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  • Tokyo Rock 'n' Roll
    Tokyo Rock 'n' Roll
    1. A film by John Canciani
    2. run time 4 minutes 32 seconds

    The passion becomes a lifestyle. The Rockabillies from Tokyo dance every Sunday and dreams of their "way of life" become true. Rock on!  (more)

    POSTED APR 02 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • My Happy End
    My Happy End
    1. A film by Milen Vitanov
    2. run time 5 minutes 10 seconds

    All dogs chase their tails. A dog once succeeds in catching his own tail. That changes his life as he finds his best friend in it.  (more)

    POSTED MAR 26 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Stain On The Sidewalk
    The Stain On The Sidewalk
    1. A film by Adam Schlachter
    2. run time 5 minutes

    A high school freshman secretly longs for the girlfriend of the neighborhood bully. As he searches for the right words to declare his love for her, he discovers that actions speak much louder than words.  (more)

    POSTED MAR 18 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Late Fragment: An Interactive Film
    Late Fragment: An Interactive Film
    1. A film by Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron & Mateo Guez
    2. run time 168 minutes

    Late Fragment is an interactive film that addresses a new language for filmmaking in the 21st century, where viewers can impact the way the story unfolds by navigating the interlocking narratives of the film with a simple click of their remote. This interactive film is an important model of collaboration in leading-edge experimental dramatic content and format. Late Fragment’s multi-plot,...  (more)

    POSTED FEB 10 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Liza
    Liza
    1. A film by Patrick Jackson
    2. run time 5 minutes 15 seconds

    In the early 80s, director Patrick Jackson, while still a child, travelled to Libya with his family. There they recorded memories on super 8 footage, which was promptly stored away. In this experimental short documentary, Jackson revisits the footage to discover his mother: a young woman carefree and in the blush of youth. Suddenly, the footage is literally fast-forwarded to present day wintry...  (more)

    POSTED DEC 23 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Fall
    The Fall
    1. A film by Daniel Novel
    2. run time 3 minutes 8 seconds

    Confusion in the media, manipulation of the images, bad understandings; they are something usual in our TV viewer culture. This is an example of things aren't always as they seem. The suffering can be manipulate.  (more)

    POSTED SEP 15 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Kaizer
    Kaizer
    1. A film by Kotaro Tanaka
    2. run time 10 minutes 19 seconds

    Pictures watched in "kaizer panorama" don't have the notion of the beginning and the ending as they are represented in cycles. In the meantime once cinema starts, it must certainly end. Since it has the property changes eyes itself, space changes. In this movie, deformation doesn't mean drawing but is kept as the sign of the motion.  (more)

    POSTED MAR 07 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Walking Ink
    The Walking Ink
    1. A film by Thomas Barndt
    2. run time 8 minutes

    After ingesting a scientifically altered hot pepper, a man enters a surrealistic journey where he gains power over people, animals, and the laws of physics.  (more)

    POSTED FEB 01 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Drop
    The Drop (Boond)
    1. A film by Kavita Singh
    2. run time 6 minutes 28 seconds

    An entire life is encapsulated in a drop that forms to perish on to the earth and rejoin the water from which it originated. The film depicts the nostalgic memory of the person and shows death as a loss. It is a tribute to a friend who succumbed to lung cancer. Boond depicts nostalgia. It’s a journey through the memories of a person which are still fresh when she is long gone. Death is a huge...  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Last Monk
    The Last Monk
    1. A film by Sudipto Sen
    2. run time 105 minutes

    The Last Monk is a coeval journey of a woman with time to attain the cosmic strength – the strength that created this universe million years back. In The Last Monk, antithetic Male-female relationship and the concept of sexuality beyond physicality conflated in the pristine landscape of Ladakh in the Indo-Tibetan plateau and the mysticism of Buddhist practices.  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Solace
    Solace
    1. A film by Jared Katsiane
    2. run time 11 minutes 10 seconds

    A teenager wanders his neighborhood, drifting in and out of the lives of his friends and strangers.  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Possession
    Possession (Badha)
    1. A film by Sumitra Bhave, Sunil Sukthankar
    2. run time 90 minutes

    Badha (The Possession) A battle between fear and faith. A shepherd village on the barren land that witnesses this battle with detached eyes. An only son in the family disappears. A desperate grandmother who needs a boy in the family to attain salvation after death.The younger daughter in law of the family who cannot share the fear and pain that she is facing at the hands of her husband who...  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Mississippi
    Mississippi
    1. A film by Arash T. Riahi
    2. run time 6 minutes

    Nature is not what differentiates between chaos and structure, the observer does through his or her choice of point of view and representational technique. In the tradition of avant-garde film subduing chaos through abstraction, translating it into structured form, has produced as many varieties as the dissolution of easily comprehensible forms and structures in chaos. While on one hand...  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Perfect Square
    Perfect Square
    1. A film by Catherine Clover
    2. run time 10 minutes 25 seconds

    This piece explores the nature of patterning through image and sound. The imaging comprises sections of a scan of an insect's wing. The structure employed for the transformation of the images is an interpretation of the mathematical formula perfect squares. They are 1x1=1, 2x2=4 etc. This piece is constructed using 64 images. Juxtaposed with the mathematical construction of the images, the sound...  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Latent Sorrow
    Latent Sorrow
    1. A film by Shon Kim
    2. run time 3 minutes 30 seconds

    Moving Painting #7 to reach coexistent point where abstract and figure are equally fused.  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Fiddler's Green
    Fiddler's Green
    1. A film by Jean-Claude Campell, Marco Bowald
    2. run time 2 minutes 51 seconds

    Halfway down the trail to Hell, In a shady meadow green, Are the Souls of all dead troopers camped, Near a good old-time canteen, And this eternal resting place, Is known as Fiddler's Green.  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Dreamlines
    Dreamlines
    1. A film by Leonardo Solaas

    Dreamlines is a non-linear, interactive visual experience. The user enters one or more words that define the subject of a dream he would like to dream. The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association. The system...  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Dark Room
    Dark Room
    1. A film by Bart Wasem
    2. run time 3 minutes 3 seconds

    Dark room tells the story of a man and a woman who are waiting for a desired but already lost moment in their love. The situation of the couple is reflected in the alienated images of the room. The loss of perspective causes disorientation and obstructs the way out of their inner dark rooms.  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Clean
    Clean
    1. A film by Geoffrey Engelbrecht
    2. run time 1 minutes 34 seconds

    Things are never the way they appear. A man sits in a bath tub depressed. He is contemplating the end of a relationship. But which relationship? All is revealed in under two minutes.  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • All
    All
    1. A film by Arturo Menchaca
    2. run time 3 minutes

    Light, color, and correlated sound. A program for the human nervous system.  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • 610
    610
    1. A film by Mugisha Donald
    2. run time 50 minutes

    610 is examines the similarities between the process of slaughtering a goat and Wars and Genocides.  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • _grau
    _grau
    1. A film by Robert Seidel
    2. run time 10 minutes 1 seconds

    … _grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally. Various real sources were distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds… www.grau1001.de  (more)

    POSTED SEP 08 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit

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  1. 04/30/08THE 2008 IMAGES FESTIVAL AWARDS
  2. 04/28/08Award Winners Announced for 2008 COURTisane
  3. 03/10/082008 BIG MUDDY FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED!!!
  4. 02/06/08Transmediale Awards 2008
  5. 02/06/082008 Winners for the Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media
  6. 02/05/08The Lancia Platinum Grand Prize Winner for the 2008 Future Film Festival
  7. 01/09/08Awards of the 2007 IFF Ofensiva!
  8. 12/12/07Der 'Deutsche Nachwuchsfilmpreis 2007' geht an- Duetsche
  9. 12/11/07Award Winners Announced for the 2007 L'Alternativa Independent Film Festival
  10. 12/11/07Award Winners for the 2007 SKENA UP International Students Film and Theatre Festival
  11. 12/10/07AURORA Awards 2007
  12. 12/10/07Award Winners for the 2007 Virtuality Conference- WORLD WIDE SHORT COMPETITION USING 3D ANIMATION AND VFX
  13. 11/27/072007 Award WInners for the 25F PS Festival
  14. 11/06/07Awards for the 2007 backup festival in new media
  15. 11/02/07Award WInners Announced for Lausanne Underground Film Festival
  16. 10/17/07Award WInners for the 2007 AsoloInternationalArtFilmFestival
  17. 10/12/07Award Winners for the 2007 fLEXiff Experimental Festival
  18. 10/11/07Awards for the 2007 International New Film Festival Split
  19. 10/08/07Awarded Films of the 8th Seoul International Film Festival - SeNef 2007
  20. 08/20/07Award WInners for Avanca 2007
  21. 08/20/07Awards for the 2007 Imaginaria - Independent Film Festival
  22. 08/15/07Entries are now being accepted for the seventh annual TAOS MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL
  23. 06/11/07Award Winners for COURTisane 2007
  24. 04/16/07Awards for the 2007 Images Festival
  25. 04/11/07Award Winners for Transmediale 2007
  26. 04/10/07Award Winners for the 2007 Big Muddy Film Festival
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  28. 12/05/06Announcing New Talent Commission Competition Bloom