Dots 1 & 2

The Man Who Ate an Apple(ja)

An apple comes out of a man’s mouth. The man’s life goes backward, as video player is reversed. Many kinds of food accelerated to come out of his mouth and the man becomes younger and younger. Time goes back without end.

Tobacco(ja)

Tobacco has. . . fascinated people for centuries and does not allow them to stop smoking even when they want to. Even though you want to finish with smoking, the spirits of tobacco are just behind you. Let’s enjoy a trip to the world of tobacco.

Deep Awakening(ja)

He’ has kept moving forward through his life. Nothing else bothered him. But, one day by chance he realized that he has definitely grown old. And eventually he makes a complete stop.

People who are Eating(ja)

People can show some other personality when eating. Some become like herbivores, chewing so many times. Some becomes like carp, crowing around bait. Some become like hamsters, with their mouths full, etc. Everyone is unique and worth observation.

Look at Me!(ja)

A high school girl goes to an amusement park in the afternoon. . . and loses her bear key-holder when she changed key-holders. Believing himself to have been abandoned, the bear tries to follow her. Can he really gain her love?

I am alone, walking on the straight road(ja)

I tried to symbolize the emotion of loneliness with the motif of the poet, Taneda Santoka, who has broken the haiku form. Cutout method depicts subtle face expressions of the man who is slightly drunk in the mountain.

Ukiyodoko(ja)

The film is based on Ukiyodoko, a rakugo storytelling piece. Hanzo, the hero, brags to his friends to make a party go. Human nature remains unchanged. . . We love meaningless converstaions among boon companions. Different communication methods are visually tangled in. . . Edo and today. The theme is an ‘interchange between the transient and the immutable.

Sunset Flower Blooming(ja)

The film is set in China in the 1960s. An old woman cools herself in the garden. The sunset makes the sky orange. Sunset flower starts to bloom. The flower guides her to daydream. The woman dreams of her childhood memories and when she was young and beautiful.

Spirits from the Night(ja)

At night, the child sees the sandy figure coming into his room. It lures his stuffed animal away from the shelf and they are gone beyond the hill. Following them to get his stuffed animal back, the child goes into the deep darkness of the night. . .

Hide-and-seek(ja)

We covered the area surrounded by [sea] and mountains. Since that day, this town has been in complete darkness. Lights, roads home, a mother and a baby in her womb are hidden in this darkness. This animation depicts the truth hiding behind the facts.

QQQ(ja)

Story of Qs. Three Qs and more make QQQ. QQQ spin and roll. And QQQ transform themselves, spinning. QQQ transform, spinning, rolling, swinging, turning, and traveling.

The surface of the earth(ja)

Earth is the place and the established existence. Earth is also a ball of dust, and a capricious object. At the avalanche of time-layer, falling deep down into the ground, you can see the fallacious landscape far from reality. The body recognizes the reality of the world by touching the landscape to regain the reality. It is an adventure between the real and the unreal.

The Sakuramoto broom workshop(ja)

An old couple live in a Japanese village. They make brooms for a living. They have been together. . . and worked together for a long time. Recently, the husband has noticed his wife has had some symptoms of the disease which has caused some obstacles in their work.

xx(ja)

Red ribbon of a double helix is the bond to connect the girls; the transmitted touch of. . . soft hands, and the gentle memories only girls can inherit. Those dreamy moments abruptly end and the bodies transform regardless of their intentions. The ‘xx’ gives and takes. It is an inescapable thread of fate. This is a girl’s animation to warn the end of girlfriend to warn the end of girlhood. . .

Tomato confit(ja)

There once lived two brothers in a town. The elder lived alone. The younger lived with his parents. They did not get along well... They called each other occasionally. The elder one was impatient and emotional and did nothing but work... One day the elder brother’s face turned into a tomato...

A Wind Egg(ja)

The film is about a family, that runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs. The mother loves somebody else. In the family fixture, each member stays there with bias or secrets.

The Chair(en)

A woman encounters a chair with strange properties, but can't decide if the experience is exciting or annoying.

Follow the Sun!(en)

While we have a few minutes before the show, stop by our refreshment stand! We have all kinds of tasty treats! Popcorn for all eternity! Hell's on it's way!

Scripta volant(ja)

I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a great artist, who had translated The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde at his early childhood, became one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and continued to publish the works by dictation even after losing his eyesight.

Promises(ja)

It was a season when the tree leaves turn red. There was a woman crying in front of the child’s [body]. She takes the shadow off. . . her dead son. Just to stay with him she runs with the shadow in her arms through the town at night. Then she makes a promise. . .

Unrolling Event(en)

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

Six Reasons Why(en)

In a desolate place called the Badlands, four men stand off with guns drawn, their fingers ready at the trigger. Among them are a fugitive seeking redemption, a son out to avenge his father's murder, a loyal servant with a secret and a murderous criminal hired to kill with a vengeance. This is their story...in a place where revenge, deception and cruelty are a way of life.

The Return(en)

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters become worse when the cattle mutilations are joined by human murders and mutilations.

Test(en)

Kurt Longson tries to avenge his daughters death. To succeed he has to battle with his conscience and morality to realize true love.

Summer Is Gone ...(ru)

This is a last day before starting a first grade so seven year old Tyoma has a lot of important things to do.

No Escape, No Return(en)

Two cops go undercover to infiltrate a violent drug ring, and are in for a shock when they find out who's running it.

ZombieWestern: It Came from the West(en)

Virgil lives alone with his bully father and a mute bartender and he is being mocked by the two tough cowboys Eddie and Hank. Because of The Dark Butcher who has been terrorizing the local Indian tribe, the Indians see no other way, than bringing the dead to live by performing The Forbidden Rituals. When the Zombies suddenly attack the saloon, action begins and true characters are brought to daylight. And who is The Dark Butcher?

Eight Images from the Life of Nastya Sokolova(ru)

Russia has a surfeit of overqualified graduates. Nastya Sokolova is one of them. Her career, if you can call it that, gave her a plethora of unexpected work experiences: from desk slave in banking to head bookkeeper of an illegal brothel. The film’s eight tableaus detail the various workplaces, colleagues and situations. To finish it off: deadpan commentary.

Come cinema(en)

A film by Ellis Donda.

Saur Sepuh IV: The Blue Blood Offspring(id)

Brama Kumbara (Denny Porlen) is preparing for eternity through an ascetic cleansing. Meanwhile, the Madangkara Kingdom has been handed over to his daughter, Wanapati (Agus Kuncoro). The people of Kuntala, who have greeted this news with delight, prepare to take revenge on Madangkara, where the ambitions of the young merchants and the instigation of riots are splitting the kingdom apart. The forces still faithful to Brama come to ask him for advice.

Road of No Return(en)

Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.

Test(en)

A seemingly unremarkable man spends a day taking a bizarre test at a mysterious facility. Through his day he interacts with the odd, detached employees of the facility, guiding him from section to section, obscuring the intentions or duration of the test.

The Invisible Man's Revenge(en)

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.

Film(en)

"This piece, with the generic title Film, is a series of short videos built around one protocol: a snippet of news from a newspaper of the day, is rolled up and then placed on a black-inked surface. On making contact with the liquid, the roll opens and of Its own accord frees itself of the gesture that fashioned it. As it comes alive in this way, the sliver of paper reveals Its hitherto unexposed content; this unpredictable kinematics is evidence of the constant impermanence of news. As well as exploring a certain archaeology of cinema, the mechanism references the passage of time: the ink, whether it is poured or printed, is the ink of ongoing human history." –Ismaïl Bahri

Rebu - A Egolombra de uma Sapatão Quase Arrependida(pt)

A first-person documentary which aims to investigate, within the director's dyke experience, the most diverse performances of masculinity, taking into account her last three relationships and also interviews with her father.

Merry Kitschmas(el)

On the brink of the new Millennium, on Christmas Eve, a young couple invites Santa Claus over for dinner. What are the couple's intentions?

The Vigilantes Return(en)

Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden.

Presente(pt)