of Soviet émigrés. Their hatred is democratic, their hatred is universal.
36'
Israel
IFFR 2014
A racing driver crashes in a picturesque Italian village. The accident has an unexpectedly positive effect in this smaller work by the great Wes Anderson.
8'
USA
IFFR 2014
A career in Cairo calls for bassist Adham while he tries to breathe new life into old friendships.
23'
Egypt
IFFR 2014
There's a first time for everything, even celery. Unexpected end to a sensual story.
15'
Japan
IFFR 2014
Chrome is inspired by the Autochrome process, a colouring technique for black-and-white photographs invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903.
8'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Colterrain is a colourful landscape, a terrain described by mapping sound. What you hear is what you see - literally.
11'
Austria
IFFR 2014
Ximena Cuevas is the artist about to meet a curator and we are about to meet her anxieties while she prepares herself for the event.
5'
Mexico
IFFR 2014
Two men plan their parents' murder under the watchful eye of witnesses. Exceptional use of plot, editing, image and text.
8'
Germany
IFFR 2014
Dynamic cut-ups of found footage from dated educational and scientific films. What is now and what is time?
10'
Austria
IFFR 2014
Eight young people seem trapped in time and space in a metropolitan apartment. Subtle, mysterious work.
15'
Argentina
IFFR 2014
Basically the title says it all. A young woman makes the final preparations while the film stays light, almost breezy.
8'
Japan
IFFR 2014
A running man, exhausted and near collapse, is teased onward by the disembodied red lips of a woman. Will the man meet his deadline?
4'
USA
IFFR 2014
War on the kitchen table. Helicopters shred a newspaper, a drone fires on the broccoli. The absurd relationship between our daily lives and the news.
12'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
An observation mission with a mind of its own - a journey from outer space to the celluloid grain.
18'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
The simple process of dividing and reassembling a piece of paper by hand creates a complex and intriguing animation that defies what seems impossible.
1'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Dizzying expanded cinema consists of a 16mm projection of double the number of dot patterns and a deafening noise caused by those same dots.
22'
Australia
IFFR 2014
New film from former Prix de Rome winner provides a deadpan lesson in social psychology on an American campus.
13'
USA
IFFR 2014
House dust and clips of insects and plants meld into an engrossing meditation on the beauty of surplus materials. High-energy soundtrack.
9'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and postcard wholesale business. Cine-performance with live singing.
41'
USA
IFFR 2014
A new life for Goethe's poem Another One (Ein Gleiches), originally written in 1780. For this film, Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten) was the composer.
3'
Germany
IFFR 2014
Enchanting trip mixes Marcel Duchamp images, a Henry Purcell opera and text by Alain Badiou. Superior glamour.
3'
France
IFFR 2014
Maximum effect using minimal means. Thirty-six photos edited into a dazzling display of spatial perception. What's inside, and what's outside?
9'
Austria
IFFR 2014
1'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Lush, concentrated work in which the corners of a shiny cloth are folded together. Hands explore space determining the dimensions.
28'
Switzerland
IFFR 2014
Two reluctant gangsters manage to survive in their poverty-stricken Cleveland neighbourhood by cleverly circumventing the rules.
7'
USA
IFFR 2014
Director’s cut of a short film that was part of a horror trilogy. More atmosphere than horror. Girls with long black hair and wafting net curtains.
21'
Malaysia
IFFR 2014
Flowing, abstract high contrast, black-and-white images pull viewers into an interior process of change and awareness.
17'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Museum on Timor gave a young filmmaker the freedom to provide his vision on the eventful history of this divided, half-Indonesian island.
12'
Indonesia
IFFR 2014
Ingenious live performance in which Bünger uses found footage to reanimate lost voices and create unexpected links.
59'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
RGB bling-bling. A shiny otherworld of holographic reverie pairs dollar store gift bags and haunting resound, unfolding an effervescent melancholy in three parts.
8'
USA
IFFR 2014
Airy parody of everything airy in films, commercials and games. Boy-meets-girl with coffee. Hilarious, clever and consciously a little silly.
20'
Taiwan
IFFR 2014
Peter Burr channels the Zone, tearing the sky open with a startling exploration of endless sidewalks, primordial colour and joyously shape-shifting decay.
10'
USA
IFFR 2014
A lonely, elderly man takes radical steps to be closer to the love of his life.
10'
Venezuela
IFFR 2014
The daylight noir dream-weaver returns with an exquisitely pop slice of paradise lost and heart-breaking intoxication.
7'
USA
IFFR 2014
Fabulous document from the perspective of a Somali goat herd passing from girlhood to womanhood, and who has to make a great sacrifice.
10'
Somalia
IFFR 2014
Stalker Max observes Alina, who lives opposite, with his camera. An alien invasion in Nairobi finally allows him to express his feelings.
11'
Kenya
IFFR 2014
Edwin received his master's in film in the Netherlands for this experimental, pornographic short film. He was already a master, but now it's official.
9'
Indonesia
IFFR 2014
A guerrilla manual for becoming untraceable in the digital surveillance society, with humour and media technology as weapons.
16'
Germany
IFFR 2014
Legendary Italian film collective canecapovolto immerses itself in gender diversity to study sex, religion, homophobia and self-hatred.
36'
Italy
IFFR 2014
Original recording of an audio letter in which a mother presents a great dilemma to a soldier. Intimate animation about families separated by war.
5'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Trashy film about a motorbike racer who sweats milk and does his best to ignore this bizarre fact. He sets up a training camp in the Dutch dunes.
14'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
A video essay on levitation, UFOs and ancient Asian dreams. One long shot filmed at a Smithsonian Museum of Art warehouse.
6'
USA
IFFR 2014
A nurse steals corpses and eats their brains. The hospital's staff condemn her cannibal practice and take immediate action to stop her malevolent deeds.
9'
Belgium
IFFR 2014
We are under threat, but by what exactly? Generalised paranoia and the obsession with security in the U.S. countryside.
20'
USA
IFFR 2014
Schüpbach's latest film visualises how thoughts come about. With French author Joël-Claude Meffre's hand as the dynamic focus.
16'
Switzerland
IFFR 2014
A film like a video game or vice versa? Cars flying all over the place, an alienating soundtrack and unexpected emotion in a cold environment.
22'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
A complex web of ideas and associations that bristle with dry humour to reflect on banality, the measuring of silence and our own implication in the life, death and value of objects.
54'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2014
The love between two people continues after death thanks to literature. Various styles of animation underline the narrative.
8'
Canada
IFFR 2014
A group has been reading a book, word by word for 30 years. A snapshot of the third reading cycle, the ultimate form of close reading.
53'
Belgium
IFFR 2014
Around 1970, young filmmaker Karpo Godina took his camera on a trip around Vojvodina and made an unusual 'road movie', Imam jednu kucu (I Have a House). Only fragments have survived. Forty years later, another camera makes the same journey, piecing together and imagining the travels of the young Godina. Semi-feature: new presentation format that foregrounds the mid-length film.
49'
Slovenia
IFFR 2014
Introverted zookeeper loses his job. With only his bedridden mother at home, one day he loses his cool.
21'
Greece
IFFR 2014
Fictional re-enactment on home-brewed emulsion of a five-minute happening that took place during the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936.
7'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Playful, funny found-footage film about the launch of Laika the dog into space by the Soviet Union in 1957.
5'
Finland
IFFR 2014
Slightly uncomfortable meeting between cute caddy and weird air golfer (air golfer as in air guitar).
15'
Indonesia
IFFR 2014
Cameraman crawls from lake and squirms through cinema screen. Experimental, yet fun. Burlesque essay on film and drowning yourself.
44'
Japan
IFFR 2014
Photographer creates staged portraits in a Tibetan village. The backdrops of Disney figures and tropical islands are lowered using a squeaky pulley.
15'
China
IFFR 2014
Upon his release, Abdel discusses whether he is a danger to society with his parole officer. Convincing acting inter-cut with the making-of.
17'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Playing with anthropological film conventions. Priests on a Pacific island carry out rituals based on the prophecies of messiah John Frum.
20'
USA
IFFR 2014
Eye candy as a special treat. The ultimate photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. Requires prismatic glasses.
3'
USA
IFFR 2014
Tunisia, two years after the revolution. Besides disappointment, we see traces of revolutionary zeal about to ignite.
35'
Austria
IFFR 2014
Self-deprecation and Weltschmerz in this road movie about an artist with a mid-life crisis searching for salvation in Latin America.
59'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Bizarre interview with linguist Noam Chomsky on Israeli TV. Ironic commentary in the vein of Chomsky.
10'
USA
IFFR 2014
A row of blindfolded men can earn a lot of money during a mysterious ritual. Will this solve Bala’s poverty or are the risks too high?
13'
Nigeria
IFFR 2014
Portrait of a space once inhabited by the filmmaker adheres to a precise, yet enigmatic sound-image construction that carries rare emotional weight.
19'
Switzerland
IFFR 2014
A hypnotic mechanical dance of fluorescent light fittings slowly swaying into an abyss. Horizontal images against a vertical backdrop.
6'
Germany
IFFR 2014
Vertical explorations of lunar maria, swarms of unstable lunar particles swirling in the ‘glowing dust fountains’ caused by solar radiation.
5'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Allow yourself to be transported to a 3D paper world of new monuments, animals and myths. A great film about creating a story.
9'
China
IFFR 2014
A Thai river along the border with Myanmar. A man was killed in his boat two years ago. Two women keep the boat as proof. But for how much longer?
24'
Thailand
IFFR 2014
In Morocco, the title means an arranged marriage between a Moroccan man and a European woman to obtain a residence permit and European citizenship.
5'
Austria
IFFR 2014
A woman obsessively tries to get pregnant by her infertile boyfriend. Her funny, confrontational rant challenges politically correct moralism.
15'
Sweden
IFFR 2014
A journey from the ancient to the modern, with pop-cultural icon JD Samson where according to the film, ‘knowing means emptiness and the unthinkable opens out the world.’
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2014
An audio-visual premonition that channels the millennial time of geology and the seismic psyche of California, to evoke the fractures lying beneath it.
41'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2014
Girl playing marbles turns into a butterfly. Colourful puppet animation in expressive Colburn style turns the chaos of war into beauty.
7'
Malta
IFFR 2014
Paper sample books discarded and dumpstered by long-gone businesses undergo a series of sequential experiments in pattern, rhythm, colour and text(ure).
12'
USA
IFFR 2014
Cunning image manipulation elicits questions about digital film's immateriality.
16'
India
IFFR 2014
Beautifully shot, depressing portrait of a family in Split, whose financial stability is lost during a crisis.
29'
Croatia
IFFR 2014
Clear the rubble for a single-shot, Walter Benjamin- channelling bolt of street energy, choreography and explosive power.
8'
Brazil
IFFR 2014
A woman loves everyone and tells them so, in the street. She promotes total freedom, but is she understood?
13'
France
IFFR 2014
Claustrophobic stop-motion animation about an officer's daughter who can't say goodbye to Argentina's ousted military dictatorship.
11'
Argentina
IFFR 2014
See drip painters at work, blobs flying around. A film that appears to be modelled out of digital clay, on the borderline between beauty and taboo.
5'
Belgium
IFFR 2014
Manipulated fragments from Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950) create a new powerful and evocative scene.
4'
Belgium
IFFR 2014
Beautiful, sad story told from multiple perspectives. Slowly the elements slot into place. With Mathieu Amalric.
34'
France
IFFR 2014
Associative film about light, catching its impression in images and processing it into an image on the retina.
13'
Argentina
IFFR 2014
Two sisters visit the family holiday home for the first time in years. Frustrations about family relations gradually make way for childhood memories.
23'
Argentina
IFFR 2014
1'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Great filmmaker prepares for a historical masterpiece set in an inhospitable, black-and-white jungle. A taster.
30'
Philippines
IFFR 2014
A vertical film about the most enigmatic of man-made structures, and an exploration of basic cinematic mysteries: time, form and structure.
6'
Austria
IFFR 2014
Life journey of a Bhutanese man during the various phases of his life. Minimal, yet meaningful tale.
15'
Bhutan
IFFR 2014
Mondrian's Red Mill inspired Urlus to study colourful analogue printing techniques, with spectacular results.
6'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
A keen eye and precise editing beautifully capture the motion in Bart Lodewijk’s drawings as they inch their way through Ronse's gables, roofs and masonry.
12'
Belgium
IFFR 2014
Five seascapes shot on five eroded rolls of film turn into gold in John Price's hands.
14'
Canada
IFFR 2014
Dr. Doyen performs surgical operation to separate the Siamese twins Radica and Doodica, taken from the Barnum Circus in London and brought to Paris.
5'
France
IFFR 2014
A beautiful Frank Scheffer document about Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet's search for the essence of painting.
30'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Bucharest during a heat wave. A priest is called to a woman's deathbed to perform last rites, but not everyone is glad to see him.
30'
Romania
IFFR 2014
Colourful and light like a comedy yet provides social commentary on Tanzanian society. A shoeshine man against the world.
24'
Tanzania
IFFR 2014
All sorts of highlights of the short film programme compiled. The best animations, short documentaries, short stories and video art of the 2014 festival in a seven hour non-stop presentation. Bring coffee and snacks.
420'
IFFR 2014
Whilst casting at a school, the director encounters two exceptional youngsters who explain to him why they think their relationship failed.
20'
Colombia
IFFR 2014
Four cousins/friends spend a carefree holiday in Belgrade before spreading out across Europe. Fabulous Serb portrait of a generation.
24'
Serbia
IFFR 2014
Tourism on the Indonesian island of Sawai is bound to increase after this enchanting, sensual small feature film. Paradise on earth. A fairy tale is told realistically. A young woman seeks the truth behind a legend she heard from her grandmother. Semi-feature: new presentation format that foregrounds the mid-length film.
55'
South Korea
IFFR 2014
First documentary by Marker and a cooperation with Resnais. About the role of the West in the demise of African art.
30'
France
IFFR 2014
Unscrupulous film about excessive lust and desire in online subcultures. Simultaneously wonderful and repellent.
5'
Canada
IFFR 2014
Thatcher, the politics of anatomy and the implications of voice modulation and pitch are just some of the possible ruminations when training your voice.
17'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Social drama about 13-year old cigarette seller Raffael against the background of scuffles between squatters and the police.
24'
Italy
IFFR 2014
A car accident and a secret date cause Ryoichi (Kobayashi himself) and his wife to stop talking to each other. Intensely sad.
45'
South Korea
IFFR 2014
Glowing germs and flowers colour this alchemical 16mm miniature. Pryce spins gossamer golden threads in the silent darkness of the cinema.
3'
USA
IFFR 2014
A celebration and lamentation, bringing us close and embodying a community that found the music in their heads and the warmth to listen to it together.
20'
USA
IFFR 2014
Experience pure poetry on a silent bus journey from night into day in Durham, North Carolina.
15'
USA
IFFR 2014
Five blind guests arrive at a tea party. They walk across the room toward the tea table, but their simple movements turn the event into a nightmare.
5'
Finland
IFFR 2014
After years of silence, it's finally time for Marcello and his father to settle their quarrel. Beautiful, understated acting.
14'
Brazil
IFFR 2014
A place within-a-place and a voice. A metaphor for the return home after time spent in a different place.
10'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2014
Filmmaker wishes to give personal meaning to the worn-out terms friendship, brotherhood and manliness. What do you keep to yourself; what do you share?
30'
Croatia
IFFR 2014
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is shown around by an Ivorian painter. Exhausted by depression Basquiat seeks salvation in local rituals.
20'
Côte d'Ivoire
IFFR 2014
‘Can sounds, rhythms and light produce queer relations? Can they become revolutionary?’ (PB & RL)
17'
Germany
IFFR 2014
A man lives among his collection of paintings, books and magazines telling brilliant stories. Humour enlivens the collection.
25'
Brazil
IFFR 2014
A literal stop-motion animation, a road movie, a kinetic sculpture brought into collision with an interbellum countryside, surrealised by Paul Nash.
21'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2014
Young couple in Singapore don't feel at home there anymore after their youth in great China. But why not? Much sentiment. Many questions.
25'
Singapore
IFFR 2014
A single, long shot through a park, a European forest and the Amazonian jungle. The visual counterpart to meditative music. Feel free to fall asleep.
12'
Belgium
IFFR 2014
A ruin proves to be more than piles of stone. The view out from the remains of a Byzantine church in Trissákia, Greece.
9'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2014
Street children try their luck at the Sunday fair in Maputo. As if Chaplin were still alive and in Mozambique.
15'
Mozambique
IFFR 2014
The train slides out of the station and we're plunged into a nocturnal ballet of converging parallel rails, shimmering lights and endless tunnels.
5'
USA
IFFR 2014
A man in a mysterious, brightly lit shed with ferns all over and a camera that scans the space. Simple concept, clever film.
13'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
'Tie-dye' method famous in the psychedelic era of the late 1960s used in a film study into colours and patterns in materials.
11'
USA
IFFR 2014
Alchemised with wonder we’re ushered to wide-eyed transcendence with a hallucinatory tableau of clocks, domestic plastics and luridly soothing colour.
9'
USA
IFFR 2014
Geometric figures and lines come to life as an ancient creature forever creating and destroying itself. An organic geometry thriller.
10'
Austria
IFFR 2014
A boat on a broad river takes you into the daily musings and actions of a man living alone in the jungle. Enchantingly filmed.
16'
Argentina
IFFR 2014
Video essay on poison, medicine men, possession and death. Four Indians including a toxicologist and a snake charmer explain how they read the signs.
30'
India
IFFR 2014
Ten years after their dance duo split, two men at a beautiful country home celebrate the end of youth and the start of a new future. Bittersweet.
34'
Brazil
IFFR 2014
Animation made from mould-damaged juvenile hall ledgers. Full of Rorschach-like patterns that reveal detention's impact on young inmates.
4'
USA
IFFR 2014
What happens when you laser-bomb a WW2 anti-tank wall? An uncompromised barrage of light and sound explode in this 11-minute megaton film.
12'
Netherlands
IFFR 2014
Lessons in representation, reflections on the art-heritage industry and freewheeling storytelling, all washed down with an obligatory cup of tea.
15'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2014
Beautiful, abstract images of a woman with a swarm of bees for a head and a dog with a pink front leg. Life and death on an empty lot.
14'
France
IFFR 2014
The title is a line from a T.S. Eliot poem. Film as poetry. Images analogous to words.
8'
USA
IFFR 2014
Intimate, intense portraits of exceptional beauty. Keep your eyes open and keep watching, past your first impression, past outward appearances.
15'
USA
IFFR 2014
We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man.
5'
USA
IFFR 2014