All Films

Guacho

2007 • 14 min • Argentina

A short road movie about an internal monologue. As Guacho wanders through the city, the film delves into his stream of consciousness where the young man raises existential questions about the relationship between parents and children.

Infinit

2007 • 17 min

A relaxing look at the beauty of the Mandelbrot set, set to music by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.

The Amish: Back Roads to Heaven

2007 • 46 min • United States of America

This documentary examines the oldest Old Order Amish community, located in the area around Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This group has defined how we think about the Amish, with there gray buggies, dark colored dresses and trim farmsteads. This is one of the few communities allowing mules in addition to horses for draft power.

Scary True Stories: Night 7 - Reincarnation

2007 • 60 min • Japan

12th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

Face

2007 • 6 min • France

A twisted, spectacular depiction of a face trapped in a dangerous prison of the mind.

Rape Boy

2007 • 5 min

Music clip by Kenji Onishi.

La batalla de Guadalajara

2007 • 58 min • Spain

Documentary about the battle of Guadalajara which took place in March 1937 during the Spanish Civil War and was the last major victory of the Republican Army.

Garden of Eden

2007 • 15 min

An artful and colorful short film.

Casa de teatro y el cine

2007 • 20 min • Dominican Republic

Boy and girls from the Centro Educativo Las Americas in Santo Domingo interviews Arturo Rodriguez Fernandez at Casa de teatro in the colonial zone of the city about cinema.

Namibia's Bat-eared Foxes: Survivalists of the Desert

2007 • 52 min • Germany

Their huge ears locate the underground crawling sounds of beetles, larvae, and other insects in the sands of the Kalahari desert. But their resemblance to the thieving jackal lead to their inadvertent targeting by farmers defending their livestock. With their numbers dwindling, the bat-eared foxes of southern Namibia have become the passion project of veterinarian Margit Du Toit.

Puddle of Mudd: House of Blues Chicago 2007

2007 • 59 min

Puddle of Mudd's performance at the House of Blues in Chicago.

Sopralluoghi per un attentato terroristico

2007 • 12 min • Italy

While some individuals are intent on organizing a terrorist attack, a disguised voice-over theorises the annihilation of a society now completely emptied of meaning. The only possible outcome seems to be a clean sweep, a necessary and inevitable catastrophe.

Hanging There

2007 • 12 min • Spain

There are many ways to escape and many reasons to do it. Paula and Luis escape from sadness, reality and pain in their own way. Although he has decided to get off while driving and she prefers to ignore the obvious. This tragicomedy is the revealing dialogue of a conversation as surreal as it is impossible.

Borrowing Kyoto

2007 • 32 min

miniDV film by Yukiyasu Shimada, dedicated to Toshiro Mayuzumi.

Te Whiringa Taura o Whanganui

2007 • 52 min • New Zealand

In this documentary, tā moko artist and kapa haka teacher Sacha Te Utupoto Keating rode the Whanganui River on a journey to discover his whakapapa. Director Howard Taylor followed Sacha's personal story and the wider histories of the awa, weaving reconstructions, archival footage and lush river images into a rich story of people and place. "Taylor's investigation of the mythical, historical, ecological and spiritual aspects of the Whanganui River is deeply moving." said Grant Smithies in The Sunday Star-Times. "You're left entertained, enlightened and politicised."

J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation

2007 • 30 min

One of the greatest landscape painters of all time, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) rendered the subtle effects of light and atmosphere in revolutionary ways. This documentary chronicles the rise of Turner, a barber's son who entered the Royal Academy art school at age fourteen to become, over the course of six decades, Britain's most renowned painter. It includes footage of locations important to Turner in Wales, England, Switzerland, and readings from writers and artists of the era, including John Ruskin and Lord Byron.

Search for the Mystery Bomber

2007 • 52 min • Australia

Ben Cropp returns to a mystery bomber found in 2005 and identifies it as a B17 Flying Fortress that carried an American general who was lost in the crash.

Poles Apart

2007 • 7 min

In big cities it's easy to feel isolated, especially if you're Pang Pang, who is the only panda in a city of polar bears. His attempts to fit in always end in failure. What's it going to take to make these polar bears realize that Pang Pang is just another kind of bear?

A Tale of a Giant

2007 • 57 min • Slovenia

Story of “IMV”, a Slovenian car factory from Novo Mesto.

Another Passion

2007 • 20 min • Egypt

Heba is an 18-year-old girl who has just graduated from high school and wants to join the Film Institute to study her true passion which is Art. But her family meets this decision with rejection, out of concern for her because as a girl studying art will only bring her misfortunes.

Fur Fatale

2007 • 5 min

A girl encounters a cursed fur coat.

Fighting for the Vote: Women’s Suffrage in America

2007 • 32 min

The American suffrage movement began when two women were barred from an anti-slavery meeting.

Penis Envy

2007 • 4 min

For a moment a little girl wants to be a boy.

Farmer's Requiem

2007 • 9 min

The film documents rural landscapes and vernacular architecture on the cusp of urban sprawl and transformation.