All Films

Retaliation

2007 • 4 min • Sweden

Based on a scene from Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, this piece is a revolt and a homage, finding new meaning in a fictional action. A woman takes on a traditionally male role in trying her raw strength and getting rid of her frustration by hitting and breaking something. (FilmForm)

Feng

2007 • 8 min • Australia, Singapore

Two people from two countries who once shared a common experience.

Die Kunsttäter

2007 • 6 min

74 and 94 escape an art installation.

Veterinarian

2007 • 17 min • Latvia

A veterinarian routinely goes on house calls to treat sick animals. He is able to save most, but one time he arrives too late. The animal dies, and that breaks the veterinarian's heart. One night the animals that he has treated come to him in a dream. He receives love and forgiveness. When Veterinarian wakes up, his heart has healed.

My Croatian Nose

2007 • 13 min • Sweden

About Richard's nose and the father it came from.

Beauty Now

2007 • 4 min • Ireland

This satirical view of our contemporary attitude about beauty is presented in the style of a 1950’s informational film.

Foley Room: Found Footage

2007 • 24 min

A behind-the-scenes special included with some pressings of Amon Tobin's 2007 CD Foley Room.

Sleep Lines

2007 • 7 min • Canada

On a sunny afternoon between dreaming and waking a couple come together and move apart in the interior world of their home. A hand-processed black-and-white queer experimental film exploring the tension between intimacy and separateness.

Merely a Smell

2007 • 10 min • France, Lebanon

In four long takes, like a haiku in black and white, we enter the rubble of a country following the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese conflict. Without ever looking death in the face, the absence of life shows itself over the course of clues appearing in the no man’s land of a battered Beirut. In silent, frozen time, the film subtly refers to the spectator’s imagination in alluding to death.

La maison dans la neige

2007 • 16 min

A burly mustached man breaks into a seemingly abandoned house to escape a blizzard.

Weiss

2007 • 5 min • Germany

He lives in a white expanse, where a monotonous balance reigns and with cheerful indifference wanders through a uniform whiteness. The exit from the enclosed space is hindered by the lack of contact…

50 tons of spruce

2007 • 46 min

50 tons of spruce, a film to discover an unknown trade, while the Quebec forestry industry is on the verge of crisis. A film to get to know men who earn their living by risking it, because the forest has always been part of them.

The Loneliness of the Short-Order Cook

2007 • 22 min • Poland

Living in East Los Angeles and working at a Japanese jazz bar, a young short-order cook faces deportation to Japan when his visa is denied. After what seems to be a connection with a Mexican Bakery worker turns into a misunderstanding, Shin experiences a side of Los Angeles invisible to his social circle of Japanese expats. Subdued and restrained, the film offers an unsentimental and personal portrait of living in between time zones and cultures in a city indicative of a world growing smaller.

Las Agujas del Diablo

2007 • 7 min • Spain

Legend has it that in the depths of the forest a bloodthirsty satanic monstrosity moves in the shadows, trapping all those unwary who venture to enter.

Wild Shaman Maiden

2007 • 8 min • Japan

An eight minute romp in the grass shot from a low angle and a subjective point of view as a small child or a stray dog, in which the main character young boy X who blows a melodica.

Spooky High School Massacre

2007 • 40 min • Spain

Dexter Mc Dillinger and Randy Sherton were two rockers who swore rivalry to each other until death. The night of the legendary 2007 prom at Spooky High School has arrived, and the two rockers return from the grave to continue their fight.

Bordeauxrot

2007 • 8 min • Austria

Marco describes himself as a very visual person even though he is blind.

Yuri Arabov. Mechanics of Fate

2007 • 39 min • Russia

"The fate of a person can not only be explained, but also predicted, using the same laws according to which a screenplay is built," says Yuri Arabov, a well–known Russian screenwriter, winner of the Cannes Film Festival. One day, an inexplicable, at first glance, event occurred in the fate of Arabov himself. He received a call from a man who claimed that he was his father, who had left him with his mother 40 years ago, and whom Arabov himself had long considered dead…

Weddings and Diapers

2007 • 49 min • Kosovo

In this touching and humorous documentary, four Kosovar couples share how they deal with chores, child raising, freedoms and infidelity. How have roles changed and what are the limits to modernity in the sacred union of marriage?

Athiyayam

2007 • 10 min • India

Based on the touching short story by Melanmai Ponnusamy. A Family Man gets into addiction of alcohol and finds hard to feed his family

Real Access Discommunication

2007 • 38 min • Japan

The films of Oguchi Yoko are extremely personal. In addition, Oguchi herself has a special personality that makes her films very special. She is an outspoken masochist and experiments in life and work with her sexual proclivities. She can get surprised about what people think is normal in the field of love and could find little understanding for her own norms. That's why she made a film about it.

Fencing

2007 • 13 min

The film follows a day in the life of a troubled elderly gentleman facing fear of death and visions of his late father who he gets mixed up with his favorite figure of fiction, Captain Ahab from Moby Dick. He has visions of rubber shoes in the sewer where he works leading him to think back on his childhood and the origins of his bizarre work of art for which he has sacrificed even his marriage. His masterpiece is a bizarre fence along a black beach which he tends to with tenderness but dreads to complete.

Lóa, A Loner's Dream

2007 • 11 min

Ben is a outside in the dark a too large too heavy sailor bag on his shoulder, lonely and drunk. During a dream strange dream where he is taller, stronger, smarter, he meets an angel that gives him a flower. When he wakes up, he finds the flowers at his feet.

Spóinn var að vella

2007 • 52 min