The passion becomes a lifestyle. The Rockabillies from Tokyo dance every Sunday and dreams of their "way of life" become true. Rock on! (more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
A teenager wanders his neighborhood, drifting in and out of the lives of his friends and strangers. (more)
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)
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)
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)
Moving Painting #7 to reach coexistent point where abstract and figure are equally fused. (more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Light, color, and correlated sound. A program for the human nervous system. (more)
610 is examines the similarities between the process of slaughtering a goat and Wars and Genocides. (more)
… _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)
| Rank | Festival Name | Attendance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seoul Int'l Cartoon Animation Festival | 41,000 |
| 2 | LAlternativa Independent Film Festival | 32,000 |
| 3 | Prix Ars Electronica | 31,500 |
| 4 | Future Film Festival | 30,000 |
| 4 | Transmediale | 30,000 |
| 6 | Images Festival | 22,000 |
| 7 | Big Muddy Film Festival | 15,000 |
| 7 | SKENA UP Int'l Students Film | 15,000 |
| 7 | Videobrasil | 15,000 |
| 10 | Antimatter Film Festival | 12,000 |
| Rank | Festival Name | Pro. Att |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prix Ars Electronica | 533 |
| 2 | Future Film Festival | 250 |
| 2 | Transmediale | 250 |
| 4 | Seoul Int'l Cartoon Animation Festival | 200 |
| 5 | Stuttgart Filmwinter | 100 |
| 5 | Videobrasil | 100 |
| 7 | Pictoplasma Animation Festival | 80 |
| 8 | LAlternativa Independent Film Festival | 70 |
| 9 | Up and Coming Int'l Film Festival | 65 |
| 10 | SKENA UP Int'l Students Film | 50 |
| Rank | Festival Name | Established |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AsoloInternationalArtFilmFestival | 1973 |
| 2 | Big Muddy Film Festival | 1979 |
| 3 | Black Maria Film Video Festival | 1981 |
| 4 | Videobrasil | 1983 |
| 5 | MIX NYC Lesbian & Gay Experimental | 1987 |
| 5 | Prix Ars Electronica | 1987 |
| 5 | Stuttgart Filmwinter | 1987 |
| 5 | Transmediale | 1987 |
| 9 | Images Festival | 1988 |
| 9 | IMPAKT Festival for Audiovisual Arts | 1988 |