2010

Astronomer’s Sun

Simon Cartwright & Jessica Cope | 6 mins | United Kingdom A young man, accompanied by his mysterious mechanical bear, visits an abandoned observatory to confront memories of his past and follow his Father on a journey into the unknown. […]

Breaking the Chain

Fiction, Short

Stuart Weinstock | 14 mins | USA In 1939, the Manhattan Project began with an experiment and a meeting at Columbia University. Hungarian-born physicist, Leo Szilard, has advanced beyond the recent splitting of the atom — which was believed to […]

Breu

Fiction, Short

Jerónimo Rocha | 15 mins | Portugal BREU is a visual journey into the aspects of fear – an ancient and usefull characteristic of our self preservation that can easly become an unforgiving handicap. This dark(ish) tale exploits its dangers […]

Capucine

Documentary, Feature

Luis Nieto | 42 mins | France/Japan A journey to Japan to meet Capucine, a Capuchin monkey particularly gifted, who is learning cinematographic language with the primatologist Hirokazu Shibuya. SCREENING SCHEDULE 7:00PM Fri, Oct 22, 2010 Tribeca Cinema PRODUCTION CREDITS […]

Cold and Dry

Fiction, Short

Kristoffer Joner & Bjorn Arne Odden | 12 mins | Norway At the National Institute of Preservation, all problems in the world are resolved. Swiftly, and with little pain involved. SCREENING SCHEDULE 7:00PM Friday, Oct 15, 2010 IndieScreen PRODUCTION CREDITS […]

Creation

Feature, Fiction

Jon Amiel | 108 mins | USA Darwin is a handsome man in his early forties who lives a quiet life in an idyllic English village. He is a brilliant and deeply emotional man, devoted to his wife and children, […]

Darkened Horizons

Animation, Fiction

Karen Aqua & Ken Field | 4 mins | USA This animated film reflects on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its environmental impact. The film was created by 6th-8th grade students at Sidney Gutierrez […]

An Eyeful of Sound

Animation, Documentary, Short

Samantha Moore | 4 mins | United Kingdom ‘I don’t know if you’ve ever heard a goat eating carrots? It’s almost too much, it’s so lovely’ An Eyeful of Sound conjures up the fascinating visually complex internal world of audio-visual […]

Feel What They Feel

Fiction, Short

Chin Tangsakulsathaporn | 4 mins | Thailand Humans have invented many useful artifacts to support life. Some of them are not only harming other creatures but impairing this planet. SCREENING SCHEDULE 7:00 PM Mon, Oct 18, 2010 The […]

Fighting Infection By Clonal Selection

Animation, Documentary, Short

Etsuko Uno and Drew Berry | 4 mins | Australia An animation about the human immune system created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a revolutionary theory by Nobel Laureate, Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, illustrating how the body fights infection. […]

Fried Egg Jelly

Animation, Fiction, Short

Sophia Tintori | 4 mins | USA CreatureCast.org brings you stories about animals, from some of the people who study them. In this episode, Trisha Towanda narrates the coming of age story of the crabs that live on top of […]

Green Porno

Fiction, Short

Isabella Rosselini | 10 mins | USA The series features Rossellini on both land and sea as she acts out the reproductive habits of marine animals and insects, both scientifically accurate yet extremely entertaining. SCREENING SCHEDULE 7:00 PM […]

The Gynaecologist

Fiction, Short

Alfonso Camerero | 10 mins | Spain A gynecologist is working in her office at the hospital as everyday. But the next patient…. is a boy! SCREENING SCHEDULE 7:00 PM Sat, Oct 16, 2010 IndieScreen (link to tickets […]

Higgs

Documentary, Feature

Hannie van den Bergh & Jan van den Berg | 54 mins | Holland Higgs takes us inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on a quest for the Higgs particle. Sometimes called “The God Particle,” this is the missing link […]

The Inventor

Animation, Fiction, Short

Jean-François Martin | 4 mins | France A modest and quiet inventor’s retirement is disturbed when an important gentleman seeks to profit from his Gyro Gearloose talents to become a billionaire. SCREENING SCHEDULE 2:00 PM Sun, Oct 17, […]

James

Animation, Fiction, Short

Denis Van Waerebeke| 6 mins | France In a simplistic and playful animated fashion, James retraces the course of a medicine and goes inside the world of the prescription drug. SCREENING SCHEDULE 7:00PM Monday, Oct 18, 2010 Bell House PRODUCTION […]

Long Journey of a Fish

Animation, Fiction, Short

Christoffer Dreyer | 6 mins | Denmark We live today in a globalized world, and although we are aware of where a product is from, we don’t know where it has been. Due to the low cost of shipping it […]

The Machine Stops

Fiction, Short

Nathan Freise | 10 mins | USA Based on the English author E.M. Forster’s short-story of the same title, The Machine Stops is a science-fiction drama that follows two inhabitants of an underground technological dystopia, deemed simply as “the Machine.” […]

Marius Borodine

Fiction, Short

Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais| 16 mins | Canada Genius Marius Borodine’s spectacular new invention that can transform any and all objects into drinkable water, bewilders the public, scientific communities, and the family of the misunderstood creator, especially after he takes one step […]

Meet the Elements

Music Video, Short

Feel Good Anyway| 4 mins | USA This animated, upbeat ode to the periodic table of elements and how they form our world, appears on the new They Might Be Giants kids’ album “Here Comes Science.” PREMIERE STATUS NY Premiere […]

Mind Over Matter

Music Video, Short

Alexis Gambis | 4 mins | USA A music video for Mind Over Matter, part of the new album Theory of my Mind of the neuroscience rock band The Amygdaloids. A scientist working on memory in the amygdala of the […]

Mutations-selection: the bacteria resist

Animation, Fiction, Short

Yannick Mahe| 4 mins | France A young medical assistant is giving a nice presentation about the principles of evolution. The genetic information of each living being is subject to modifications. Mutations can lead to bacterial resistance towards antibiotics. SCREENING […]

Nanosporin Al

Animation, Fiction, Short

Stephen Hal Fishman| 5 mins | USA After arriving at his remote research station, a scientist performs experiments with the Nanosporin AI serum, first on grapes, then on himself. A tiny, bespectacled, beret-wearing micro-organism begins ‘painting’ his host (the scientist) […]

Off-line

Animation, Fiction, Short

Tom Gasek | 9 mins | USA Off-Line is a short stop-motion animated film that I created and produced over four years. It tells about my relationship to work and how I understand it. The film is focused on a […]

Origin of Mass

Animation, Fiction, Short

Aleksandar Rodic | 2 mins | USA This experimental video was created as a final project for my procedural animation class at Savannah College of Art and Design. scad.edu It was inspired by demoscene and sub-atomic particle collision images. The […]

Pathos

Sci-Fi, Short

Dennis Cabella, Marcello Ercole, Fabio Prati | 10 mins | Italy In a indeterminate future, huge plains of waste cover every corner of the Planet. Global warming makes the surface uninhabitable and hostile. The Earth is dead. But Mankind gave […]

Plastic Bag

Documentary, Short

Ramin Bahrani | 18 mins | USA In a not too distant future, a Plastic Bag goes on an epic journey in search of its lost Maker, wondering if there is any point to life without her. The Bag encounters […]

ProtoParticles

Fiction, Short

Chema Garcia Ibarra | 7 mins | Spain The experiment was almost a success: protomatter exists. PREMIERE STATUS NY Premiere SCREENING SCHEDULE 7:00 PM Sat, Oct 16, 2010 IndieScreen PRODUCTION CREDITS Direction, screenplay, edit and production | Chema […]

Seed

Fiction, Short

Hugo Perez | 10 mins | USA After a decade of famine and food riots, the Mendelian Corporation feeds (and controls) the world through its genetically modified seeds. Twelve-year old Juan is a member of the Sprouts –the Mendelian corporate […]

Signal

Fiction, Short

Chris Farrington | 18mins | USA Against the backdrop of 19th-century wireless telegraph experimentation, a scientist must survive a confrontation with a distraught local who claims the mysterious technology keeps him from contacting his recently departed wife. SCREENING SCHEDULE 7:00PM […]

Silver Sling

Fiction, Short, Uncategorized

Tze Chun | 11 mins | USA In the polarized economy of the near future, corporations offer financial incentives to their high-ranking female employees to pay for chemically accelerated surrogate births. The surrogates, for the most part, are people on […]

Skhizein

Animation, Fiction, Short

Jeremy Clapin | 13 mins | France Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91cms from himself… If he wants to open a door, sit on a chair, or pick up the phone, from […]

Smart Machine

Animation, Fiction, Short

Jane Sablow | 4 mins | USA The short, CGI animation, Smart Machine, captures a little boy’s unusual encounter with a vending machine during a family vacation. The child discovers that the machine can talk and it has a very […]

Stereopsis

Fiction, Short

Joseph Singer | 10 mins | USA Three-year-old Jake is kidnapped by his grandparents and great aunt, who don’t believe that he is safe in his father’s care. Five years pass and Jake, more mature now, wants to know why […]

Tagged

Fiction, Short

Shawney Cohen & Mike Gallay | 28 mins | Canada Tagged introduces us to the raging debate over the ubiquitous Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip, touted as a tool with invaluable medical applications by its supporters and denounced as the […]

The Truth Behind Green Fuel

Animation, Fiction, Short

Julie Bezerra Madsen | 5 mins | Denmark A young girl gets sucked into the fueltank and discovers the truth behind the green fuel. Her good conscience is put to a test as a fantasyworld shows her what the consequence […]

Velvet Cell

Animation, Music Video

Thomas Hicks | 3 mins | USA From the collection Curious Brain. The Velvet Cell” itself turns Gravenhurst’s usual murder ballads into a murder mystery: over spiky electric guitars and a Krautrock-inspired motorik beat, Talbot sings, “To understand the killer/I […]

Zerebrale Dichotomie

Animation, Fiction, Short

Andreas Atteneder | 2 mins | Germany Most people have found themselves in situations where they have got to choose between two things. But sometimes that seems quite hard, as if two mysterious inner voices fight against each other. Our […]