How To Make

A troubled woman demonstrates how to bake whole grain, stone-milled sourdough bread.

Follows six talented performers who interpret Mary Shelley’s classic novel from their own perspective; as young people growing up in 21st-century Britain. Using only their own mouths to make every sound in the film, with beatboxing and a capella, they explore how today’s society creates its own monsters.

Some people seem to live in a figurative darkness. Due to a medical condition, John Kapellas exists in literal darkness. For ten years he has been confined within the walls of his apartment suffering from a condition known as “photosensitivity.” Both a visual artist and a musician, John's creativity is the engine propelling him through a seemingly endless night.

Observed over the course of two years, How to Make a Rainbow is the story of a young girl and her mother, as they move together through transitions of home, identity and name.

On Halloween night in a small town, a boy accepts a dare from his friends to hide in the back seat of an empty car and frighten the driver when they return. But what starts as a seemingly harmless prank turns into a night from hell.

A candid and bittersweet reflection on the fragments of memory our mind holds & the echoes of people they leave us with.

Centring around a 1989 home video shot by the director’s uncle in Karachi, this film deals with questions of representation. Through acts of reading, recoding and repetition, the work asks what it means to be looked at when acts of looking are mediated by, and made possible through, relationships of power.

Employing the persuasive syntax of internet scams, this is a multi-layered investigation into systems of communication, interpretation and how one remembers a story.

Where do nightmares come from? In How to Make a Nightmare, they're cooked up in strange, underground laboratories. Making nightmares is an ugly job, and when a nightmare chemist falls in love everything starts spiraling out of control.

The animated short shows how fate can determine the decision making process, even at the highest levels, where one would expect responsibility and careful reasoning. It does so by lightheartedly exposing the supposed argumentation as nothing more than the result of an absurdly complicated and haphazard Rube Goldberg-like contrivance.

Short documentary about photography and migration.

An inexperienced filmmaker faces many obstacles while learning the art if movies in the internet age.

An animated look at the 11 essential steps to make the pilgrim's progess from finding a woman to making love to her. Along the way, our prototypical man gets advice about her eyes, her hair, her neck, her nostrils (and how they will flare as she becomes excited), the kiss, disrobing her (be subtle yet have authority), the hug, her nipples, and kinky accessories. At every turn, even as the exultant strains of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus signal that success is upon him, there are dangers and pitfalls. The journey requires steely resolve.

Perhaps no artist and fellow media theorist worked so fastidiously in the vein of McLuhan as Douglas Davis, albeit directly contrary to what he described as McLuhan’s “apocalyptic” message when he proclaimed, “The medium is not the message. You and I, in all our obstinate, unpredictable glory and complexity, are the message. The ultimate power lies on this, the other side of the TV screen, in the eye and mind of the viewer who can increasingly become the actor.” This performative broadcast – which also functions somewhat as a mini-retrospective of other classic Davis pieces – features Davis’s self-described “investigation into a kind of denial of the physical reality of the medium…[putting] the control over the medium…back into the hands of the human imagination.” Likewise, it directly contradicts VIDEODROME’s association of television and sexuality with pain and control. Whether it does so effectively is up to the viewer…

Abby, a 30-year-old lesbian, tries to manage her anxiety attacks while working odd jobs and trying to seduce as many women as possible.

Blue Movie Madness is indeed a mad flick featuring lots of skin as a truly loverly blue-movie maiden shows a beginner the ropes. Everything here is geared toward laughs, but the essential purpose of skin flicks is never forgotten and the trade secrets exposed along the way are very revealing: "Don’t stab her in the eye with it!" yells the director, who can’t keep himself out of the action. Yes, "getting the part" takes on a new meaning in this one.

Robert Rodriguez shares how he makes home movies with this kids.

Tempe Video presents 20 unique, easy-to-apply makeups, all created from materials found around the home and in local costume shops. Professional Hollywood makeup artists introduce you to some of their secrets, explained in easy to understand, step-by-step detail! Don't settle for the same old boring Halloween masks - impress your friends and be the life of any costume party! Makeups include: Zombie, Pumpkin-Head, Lizard, Witch, Cat, Exorcism Victim, Vampire, Alien, Burn Victim, Frankenstein's Monster, Mummy, Creature, Old Man, Phantom, Gargoyle, Robot, Swamp Creature, Evil Clown, Dracula and Ghastly Ghoul.

Every year thousands of hopefuls move to LA to pursue their dream of a Hollywood acting career. How To Make It In Hollywood explores the lives of award-winning talents Emily Kinney (Walking Dead) and Brad Garrett, as well as new and up-coming stars.