competition

СOAL SPELL / 2008 / 7 min 56 sec / Betacam SP / directed by SunXun / China / ANIM
Inspired by thе old five yuan RMB note. An old industrial coal city located in northeastern…
HEROES NO LONGER / 2008 / 9 min 4 sec / Betacam SP / directed by SunXun / China / ANIM
‘Hero’ is a kind of historical complex, this complex lead to the transitions of our history. But they are usually ridiculous. ‘History’ mean to us more likely a sort of impression, or a virtual reality.
THE SAINT TRENCH / 2007 / 9 min / Betacam SP / directed by Ivan Tverdovskiy / Russia / DOC
A few minutes from the life of a happy child... A few moments of joy, discovery, learning for something new. A few minutes of children\'s fairy tale. But fairy-tales collapse: in the finale an audience is learning much more about the little hero.
FEEDBACK / 2008 / 47 sec / MiniDV / directed by Kirill Papin / Russia / EXP
The subject tries to influence upon the object. Gradually, the subject loses interest in the object, because there is no feedback.
MADE IN JAPAN / 5 min / DVD / directed by Ciro Altabas / Spain / FIC
“… My mother admitted that the man who I thought was my father was not my father”
VIA DOLOROSA / 2006 / 9 min / DVD / directed by Nir and Nadav Nadler / The Netherlands-Israel / DOC
Following Christ’s route to Crucifixion through the old city of Jerusalem in the Via Dolorosa, also known as the Way of the Cross. The extraordinary experience leading to the making of this film was an accidental encounter of a Christ look-alike appearing to a group of pilgrims. This spitting image was my younger brother Nadav.
NARROWEYES / 2008 / 8 min / DVCam / directed by Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Asaph Polonsky / Israel / EXP
People gather and separate constantly in the urban maze. They run and disappear, find new routes and end up arriving at their starting point. Together. The camera does not have an obligation for no one, it’s another performing body in the choreography, in which is happening even when it’s absent.
TOT OU TARD / 2007 / 5 min / 35 mm / directed by Jadwiga Kowalska / Switzerland / ANIM
Squirrel and bat. The convergence of different worlds and times of day. Forces in the underground govern night and day– and much more. By accident, this regulated everyday life has ground to a halt. And thus begins the mutual journey of two solitary figures. More... 
3:59 FREUDE / 2008 / 3 min 59 sec / MiniDv, Betacam SP / directed by Tobias Fruehmorgen / Germany / ANIM, EXP
An Ode to Joy. And a happy computer visualising a poem.
Large Hadron Collider Testing / 2008 / 2 min 12 sec / MiniDV / directed by Studio [eq] / Russia / EXP
The film is telling why the Large Hadron Collider hasn’t been launched yet.
CAN I HELP YOU? / 2007 / 15 min / DVD / directed by Nadezhda Gorokhova / Russia / EXP
The camera has been placed in the DVD and music store, all customers were recorded on it. After that the film was made from the footage, it tells even more about us and our time than anyone can imagine.
REFLECTIONS / 2007 / 13 min / HD / directed / by Ho Tzu Nyen / Singapore / FIC, VA
This film is a parable about how man is a creature that perpetually cannot see beyond his own reflection. More...
REPORT / 2008 / 1 min 50 sec / DVD / directed by Milica Rakic / Serbia / EXP, VA
With a delicate sense of humor Milica Rakic creates her own archive of reports, pictures that evolve on crossing of reality and fiction. Artist uses the principle of purity underlying modern aesthetics: prevailing white, red and black, with sources in minimalism and geometric abstraction...
18 SEGUNDOS / 2007 / HD-35mm / directed by Zacharias & Macgregor / Spain / FIC
Amy and Jack do not know each other. They live in two different cities. They are devoted to absolutely different things. The neither enjoy the same things. But they both take the same seconds in doing the same things. Today they will meet for the first time.
THE PIPE / 2009 / 10 min / MiniDV / directed by Dmitry Averin / Russia / FIC
Short live-action film. A lonely Keeper, living far away from civilization, keeps watch over a big pipe running over fields. When the alarm clock rings, he goes to tap the pipe with a special hammer and records the data in a register. Flowerpots are his only company. In search of brightening up his loneliness the Keeper pretends that he has a twin. But sometimes it is not easy to get along with with yourself. Trailer. More...
SURPLUS / 2008 / 5 min 40 sec / DVD / directed by Bosko Prostran / Serbia / EXP
As the title suggests this video performs Lacan’s opinion that in contemporary capitalism "surplus value" is no longer capitalized for later libidinal enjoyment - it is re-invested in production process. More...
HEMORRHAGE / 2009 / 5 min 30 sec / DVD / directed by Shon Kim / USA / EXP
Abstract locomotion of thesis-antithesis in order to evolve and their struggle for synthesis. This experiment is founded on Material Dialectic. More...
BANKENKRISE / 2008 / 2 sec / MiniDV / directed by Till Penzek, Jon Frick / ANIM
„Financial Crisis“ is an entertaining board game, in which you get to play a Federal State Bank. No matter how many imbecile mistakes you make – you always pile up your money. No risk, great fun. More...
NEVER ENDING RAIN / 2008 / 3 min 13 sec / DVD / directed by Sergey Paczkevich / Russia / ANIM
The film is about psychical infantilism which people of age reveal.
KARAOKE SHOW / 2007 / 4 min 30 sec / 35 mm / directed by Karl Tebbe / Germany / EXP
Animation filmmakers usually like to stand behind a camera rather than in front of it. At the age of 14, Karl Tebbe badly wanted to be able to dance like Michael Jackson. But you either have rhythm in your blood or you don’t. Now, 22 years later, stop-motion animation has allowed him to finally fulfill his lifelong dream.
SECRET PLACE / 2009 / 1 min 37 sec / MiniDV / directed by Denis Mustafin / Russia / SP
The human consciousness has a property to return back to the same things ad infinitum, sometimes without analysis and reappraisal, such a reflection without any doubt…
IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONS / 2009 / 1 min / MiniDV / directed by Chris Furby / UK / ANIM
An absurdist version of the cycle of life involving a collection of bags all delivered without the intervention of sex.
HUMORESQUE / 2007 / 16 min / Beta SP / directed by Diana Deleanu / Romania / DOC
In every people’s proverbs a real moral code is hidden. Maria has piously respected this code and yet at her 94 years of age she is in a major deadlock...
DESTINATION FINALE / 2008 / 9 min / 8 mm / directed by Philip Widmann / Germany / DOC
A man travels Europe. Shortly thereafter, American troops enter the ground war in Vietnam. More...
THE DEATH OF NATURAL LANGUAGE / 2007 / 3 min / MiniDV / directed by Clint Enns / Canada / VA
It’s an ascii animation of a plane crashing. The abstracted image mediated by ascii text parallels modern human communication; meaning is often lost or misinterpreted by the process.
DAS DERRICK-PRINZIP / 2008 / 3 min 15 sec / MiniDV / directed by Till Penzek, Jon Frickey / Germany / ANIM
Who is the most popular German? It’s Stephan Derrick. At least, if you ask the French. A film about Derrick and his impact on the French view on Germany.
AN OPEN LETTER TO CARLOS SAURA / 2008 / 5 min 50 sec / DVD / directed by Jude Milligan / France / EXP
Irina Petrovna is convinced she is the next Carmen and tries to convince Carlos Saura too.
PIMPIN PLANET MARS / 2009 / 6 min / DVD / directed by Rune Eriksson / Norway / ANIM
NASA can only watch when Martians take control of the Rovers. More...
NEW PICTURES FROM MARS / 2008 / 2 min / DVD / directed by Rune Eriksson / Norway / ANIM
New pictures from Mars were received on the Earth… Nobody expected such an impudence! More...
RESONANCES / 2008 / 7 min / 14 sec / MiniDV / directed by Ismail Bahri / France-Tunis / EXP, VA
Resonances starts with the prospecting of the bathroom of my childhood. Black inked words written in Arabic on the bathtub surface scatter and propagate progressively. They resonate and echo night scene recollections. Transformed in a resonance chamber, the bathtub mixes the fluids of these evanescent thoughts. By reflecting its surroundings, the ink blurred water surface, overturns and clouds the words. The backward surge of the night reveals the scars of a troubled universe, verging on obliteration.
FROM POIN A TO POINT B / 2007 / 6 min 24 sec / MiniDV / directed by Eugeny Chertoplyasov / Russia / SP
As is known from the title, the film depicts travel from point A to point B.
NOROUTINE / 2007 / 15 min / Betacam SP / directed by Jurate Samulionyte / Lithuania / FIC
The main character of movie is a middle-age office worker Henrikas, who spends his days in endless routine. He is a loner, living in his own secret and colorful world of things. These small things-creatures want to help their owner to escape sameness. Henrikas finds a long white ribbon and starts to follow it. The mystic ribbon continues and finally takes him to the exciting freedom of mind. To noroutine. More...
DIE SCHNEIDER KRANKHEIT / 2008 / 10 min / Super 8 / directed by Javier Chillon / Spain / FIC
The Fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country... Trailer.
I`M MORE A TREE THAN A MAN / 2008 / DVD / directed by Tom Doman / Poland / VA
I found the piece of a tree, leafless and in fact more the idea of a tree, but thanks to it I gained rationale for explaining my partnership with nature. I visually and physically almost become a tree. I was walking along with the drilled trunk on me and I was prompt by different images; I experienced of heaviness of the Cross and loneliness of Don Kichote, power of the tree of life, I even participated in my private tree therapy by wandering through the streets and fields being embraced by the tree. My dead trunk assured me the supernatural experience of belonging to the ecosystem in which the bilateral relations rule. I am fond of these real relations and I agree with Beuys’ opinion on superiority of trees on people. More...
CAM / 2008 / 3 min 42 sec / DVD / directed by Konstantin Adzher / Russia / VA
Cam is a pirate copy of the film recorded on a video in the movie theatre. Usually it has very low picture and sound quality (trembling camera angularly to a screen, heads of people passing the screen). Such copy can be perceived as a separate artwork.
HOUNDING / 2008 / 21 min / DVD / directed by Viktoriya Yakubova / Russia / DOC
The movie was filmed with a webcam. It’s about people who unexpectedly have become victims of the mass harassment in the Internet.
WRONG / 2008 / 7 min 42 sec / MiniDV / directed by Mika J. Ripatti / Finland / EXP
A depressed man lies down in a hotel room. He’s having a imaginary conversation with his ex-wife about the reasons of their divorce. “The Actors” on the film are speech-synthezisers.
SOARING ROARING DIVING / 2008 / 6 min 08 sec / DVD / directed by Miriam Harris / New Zealand / EXP
Virginia Woolf wrote the words ‘soaring, roaring, diving…’ in a letter where she was ruminating upon the joys and upheavals in life. In this mixed-media animated film, the animator and composer, having both lost their sisters, who were still young, to terminal illnesses, explore themes of journeying, childhood memories, summer in the South Pacific, swimming and diving as metaphors, working trough grief, and the proverbial glass half-full of half-empty question.
SILENCE / 2009 / 3 min / Super 8 / directed by Ava Lanche / Mars / VA
If Silence speaks louder than words-then what are we saying?
RIPPLE / 2008 / 18 min / Beta Digital / directed by Paul Gowers / UK / FIC
A black comedy about the randomness of fate. One small act of malice forces an ordinary man off the safe road and on to a dark journey he’ll never forget. Trailer. More...
THE ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS FROM NEBULA-5 / 2008 / 7 min / DVCam / directed by Chema Garcia Ibarra / Spain / FIC
Almost averybody is going to die very soon... More...
E FINITA LA COMMEDIA / 2007 / 13 min / DVCAM / directed by Jean-Julien Collette and Olivier Tollet / Belgium / FIC
A car is parked in a residential area. Inside the car a father and son are having an intense conversation about life, love, sex, death and the wife/mother of the family. The two appear to be in collaboration over something and it is obvious that they have an unusually close relationship. Time goes by and although the questions keep coming they remain unanswered. What are they waiting for?
WHITE NOISE / 2009 / 2 min 50 sec / DVD / directed by Olesya Malyar / Russia / SP
What we hear, what we see…
SWAMP / 2008 / 3 min / MiniDV / directed by Tanatchai Bandasak / Thailand / VA
This is radio broadcasting station of Thailand, Lampany province. Now may broadcast end by today, good night.
CHIMBUMBE / 2008 / 13 min / DVD / directed by Antonoi Coello / Columbia-Mexico / FIC
Catalina Lunago falls in love with a fish and gets swallowed by the waters of a marsh. Her family will try to rescue her from the world of the Chimbumbe. An adaptation of a traditional oral tale from San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia.
THE CHEATING / 2009 / 15 min / MiniDV / directed by German Scelso / Spain / DOC, EXP
A man and a proposal: Juan, an old Andalusian, offers great pay to the filmmaker. In return, the filmmaker will help him to murder the woman who has cheated on him.
WIND UP! / 2006 / 1 min / DVD / directed by Eduard Kulemin / Russia / SP
Video installation. The inscription «nothing happens» appears time after time on the paper roll, which is unrolling and then (after the shout «wind up!») is rolling up.
TROPSPORT / 2008 / 1 min 40 sec / DVD / directed by Eduard Kulemin / Russia / VA
As is known trope is word or phrase used in a figurative sense. TROPSPORT is a palindrome, it was filmed from the letters which the word “sport” consists.
TALKING HEADS / 2008 / 4 min / Beta Digital / directed by Tijmen Hauer / The Netherlands / VA
An endless amount of television presenters morph into one resulting in an incomprehensible and bewitching flood of information.
ON THE WATERFRONT 2.0 / 2008 / 3 min / DVD / directed by Andrea Huyoff / Germany / VA
Bleeding Marlon Brando bumps against a multicolored, digital wall. Marlon Brando`s injured face disappears continuously behind animated, colored pixels, each one of them separately animated. The scene is taken from the black-and-white film „On The Waterfront “.
LOUD_THINGS / 2008 / 13 min / 35mm / directed by Telcosystems / The Netherlands / VA
With the aid of a set of elementary instructions, a self running network of algorithmic processes is programmed to produce spatial images and sound. The result is a non-referential world making an intense appeal to the eye and the ear; a reconnaissance of the boundaries of human perception. More...
ARTSUTANOV\'S ELEVATOR: WITH A HAND CAMERA IN PURSUIT OF THE GENIOUS / 2008 / 14 min / DVD / directed by Daria Emelianova / Russia / DOC
The film is about the old engineer from Saint-Petersburg who has worked out the idea of a space elevator in the 60-s. Nobody in the USSR was interested in this project that period, only the famous science fiction writer Arthur Clarke has taken an interest in it, and that was how his last novel The Fountains of Paradise appeared. Many years later, nowadays, American scientists are successfully developing the idea of Russian space elevator.
ASAMARA / 2008 / 9 min / 35mm / directed by Jon Garano and Raul Lopez / Spain / DOC
Asamara: “sent to work, sent to earn a living”. This is the reality millions of children must face in Africa nowadays, in spite of their extreme youth. Either in the city or in rural areas, their fight is the same: surviving. More...
BERBAOC / 2008 / 5 min / 35mm / directed by Arteleku / Spain / ANIM
Short film directed by the artists José Belmonte, Izibene Oñederra, Mercedes Sánchez-Agustino, Gustavo Dí ez and Irati Fernández, based on a sound piece of Xabier Erkizia, created from an interview given by the musician Santiago Irigoyen. More...
COTTON CANDY / 2008 / 11 min / 35mm / directed by Aritz Moreno / Spain / FIC
The cold always complicates things. More...
ON THE ROOF / 2008 / 4 min 16 sec / DVD / directed by Henry Gwiazda / USA / VA
This work is about repetition and memory. How do our perceptions change over time experiencing the same events? Each small, choreographed scene can be appreciated for itself, but on subsequent viewings, takes on a separate meaning. They become metaphors for our lives, our dreams and ourselves. More...
2 SUMMERS / 2008 / 3 min / mobile phone / directed by Alexey Akimov / Russia / EXP
The video was made with mobile phone camera. I shoot it during 2 years in different places.
GRAVITATION / 2009 / 2 min / MiniDv / directed by Mikhail Lokshin / Russia / FIC
Men are falling down and falling down…
PANOCHKA / 2009 / 30 min / DVD / directed by Eugeny Kalachev / Russia / DOC, FIC
The film is dedicated to Nikolay Gogol’s 200 years anniversary. The professor from Budapest Pepula arrives to Dikan’ka on Christmas Eve. He wants to meet the local notable amateur artist Vitalya. From the first steps the professor falls into mystic atmosphere which 200 years ago has given birth to the first Russia surrealist. No birds fly here, rivers flow back, people talk French and get into lethargic sleep…