All Films

Max with a Keitai

2006 • 5 min • Japan

The experimental documentary is exploring the Japanese megalopolis through the lens of a mobile phone and captures the new emerging mobile phone video aesthetic. The city film records the everyday life of the mobile phone filmmaker Max during the mobile-mentary (mobile documentary) production in the the Taiheiyo Belt.

And Everything Nice

2006 • 7 min • Australia

The curiosity of a schoolgirl leads her to skip a day at school to observe a classmate as she wanders through the city.

New Book of Mountains and Seas

2006 • 30 min • China

"The New Book of Mountains and Seas" is composed of a large number of ink paintings, which are finally produced into animation form. The title of the work is taken from the ancient Chinese mythology classic "Shan Hai Jing". In addition to studying the interaction of ancient and modern Chinese culture, the "New Mountain and Sea Classic" and similar works have a dreamlike effect: the clearly depicted images composed of incredible narrative techniques faithfully present the illusion of the world around people. The work strongly condemns environmental degradation, social collapse, and large-scale urbanization. The connection with reality strengthens its political significance.

Wolf Lake

2006 • 5 min • Canada

In a dramatized narrative written and told by Canadian poet Elizabeth Bachinsky, a young woman speaks of her ordeal at Wolf Lake. The Coast Mountains of British Columbia make a lush backdrop to her harrowing story of violence and betrayal.

Played for Real - Ira Cohen

2006 • 15 min

A short documentary on Ira Cohen.

Just Like the Movies

2006 • 21 min • Austria

Just Like the Movies is an attempt to re-construct the events of 9/11 by highlighting the parallels between the fictive worlds and the images of the real events.

The Incident

2006 • 20 min • Ukraine

The old forester had planned a day off in advance to enjoy a relaxing warm bath and listening to the radio ... His daughter unexpectedly visited him to introduce her fiancé. It was as if an old acquaintance, a forester, had come out of nowhere, with vodka and snacks ... And there were two more ...

Jezebel

2006 • 5 min

A film by students of the Film Workshop of San Francisco Art & Film, under the direction of Ronald Chase. A boy tries to comfort a woman who has just been dumped, but balks when he learns about the circumstances of the relationship.

Socks from the Rocks

2006 • 18 min • Germany

Actually, it should be a normal shopping trip through the weekly market. But then everything suddenly turns out quite differently. The socks, so cheap, at one of the numerous stalls, turn out to be a complete mistake. After a short time, nasty skin irritations become noticeable. Can ointment and powder still help?

Bright Sunny South

2006 • 26 min

Brandon's life gets a nuisance when the man who saved his life becomes his next door neighbor.

Insel der Kiffer

2006 • 10 min

A new epidemic is gripping the country: smoking pot, cannabis per se, is corrupting the youth and no one seems to be able to do anything about it. Is that so? Eventually, the German government comes up with the idea of renting an island in the Mediterranean where all the country's stoners can be shipped off to be self-sufficient on the spot. Steve, who has just been ordered there by his father, soon realizes that not everything is as it seems...

Chase in Space

2006 • 59 min • Sweden

Three friends wake up on a spaceship after a party. They soon realize that the aliens are on their way back to abduct more specimens. With no help from the authorities, they ultimately find themselves facing the deadly force of invaders.

Architectural Density

2006 • 4 min • United Kingdom

China’s irresistible process of growth and its precariousness.

Ultraman Mebius Side Story: Hikari Saga - SAGA 3: Return of Light

2006 • 14 min • Japan

Hikari faces the deceptive Alien Babarue, who tempts him with power and revives his dark past as Tsurugi. With the spirits of Arb and Ultraman King’s guidance, Hikari transforms his Armor of Revenge into the Armor of the Hero and pursues Babarue to Earth.

Lucien

2006 • 2 min • France

Lucien is a 2D film made in beautifully executed colors that’s a meditation on the peaceful ending of one old man’s life.

Crosslinx

2006 • 9 min

Telcosystems investigates the relationship between programmed numeric logic and a translation of it to the physical world, looking for an individual narrative in the world of abstract spatial image and sound. Crosslinx has a clear and sober aestheticism that is closely related to the computer technology used to generate it.

25 Messianic Signs

2006 • 56 min

In the ancient ages, the Hebrew prophets predicted that before the advent of their promised Messiah, there would come specific signs that would signal the end of the age. Today those signs have become crystal clear. Join prophetic scholar Dr. Noah Hutchings and Ken Klein as they take you on a prophetic tour of the Holy Land, explaining 25 Messianic signs that point to the return of Christ.

Comeback

2006 • 35 min • Latvia

Uldis Brauns' conversation with Ivars Seleckis about films and time.

Agitated Screams of Maggots

2006 • 4 min

"Agitated Screams of Maggots" was directed by Keita Kurosaka and released in 2006 with the single, "Agitated Screams of Maggots", made by Japanese rock band, DIR EN GREY. ASOM has a traditional drawing design with erotic and grotesque aspects. The video had also received some attention from it's art style and was shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2007.

Aanchyk

2006 • 40 min • Russia

The film is based on the story of the same name by Dmitry Kononovich Sivtsev – Suorun Omolloon about love and the destiny of a girl who humbly accepts her sad fate.

Statement 710399

2006 • 54 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

The story of a father trying to find out what happened to his son who slipped out of his hand and disappeared during the Srebrenica genocide is in fact a story of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country permanently scarred by war crimes and their legacy.

The Summer of Rita M.

2006 • 13 min • Portugal

One week before the university entrance exam João has given up. Rita, his girlfriend and a straight-A surfer girl, is determined not only to make him study, but to make him pass the exam and get him into college. The problems arise when she fails to get into college herself while she is helping him. What will she discover about their relationship?

Brakhage Crosses Central Park

2006 • 1 min

Clip from Walden.

Space

2006 • 25 min • Philippines

After a mysterious falling out with his father five years ago, Angelo, the favorite son, has not shown his face to the family. Arlene, being the eldest and the least favorite, takes upon herself the demanding task of taking care of their very sick father even while she tends to her own husband and children. Anne, the youngest, is single and pregnant with no one to turn to except her older sister.