All Films

Conte de Quartier

2006 • 14 min

Seven characters, who are not connected with each other, live a restless day in the district in renovation of a busting city. Each one pursues a distinct aim and nobody pays attention to the others. A rag doll passes from the hands of one character to the other's. And their ways criss-cross until they finally meet and unite.

The Lowdown on Lowbrow

2006 • 48 min • Canada

West Coast Pop Art : From the 40's to the 21st Century. Hot Rods, Pin-ups, Movies, Music, Flame Jobs, Posters, TV, Comics, Cowboys, Monsters, Tikis and Cartoons. All these things are influences on the Artists creating the work sometimes referred to as Lowbrow. Visceral beautifully realistic artwork tapping into the vein of media culture that surrounds us daily. Edgy, energetic and entertaining, this dynamic West Coast movement is changing the way we appreciate art and making it accessible and enjoyable to everyone.

Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story

2006 • 17 min

In 1964, Leon Fleisher's career as a concert pianist was thriving. A seemingly minor accident - a cut on his right thumb - led to dystonia, the involuntary curling of his right hand's ring and little fingers. In recent interviews, Fleisher talks about what followed: the end of a marriage, despair and disappointments, surgery in 1983 that led to a brief return to the concert hall, and, finally, with Botox and Rolfing, the ability to play with two hands. In between, Fleisher discovers his ecstasies: conducting, teaching, and playing compositions for one hand commissioned in the early twentieth century for a World War I veteran.

The Tale of How

2006 • 5 min • South Africa

This lavishly embellished, comically operetta CGI fantasy story takes place in the Indian Ocean, where a flock of “piranha birds” has settled on the back of an octopus. When an octopus is starved, it feeds on birds on its back, but because it is already threatened with extinction, they decide to send a bottle across the sea with a call for help.

VH1 Metal Mania: Stripped Across America Tour Live

2006 • 60 min

Hair metal had gone the way of hair-crimping and spandex when VH1 resuscitated the genre for its 2005 album series METAL MANIA, which featured stripped-down, acoustic versions of hair-metal ballads and anthems like "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" and "Rock You Like a Hurricane." METAL MANIA was so successful that it spawned its own concert tour, Stripped Across America Live, captured here in this February 2005 concert recorded at the Hollywood Key Club and boasting UNPLUGGED-like acoustic performances from album contributors Don Dokken, Kip Winger, Warrant's Jani Lane, Ratt's Stephen Pearcy, and White Lion's Mike Tramp.

Navy SEALs: Hell Week

2006 • 45 min

In this segment of Gordon Forbes's documentary series, you'll witness the Navy SEALs' most grueling training sequences as candidates have their physical and emotional limits pushed to the brink while enduring countless obstacles and challenges. Forbes's four-part documentary explores one of the most elite multipurpose commando units in the United States, revealing fascinating aspects of an ultra-secret world that few have seen before.

Rindin the Puffer

2006 • 8 min

Our story begins with Rindin being the target of a joke, just for being different. However, when the bullies meet up with a hungry barracuda, Rindin saves the day! Rindin the Puffer, shows the importance of being yourself while respecting individual differences in others.

Dos Restos e Das Solidões

2006 • 13 min • Brazil

In the interior of the Inhamuns, the driest and poorest piece of land in Ceará, the ghost town of Cococi, among ruins and neglect, is a kind of living museum from immemorial times. In the middle of the deep caatinga, wandering among the ruins and the shadows, lives Dona Laura, 70 years old, brooding over memories and pain.

Mei

2006 • 11 min • Taiwan, United States of America

A young man learns about love in the nightmarkets of Taipei.

The Market

2006 • 10 min • Croatia

Market shoppers use all of their senses when trying to ascertain whether the groceries are local or imported. The privileging of local produce over imported goods is ever present regardless of whether or not the groceries actually are better, this follows to lines of argument – that by buying Croatian produce they are supporting Croatian agriculture and that domestic produce is familiar and tastier, although it is not the origin of the goods but the method of its production that counts. They rather chose to buy local goods simply because it is "our" , Croatian, local produce, and not some foreign, unfamiliar and alien foodstuff which is therefore deemed of lesser quality.

The Crane and the Giraffe

2006 • 3 min • Argentina

What happens when a port crane and a cute giraffe fell in love with each other?

Polly II - Plan for a Revolution in Docklands

2006 • 30 min

Set in the flooded ruins of a dystopian East London, POLLY II: PLAN FOR A REVOLUTION IN DOCKLANDS draws on references to soap opera, science fiction, satire and Brechtian ‘Lehrstueck’. It alludes to Polly, 1728, John Gay’s censored sequel to the popular Beggar’s Opera, 1727, which resurrected the character of the robber Macheath in the disguise of the African pirate captain Morano, scheming to take revenge on a colony in the West Indies, and is populated by many of the characters made popular by Gay and Brecht. The film features the naïve and incorruptible Polly, the vengeful whore Jenny Diver, and the treacherous and greedy Peachum – fencer, thief-taker and king of the beggars – and portrays them surviving in a lawless zone, set to be redeveloped into luxury waterside living, as a comment on the social struggles against gentrification and privatisation.

Clear Blue Sky

2006 • 4 min • United States of America

Clear Blue Sky is the study of movements, colors, shapes and their relation to sound. Visual effects are created through, not a lens, but an adjustable slit, which was attached in front of the image sensor chip of a DV camcorder, while shooting at Washington Square, San Francisco.

Is Not

2006 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A circular short film on violence, using long takes and dead time.

El circulo negro

2006 • 27 min

Zacarias poisons his friends while inviting them for dinner. He is willing to give them an antidote if they tell him their most intimate secrets. All the while two cameramen are filming the whole thing as a "Reality Show".

The Organ Grinde

2006 • 13 min • Mexico

The current situation of the organ grinders in Mexico who have lost their former splendor. They have to adapt to an indifferent and noisy city.

You Called Me

2006 • 12 min

A short film by Sky Hirschkron featuring Japanese exchange students in New York.

Ama Como a Estrada Começa

2006 • 50 min • Portugal

The life and work of painter Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923-2006), one of the most important artists of the portuguese surrealist movement, both in literature and the visual arts. Includes statements from the artist, his friends, and scholars of his artistic oeuvre. A documentary originally exhibited on the day of his death at the age of 83.

11.000 km from New York

2006 • 21 min • Tajikistan

In November 2001, the fire of the war forced thousands of Afghan people to leave their homes and move up to the islands of the Panj River, which border Afghanistan and Tajikistan. This film is a beautifully pictured short story about these Afghan refugees who belong to different nationalities and social groups. They are all trying to keep their humanity in an inhumane situation by doing the best they can do.

Marbles

2006 • 3 min • Israel

A little girl's marbles lead to a fascinating journey and opens up lots of new perspectives on the everyday surroundings.

The White She-Camel

2006 • 52 min • Belgium

A man returns home after a long journey. The curtains in the open windows flutter in the breeze. His wife sleeps. And he recognises nothing of what was once so familiar. Stretching the boundaries of poetry, science-fiction and documentary film, and with Chris Marker and Andrei Tarkovsky firmed lodged in his mind, he wanders through the remains of an Aral Sea in the throes of draught, metaphor for a landscape, a world and a country which no longer exist.

Golden Lotus: The Legacy of Bound Feet

2006 • 59 min

Across China, the filmmaker searches and finds survivors of Bound Feet - China's 1000 year old tradition of erotic beauty and female survival. Through the exclusive portrayal of 12 women of a bygone era,film reveals the dark secret of the Chinese civilization and women's changing destiny in a society once, and perhaps still, dominated by men.

Energy! (No he conocido el éxito)

2006 • 16 min • Spain

A waitress has just written a novel and decides that she will get it published, but it may be easier said than done.

Alvas parkett

2006 • 30 min • Sweden

Alvas parkett is a short film tale with a real touch. Alva lives with her mom and little brother. Grandmother is often on visit. Mom and grandmother have their own well-worked jargon. They just can't understand Alva's way of living.