EMPATHY (a digital love letter)(2017)

Tide(zh)

I spent a day inside a small abandoned military fort by the sea. With the tide went up and down, I appeared and disappeared into the water.

Romeo e Giulietta(en)

The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

FFG: un retrato(es)

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.

The Colonel Comes to Japan(en)

It seems highly unlikely that Colonel Sanders ever thought that he would be selling his Kentucky Fried Chicken to the Japanese, but Kentucky Fried Chicken, Japan, Inc. is doing just that, and doing it successfully. The company, headed by an American director and staffed by the Japanese, has raised the business of fast-food retailing to an art. Here West meets East as the Japanese are shown how to prepare the product and the Americans are introduced to the fine art of Japanese business. –cte.uw.edu

Waiting Tables(en)

Interviews with people whom Gloria Steinem calls "pink collar" workers--those who wait tables.

Bread(en)

Presented without voiceover, various kinds of breads are displayed and broken in a joyous celebration of starch, seed and salt.

Obit(en)

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.

Neiwa(es)

Goyito campeón(es)

Guachimontones, los límites del hombre y la naturaleza.(es)

Maria Maculada(pt)

Maria tells her stories and, on the chords of experience, make us listen to her like a song. Maria, how many Marias. Her strenght is on the flaky skin that the existence insists on flaking. Macula, maculate, Maria.

Halloween Safety(en)

This 11-minute, color film is designed to acquaint primary through intermediate students with Halloween safety. The film presents a little girl who has an unsafe costume. In a flashback, the changes that can be made to make her Halloween safer are detailed. These include reflective tape, removing pointed objects, a clearer field of vision, and others. Suggestions also include waiting to sample treats until they have been checked, observing reasonable hours, traveling with groups, observing pedestrian rules, trick-or-treating at familiar homes only, checking treats for inbedded objects, and safe tricks. (archive.org)

The Haunted Mouth(en)

In a haunted house, the invisible spirit of plaque - which evidently has the ability to possess rocking chairs - warns children against the dangers of not brushing and flossing.

The Man Whose Mind Exploded(en)

In this "beautifully intimate and utterly unique piece of cinema", Toby Amies crosses the line between filmmaker and carer, trying to cope with the strange and hilarious world view of the fragile eccentric, Drako Zarharzar. A love story. Drako Oho Zaraharzar can remember modeling for Salvador Dali and hanging out with The Stones. But he can’t remember yesterday. Following a severe head injury, Drako Zaraharzar suffers from terrible memory loss, he can access memories from before his accident, but can’t imprint new ones. As he puts it, “the recording machine in my head doesn’t work”. Consequently, and as an antidote to depression he chose to live “completely in the now” according to the bizarre mottoes delivered to him whilst in a coma.

Bruxelles: à la Foire du Midi(fr)

The first film by Chantal Akerman, a short silent 8mm film shot during the Brussels summer Midi Fair, that was one of four short films she made as a short of entrance exam at INSAS were she studied for just a couple of months.

Natalia Nikolaevna(es)

Natalia Nikolaevna lives 400 km from Havana, in the city where the first nuclear power plant would be built in Cuba. He arrived 20 years ago from the USSR, to be reunited with her husband and work as an opera singer. In 1992, he began the great crisis, known as the Special Period. Natalia divorced, and rooted in the place gradually discovered him as the most hostile of spaces. Single mother without job opportunities, invented their own stage-a park-, their own -the spectators tourists- and their own livelihood: what gave him for his arias.

Very Few Fish(en)

A short film. In London, two separate couples go on dates with each other to try and fall in love.

Ivan Hellberg, Baggerführer in Kiruna(de)

Short documentary about an excavator operator in sweden

Neapel(de)

Short documentary about Naples, Italy.

Können Analphabeten lesen?(de)

The short film answers the question of whether illiterate people are able to read.