Outlier

This story attempts to convey the absurd and anxious states that stalk the freedoms of college post-graduation. Ideas are characterized by two opposing characters whom provide versions of struggle in self worth and direction. After being stretched to their limits, they find themselves in a lasting metaphysical nature.

Director: Jacob Popek

I am a 23-year-old independent filmmaker and studio artist from Joliet, Illinois who has recently obtained a BFA at UW-Stout for Entertainment Design and Studio Art.

Specifications

Film Type:Short
Genres:Avant-Garde, Spiritual, Psychological
Runtime:19 minutes 40 seconds
Completion Date:May 22, 2015
Production Budget:0 USD
Country of Origin:United States
Country of Filming:United States
Film Language:English

Anonymous

A riddle has fascinated human civilization for ages. What is the purpose of our existence? In the pursuit of an answer, we have reached a mere understanding. Perhaps we are born to do what we do best. But this gives rise to a fallacy. In the process of ‘doing our best’, the ‘our’ takes over the ‘doing’. The doer overpowers the deed, and the entire civilization gets trapped in the vicious cycle of ‘making a mark’. We feel our name, rather than our contributions, would give us a place in the vast eternity of time.

Director: Ayan Banerjee

Ayan Banerjee is an Indian script writer, and film maker. He works on individual Ad production and short films in Kolkata/Mumbai. Formerly a software engineer, Ayan left the software industry to pursue his long term dream of Film Making. He underwent film direction course from ZIMA (Zee institute of Media Arts), a prominent film school in Mumbai, India. His short film REFLECTED DREAMS was specially awarded by the MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING; GOVT. OF INDIA . It also received the BEST CONCEPT AWARD at 'Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival.'

Specifications

Film Type:Short, Student
Genres:exprimental, philosophical
Runtime:14 minutes 20 seconds
Completion Date:May 1, 2015
Production Budget:1,000 USD
Country of Origin:India
Country of Filming:India
Film Language:English

The Looking Planet

During the construction of the universe, a young member of the Cosmos Corps of Engineers decides to break some fundamental laws in the name of self-expression.

Director: Eric Law Anderson

Eric Law Anderson graduated from the film school at the University of Southern California. His films have played at festivals all over the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, and have won many honors, among them a College Emmy, Best Short Film at the Los Angeles Film Festival, a Grand Remi from Worldfest-Houston, and more than 50 other awards. He started his professional career at Columbia/Sony Pictures, writing a sci-fi feature film (unproduced) based on his original story. He's a native of Louisville, KY and a member of the Writer's Guild of America.

Specifications

Film Type:Animation, Short, Other
Genres:Sci-Fi Fantasy
Runtime:16 minutes 38 seconds
Completion Date:April 8, 2014
Production Budget:30,000 USD
Country of Origin:United States
Country of Filming:Brazil, United States
Film Language:English, French, Spanish

Opikanoba

In a not so distant future, a hopeless man struggles to fight his terminal disease, while using the Opikanoba, a device that allows people to create and travel into a materialized subconscious world, in which they get the chance to eliminate the physical representation of their sickness, and heal instantly.
But the subconscious is a dangerous place, and the threats on the path to salvation are numerous.

Specifications

Film Type:Short
Runtime:26 minutes 21 seconds
Completion Date:June 17, 2015
Production Budget:4,000 EUR
Country of Origin:Belgium
Country of Filming:Czech Republic
Film Language:English

In long days

IN LONG DAYS is a short documentary about a family who decided to take the risk of living a different life. Rodrigo, Miriam and Pablo abandoned the city to pursue their autonomy and their freedom in the wilderness, allowing themselves to imagine a flexible and autonomous space, a space ready to adapt both to the ecosystem and their changing needs. Their story is a testimony about life and survival in an 'underdeveloped country', a brave stand against a a system grounded on the understanding of precariousness as the opportunity to transform the imposed conditions of the 'underdevelopment' discourse into something pleasantly unexpected.

Director: Adrián Villa Dávila

Adrián Villa has been working in the artists collective producciones invisibles for the last 7 years. With their work they search for metaphors with the potential of undermining certain uses and conceptions of space. They long for new forms of inhabiting and attempt to encounter them through the marginal thought operations found in art. Villa currently finished his Master studies in Media Arts at the Kunst Hochschule für Medien Köln.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Short
Genres:Human interest, Nature, Autonomy, Resistance
Runtime:40 minutes
Completion Date:January 1, 2014
Production Budget:6,000 EUR
Country of Origin:Germany
Country of Filming:Colombia
Film Language:Spanish