All Films

Stones (Elements)

2008 • 21 min • Latvia

A man in a grey coat roams the city. He is interested in boys and men. Those good enough for him will get a green bag. Marija is home alone. She is the only woman to get a green bag. But the film does not end quite there.

The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5

2008 • 7 min • Spain

A young man prepares for an invasion of alien robots while desperately trying to connect to his own family members.

Slideshow

2008 • 19 min • Philippines

An experimental film on food, cycles, and life processes.

Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg

2008 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Louis Theroux travels to Johannesburg, where the residents find themselves increasingly besieged by crime as he looks at the issue of law and disorder.

Self Service

2008 • 8 min • Israel

A twenty-something man comes to the launderette to do a load but winds up encountering a street punk teen who gets surprisingly intimate.

A Birth of BrainFly

2008 • 6 min • United States of America

A Birth of BrainFly is a surreal narrative dealing with the process of a person’s individuation in a mental scape. A journey through and into Self, the constructed labyrinths of Ego, and the creative transcendence of the mind's physical limitations. Birth of BrainFly charts a surreal course of a psyche's evolution within the invisible landscape of the mind. The visual landscape is made up of a mélange of experiments in collage, live action, hand drawn, paint on film and multi plane.

Dublin 26.06.08: A Film in 4 Days

2008 • 48 min

In a rare and potentially fatal feat of cinematic daring, "Dublin 26.06.08" was shot entirely between 12.01am and 11.59pm on Thursday June 26th 2008. This audacious cinematic collage offers both a unique snapshot of a single day in the life of Dublin and a vivid example of a bold guerrilla filmmaking model. The film is an eclectic, multi-authored impression of Dublin (within the bounds of the encircling M50 motorway) as it lived, died, breathed, made love, filled up and emptied, consumed, wept, was rained and shone upon, grew bright and then darkened again.

Ciel éteint !

2008 • 23 min • Russia, France

A couple lives at the margins of empires. A montage of water, medicine, fire, ice. Sky's Black Out!

I Fucking Hate You

2008 • 9 min • United States of America

A raw, compelling glimpse into a young man's charmingly ill-conceived scheme to redeem himself in the eyes of his ex-girlfriend. Ron lures Carol back to his apartment under the pretense that he is going to return her favorite mug. When it seems this will be their last moment together, Ron desperately maneuvers to strike a chord with her in his own uniquely heartfelt way. Written by Sabi Pictures

Electronica Reykjavik

2008 • 50 min • Iceland

Electronica Reykjavik traces the history of the electronic music scene in Iceland's capital from the early 90's until today. The Film deeply reflects a music genre that the general public knows little about but nearly everyone has participated in, one way or the other. The electronic music scene is on the edge, free from commercial values.

Jacinta

2008 • 9 min • Mexico

Old Jacinta knits non-stop longing for a visit

Matías va a terapia

2008 • 7 min • Chile

A defiant teenager starts to feel uncomfortable by his psychologist.

Amoklove

2008 • 9 min • Germany

A magical moment between two people in the subway, but then it is all over and they will never see each other again - wrong! Fabian fights for his love and chases Marie through Stuttgart. That is Amoklove: a declaration of love during a cardiac recess. —Julia C. Kaiser

Running In a Maze

2008 • 3 min • Canada

Running In A Maze features an abstracted video of young women and men playfully chasing one another in a maze created by artist Charles Rea. The layering of architectural forms and spaces in conjunction with abstracted text creates a visual labyrinth in which multiple mirrored surfaces collide. Wong’s video documents Rea’s Mirror Maze, an installation consisting of symbols and patterns painted onto large convex security mirrors. The mirrored planes and cryptic text used to decipher information reference modern information systems and other myriad forms of technology. Splicing and fusing of architectural forms and transparent walls in this maze simulate an environment of reflected and reflecting surfaces that parallel Wong’s interest in discovering his own identity.

Pickman's Model

2008 • 19 min • United States of America

When two estranged friends, Thurber (Murphy, BANSHEE!!!) and Eliot (Meinecke), meet for drinks, Eliot finds that Thurber is not the person he once knew. Thurber reveals that Pickman (Timmis, Kreating Karloff), a man he was using as a source for a Paper on Weird art, is linked to his recent change in demeanor. It begins with a simple invitation to view Pickman's work at his isolated studio in Boston's North End. And ends with the apprehension that what lurks in the foreground of Pickman's work is far more sinister than the art itself. Adapted from the original short story "Pickman's Model" by: H.P. Lovecraft.

Girls of Fire

2008 • 25 min • France

A suburb housing. Two girls on the phone are looking for each other but never succeed to meet. One of them vanishes.

After Everything

2008 • 12 min • Brazil

After farewell, the waiting. After the waiting, the return. After everything, all they wish for is to be together and one day is enough for them to wait for the next one.

Inherent Obligations

2008 • 10 min • Estonia

Short film from Rao Heidmets about voyeurism, violence and media. Mixing live action with stop motion animation.

Rémy

2008 • 7 min

Remy, a 6-and-a-half-year old boy, is playing with his grandfather also named Remy. One can say that they are very noisy! But the trouble that worries the mum seems more serious than a mashed potatoes battle.

The Tost

2008 • 10 min • Serbia

Vojkan is a man who starts his days at precisely same time and according to strictly established „rituals.“ However, this day some unplanned events will happen.

The Very First Desire Now and Forever

2008 • 1 min • United States of America

When you were born, what did you desire the most?

16 memories

2008 • 53 min

Filmed between 1945 and 1971, 16memorias tells the story of the Posada Saldarriaga, a Medellín family that grew up amid the euphoria of industrialization, the sugar mills sugar bowls, trips to Miami, sows and balloons. Twenty five years of almost uninterrupted daily life that they were about to get lost in an old house they give us the strange possibility of seeing our childhood for the first time; to recover brother's accomplice smile when we conquer kingdoms that no one else saw and felt how powerful we were every time we received applause from our parents. Searching the origin of adult life and recognizing the distance that separates us from those scenes wonderful, what seemed to be a cluster of forgotten images becomes the only evidence that remains to ensure that there was a time when we believed that all days were to be warm, simple, and blue.

I Loved So Much...

2008 • 50 min • France, Morocco

Fadma, 75, tells her life story including being recruited as a sex worker for the French army aged 20, and her views on love, parenthood, and destiny.

10-J: The History of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

2008 • 57 min • United States of America

In 1913 Congress created the Federal Reserve to bring financial stability to the nation after a number of banking panics, with a mix of regional banks and a central bank board. Congressmen Robert L. Owen and Carter Glass helped pass the Federal Reserve Act with the help of compromises led by President Woodrow Wilson. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City was begun in 1914, led by Jo Zach Miller, Jr., along with local bankers such as William T. Kemper. With the bank rapidly growing, about 1920 a new 21 story building was built at 9th and Grand that at one time held the offices of the Bureau of Investigation and President Harry S. Truman.