Pre-Life / Post-Life
16min
The first film by Garett Engelmann and his friends, with a budget of 500 dollars canadian.
"In Pre-Life we plan everything about our lives; from how we look, who we meet, how we die and all in between. A man persuades a woman to kill him during his life on Earth.
The event unfolds...
Later, in Post-Life, the woman shares the news that things didn't go exactly as planned."
Am ende des gartens sind zwei kinder
16min
Two lovers met themselves in the same dream in order to accept the death
of their love story. In the same night a girl is killed.
All of them will be plunged in a surreal-natural space where
there are two children that keep and rule the place.
Soluzioni di continuita'
14min
Two stories bond together by an interruption.
#1 - GOLDEN BEACH
Two distant events that juxtapose in one vision.
A summer day in Florida in 1978 and
a summer day in Italy in 2004;
a small witness of the past,
a beautiful sunny day,
in the scenery of an off screen extreme gesture.
#2 - SURFACE TENSION
A man lies in bed.
The curves of his knees outline mountains,
limbs deep and calm valleys.
But even up the purest tops,
abysses and cliffs are hidden.
LITTLE BOY
8min
Snuggling on wool, Little Boy is shocked by his prescience of the future.
BODY ELECTRIC #1
4min
The retained power of a dance implodes in small motions and explodes in nervous gestures flashes. It turns to ferment in impossible movements until becoming the very primal body energy.
REWIND
1min
A kid. A videotape. A boy. An unsuperable boundary... Notes:I'm Daniele Santonicola and I'm 19 years old. The video was shoot after I was chosen by a tv movie production to make a 2 minute short movie. It had to be written, directed and edited in only one day by myself.
On to Heaven
15min
Short film written and created in one day.
Two men play Russian roulette in hope that it frees them from their lives. They wish to be off to a better place; away from everyone else that has labeled them "insane".
Seventh and Hill
22min
Seventh and Hill is a heist film that takes place in Downtown Los Angeles' Jewelry District. An undercover Agent, Brad Grey is posing as an independent jewelry salesmen, in order to help lure in and catch the Tomis Brothers. These two brothers have attacked and robbed numerous salesmen in the past and the FBI has been on them for the past 6 months. Everything they've worked for depends on what happens at Seventh and Hill.
Windows and Walls
15min
Windows and Walls is a 15 minute film that explores cultural differences by addressing the issues the newly-arrived immigrants face in the USA: After making Minnesota their new home, a Russian family gets entangled in a series of misunderstandings that lead to a tragedy. The friendly-at-first-glance “Minnesota nice” surroundings isolate individuals by creating walls of privacy, leaving windows into the lives of others inaccessibly high.
QWERTY
6min
A mentally-afflicted young man Is accused of murdering his longtime benefactor. The truth of what really happened lies in his mad obsession with his supposed victim's old typewriter, on which he types relentlessly, day and night.
