Capsule - Extintor (Fire Extinguisher)
Rodrigo Sopeña Joana SolnadoMilagros is obliged to install a fire extinguisher in her chapel. But first she will have to ask someone's permission...
From our homes, we look through the peephole at the world in flux. We take a second to ponder about migratory routes, especially in times where we feel unable to move and restless. Our maps indicate 'You are here' and our eyes fixate on this red circle reassuring us that we're on the right track, yet also looking ahead at where we're heading. This issue explores our point of origin in relation to destination, wayfinding and navigation in indoor and outdoor environments.
You Are Here is the Festival Issue - it runs in parallel to the 13th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival (Oct 16-23) themed Migration.
Milagros is obliged to install a fire extinguisher in her chapel. But first she will have to ask someone's permission...
Lean into loneliness — and know you're not alone in it. Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman reunites with poet Tanya Davis to craft tender and profound animation on the theme of isolation, providing a wise and soaringly lyrical sequel to their viral hit How to Be Alone.
Time is Money: In high frequency trading the fastest data network makes the deal. Computers trade against computers solely committed to the logic of their algorithms. Real life traders have long left the playing field to the more efficient money bots, leaving behind an uncontrollable financial marke
Other than the ocean, the rest of the planet was bathed in purple, which was due to the color of the vegetation. The change in the sun's radiation had probably caused the plants to evolve as they adapted to the new light.
Reflection on times when people have seen an animal in emotional suffering. Are they able to draw out characteristics of depression, how do they relate to them? There is more than only human behavior in animals, but they are not sure of what they see.
Man shapes his environment, which shapes his brain. Two hundred kilometres from Beijing, men live in a stone quarry amidst rocks that are waiting to be hacked, cut and sanded into sculptures. The same gestures come back again and again, to write a history of deterioration and repair. In the making o
Kodak hired my father straight out of college in 1976 to work in their film processing labs. One year prior, a Kodak employee had invented the first digital camera. In 2012 Kodak went bankrupt, and today operates at a fraction of its former scale. Over the course of my father's 30+ year career with
Affected by polarized light, THE VIBRANCY records the fascinating crystallization processes of various substances. The crystallization process is increasingly fascinating—the colour is awakened, the crystals seem to be sentient, teasing the light, simple and magnificent colours bloom and shine
Geneticist and environmentalist David Suzuki celebrates the pleasure of knowing we humans are squishy organic material in an inter-related web of life—and we'd better not forget that! An invitation to go out and play and learn from the real world.
Doublewide is a look at a Texas-based company that sells, constructs, and installs custom-made, secure steel subterranean hideouts for wealthy clients. A trip to one of their newly completed massive underground bunkers in Michigan reveals a fortified underground world for the wealthy to retreat from
Filmmaker, Zena Wood, wants to know how humans will live on Mars. During Covid-19, she sets out on a solo mission to find some answers. She speaks to some of the top minds in the field, including correspondents from NASA, authors, a TED speaker and a professor at the School of Advanced Air and Space
Futako, a girl reincarnated from scraps of last year's fireworks, is destined to burst on the day of this year's fireworks. Retracing the past days, she awakes her instinct to soar and shine in the night sky.
The story of Captain Obi, the chosen parrotlet, as he departs for the mission that he has trained his whole life for at the Flight Center, Mission Wings. The mission aims to uncover the secrets of aerodynamics for Obi's human colleagues, and the film demonstrates Obi's dedication and commitment to t
In 2018 in Sendagi, an old town in Tokyo under urban development toward the Olympic Games. The present scenery might soon disappear. I went out by bicycle with my video camera. This is a "life road-movie documentary."
Somewhere on a distant planet in a dying universe, filmmaker Shadab Shayegan has a waxen-looking figure reflect forlornly on the past. Sketches gathered over the years, stowed away in an old-fashioned chest, wait to be deciphered. A seemingly hopeless undertaking: the strange drawings evade all inte
A student finds out that her university campus has gone into immediate total lockdown. As plans get derailed, the situation prompts a visual reflection on intimacy, authenticity and technology.
Filmed in vibrant super 16mm color, and black and white film, Notes from the Anthropocene, is a sensory elegy to the dinosaur. The dinosaur icon shifts from narratives of extinction, to human exceptionalism, and power. Its materiality whether fossil or plastic toy has, through popular culture, becom
Experiments in perception are being conducted in a wonderland of damaged images. It has to be lived once and dreamed twice commences with white noise and machine droning, gray video static and colorful distortion artifacts – in essence, with the beauty of electro-magnetic interference signals.
An old man tries to return to the homeland of his childhood torn by war. A young man tries to reach the moon. Both impossible paths intertwine to remind us that the journey has no end. Where are we when we travel? That time doesn?t exist.
The title of the film is an evocation of the first entomology book of the XVII century, "Theatrum insectorum". In this book Thomas Moffet exposed insects as entities, each of which deserves to be examined. Here, the theater becomes a chamber, precisely that of the camera where life took place. Where
A very brief history of Morse code. This film includes my five favorite significant messages: 1. The first American Morse Code message transmitted in 1844 by Samuel Morse himself, 2. In 1912 the Titanic transmitted the then new SOS distress call as it sank, 3. In 1956 the beacon atop the new Capitol
A green object in changing settings. The main character in Susanna Flock's I Don't Exist Yet is not the computer-generated image, but the otherwise invisible construction of digital effects. Do CGIs dream of virtual sheep?
"Cassini Falls" tells the story of the Cassini-Huygens international mission (1997-2017) in the words of NASA (about its launch, discoveries, history and final end) intertwined with other voices—from authors like F. Nietzsche, Tim Ingold, M. Merleau-Ponty, T. S. Eliot, David Toomey, Jane Benne
Saman is an employee of an engineering company in Iran. he has decided to immigrate to Germany with the support of his friend Ali who lives in Berlin.
This animated short proposes what many earthlings have long feared – that the automobile has inherited the planet. When life on Earth is portrayed as one long, unending conga-line of cars, a crew of extra-terrestrial visitors understandably assume they are the dominant race. While humans, on t
Dragosh, filmmaker from Moldova which was formerly part of the Soviet Empire, discovers a secret scientific experiment. Through nearly ten years of investigations, Dragosh unveils the secret plan to transform Moldova into the Soviet Garden by the application of atomic energy in local agriculture. Ag
In the world after death, the characters will think about various things while walking in the same place in turn.
The story of Rocco Petrone from son of Italian immigrants playing a key role in the birth of Apollo Space program.
In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog's unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts. Together, they march off towards Hedgehog's home and spark a tense and prickly standoff. Exquisitely directed by E
We all grow old eventually. But do we really have to? Could humans be immortal one day? Through the work of global leading scientists on three incredible kinds of animal that don't really age like we do, Lifespan reveals some of the surprising causes of human aging, and what we could do about it. Th
This short film chronicles filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk's emotional journey to Nunavut to connect with the land of her ancestors and with her Inuk father, whom she has not seen in over 20 years. Nyla's return to her Igloolik birthplace culminates with a lesson on lighting a qulliq, the traditional Inuit
In the future 10 Billion people will live on Earth. Governments have to face the challenge. A small marble will determine life and death.
"DataMine" is a stop-motion indictment of surveillance society; laboriously animated by hand with light painting to create surreal imagery without the use of computer generated images. Society embraces an ever-increasing connection to technology, creating digital communities that distract us from ou
As the World Turns is a moving image science fiction, which explores humankind's place in time and space, through the science of radio astronomy. Filmed at Goonhilly Earth Station, a satellite communications site in Cornwall, England, As the World Turns visually explores the location through hand-he
It's neither plant, animal or fungus, but a giant single cell that crawls around eating dead matter. With beautiful and mesmerizing time lapse videography, Smart Slime? introduces us to the quirky work of two high profile slime researchers.
Due to Shanghai's regeneration scheme, old buildings are being demolished, and consequently almost 100 000 families are being forced to move each year. " Under Construction" explores the human implications of the Shanghai Planning Office and its Property Developers operations. Photographs are compos
Dakar 2009. At the heart of the night, three friends gather around a fire. Serigne tells for the first time to Cheikh and Alpha his epic journey to Spain which he has just been repatriated. He has only one idea in mind, jump in the first boat and go to sea again. His friends try to convince him to s
Animals are quarreling: to go or not to go to the mountain. A serious incident has happened in the mountain.
Flying is bad for the climate. Yet passenger numbers are increasing year by year. How can we combine environmental protection and our need for mobility? Do we need new aircraft and new aviation fuels - or should we simply fly less? We want to find answers to these questions and ask aircraft manufact
Village in Belarus, image of the people and space. There are the fields, wood and the lake that surround their home. Exploration of relations between gesture and image. Different people make simple gestures connected to their life and reality. Gestures that accompany them all their lives from beginn
A movie made for NHK Educational TV's program 'TECHNE', in order to introduce possible expressions with rotoscope. Everyday, we move as abundantly as this shows.
Emilienne could have been my grandmother if she hadn't had a taste for travelling. In her home village in the heart of the Jura Mountains, she remembers the years she spent in New York. I discover scraps of her unsuspected life there in the super8 films that she has entrusted to me. Yet something el
Somewhere in Denmark Eyad is practicing Japanese. He is alone in his room and sleeps several days in a row. He fled through Europe from Syria. Inam is in her kitchen roasting almond for Maklouba. She is his mother. The extractor hood in her new kitchen doesn't work properly. In a letter read for Eya
The city spreads and devours the jungle. At the same time, the city's ruins host another jungle, a veritable internal memory. The question of the frontier arises. What delimits one space from the other?
With her documentary animation film The Outlander, Ani Antonova tells the tale of the long and arduous journey undertaken by Süleyman, Vienna´s first elephant. It was in the 16th century that the animal initially voyaged from Ceylon to Lisbon, before being sent on a month-long journey as
An old couple in a small Taiwanese village is waiting for something.