Do Útero Ao Túmulo
A 1919 Comedy short.
The animated adventures of "Tonka Tom" a gay plastic cowboy. Hitch-hiking, two-stepping at the local gay bar, and enjoying a campfire with a friend and his trusty dog.
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
Loki's Daughter is the story about Loki and how he brought dark magic to the humans to challenge gods and create chaos.
A boy accidentally lets loose his father's pigeons, and goes on a dramatic journey in order to retrieve them. After leaving for the war, they are one of the only things he has left of his father.
In French colonial Vietnam, a nervous young woman has to satisfy the brutal General’s taste for a traditional dish to save her family from capital punishment.
Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to create something beautiful despite the odds.
This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II.
An european artist writes about his experience in portraying life in Brazil during the colonial period. Aporteiro – concierge and security guard in one – watches the surveillance cameras in a residential building, while reflecting on his profession and the relationship with his employers. Between the exotic idyll of front yards and deterrent technology, his task is to establish security and normality. Brazil’s troubled past and complicated present come together in this highly charged film.
La Bataille du Long Sault ou Dollard-des-Ormeaux
13 Courts Mortels
In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Inspired by true events, a young Frederick Douglass is secretly taught to read and write by his master's wife. Using only the air as their blackboard, this random act of kindness provided an education that paved the way from slavery to freedom.
Shipments of silver are going astray after leaving the mine, and Tex and his pals investigate. With 3 songs.
In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.
'Cowboy' Troy is a mute child who lives with his alcoholic father in an isolated cabin. His Spaghetti Western fantasies come to life when he encounters Angel, an outlaw on the run from her psycho partner, Kane. Can Troy and Angel's unlikely partnership help them escape their tormentors?
In the household of a wealthy Romanian noblewoman in 1855, Maria, a Roma-Gipsy slave, fights to obtain freedom for her son Dinca. Part of a future full-length project, the short film presents a day in the household in which Maria and her son, Dinca, serve as slaves. As important guests arrive for dinner and all the slaves are making preparations, Maria and her son see this day as a chance to take a step to change their fate. During slavery time, up until 1856, the Romanian equivalent of the word "forgiveness" was used when referring to freeing someone from slavery (the Roma slave was "forgiven" from slavery).
This short tells the story of a mythical Norse warrior hero who in myth, gains an accursed hoard of gold.
"Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate appeal to rally the good people of Florence. Shot in the Villa la Pietra in Florence, in black and white video, and spoken in Italian, the film resembles a televised broadcast in the last days of Muammar Gaddafi. This short film sets the stage for Everson's upcoming feature, "Rhino" that will examine the parallel worlds of politics and performance in sixteenth century Italy and twentieth century Hollywood, through the personages of de Medici and the actress Gail Fisher (Mannix).