All Films

White Out

2007 • 3 min • United States of America

In short, it's a film about winter. And to create it, Jeff Scher composed approximately 2,250 watercolor paintings on paper. Each one is elegant and beautiful in itself, depicting classic snowy scenes, but when composited together, we see incredible movement and fluidity revealed as cold memories bleed into one another.

The Hat

2007 • 1 min • Poland

A man's frustration is shown as he tries to put on a winter hat.

Bad Blue Boys

2007 • 30 min • Croatia

A war veteran with post-traumatic disorders talks about his practical inability to start a normal life after his fighting and killing experience. This 35-year-old married man with three children, who joined the Croatian army in the very beginning of the war and saw various Yugoslavian battlefields from his perspective of a sniper, is unemployed today and tries to adapt to his surroundings while still feeling the closest to his former, now similarly dispossessed co-fighters.

A Reunion

2007 • 20 min • South Korea

After separated from her father for sixteen years, a young girl and her mother have a heartfelt reunion with her father.

Contra Band

2007 • 17 min • United States of America

This DVD contains at 20 minute performance during which Bit Brigade plays the entire soundtrack to Contra while the game is beaten by a player.

Uishet

2007 • 13 min

On a bright morning in May 2005 in Landes on the current of Huchet, between the river mouth and the "pas-du-loup" island, I shot a movie which will be like those of the series of naturalistic journeys towards abstraction...

My Nose

2007 • 14 min • United States of America

This personal documentary reveals the complexities of a single woman living in a beauty-obsessed world with her original yet imperfect nose. It's a tale that anyone who has ever obsessed over their own "imperfection" will easily relate to MY NOSE explores filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum's mother's preoccupation with her nose, the intricacies of the mother/daughter relationship, and asks what drives people into the plastic surgeon's office. Will she live happily ever after with the nose I was born with? Will she end up having a nose job? And how will her decision affect their relationship? Official Selection at dozens of festivals including the Miami Jewish Film Festival and the UK Jewish Film Festival.

The Wind of Change

2007 • 4 min

The Wind of Change is the story of one man with a very unique condition. This condition makes him a loner and an outcast. But can such a man ever find true love, or is he destined to walk through life alone?

Pebble Stone

2007 • 6 min • Germany

While playing outside the house little Lisa builds together her own playfellow from various objects. But when her mother asks her to tidy up and come to dinner Lisa has a problem. Her new friend is not willing to be cleaned up.

Interferenze

2007 • 12 min • Germany, Netherlands, South Africa

The right to freedom of speech is an essential element to democracy. In our so-called democratic countries, is there space for a concrete exercise of such inviolable right? Or is its guarantee a utopian Constitutional ideal? In 2002, pirate local TV stations started to spread throughout Italy, as an answer to the lack of public access television and a statement against the oligarchic control over the most influential medium. INTERFERENZE explores the intriguing story of what became known as the Telestreet network through the personal experience of the members of Orfeo TV, the pirate station who initiated the movement. —Zoe D'Amaro

Felix Gets Broadcasted

2007 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Experimental film

Evanescence

2007 • 9 min • Norway

A series of five ‘movements’. Each movement lasts between one and three minutes on a continuous loop. Individual movements can be shown on single or multiple screen systems.

Blind Runner – An Artist under Surveillance

2007 • 58 min • Portugal

In this film an artist is under 24-hour surveillance. Through a continuous circulation of images and sounds, the spectator becomes an accomplice and witness to all his movements. During this process we ask ourselves not only why we are following the artist in this way but also about the meaning and the nature of his work.

Festival

2007 • 52 min • Russia

Provincial students of theater schools come to Moscow for a progressive art festival. This is the story of a clash between the capital and the province, young talents and stars, the "old" school and the "new"; a story that is looped - because it is repeated with each generation.

Bakhytzhamal

2007 • 19 min • Kazakhstan

Short course work by Adilkhan Erzhanov

Prisoners in Freedom City

2007 • 31 min • China

Civil rights activist Hu Jia was held under house arrest from 2004 to 2008 in the upscale eastern suburbs of Beijing. One day Hu picked up a video camera and began to document things outside the window: his watchers, shepherds tending their flocks, spiders in the rain, and his fellow activist and wife, Zeng Jinyan, going to and from work under the unnervingly close watch of plainclothes police.

Journey to the Forest

2007 • 7 min • Germany

A poetic exploration of a German myth – the forest. As if in trance, the camera′s gaze glides over tunnel-like avenues of woodland monocultures, leading the viewer through green spaces created by humankind, ensnarling itself in the chaotic structures of primeval forests and eventually finding its way out via an artificial clearing.

Saban

2007 • 52 min • Serbia

Saban is a story about Saban Bajramovic, one of the biggest vocals of Roma music in history, shot in Serbia, Bosnia, France and Switzerland. Milos was the only author ever that managed to follow mostly reclusive King of Gypsy Music. The movie is still shown in film festivals, 6 years after it's premiere.

Bullet Bird

2007 • 5 min

A bullet is fired through many thin glass plates. We follow it along its journey through the several steps until the final confrontation, when the bullet is literally stopped by the last thin glass plate. The film explores the beauty within the concepts of evolution, development, energy and profusion.

Brutte Kretser/Broken Circuits

2007 • 9 min • Germany, Norway

A short love story about a robot couple, Matilde and Roger, from Norway, who accidentally meet in te cite of love, Paris.

Crazy Li'l Hamster!

2007 • 10 min • Belarus

A movie about my life that guarantees 10 minutes of pure entertainment.

Number Eight

2007 • 10 min • Netherlands

A film that follows a man walking on an ice covered bay only few meters in front of a huge icebreaker.

Shooting Geronimo

2007 • 11 min • Canada

Famed romantic filmmaker Frederick Curtis is shooting a film about Geronimo just outside the Long Horn Saloon. Frustrated with the unconvincing performances of his lead actor, he pulls another young sexy Cree man into the role. Jealousy ensues as Curtis alternately gushes over the two Cree boys as he manipulates them into broad Hollywood caricatures. A “Lonesome Rider” intercedes, teasing the action to a tragic twist, which forces the boys to take control of Curtis’ film.

Love Mountaineering

2007 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short film about mountaineering.