Allison Schulnik
Mound
04:23 min
USA

Film by Allison Schulnik
Cinematography by Helder K. Sun.
"It's Raining Today" written by Noel Scott Engel

Blind shows a group of blind football players during a game. Filmed at night, this exploration around issues of vision and blindness shows the players and the field in close up and in great detail. 

Brian Smee
Big Surf
07:37 min
USA

San Francisquito Cyn, March 12th, 1928: The sound a horse makes as it's drowning. Minutes before midnight, the St. Francis Dam fails. It takes five and a half hours for the dam water to wash out to sea, taking with it hundreds of souls. 

Camelia Mirescu
In Corpore Fulget
04:14 min
Italy

The Light, a first aspect of the informal world, its symbolic sense is born from the contemplation of nature and is the starting point of comparison. The Water, source of life, a means of purification, regeneration center, origin and vehicle for all forms of life. Sedimentation of a rich reading of universal meanings, elaborated in an abstract travel telling "my own visual plasticity of a sensation", perhaps, an individual path to bring the unconscious to the Light, the Latin IN CORPORE FULGET, indeed.*

Carolina Hindsjö
The Summer
03:46 min
Sweden

I wanted to make a film with no dialogue. The scenes are dreamy. Instead of having every scene animated, I also have put in stills. When the film has ended you are able to see the cast list. 
The film is based on a true story, but sometimes you have to show the feelings in another way than in a standard way. Stalking, Love, Madness and Revenge.

Colby Richardson
Convolve
03:20 min
Canada

Shot on Super 8 using all in-camera edits, Convolve transforms pages from Greg Bright’s Fontana Mazes into a convoluted passage, using prisms, water refractions and warped chrome to obscure the already obscured path of The Maze. The score for this film is created by taking an analog-video feed of the film, and using the video output of the camera as an audio input. The black and white lines of the mazes sculpt the tone and structure of the audio in real-time, resulting in a jarring, alien soundscape.

Cuidacoches is a song by Tall Juan dedicated to all those people who live in the street. Made with acrylics, pastels and pencil on paper.

Florentine Greiler
Sommeil paradoxal
01:53 min
France

Dreaming... on film.

Jim Trainor
Harmony
12:00 min
USA

A male God bestows upon animals the gift of self-awareness, which they promptly use to express guilt for their behavior.  This moral breakthrough is somewhat undermined by the appearance of humans, whose invention of magical belief systems degrades the whole of Nature. 

Joanna Rytel
Flasher Girl on Tour
13:48 min
Sweden

Flasher Girl On Tour, is about a female flasher out on a flasher tour. Is it possible to flash oneself as a woman and not be an object? Is it possible to be sexual in public space on one’s own terms. Is it a revenge film? No, not at all.

Regular Division is a looping spiral of meticulously layered scenes shot in a number of indoor gardens in Europe and Asia. The geographically disconnected locations merge to form a hybrid panorama of foliage under a canopy of gridded glass. The piece directly references histories of landscape painting via the layering of expressive paint marks lifted from famous paintings by artist such as Vincent van Gogh and Arthur Streeton. Regular Division is part of a series of works that were shot and digitally composed on location in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. This series, titled ‘Indirect Flights’, is a response to the impact of digital technologies on the representation of landscape.

2Rabbits makes a visit to the human civilization. The landscape is surreal and magical, with its trail of ruthless exploitation and destruction.They are open to what they see, and without condemning it seems as if they knew the complexity of life.

My Lindh
Nordic Panoramas, Landscape No.1
05:41 min
Sweden

Nordic Panoramas, Landscape No.1 is the first in a series of video works that all process the image of the Nordic landscape. The vast perspective reveals a broken topography of mountains and fields, a stereotypical representation of Icelandic nature. The sedate depiction puts the landscape in a subtle yet brutal motion and contributes to an intellectual uncertainty where only the small lateral displacements reveals that it is actually a moving picture and not the viewer’s gaze that is confused.

Phil Hastings
Fragmentum 23(B)
02:10 min
USA

Fragmentum 23(B) is part of a series of short experimental video works. They are meditations on thoughts unresolved, dreams not quite remembered and desires or fears at the edge of consciousness, their inter-connectivity fragile but growing. A partial sentence/thought added to the beginning of each piece establishes a brief narrative - a jumping off point, to trigger in the viewer a feeling or memory and an opportunity to participate in the creation and defining of the moment.

"We do not live in a white and neutral space ; we do not live, we do not die and we do not love inside the rectangle of a piece of paper. We live, we die and we love in a space which is divided up, cut up, coloured in, which has its light and dark zones, its different levels, its steps, its hollows, its bumps, its hard areas and other friable, penetrable and porous areas. There are the transit zones, the streets, the trains and the subways; there are the open zones of the temporary stop, the cafés, the cinemas, the beaches and the hotels, and then there are the closed zones of rest and home. Yet, there are other places which are absolutely different among all these places which differ from one another : places which are opposed to all the others and which are meant to erase them in a way, to neutralize and purify them. These are a kind of counter-space. 

Roland Quelven
La Chambre de Monsieur Tatischeff
05:41 min
France

"Je veux que le film commence quand vous quittez la salle". La chambre de Monsieur Tatischeff as a suite of independents loops, using an vintage industrial aesthetic, without any narrative continuity, oscillating between realism and surrealism, where speech is prohibited and reduced to onomatopoeia, where sound is an element of the decor.. as an independent character. Besides this "chambre/camera" refers also to silent movies, through repetitive scenes and Buster Keaton's presence. A tribute to Jacques Tatischeff, to his world and his references.

Rosa Menkman
Where are the newer media?
03:12 min
Germany

In 2014 Ted Davis invited me to give a talk in Basel, at the FHNW, in a series called 'The New and the Newer Media'. Although very happy with this invitation, I had a hard time wrapping my head around this topic: after studying media for 15 years, I have read as many definitions of media as I have read books...
But more importantly even, I am not sure what 'new' means!
Hito Steyerl gave a talk at MOCA in February this year, in a series on "what is contemporary?". So there is people who actually dare to ask similar questions, but to me its frightening.. 
By answering to Teds call, I would only present my own perspective on the state of the new(er) media rather than illustrate what the newer media are in actuality (they are not even one /thing/!)...
This video is a render of me navigating the beginning slide of my powerpoint in 3D, presented back then in Basel, where my CPU overheated and finally my computer died during the presentation (and everything went black…) (…)

Dramatic story of a man and a woman who had a short but torrid love affair. The affair had high consequences - the young woman was pregnant and dreamt to get married with the father of a future baby, but the man chose a not young but rich bride instead of her. To hide his relationship with the young woman he went in for a terrible act. Some ants became witnesses of that act. As time passes the ants stop being just witnesses and following their instincts and laws known only to them they rule the destinies of the characters and redress an injustice.

Shelley Lake
Polly Gone
03:02 min
USA

America has an inferiority complex. Once the technological world leader, we are losing our foothold in the global marketplace. As an artist and businesswoman who works with technology, I encounter many computer, naive people and with those on the defensive about their aversion to technology’s latest achievement. Though we recognise immense importance of the computer, we are frightened of its power and by our lack of understanding. By replacing our fears with love, we may better understand the computer, hence better understand ourselves.

Shen Jie
Monkey
05:09 min
China

One of the three monkeys died.

Siavash Naghshbandi
Daily life in the city
03:31 min
Iran

”Daily Life in The City” Life goes on in Tehran. Meanwhile, in this public pool, headless people continue to wander around free of any individuality.

Rydh/Sörenson
Tiny Mountains
07:56 min
Sweden

Tiny Mountains is a mockumentary comedy short. A narrator explains the different time periods the world has gone through. We touch down at each geologic period to see how the world differs from the past. We learn how living creatures like plants, furniture and horses coexist in the ecosystem. Finally, we make a deeper study of the person, an unusual creature with particular wants, needs and habits.

Ulu Braun
Die Herberge
14:45 min
Germany

In a place where a biblical landscape and western myths converge, there is a house, part biker hangout, part mountain farm. It welcomes all beings who traverse this inhospitable landscape. In „The Hostel“, past and future merge into one place, and deepest misery and recreation are not mutually exclusive. This is where our paths cross.

Zhong Su
Magnificent Obsession
25:55 min
China

It is one of the formulations of the political and social issues of our time: the relationship between the individual and community or society, and how the individual can live in the latter's reality. Zhong Su's artwork, set in contemporary China, portrays this as the tale of an individual's search for knowledge and transcendence by displaying the reality he faces in a kaleidoscope of three synoptic perspectives. It starts as a "landscape" of the present and the technical, social, socialist-capitalist reality as an underwater world. It continues in the "passions", talking of social desires, goals and dogmas, before "history" captures the community through the ages and contexts in further stunning images. Zhong Su closes this interpretation of reality with a fourth chapter entitled "adaptation": based formally on J.L. Borges' "Book of Sand", but also related to the life of the individual as they are explorating, adapting and reworking reality in their quest to transcend it. He finds his obsession not in archaic collections of writings but in the endless preciousness of Holy Writings he encounters. His obsessive search for an experience of himself in a reality transcending the given reality becomes a mystic immersion in which he encounters self-knowledge. And yet it doesn't take him outside of himself: despite his obsessive self-knowledge he cannot escape himself. An epic short film work of art.
-64 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Prize of the Ecumenical Jury