Faire un effort

Sabina has travelled from Romania to Holmsund in northern Sweden to find a job with her brothers. Elin has just finished school and is enjoying the first day of the summer holidays. That evening they meet, and it's a meeting that lasts forever.

Experimental short film about various Christmas objects and lights.

Omnibus film with 11 short films directed by students of the HfG Ulm

Omnibus film with 13 short films by students of the HfG Ulm

The portrait of a young bakery worker in Swabia. A vague desire for something else lurks between her sentences and the images of her everyday life.

A report on the Film Academy in Ulm, Germany

In Japan, a group of teenagers addicted to video games devote their hours and money to a passion that destroys them.

Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an offer which bears unexpected consequences.

Coffee Break

MUTE is an animated short about a world populated by people born without mouths.

The film’s visual structure is principally composed of variations on the arabesque: arcs of light, water spouts, spider webs, burgeoning trees, flowers and foliage, a woman’s smile, arms stretching, an arm giving rhythm to a rocking chair. It uses natural elements (light, mirrors, water, and wind) and photographic techniques (multiple exposures and lenses) to distort the various elements, or to intensify their design.

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaers.

A short film about a small town where the past and the present are difficult to tell apart.

Pies y corazones

A kid and his teacher learn an important lesson: a grammatical mistake can create big trouble, but even a correction done the wrong way can cause senseless fears.

A single mother struggles with the day-to-day challenges of raising her daughter, holding down a job, and grieving her husband’s death.

Following a series of title cards, a man in sunglasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy. Owen Land states that this film was not made by George Landow, and believes it should be credited to John Cavanaugh. "George Maciunas had a number of films which didn’t have titles on them. Then he put them together into his Fluxus reel and tried to remember who made them. It was an intentional Fluxus joke." (Owen Land, interview with Mark Webber, 2004)

Numerals on clear film from 1 to 1000."

A documentary about the Parisian night club “Bus Palladium”. This film was theatrically released as a complement for Godard's Masculin, féminin.

"Beydler's magical Hand Held Day is his most unabashedly beautiful film, but it's no less complex than his other works. The filming approach is simple, yet incredibly rich with possibilities, as Beydler collapses the time and space of a full day in the Arizona desert via time-lapse photography and a carefully hand-held mirror reflecting the view behind his camera. Over the course of two Kodachrome camera rolls, we simultaneously witness eastward and westward views of the surrounding landscape as the skies, shadows, colors, and light change dramatically. Beydler's hand, holding the mirror carefully in front of the camera, quivers and vibrates, suggesting the relatively miniscule scale of humanity in the face of a monumental landscape and its dramatic transformations." -Mark Toscano. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.