All Films

A Stem

2007 • 15 min • Brazil

Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.

Lost Utopia

2007 • 5 min • Japan

The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words.

On the Road Again: 'Two-Lane Blacktop' Revisited

2007 • 43 min • United States of America

A retrospective documentary on the making of Monte Hellman's 1971 film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.

A Different Kind of Gun

2007 • 15 min • United States of America

"The reason why they kill people is because they do not have any education," a Sudanese boy says about the bloody conflict in his fatherland. Shortly before, we see images of a bombed school. In this film, the youngest and most innocent generation of Sudanese explains how it deals with the war that is tearing the country apart. Will the orphaned children avenge their murdered parents, or will they forgive the killers and start working on a new life? At any rate, these children's dreams for the future are anything but violent. One of them wants to learn English to be able to liberate his country, another wants to study to "be something," a third wants to become president to bring total peace, and yet another simply wants to be like her grandmother. Despite all the atrocities they have witnessed, the children mainly want to rebuild things, to put an end to the destruction.

The World as a Collection

2007 • 13 min • Netherlands

An obsessive collector (Erik Fens) creates his own scrapbook world. The film presents analyses of the collecting impulse based on Freudian theorie and Buddhism.

Dead End Drive

2007 • 23 min

Lost and out of gas while trying to find a rave party, a group of friends soon realize they took the wrong turn...and they pay for it with their lives. True horror awaits anyone that finds themselves lost on Dead End Drive.

Rabbit on the Moon

2007 • 40 min • Japan

Sanae is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her mother and six-year-old sister. She has not recently been able to be open with her fisherman grandfather. Sanae is awoken by the sound of hard rain one night. As she dozes, the rain changes into the flow of the river and she finds herself lying in a fishing boat when she opens her eyes. She hears, from far away, the strains of a harmonica which her grandpa loves... Next morning Sanae is informed that her grandfather has passed away. Frictions are revealed between Sanae and those around her. In her confused state, she runs out of the house leaving for the river where her grandpa's boat is moored...

Forest

2007 • 11 min • India

"In this work, a library of books stands improbably in a clearing in the forest, symbolising ‘a library of knowledge.’ A lion enters, becoming the guardian of this knowledge but also, representing a mythical, other-worldly creature of the imaginary. The lion is driven away as the library is set on fire. Finally, a young lion returns to the city that emerges from the ashes of the scene. Flowers rise from the burnt ground. In this visionary and poetic video artwork the ‘hidden atrocities’ that take place in this animated painting are suggested rather than explained. It becomes a statement about a collective destruction of the environment, and of generational knowledge and wisdom passed through centuries and across cultures for which we must all atone."

Complete Garbage

2007 • 32 min • Norway

The Pink Umbrella Man has a cabin possessed when Bob Booze and his friends are driving up. Meanwhile detectivesMr. Dick and Mr. Head put themselves on the task of solving the mystery. 31 minutes of bugs, guts, breeze, pizza, subways, hats and other stuff.

Plate o' Shrimp: Punk Rock, Sci-Fi and the Making of Repo Man

2007 • 20 min • United States of America

Interviews, backstories and insights with a few of the actors involved in the 1984 cult film, Repo Man.

National Geographic: Hitler and the Occult

2007 • 60 min

Was Adolf Hitler influenced and motivated by the occult? Through the years, historians have debated the mysterious connection between the occult, Hitler and the Nazi party, including some who maintain that Hitler killed others to keep his occult beliefs a secret. NGC examines how Hitler's involvement with the German Worker's Party brought him face-to-face with occultists who may have influenced his beliefs.

Lilla Spöket Laban: Spökdags

2007 • 43 min • Sweden

The little ghost called Laban is afraid of the dark.

Mr_Right_22

2007 • 12 min • United States of America

It's Adam's first internet date, but when he transmitted his photo to the date, he never received the date's pic in return. So there he is, sitting in a gay bar (a totally alien world for Adam) waiting for his unknown Mr. Right to approach him. He is late, that's for sure. Adam's tension rises with every passing minute. With a little help from the snappy Waiter, Adam tries his best to relax. And finally, Mr. Right appears, or doesn't he?

Coffee Diva

2007 • 12 min • Canada

Reality and perception clash in the everyday activities of a Hollywood Legend. Getting your own Grande Skim Macchiato should be easy enough, but for this Diva, an unexpected encounter leads to scandalous results.

Visions of Frank

2007 • 45 min • Japan, United States of America

Animations inspired by the art of Jim Woodring.

Kosbees

2007 • 2 min

This is one of the animated shorts we made for Acceptable TV that never made it to air. What a shame. I have a feeling it would have been a REAL SIDE SPLITTER! This was me doing another “House of Cosbys” type thing, only within the boundaries of what a legal team working for a cable network deemed acceptable. I intend to credit everyone involved on this as soon as I have some down time. Maybe my kind and hard working assistant JD can do the legwork. Did you work on this? Want to see your name in lights? Contact me. You know how email works.

From Above

2007 • 29 min • Sweden

A young criminal is torn between his dad and best friend. He also dreams of becoming a magician.

White Light

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

A young woman experiences terrifying episodes of missing time in this thriller based on the research of Budd Hopkins.

Irmã Lúcia, a Mensageira de Nossa Senhora

2007 • 42 min • Portugal

It presents the life of Sister Lúcia, seer of Our Lady of Fátima, who died in the Carmel of Santa Teresa, in Coimbra, on February 13, 2005. It also brings the narration of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima to the three little shepherds, in 1917, in Portugal.

The Pirate: A Musical Treasure Chest

2007 • 19 min

A documentary on the making of the Gene Kelly/Judy Garland musical The Pirate (1948)

The Street Cleaner on the Moon

2007 • 7 min • Russia

A film about the eternal human desire for beauty, to the point of complete rejection of terrestrial existence.

Paseo

2007 • 13 min • Spain

זהר

2007 • 32 min • Israel

16-year-old Zohar lives with her younger sister and single mother Debbie, in a poor neighbourhood in Tel Aviv. When a teenage boy comes calling on her at home, tomboy Zohar must deal with first signs of womanhood.

Secrets of the Samurai Sword

2007 • 53 min • United States of America

Nova follows the creation of a katana from raw iron ore to finished masterpiece, through the hands of fifteen master artisans as scientists explain the chemistry and physics at each step that makes it a superb piece of engineering.