Video Graffiti

Official festival Selection as of 17th May

2.57k

dir. by Eva Colmers, 15 minutes, Canada

From dust they arise, drawn together by a magic frequency.

Cast

Tony Olivares (Lead Actor)
Amber Borotsik (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: Eva Colmers
Screenwriters: Eva Colmers, Eva Colmers
Producers: Eva Colmers
Cinematographers: aAron Munson
Editors: aAron Munson
Sound editors: John Blerot, Gary James Joynes
Composers: Gary James Joynes

Acid Make-Out

dir. by Daniel Thorsteinsson, 21 minutes, Iceland

Acid Make-Out is a one of a kind project where music, visuals and sound design are bound together. The short is worked frame by frame so each still is a artwork of its own. All the sounds in the movie (including all the sound design) are taken from the album “Acid Make-Out” by Icelandic electronic band Sometime. The story is based on the book “Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves by the American scientist Clifford A. Pickover which addresses parallel universes in the mind. The visuals and sounds are all combined into one unity to express the feelings and emotions of the main Character, played by upcoming Russian artist Sasha Kellerman. Although the writer/director is Icelandic the cast come from all over the world, including, U.K., Sweden, Israel, French, U.S.A., India, Australia, Russia, Spain, China & Iceland. The topic and collaboration are international.

Cast

Credits

Directors: Daniel Thorsteinsson
Screenwriters: Daniel Thorsteinsson
Producers: Daniel Thorsteinsson
Exec producers: Daniel Thorsteinsson
Cinematographers: Kyle Diorio
Product designers: Daniel Thorsteinsson
Editors: Daniel Thorsteinsson
Sound editors: Daniel Thorsteinsson
Composers: Daniel Thorsteinsson

Block Attack

dir. by , 10 minutes, USA

Mitchell must fix his company's new video game, 'Blocks', overnight, in order to save the company from impending doom.

Cast

William Spencer (Lead Actor)
Josh Hill (Lead Actor)
Alex Duong (Lead Actor)
Ben Jenkin (Lead Actor)
Ilram Choi (Supporting)
Kat Korosi (Supporting)
Dave Mattera (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: William Spencer, Mark Spencer
Screenwriters: Mark Spencer, William Spencer
Producers: Kat Korosi
Exec producers: Daniel 'Malakai' Cabrera
Cinematographers: Mark Spencer
Editors: Mark Spencer
Sound editors: Mark Spencer, Dave Mattera
Composers: Dave Mattera

Branches

dir. by Heath Hanlin, 6 minutes, USA

Branches is an exploration of line, light, and sound: a moving drawing, a study in the relationship between order and chaos. Unsettlingly complex and entropic, yet deeply and abidingly orderly.

Cast

Credits

Directors: Heath Hanlin
Screenwriters: Heath Hanlin
Composers: Heath Hanlin

Screenings

Athens International Festival of Film + Video (Ohio) 04/2015

Color Bars 1

dir. by Gregory Gutenko, 6 minutes, USA

Experimental video from 1984. The color bar reference signal is distorted by attacking the horizontal and vertical blanking sync timing signals using a time base corrector. This short video art piece was inspired by the 'color tuning guide channel' that American Cablevision included in its channel lineup in the 1980s. The odd thing about the 'color tuning guide', which was the typical NTSC color bar display, was that the average cable subscriber was not likely to know how the reference colors were supposed to look. Were any of them television broadcast engineers? So how would they know if the display they saw at home was correct? How useless! So here is my Color Bars 1, also known as 'your color tuning guide'. Diabolical!

Cast

Credits

Directors: Gregory Gutenko
Editors: Gregory Gutenko

Gripes, Grudges, And Grace

dir. by Peter Kalisch, 4 minutes, USA

A glitch-art work describing one's progression from one point to another.

Cast

Peter Kalisch

Credits

Directors: Peter Kalisch
Producers: Peter Kalisch
Exec producers: Peter Kalisch

Hamadryad

dir. by Nancy Allison, Paul Allman, 9 minutes, USA

A dancer, or perhaps a wood nymph, rehearses alone in a New York studio enchanting herself back into the forest that inspired her dance.

Cast

Miki Orihara (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: Nancy Allison, Paul Allman
Co producers: Nancy Allison, Paul Allman
Cinematographers: Glen Mordeci
Editors: Paul Allman

Screenings

Film Society of Lincoln Center's Dance on Camera Festival 01/2015 (Official Selection)

House Of Light

dir. by Warren Langford, 11 minutes, Canada

A middle-aged woman whose life falls apart. Everything she ever knew, loved or believed in is gone. In her darkest hour of confusion, mistrust and suicidal dreams, she finds a light through Hip Hop. Based on a true story.

Cast

Amira Jacobs (Lead Actor)
Chengis Javeri (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Warren Langford
Screenwriters: Amira Jacobs
Producers: Warren Langford, Amira Jacobs
Cinematographers: Karen Brothers, Tim Dutchak
Editors: Warren Langford
Sound editors: Warren Langford
Composers: Warren Langford, Amira Jacobs, Suza Singh

Light Divides The Square

dir. by Kimberly Burleigh, 5 minutes, USA

This work follows in the tradition of experimental cinema and abstract animation. It features “rippling caustics,” or refracted light patterns, cast by a virtual fluid body created in a 3D animation program. To create the light compositions I used the organizing forces of a square format for the fluid body and invisible shape-shifting objects to perturb the fluid surface and initiate the ripples. The images in this animation are not achievable in reality. For me, what is significant is the twist of using “high technology” to simulate the use of lower forms of technology in creating abstractions – in this case, capturing light refractions created by fluid and light. My overriding intent is to create beautiful light patterns with a dark undertow of shadows.

Cast

Credits

Directors: Kimberly Burleigh
Producers: Kimberly Burleigh
Editors: Russ Johnson
Sound editors: Russ Johnson

Screenings

Autumedia
Semantics Gallery 09/2013
Tricky Women 2014 International Animation Filmfestival 03/2014
Australian International Experimental Film Festival 05/2014
Videoholica 08/2014
Big Mini Media Festival 11/2014
8th Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas 11/2014
MADATAC 06 – Contemporary Festival of New Media Arts and Advanced Audiovisual Technologies 12/2014
IMA International Film Festival 12/2014

Light Study

dir. by Josephine Massarella, 13 minutes, Canada

Light Study is a poetic examination of the wetlands, forests, and ecosystems of the Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere. Filmed over a three year period, it explores the unique landscape of the Bruce Trail using 16mm single frame photography. Here, nature presides over an ephemeral human element, its primordial essence both medium and agent of light's eternal change. Soundtrack composed by Graham Stewart, member of the experimental music collective Viosac.

Cast

Margherita Jordan (Lead Actor)
Felix Werth (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Josephine Massarella
Screenwriters: Josephine Massarella
Producers: Josephine Massarella
Cinematographers: Josephine Massarella
Editors: Boyd Bonitzke, Josephine Massarella
Composers: Graham Stewart

Screenings

Hamilton Film Festival 11/2013
L.I.F.T. Round Up 2013 01/2014
San Francisco Film Festival 07/2014
Columbia Gorge International Film Festival 08/2014 (will screen in August 2014)
Muskoka Independent Film Festival 08/2014
Valle D'Itria Film Festival 09/2014 (Best Animation
North America)
Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival 10/2014
3rd Delhi Shorts International Film Festival 11/2014 (Special Mention)
IMA International Film Festival
India 12/2014
Atlanta Film Festival 03/2015
Byron Bay Film Festival 03/2015
Nez International Film Festival 04/2015
Historic Upstown Whitter Film Festival 07/2015

Mtl Rush

dir. by Mathieu Guimond, 3 minutes, Canada

An impression of colors, textures, movements and rhythm on an explosive jazz.The whole thing is painted and scratched on 35mm film.

Cast

Credits

Directors: Mathieu Guimond
Screenwriters: Mathieu Guimond
Producers: Mathieu Guimond
Editors: Mathieu Guimond

Screenings

Concordia Film Festival 05/2014 (Best experimental film)
Ottawa International Animation Festival 09/2014
Canada International Film Festival 2015 04/2015 (Award of Excellence)

Orishas

dir. by Santiago Echeverry, 7 minutes, Canada

The visual component of the piece Orishas was created using custom code in Processing using a Kinect sensor and a webcam to transform the spatial, color and brightness information of choreographed dancers into a virtual three dimensional mathematical representation of their movements. 28000 images are then imported into a video editing software and treated as a still frame animation. The biggest challenge both in the choreography and the video making process was how to preserve the spirituality of the piece in such a logical setup. The solution was a collective leap of faith, embracing the limitations of the technology and approaching ritual repetitive gestures as the building blocks of a spiritual dance.

Cast

Lindsay Daniele (Lead Actor)
Kwesi Ampofo (Lead Actor)
Ashley Caraway (Lead Actor)
Maylin Ortega Zulueta (Voice)
Nathan Petitpas (Percussion)
Susannah LeMarquand (Choreography)

Credits

Directors: Santiago Echeverry
Producers: Santiago Echeverry
Exec producers: Santiago Echeverry
Editors: Santiago Echeverry
Sound editors: Felipe Ramirez Rodriguez
Composers: Felipe Ramirez Rodriguez

Screenings

The University of Toronto New Music Festival 01/2014
GASP Gasparilla Fringe Art Festival - Tampa Museum of Art 04/2014

Overheard Among The Arthropods

dir. by Nancy J. Rodwan, 5 minutes, USA

Crabs conversing about shells and shifting.

Cast

John G. Rodwan; Jr. (Supporting)
Terry Blackhawk (Voice)

Credits

Directors: Nancy J. Rodwan
Screenwriters: Terry Blackhawk
Producers: Nancy J. Rodwan
Co producers: John G. Rodwan; Jr.
Cinematographers: Nancy J. Rodwan
Product designers: Nancy J. Rodwan
Editors: Nancy J. Rodwan
Sound editors: Nancy J. Rodwan, J. Nadir Omowale

Screenings

Art X 04/2015

Shortcut

dir. by Shahrukh Kavousi, 19 minutes, Norway

Ramin is a 17 year old boy who lives and works illegally in a hair dressing salon. One night Julia (17) visits, a girl who has a relation to his boss. It becomes a challenging meeting between the two teenagers.

Cast

Jenny Duus (Lead Actor)
Sayed Hamed (Lead Actor)
Thomas Goldenheim Milligan (Supporting)
Irasj Asanti (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Shahrukh Kavousi
Screenwriters: Shahrukh Kavousi
Producers: Alan Milligan
Cinematographers: Øystein Mamen
Editors: Shahrukh Kavousi

The Long Night

dir. by Emma Eisner, 2 minutes, USA

In a sequence of surrealistic images, this stop motion animation threads through the intervals and spaces of 'The Long Night.'

Cast

Emma Eisner (Voice)
Leo Jergovic (Voice)
Jane Wolker (Voice)
William Hughes (Voice)
Elizabeth Bachen (Voice)
Mark Douglas (Voice)
Zdenek Penaz (Voice)

Credits

Directors: Emma Eisner
Screenwriters: Emma Eisner
Producers: Emma Eisner
Cinematographers: Emma Eisner
Product designers: Emma Eisner
Art directors: Emma Eisner
Editors: Emma Eisner

Screenings

CineYouth presented by Chicago International Film Festival 05/2014 (Rising Star Award)
Women's Independent Film Festival 05/2014 (Best of Girls Make Movies
Best Directing - Girls Make Movies
Best Screenplay - Girls Make Movies)
Aurora Picture Show's Extremely Shorts Film Festival 06/2014
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 06/2014
Intendence Film Festival 06/2014 (Winner Best Art-Experimental Film)
Ballston Spa Film Festival 08/2014
Sidewalk Film Festival 08/2014
Columbia Gorge International Film Festival 08/2014 (Winner - Experimental Filmmaker)
Greenpoint Film Festival 09/2014 (Honorable Mention Experimental Shorts)
Williamsburg International Film Festival 09/2014
Utopia Film Festival 10/2014
Zebra Poetry Film Festival 10/2014
Louisville International Film Festival 10/2014
Chicago International Film Festival 10/2014
SoCal Film Festival 10/2014
Underexposed Film Festival yc 11/2014
ITSA Film Festival 11/2014
NewFilmmakers New York Film Festival 11/2014
Citizen Jane Film Festival 11/2014

The Lotus Gun

dir. by Amanda Milius, 26 minutes, USA

The year is 2077, in a post government world, where there are no laws or weapons, Nora and her best friend and lover, Daph, live an idyllic life in a sparse and rugged landscape. After a stranger arrives on their land Daph's curiosity takes her away to a violent and misogynistic psychedelic drug cult. Nora doesn't just want Daph back, she also wants revenge.

Cast

Lauren Avery (Lead Actor)
Dasha Nekrassova (Lead Actor)
Austin Mackinnon (Lead Actor)
John Winscher (Lead Actor)
Spencer Morrisey (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Amanda Milius
Screenwriters: Amanda Milius, Jonathan Eisenman
Producers: Julio Vincent Gambuto, Faisal Attrache
Cinematographers: Sean Bagley
Product designers: Marcello Dolce
Art directors: Katie Pyne
Editors: Luke Pennington, Sean Jarrett
Sound editors: Jonathan Maurer, Brian Bibbo

Tuk (Tukuhnikivatz)

dir. by Maida Withers, 19 minutes, USA

TUK is a stunning fusion of dance and the environment filmed in the spectacular wilderness lands of the Four Corners Area of the U. S. Southwest. TUK is an extraordinary journey of eight souls across the majestic landscapes primarily in Utah - five dancers, two filmmakers, and one photographer reveal their uplifting and challenging experience in this inspiring film by Maida Withers. The landscape photography is by world-class photographer Bruce Hucko. The breathtaking original music is by composer for film, Brent Michael Davids performed by his Blue Butterfly Group. The wide screen provides for the inclusion of two screens supporting each other with two enchanting perspectives - an unforgettable film experience.

Cast

Willl Moreau Goins (Lead Actor)
Crissy Lamb (Lead Actor)
Tim Harling (Lead Actor)
Emily Ogala (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: Maida Withers
Producers: Maida Withers
Exec producers: Maida Withers
Editors: Ludovic Jolivet
Composers: Brent Michael Davids

Screenings

DANCE FILMS EVENT 10/2011

Waterfalls

dir. by Frank Perrin, 100 minutes, France

Abstract minimalist film on sea and skyline

Cast

Credits

Directors: Frank Perrin
Editors: francois leturcq

Y2o {Distillé}

dir. by Dominique T Skoltz, 12 minutes, Canada

y2o {distilled} is a short version of the integral project y2o. y2o_ is a huis-clos, a collision between a man and a woman. Each of the scenes pummels emotional nodes, which are made and unmade by daily abrasions, observing the crossed polarities from which relentless loves are composed.

Cast

Vanessa Pilon (Lead Actor)
Jacques Poulin-Denis (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: dominique t skoltz
Screenwriters: dominique t skoltz
Producers: dominique t skoltz
Cinematographers: dominique t skoltz
Editors: dominique t skoltz
Composers: Émilie Bernard, dominique t skoltz