Two young filmakers travel the world´s greatest hiking routes (Inca Trail to Machu Picchu - PERU; Kumano Kodo Trail - JAPAN, Pacific Crest Trail - USA; Camino de Santiago - EUROPE) to find stories that reveal the reasons for the walking nature of the human being. A round-the-world trip through the people on the trails, that connects us to earth and takes us back.

The Great Way

Two histories intertwined…the histories of the Hollywood Sign and of the Hollywood industry, visually interwoven.

A Brief History of Hollywood

A deep dig into the crates of the vinyl record resurgence to discover what an old technology says about our relationship to music and each other in a divided time in America.

Vinyl Nation

In the late 60s a group of artists decides to settle in a village in the ‘darkest-deepest’ Spain. Today only Felix Cuadrado Lomas still remains there, determined to reflect the landscape which surrounds him: the lands built by those who work on them.

Built lands

A depiction of adventure and why it is necessary
Shot Locations:
Surfside 7, Fort Collins, CO, USA - Concert
Horsetooth Reservoir, CO, USA - Climbing, Hiking
Cache la Poudre Canyon, CO, USA - River Crossing, Camping
Maui, Hawaii, USA - Swimming
Fruita, CO, USA - Mountain Biking
Belize - Snorkeling
Torres, State of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil - Climbing
Moab, Utah, USA - Offroading

What Does Adventure Mean?

A four-minute, family-friendly, musical animated film about Maggie Mae, a constant shopper who buys things she doesn’t need. When she gets buried in styrofoam, tissue, and silly purchases, she learns to recycle and reuse.

MAGGIE MAY, An Environmental Story

This is the story of Daniel Bichsel, who takes us to an Italy unknown to most. Marettimo is a protected Mediterranean island off the coast of Sicily where rugged hills meet crystal-clear waters—and that’s where Daniel comes alive. A free diver and underwater explorer, Daniel shows us what he calls an “alien world”, where time stands still, where everything is in the present for the time of the breath out. Free diving means you’re not just a spectator; you’re part of the underwater world, becoming one with the unique flora and fauna of the Mediterranean, from schools of fish to graceful seaweed to colourful coral. But this paradise is under threat, and as an environmentalist and educator, Daniel encourages others to become ambassadors for the underwater world. As he says, every idea has the potential to make an impact. Welcome to Marettimo Island, Daniel’s Wild Place.

BLUE CALLING

A success story following a paralyzed motocross rider back to outdoor recreation with disability.

Mason's Return to Dirt

Exploring the mindset of a small business owner that instead of scaling back in the midst of uncertainty and struggle - pushes forward.

Pivot Forward

A man reconnects with his past through his love of basketball.

Tristo

After quitting her job to pursue her dream of running professionally, Brittany Charboneau quickly found herself not having any fun with the sport she loved. A tough debut at the New York City Marathon and the following training left Brittany broken physically, mentally, and emotionally. Was there really only one path to success in becoming a professional runner or could Brittany throw away everything and do things her own way? This is a documentary film about the path Brittany Charboneau has pursued and what she has discovered about running and herself in the process.

The Funny Runner

A business traveler and a girl with a secret meet in a lavish hotel bar one night. The decisions they make in that moment will change their lives forever, leaving them to wonder how it all went so wrong so quickly.

Symptoms May Include Shortness of Breath

Laura, a college girl in a rocky relationship with her boyfriend Derek, finds herself the center of attention for her mailman, Melvin, who appears to be stalking her. As Laura and Derek’s relationship takes a turn for the worse, Melvin sees his opportunity to step in. This love triangle can only last so long before someone gets hurt.

Return To Sender

A young woman is struck by feelings of guilt and uncertainty, as she thinks back on the mistakes of her last relationship.

Embers

After months at home, restricting adventure to that on our doorsteps, we have found ourselves yearning for wild spaces & human connection. If like us, you are in need of a little wilderness & inspiration, we hope you’ll enjoy our new film.
Hydrotherapy is a short film by Friction Collective. It is a story of adaptation, strength & rewilding set in the raw and beautiful landscapes of Snowdonia National park. Laura has not only overcome a life changing illness through wild swimming, but has also found a greater connection to the natural world. This has ignited her mission to make a stand for the natural environment, and protect wild waters and wild spaces across the UK.

Hydrotherapy

A visual expression film about mental health. It takes a look at the turbulent mind of a mentally depressed young man on the verge of committing suicide and the endless struggles he has trying to find peace within himself while living in a world that has lost track of what's important. But Is there any hope left for him?

Into the Abyss

“Who Are We?” is a character-driven short documentary film that takes a unique approach to the subject of art as an avenue for personal identity formation. The backbone of the film is the commission of an exploratory self-portrait, alongside which two Colorado artists, Leigh Cabell and Steven Frost, complete weekly prompts that encourage them to think deeply about their artistic and personal journeys.
Following the completion of their self-portrait, each artist meets with an art therapist and shares their work as the final step of their self-examination. They come to understand, on a deeper level, how they interact with their art, how it shapes them and, in turn, how art can shape humanity.

Who Are We?

Temporal Enforcement Agent Elliott Young (Victoria Smith) breaks protocol and returns to her own past. There she comes face to face with her 8-year-old past self, Ellie (Sophia Waterton), and Justin (Ian Mairs), her seemingly kind father. During their encounter Elliott explosively confronts Justin in an effort to prevent a tragedy that will occur in only a few hours' time.

Can't Go Home Again

Self sufficient teenager, Clammy James struggles with a chaotic home life, as he finds solace in shellfishing the bays of the small seaside tourist village of Greenport Long Island, in hopes to provide food for his family.

The Clam Kid

A story about an outcast girl turning her special needs into superpowers.
Neha was born into the "untouchable" caste, where special-needs children are largely neglected and abused. She was raised in fear with no future prospects until a school opened its doors for her and many alike. Neha then began a transformative journey through love and encouragement and learned to thrive with her newfound gift for dancing. While the school gained momentum, it still faced hurdles in a lack of professional staff, a scarcity of resources, and the community's strong resistance to change. The school continues to fight for special-needs rights despite the overwhelming odds, one step at a time.

NEHA

After losing a child, a woman is haunted by her sleepwalking hallucinations.

What We Find in the Night

Set as the first chapter of a much larger story, Be Still follows a man battling his own memory and isolation, struggling to make sense of his circumstances. On his journey, the man discovers clues of how he got there and the danger he faces getting out.

Be Still

While struggling with accepting the death of her only son,
she learned about service of the funeral home that can restore a deceased person as a humanoid for only 49 days.

Son of Memory

Tommy is sick; sick of waiting rooms, of tests and of being asked how he’s doing. But the arrival of an unexpected visitor presents the chance to undertake what is meant to be a once in a lifetime journey.

Where The Mountains Grow

Welcome to your anxiety attack. Exploring the very visceral and disorienting world of living with severe anxiety and depression.

The Distraction

ICE BREAKERS

A pastor comes to terms with faith and failure as he witnesses the transformation of his house of worship into a home for the downtrodden.

My Father's House

From her bedroom window, Melissa Simpson looks out at the highest peaks in Colorado. Despite being so close, the mountains have always been worlds away for Melissa, who was born with cerebral palsy. With the help of her friend and mentor, blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer, Melissa sets out to conquer something far greater than a summit. Through humility and grace, Melissa proves that what is within us, is stronger than what's in our way.

From My Window

After an important invitation arrives, a young woman must try her hand at the brutal sport of pie-making.
The year is 1953, and Francie is so determined to make a perfect pie that she overworks the dough, rendering it all but impossible to work with. When she brings the result of her efforts to a dessert social, it stands in stark contrast to the beautiful pies of other attendees. Francie's response to her pie's poor showing provides the comedic punch, quite literally, to the film.

Sweetie Pie

Synopsis :
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Woman almost falls asleep driving on a dark rainy night so she picks up a hitchhiker to keep her company. He is "The Stranger in the Night".

Stranger in the Night

Two sisters unexpectedly reconnect in the moments before a surprise birthday party.

Birthday Cake

Susan and Raha are two senior students studying Dramatic Arts in an art school. They are both candidates for the role of Johnathan Livingston from Richard Bach's, but soon after the audition some peculiar events begin to arise and take place. More peculiar than Susan’s appearance.

The Gull's Shriek (2020)

In the world of kitesurfing the male gender is dominating the beaches and girls are seen as secondary. Jalou Langeree wanted to prove this wrong and decided to do girls only trip. Joined by Olivia Jenkins and Catharina Edin, they went on a trip to find one of the most mesmerising left handers to kite in the world - Flame Balls in the South Coast of Madagascar. To reach that place, they embarked on a 118ft ship called ‘Luna Moon’ which allowed them to live and keep the proximity to this unique wave spot. To be able to kite in waves the right combination of swell and wind direction must appear, thus sometimes that means you have to wait. But if you wait long enough there is a high chance of scoring the conditions of the lifetime.

118ft of Freedom

A campy romp into a lush dreamscape. Dolphy is a lonely botanist who cross-pollinates exotic fauna in a research greenhouse. Her isolation is only heightened by her desire for her boss, Mrs. Daylily. Intoxicated by the pollen and her own loneliness, Dolphy begins to loose touch with reality as she succumbs to a more verdant frequency.

Dolphy

The two lovers in this stirring new film are separated not only by distance but also by circumstances: Russia’s anti-gay laws and mainstream homophobia mean that their relationship is threatened by violence, and now even the constitution.

SANSARA

In a world where all that matters is basketball, Pete can't play basketball.

Pete Can't Play Basketball

A poetic narrative following Lenna's discovery to self-love.

Loving Lenna

Laynie Needs a Light takes place in one thrilling night when a woman pops into a local speakeasy for a drink only to become the object of a stranger's menacing affection.

Laynie Needs a Light

The boy is swept up and gets lost in the parade pouring into the room.

Seoulsori

While thinking too much about what future brings, on a summer day young Yacob meets a spirit in the fields. This spirit takes him into the flash forwards of his life, showing that the flow of that life is unconventionally beautiful.

Morning Grass

Tuned to the haunting music of legendary underground rock band Philm, Spanish Flowers follows a surreal, animated narrative involving a ritual of life and death carried out by two monks and a mourning priestess, who is now forced to let go of her mummified son...

Spanish Flowers

When social distancing goes wrong...

Reflexion

The film tells the story of Sidney, a failed pianist who comes into the possession of a pair of enchanted gloves. Upon wearing them he soon finds himself playing the piano like a maestro and all his dreams are quickly realised! However just when he thinks he has everything he has ever wanted fate deals him a cruel hand...

The Dead Hands of Dublin

A young mexican smuggler and a little girl travel illegally on top of a cargo train, called La Bestia, to get to the USA.An injury transforms his perception of the journey.

La Bestia

Frigid winter in a war-devastated, present-day city. Several years have passed since the destruction, and the city is slowly rebuilding. A thirty-year-old guy is living as a squatter in an apartment with a group of strangers. He struggles to survive and also to find a little more comfort in this rough setting. One night he nearly burns the flat down, hoping for a warmer sleep. His roommates start hating him, so the guy has to find another shelter.

Snow Shelter

In this handcrafted epic puppet film set in a world of demons and ghosts, a lone samurai and his odd companion, a cursed severed head, seek vengeance in a haunted world.

The Haunted Swordsman

When his creation is taken, he must do what's fair.....and square.

Isolated Stories: Fair and Square

Experimental, short macro film shot entirely on DJI Pocket 2 camera
The idea of this experimental macro video was born from lack of traveling due to certain events in 2020 and desire to showcase the capability of the awesome Pocket 2 camera as not only a great blogging device, a good b-roll camera, or super gimbal for travel, architecture, etc short films, but also an amazingly capable machine for creative experiment right at your home.
We use different inks, alcohol, soaps, and other different mixture of household chemicals for creating liquid art of flow and movements.
It was a challenging but really fun project as we have never shot macro with inks before nor have we done it with Pocket 2 (I believe this type of video with ink is the first to be shot on this device). It took us 3 weeks of pure experiments, try and error, to get the right effect with inks and chemicals.
And 1.5 weeks of shooting after that, using DJI Pocket 2 camera with and without a macro lens to gather more than 7 hours of footage (690 GB of clips).
The post-production alone took 1.5 weeks for the entire Origin short film.
An interesting fact that only about 1.6% of all shot clips went into the film.
Surprisingly, it took less effort to CC and grade those shots, since the actual image was very good to start with. I use Davinci Resolve 17 beta which has a Color Warper tool. Some noise reduction was used as well as a glow plugin to give the color a bit more “pop”.
No significant color manipulation has been necessary since all colours were done right in the camera.
There had been some challenges shooting the film. First, was the camera, especially with a macro lens on, required a super close proximity to the subject, meaning it was quite difficult to get pipettes or syringes below it. Because of that, the camera itself might be visible with some darker and glossy base substances.
But also we had some real advantages using the device. For example, the ability to digitally zoom in and out, not only as an additional movement but also as compositional benefits. Gimbal movement left and right (that otherwise would require some expensive equipment). 4K, d-log setting gave us the ability to bring up colours to life. High frame rate for the slow-motion part of the film.
For us, this project represents the possibility to showcase that this camera is very versatile and could be used in many situations including some creative shots like those. We hope to inspire creatives to think outside of the box in using the Pocket 2 and create stunning experiments.
Special big thanks to Luda Tregub, an amazing set stylist, without who this project would not have happened!

Origin

Machine Age is a visceral experience of the mechanized world of industrial egg production. Using investigative material, this short film immerses us into the sights and sounds of life behind the walls of a factory farm.

Machine Age

Karl lost his car keys in an empty parking lot. Karl is more frantic about finding them than worrying about the effect his actions have on the planet. Man is choking Mother Earth to death.
It's exhausting to watch...

...Karl Lost His CarKey

The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to take him makes an offer which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully.

Death Offers Life - last moments of Vincent Van Gogh

A man grapples with his own incoherence as he begins a trial for a new simulation.

What A Beautiful Simulation

Four days, no cigarettes, and only the mind of a recovering nicotine addict. We follow his descent into madness and the horror of addiction.

The Marlboro Man Died in the Apocalypse

'Cheol', 'Sook', 'Yong' meet in the room of emotion.
'Sook' and 'Yong' are happy to see their old friend 'Cheol' again. They Throw their hands to shake with 'Cheol'. But 'Cheol' ignore them weirdly. They are getting obsessed to shake hands. 'Cheol' freaks out. Things go crazy. So they decide to talk to him what's going on.

OLFACTION

Change is something that comes whether you search for it or not. When a nymph loses her ability to fly, the change that was forced upon her requires a complete transformation: she must let go of her yearning for the past and become something new, a being unconstrained by the limitations of her past.

Melancolia

Aging rocker Danny Jones heads home to be by his ailing mother’s side but finds himself on old stomping grounds, steeped in bittersweet glory days, as he tries to cope with her sudden passing, his past, and an uncertain road ahead.

CHORDS

When two outcast teens hack into a ubiquitous drone delivery system to pull a prank on their neighbor, they accidentally crash-land a dangerous prototype – and find themselves entangled in a life-and-death conspiracy.

Skywatch

Once a terrifying villain of the silver-screen, a stop-motion animated skeleton struggles
to find purpose as an out-of-date special effect.

Rebooted

In a dusty future where the last humans have taken refuge in a cold, sterile Moon colony, A-153 is being driven mad by vivid dreams of a beautiful green world. While planning his escape, he picks up a distress signal from Earth! Hellbent on making contact, he steals a ship and launches toward the planet. Soon he will discover the horrifying truth about his fantasy world and the person who called for help.

Uncario

An underwater odyssey around the world

SOUS L'EAU

Atmosphere follows pro snowboarder Jake Blauvelt thru the 2020 winter season in the BC backcountry. All while raising a family and hosting a grassroots event in his local ski resort of Bolton Vally VT to give back to the sport that his given him so much.

A T M O S P H E R E

The Baja Boot Project is a short documentary about how Scuderia Cameron Glikenhaus built a brand new version of the 1967 Steve's McQueen Baja boot, How they brought it to the Baja 1000 and won over the new 2020 Ford Bronco.

The Glickenhaus Boot Project

Eithan Osborne at home in Ventura, CA
Pandemic, beach closures, no travel, the perfect time to make a surf film.
Eithan Makes the best of a California season with a quick jaunt to Tahiti, surfing with his friends Mickey Clarke and Dane Reynolds.

Happy Talk

Body of Water explores how women self-identify in a world that presents us with constantly conflicting perceptions of what it is to be female. It examines the destructive nature of eating disorders and body dysmorphia within a narrative film framework.
Stephanie, a woman in her mid-thirties, is trying to overcome chronic anorexia in order to re-establish her relationship with her daughter, Pearl. Pearl now lives with Stephanie's mother, Susan and her fiancee Annette. The burden of Stephanie's illness puts pressure on their relationship, with Pearl angry at her mother but also hopeful that Stephanie is getting better. Stephanie is also challenged by a tension quietly simmering between herself and Susan, while attempts to find solace in a relationship with her nurse, Shaun, invite more turmoil.

Body of Water

A spirit metes out vengeance when a young girl ignores her mother's warning about the Pied Piper myth.

Stray

During a winter storm Prudence hears strange chanting outside her cabin.

Prudence

A major metropolitan city struggles to keep it together in the wake of a string of kidnappings in the area. Could the possible abductor be hiding in plain sight? Long Pig peeks into the unconventional dark side of humanity. Evil doesn’t have to follow a specific set of rules and it certainly doesn’t take into account the existence of others. It’s lurking in every corner.

Long Pig

On the worst day of Harley's life the world blows up.

Vent

A haunted, sexy Las Vegas penthouse dweller explores the darker side of the city and its many addictions.

Dark Lights

Ridden with guilt after the untimely death of his wife from a rare blood disease, grief-stricken Getty turns his hobby shed into a bloody altar of worship and brutal sacrifice in his relentless search for Redemption. As he descends into madness, many will bleed...
BLOODSHED. It's where you bleed.

Bloodshed

She, Devil is a 15-min short film set in the late 90s.
An amateur group of devil-worshipping teens invite the strange new girl in town to a secret meeting out in the woods. Together they participate in a backyard ritual full of bonding, self-care, and witchcraft.

She, Devil

Arthur - a late-night radio DJ in rural Crestone, Colorado - receives an urgent call from his co-worker, who hit something with his car on his way into the station. As his co-worker attempts to search for what he hit, it becomes apparent that whatever it was wasn't your typical woodland critter, but something else entirely - something inhuman and dangerous. As it begins to hunt, Arthur and his producer can do nothing but sit back and listen to the horrifying events unfold.

Twigs

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