A girl sings a strange song and enters a dark tunnel. (more)
Was Yoko Ono “planted by a Japanese corporation to break up the Beatles”? Wasn’t an American one –– with the country’s hardware industry rapidly sinking, and the hopes for its cultural export rising –– more likely to profit? The year is 1999. Rock widow Y. surfs the web looking for shadows of her dead husband. Through encounters with Andrea, a young journalist with wild ideas... (more)
The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy dependent to the access on technology, progression or any resources of information, like philosophers like Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard already claimed? The film is an inventory of our surrounding reality and its goal is to initiate discussions on... (more)
As a member of Canada’s Painters 11, the late Jock MacDonald painted in both worlds: figurative and the abstract. Playtime pays homage to his dedication, spirit and wonderful subject matter – both real and imaginary. In Cinemascope. (more)
The spaces which Bosch presents don't have anything to do with reality, nor with human comprehension. He is one of the first masters of the history of art who introduces in his images a dreamlike component which exceeds the conscious reality. Fantasy, humor, criticism, the vast symbolic universe that is needed to look over and understand the poetic interpretation of his artistic narrative,... (more)
This film is a poem-video-tract. Overtext by Erich Fried, one soprano, one violon, one cello and one accordeon playing a piece of music by composer Bernard Cavanna. Like an echo, the city... "To look for the words Which mean something Where we look for Humans Who don’t speak anymore But to find again the words Which can mean something Where we look for Humans Who can’t speak anymore" (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 | Trencianske Teplice Int'l Art | 31,281 |
| 5 | Future Film Festival | 30,000 |
| 5 | Images Festival | 30,000 |
| 5 | Mediawave Int'l Film and Music | 30,000 |
| 5 | transmediale | 30,000 |
| 9 | Big Muddy Film Festival | 15,000 |
| 9 | SKENA UP Int'l Students Film | 15,000 |
| 9 | Videobrasil | 15,000 |
| 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 | Mediawave Int'l Film and Music | 100 |
| 5 | Stuttgart Filmwinter | 100 |
| 5 | Videobrasil | 100 |
| 8 | Pictoplasma Animation Festival | 80 |
| 9 | LAlternativa Independent Film Festival | 70 |
| 10 | Up and Coming Int'l Film Festival | 65 |
| Rank | Festival Name | # |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seoul Int'l Cartoon Animation Festival | 400 |
| 2 | LAlternativa Independent Film Festival | 370 |
| 3 | Fresh Film Fest | 300 |
| 3 | Onedotzero Digital Creativity Festival | 300 |
| 5 | Images Festival | 220 |
| 6 | Antimatter Film Festival | 200 |
| 6 | MIX NYC Lesbian & Gay Experimental | 200 |
| 6 | Stuttgart Filmwinter | 200 |
| 9 | Darklight Film Festival | 190 |
| 10 | Up and Coming Int'l Film Festival | 189 |
| Rank | Festival Name | Established |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AsoloInternationalArtFilmFestival | 1973 |
| 2 | Big Muddy Film Festival | 1979 |
| 3 | Black Maria Film Video Festival | 1981 |
| 4 | Videobrasil | 1983 |
| 5 | Images Festival | 1987 |
| 5 | MIX NYC Lesbian & Gay Experimental | 1987 |
| 5 | Prix Ars Electronica | 1987 |
| 5 | Stuttgart Filmwinter | 1987 |
| 5 | transmediale | 1987 |
| 10 | IMPAKT Festival for Audiovisual Arts | 1988 |