Sweet July

A blissed-out squirrel rolls through a meadow of objects.

Microscope time-lapse: sugar crystalizing out of solution. Appreciation of the crystallization process as a beautiful quantum phenomenon.

Happy Tree is a short film made for the 7th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival (themed around TIME) 48 Hour Competition and won first prize. The film features Mari in the lead role as Dr. Eleanor Drew and was directed by Jonathan Minard. The script was based on a scientific paper by neuroscientist

Austrian designer Stefan Sagmeister is doing well. He lives in New York, the city of his dreams, and he has success in his work, designing album covers for the Rolling Stones, Jay-Z and the Talking Heads. But in the back of his mind he suspects there must be something more. He decides to turn himsel

Space, forms, colours and sounds symbolise a recognisable world. New beginnings put an end to familiar patterns. Do we shape as much as we are shaped? My graduation film from the Royal College of Art. See how it was made here: vimeo.com/102655097 And have a listen to the music here: soundcloud.com/j

Sugar was the engine of the slave trade that brought millions of Africans to America. Glucose is sweet, marketable, and easy to consume, but its surface satisfaction is a thin coating on the pain of many disenfranchised people.

In coastal Colombia, a mother teaches her daughter how to swim so that she may go to the mangroves and harvest the piangua shellfish with the other women in the village.

To Taste the Ground is a lyrical documentary that viscerally moves through the seasonal life cycle of a small organic farm in British Columbia, Canada. The remote farm exists off grid in the Fraser Canyon with solar power and water that flows from the surrounding mountains. The relationship between

Jacaranda trees in June in Los Angeles: full bloom, so beautiful! I stole some blossoms and made a strong smelling tea... Added vitamin c and washing soda: a perfect developer for black & white films!

Realm, a virtual reality facility, is quite transparent about the erotic nature of its services: Wall to wall, it is lined with tempting previews of sexy, ready-made experiences. But Realm also offers something more: With the help of data-mining technology, clientele can create virtual facsimiles of

The documentary Shamata is a project that is born out of the latest neuroscience research that took place inside the Deprung Loseling monastery. It came to being out of a collaboration with the Salamanca University and the monastery situated in the South of India. It is vital to collaborate across d

Falsely objective thinking has imposed the idea that certain sexual, gender or family behaviours are "unnatural". Fortunately, this idea is finally being shaken up, thanks to new scientific publications, which demonstrate its absurdity and make previous assertions seem plausible. Nature is far more

From MTV Documentary Films, PAY OR DIE explores the crushing financial reality for millions of insulin-dependent Americans living with diabetes, as pharmaceutical companies push the price of this life-saving medication.

Peter, a sugar addict, gets into a fight with Zoli, his brother one night. Afterwards , his brother refuses to inject Peter's insulin for him. Then, Peter meets a stranger throwing rocks through the windows in the suburb and he decides to join her until dawn.

Chocolate Road is a discovery of where chocolate comes from. Three renowned chocolatiers – Maribel Lieberman, Susumu Koyama and Mikkel Friis-Holm – take us through the process of craft chocolate-making, starting from the plantations and all the way to the final chocolate piece.

Every week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in a senior home's living room. The younger friend convinces the 107-year-old lady to join her in an adventure: a road trip to the sea.

A slice of chocolate cake becomes immortalized as a 3D model. As the cake enters the digital realm it transforms into an art object of limitless possibility. Rendering is fun, especially when it involves endless cake! But rendering takes work and a devastating environmental toll. Originally performe

A documentary readymade about family lore and chocolate biscuits.

The Nature Of is a short film exploring the idea of the contradiction between desire and consequences. Three girls are trying to escape their reality, the one that always come back.

June 2010. 11 years old Julia and Raphaëlle are the best at killing time together. Between walking their blind neighbor's dogs and finishing their music video before Raph returns to Romania, they unconsciously grow apart. This nostalgic semi-autobiographical story recounts the last moments of t

Marcin, who is 26, is a colaholic. The fizzy beverage accompanied him during his play as a child, when doing homework and at school breaks. Quite imperceptibly, drinking Coca-Cola became as natural for him as having lunch or going out for a walk. In the style of a cartoon, Marcin Podolec shows the f

Young and ambitious Kamila lives in the world, where having surplus of weight guarantees success on all fronts of social life. When in short period of time both her employer and her boyfriend discover, that she only pretend to be overweight, she is fired from work and abandoned. She is forced to lea

"Prince in a Pastry Shop" is a seemingly humorous story about happiness. Because "with happiness there are only troubles," says the Not-So-Little Prince, and he multiplies the examples of these troubles. His interlocutor is Prickly Pear, the embodiment of carefree, light-heartedness, simple joy of l

The film "Dessert Dachshund" directed by Betina Bożek is an original and surreal story about a Dachshund, who, enclosed in a wedding cake, bodes for the happiness of the young couple. The joyful disposition of the dog gives the mood to the animation, which in light and humorous way tackles the unive

EMI is the optimal performance tool. Her sublime productivity is seemingly unbound by basic human needs. EMI is a virtual influencer. EMI eats, EMI secretes, EMI generates

Plain and Simple is a window that gives on the lives of 4 different characters that share an acuite sense of loneliness while sharing a secret desire of belongingness.

In our somewhat chaotic world of doing and achieving, the flowers floating endlessly in the mosaic water express our need for stillness; simply taking the time to be present.

Gabriel is bad, the world is bad, everything's bad. Hopefully, sometimes, lost souls attract each other. Thus Margot embarks in Garbiel's night.

Once producing half of the nation's sugar, the Domino Sugar Refinery was an icon of the industrial work available in the Southside of Williamsburg. Within a year of making Third Shift , part of the building will be demolished for new housing and the rest renovated for commercial use. Two former work

Made on a sunny afternoon. A last stand of burning light. Shot in 1985, released in 1990 with a soundtrack by Kaiser Nietzsche (John Kamevaar, Thomas Handy), new soundtrack and title in 2016.

summer 1975 is an animated film based on one year in the filmmakers fractured life. Hand drawn rotoscoped figures are layered with stills and live video footage to create an open narrative based on events in his life that took place in 1975. He was 13 and this was a pivotal year for him in many ways

"I have breathed you in and there are no words to exorcise you from my soul." - Eleanor Crow "An auto-portrait of maternity, 'private patch' shows Toronto filmer Tracy German quietly expectant, keening through winterludes of surprise before the birth of her first child. Episodically structured and m

An elemental study of refracted light within the multiple states of water (solid, liquid, gas). Also known as a 'sun dog', a parhelion is a halo formed in the sky by the interaction of sunlight with atmospheric ice crystals.

Offers passersby the opportunity to don a mask and become either an elephant or a mosquito. A look at people's inhibitions.

I placed a medallion on the sidewalk and filmed whoever happened along to pick it up. The film is about not being able to have control over the event, and the acceptance of this fact. This is the first film in my Performance Trilogy, a series of films which also include "Snow Search" and "Making a S

Summer Qamp follows a group of LGBTQ+ youth as they attend a camp like no other: a judgment-free zone where they explore their authentic selves while building community, finding joy, and making memories that will last a lifetime. In the forests of Alberta, Canada, sits Camp fYrefly, a haven for LGBT

The talented baker loved his bakery and giving people happiness through his goodies. His heart melted at the faces of people trying his creations, but one day a boy came into his bakery and was not happy despite the kindness of the baker. The baker decides to help him believe that his life can becom

Sugar tells the story of the inner child we all carry within, but have suppressed as we've become more aware of ourselves. Tania, a six-year-old Latina, reminds us to live life in a carefree way.

A man in a grey, drab world is awakened to the beauty and happiness of the real world around him, as the spirits of nature take him on an adventure.

since 2015, seoul-based german director nils clauss has been documenting what he calls the 'plastic welcomer' in the city he lives at. these female mannequins stand outside small shops and meticulously carry out their work where they deliver a welcoming message through exaggerated gestures, movement

How did the food industry get us to stop asking the question: is sugar toxic? It all starts with a secret PR campaign dating back to the 1970s. For forty years, Big Sugar deflected all threats to its multi-billion dollar empire, while sweetening the world's food supply. As obesity, diabetes, and hea