Archived Festival Film

Two Points of Failure

The disappearance of the analogue film medium, heralded by Jean-Luc Godard, is visualized by allowing film to disintegrate in a chemical solution. Screening in Shorts Program: read more

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Noise Reduction II: Chinatown

The lament over the ‘death’ of film is re-enacted digitally, as the screen-as-landscape reacts to the material exegeses of film—scratches, splices, sprockets, dust etc.—that are digitally [de/re]constructed, in (im)probable verisimilitude to Cellu... read more

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All Vows

"All Vows" is an English translation of "Kol Nidre," the incantation that begins the Yom Kippur service and which pre-emptively nullifies any future vows made unintentionally. The film uses ancient archival films to depict an unknowable future, re... read more

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For Spacious Sky

Inspired by actual events and set on Election Day, 2008, against the sweeping landscape of rural America, For Spacious Sky is the story of three lost brothers finding their way back to each other—one from incarceration, one from addiction, and one... read more

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Trotteur

Trotteur is a tale of man versus machine in a duel between a young man and a locomotive. Screening as part of the Shorts: Fallout program. read more

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Alekesam

Alekesam is the story of Hugh Masekela, an international jazz icon and apartheid activist who was exiled from his homeland South Africa for 30 years, and his son Selema, who attempts to embrace the roots of his identity through music... read more

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Adirake

Following the tsunami that claimed the lives of his parents, Adirake searches for the white elephant his mother spoke of in this coming-of-age story. Screening as part of the Shorts: Fallout program. read more

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All That Way For Love

A young Irishman traveling All That Way For Love across the African continent to get to his doctor girlfriend hitches a ride with a nomadic older couple and becomes embroiled in their complicated history. Screening as pa... read more

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Dreamscapes

Dreamscapes looks behind and beyond the canvas of artist Stephen Hannock, following him from his Newcastle opening to the canals of Venice and the streets of New York. Screening as part of the Shorts: Triptych prog... read more

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Chupachups

After passing the civil service examination Sung-joo returns to her hometown to spend the day with her friend, Shin-hee, who stayed behind, in Chupachups. Screening as part of the Shorts: Fallout program. read more

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Beauty Culture

Beauty Culture investigates our obsession with beauty and the influence of photographic representations on female body image and the persistent "beauty contest" of daily life. Screening as part of the Shorts: Triptych<... read more

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Easter Eggs

Taking place in the ex-Yugoslavia of the 1970s, a mother secretly celebrates Easter at home with her children when their father, an army officer and ingrained communist, discovers his family's clandestine festivities in Easter Eggs. ... read more

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Foxes

A young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses and shrieking Foxes are beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world. Screening as part of the Shorts: Fallout program. read more

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Transmission

Following a deadly pandemic that has decimated the world's population, a father drives his nine-year-old daughter from the west coast of Australia to the safe zone in Transmission. Screening as part of the Shor... read more

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My Neighbourhood

Mohammed El Kurd is a Palestinian teenager growing up in the heart of East Jerusalem, but when his family is forced to give up a part of their home to Israeli settlers, local residents begin peaceful protests and in a surprising turn, are quickly ... read more

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Paraíso

Three Mexican immigrants who risk their lives every day rappelling down some of the tallest skyscrapers in Chicago reveal their thoughts about work, mortality, and the people they observe inside the high-rises they clean in Paraíso. ... read more

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Picture Paris

An ordinary suburban mom carefully plans a life-changing trip to Paris, but when her plans go terribly awry, she finds herself alone on the banks of the Seine wondering why the city of dreams cannot magically fill her life with meaning in Pi... read more

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Screenshot

In Screenshot Kate meets an old friend through Facebook and discovers just how unfriendly a place the internet can be. Screening as part of the Shorts: Status Update program. read more

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Pitch Black Heist

Liam and Michael are professional safecrackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe of its contents, but there's a catch—a light-activated alarm system impels the men to embark on a Pitch Black Heist. ... read more

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Procession

When Jason and his mother attend a funeral service of someone they have never met, they accidentally wind up leading The Procession. Screening as part of the Shorts: Escape Clause program. read more

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Rung

In Rung, after a cathedral bell ringer passes away, his spot on the bell-ringing choir is up for grabs and two women find themselves in an unlikely competition for the coveted position. Screening as part of the Shorts:... read more

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Stitches

Amit and her female life partner Noa have decided to take a crucial step and have a baby, but despite their strong self-confidence, after the baby's birth neither one of them knows what to do next in Stitches. Screening a... read more

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Prima

Alone in a brightly lit studio, a ballerina recalls her old choreography, leaping and spinning in front of an invisible audience in Prima. Screening as part of the Shorts: Escape Clause program. read more

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Teacher of the Year

Teacher of the Year is a day in the life of Ethan Collins, a severely depressed, foul-mouthed elementary school teacher whose wife's recent infidelity and departure have left him questioning everything in his life. Screen... read more

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Time of the Plums

Yasemin lives in her own world of fantasy with the notes she feels and the sounds she sees, as she spends a day with her mother and grandfather in Time of the Plums. Screening as part of the Shorts: Character Flaws... read more